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The AGEncy Fest: Inaugural 60+ Commission

⁠Initiated by T:>Works and funded in part by the public, The AGEncy Fest is an annual showcase of the distinct vitalities and perspectives of 60+ individuals, including artists and cultural workers. Centring the agency to act and make choices as the transformative experience of  ageing, the Fest opens in 2026 with Who Knows Where The Bird Goes – Dana Lam: Six Decades of Practice, an exhibition tracing the writer, gender equality advocate, grandmother, and visual artist across a lifetime of making works.

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The AGEncy Fundraiser

The collaboration of 60+ pioneers, Jacintha and Dick Lee, returns to the forefront in this one-night-only reprise of music from Lush Life.

Intergenerational in the fundraiser’s ethos like The AGEncy Fund, join the stars of Lush Life Jacintha and Frances Lee, together with jazz pianist Tan Weixiang, for timeless tunes over cocktails, canapés, and conversations to fundraise for The Open Call.

Proceeds will support 60+ individuals and intergenerational collaborators to The AGEncy Fund 2027 Open Call.

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Lush Life

Two of Singapore’s most iconic and contrasting voices share one stage in a groundbreaking new work.

Helmed by internationally acclaimed Singapore director Ong Keng Sen known for his distinct aesthetic in creating documentary performance through collaboration with his performers and extensive research, Lush Life is an intimate documentary piece that weaves the lives, artistry and connections between the sublime, audiophile-grade jazz of songbird Jacintha and the bohemian spirit of pop icon Dick Lee.

Through personal narratives, archival traces and live music, this distilled work paints a dual portrait of artistic and life pursuits. Sink into the lush world of Jacintha’s music and Lee’s vibrant classics, revealed as chapters in their lives. Lush Life is a conversation across styles and generations, a meditation on what it means to live a creative life in its most resonant form.

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Per°Form Open Academy

Thought Leaders From the Global South and Beyond, Gather Live in Singapore

Intersecting different disciplines, opposing hierarchical learning, refusing elite membership, and ultimately unpacking the institution into a porous space — a sharing of different social performances presenting strategies for activating contexts and communities.

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CoThink Lab

Singapore Thought Leaders in Arts and Culture

Focusing on independent Singapore artists and cultural workers as thought leaders engaged in critical inquiry or activating social performance.

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Artistic Directors Academy

Research Laboratory to Develop Thought Leaders

Led by T:>Works Artistic Director Ong Keng Sen, harnessing international cultural innovators to helm Modules, as well as individual mentoring to sharpen and intensify skillsets.


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Curators Academy

An Ethos for Curation of Performance

The Curators Academy is concerned with the curation of performance but intends to move beyond the skills of curation, unlike conventional training programmes in European universities.

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T:>Digital

Digital Library of Hybrid and Digital Creations

Collecting and maintaining creations from within the artistic community of T:>Works to sustain dialogues emerging from hybrid junctures of digital and physical, local and global.

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T:>Archive

Archive of Artworks, Processes, Curations, Research and Discourse Projects

Archive of artworks, processes, curations, research and discourse projects from T:>Works.

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T:>NFT

Gathering of NFT Collections Commissioned and Presented

Exploring digital and Web3 technologies as creative platforms, featuring inaugural collection of Brian Gothong Tan’s first series of 30 single edition NFTs.

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72-13

Home of The Curators Academy and T:>Works

Formerly a rice warehouse, currently serving as a gallery, a cinema, and a theatre.

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29 May-30 May 2026

Lush Life

Helmed by internationally acclaimed Singapore director Ong Keng Sen known for his distinct aesthetic in creating documentary performance through collaboration with his performers and extensive research, Lush Life is an intimate documentary piece that weaves the lives, artistry and connections between the sublime, audiophile-grade jazz of songbird Jacintha and the bohemian spirit of pop icon Dick Lee.

Through personal narratives, archival traces and live music, this distilled work paints a dual portrait of artistic and life pursuits. Sink into the lush world of Jacintha’s music and Lee’s vibrant classics, revealed as chapters in their lives. Lush Life is a conversation across styles and generations, a meditation on what it means to live a creative life in its most resonant form.

29 Apr-3 May 2026

Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations 2026: The Post-Migrant Academy"

PerºForm Open Academy returns in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Singapore and Maxim Gorki to present POA 2026: The Post-Migrant Academy. 

POA 2026: The Post-Migrant Academy unpacks the artistic concept of post-migrant theatre in Germany, a term coined by Gorki’s Artistic Director Shermin Langhoff, through the 7th Berliner Herbstsalon of Gorki entitled ЯE:IMAGINE – THE RED HOUSE – Inventories, Interventions, Inventions), a transdisciplinary festival curated by Shermin, which detailed among other topics, the lives of Telefunken female Gastarbeiters (guest workers) who were selected primarily from Turkey to aid the recovery of the post-war economy of Germany.

13 Apr 2026

A Public Conversation: "Future Gazing: Singapop What's Next?"​

A Public Conversation by T:>Works, musicians Shazza, Dick Lee, Abangsapau and weish look back at Singapop’s journey & its future

Globally influential, speedy evolution, trendsetting fashion…the pop world has a precedent from Asia which speaks to the world. Wherein lies the future of our pop scene – how to generate and sustain it beyond the quintessential Singapore songs? Is the answer strategic innovation of the entertainment industry? To expand and impact beyond our island shores, or concentrate on the niche? Apart from bottom-up indie initiatives, is National Infrastructure needed? What’s missing in the scene?

28 Feb 2026

24-Hour Playwriting Competition 2025 Dramatised Reading​

T:>Works celebrates the winners of the 24-Hour Playwriting Competition 2025 with a Dramatised Reading! There will be staged readings of select winning scripts, guided by director Tan Shou Chen and supported by actors Chew Wei Li, Dennis Sofian, Fadhil Daud, Sindhura Kalidas, Zorian Seah, and Jo Tan, who returns as a cast member after acting as the Competition’s Game Master.
 
Joined by past participants, fellow theatre makers, and friends from the world of visual arts, it will be a coming-together of transdisciplinary stories and happy communion.
 
 

May-Dec 2025

Living Soil Series by Living Soil Asia

T:>Works kicks off the Living Soil Series, a new programme under CoThink Lab initiative, in partnership with Living Soil Asia. This year-long series invites the public to reflect on our collective relationship with land through a film screening, hands-on workshops, community-led conversations, and activity walks. Grounded in land use, food, and home, the Living Soil Series brings together communities to spark inquiry into how urban development shapes our lives and environment.

Nov 2025​

24-Hour Playwriting Competition 2025

At the intersection of two milestone anniversaries, T:>Works celebrates 40 years and National Gallery Singapore marks its 10th with a co-production of the 24-Hour Playwriting Competition 2025.

Underpinned by a series of stimulus activities co-conceptualised by T:>Works and the Gallery, 24-Hour Playwriting Competition 2025 will respond to the two installations “Angin Cloud” by Art Labor and “Eidolon” by Vong Phaophanit and Claire Oboussier, both commissioned under the Gallery’s OUTBOUND series.

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