SINGAPORE: The Telok Ayer Performing Arts Centre
(TAPAC) will be shutting its doors in March 2013, as the Urban
Redevelopment Authority will develop the land for other
purposes.
The centre currently sits on prime land in the
Central Business District, and tenants said they have been told to
move to other venues, such as the National Library or community
centres.
However, they are hoping for a dedicated space for
their groups.
Meanwhile, the National Arts Council (NAC) said it has identified a
site for its new arts centre which will be ready by 2013. It will
call for applications from all interested groups, including tenants
from the Telok Ayer Performing Arts Centre.
Savinder Kaur, managing director of The Writers' Centre, said: "All
of us in TAPAC have come together to create a series of events,
performances. We are calling it 'Goodbye TAPAC', to celebrate the
spirit here.
"And we are hoping that we'll create enough awareness, and hope
that the NAC will relocate all of us to new premises. And that
premises should be something similar to this."
-CNA/ac
