M1
Singapore Fringe Festival Official Website
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival is an annual festival of theatre,
performance arts, film, dance, visual arts, mixed media, music and
forum created and presented by Singaporean and international
artists. Themed differently each year, the Festival aims to bring
the best of contemporary, cutting-edge and socially-engaged works
to the Singapore audience
First held with great success in 2005, the M1 Singapore Fringe
Festival is set to be a creative centre, with a twin-purpose of
innovation and discussion; a platform for meaningful and
provocative art to engage our increasingly connected and complex
world.
2006: Art and Healing
ART builds communities; repairs victims emerging from tragedies;
consoles human beings undergoing personal trauma or social crisis.
When a human being is unable to reach out to another, art is easily
the mediator, the medium, the midwife with the antidote; the remedy
to the malady.
Art also documents and reflects human beings under severe
conditions; those that test the spirit of endurance and compassion.
Through Art we explore and discover how we behave in such
circumstances; how we share similar attitudes, needs and fears when
in pain.
What does Art save us from? From a heartache? From a tsunami? From
scars left by a racial encounter, a rape, a murder, a plague, an
epidemic, a genocide?
Over many centuries Art has captured - whether through words,
images, songs or other forms - how we go through different degrees
of agony and relief, and has reflected that back to us today.
Powerful Art dislodges us from stasis; it liberates and delivers
us. It inspires compassion and forgiveness.
If religion and politics fail human beings today, can art fill that
void?
happening 22 February 2006 to 5 March 2006