The Business Times looks at the growth of Singapore’s musical theatre scene and interviews LASALLE College of the Arts, which launched its Musical Theatre programme — the first in Asia — in 2004.
Since then, LASALLE has nurtured numerous talents such as Elena Wang who has starred in West End and Broadway musicals, Mina Kaye, Seong Hui Xuan and Benjamin Chow, who all nabbed awards at the ST Life! Theatre Awards for stage musical performances.
When Junaidi Kusnong, then-LASALLE College of the Arts BA(Hons) Music student, roped in several musician friends for his final-year recital in 2015, all he wanted was to get a good grade.
In the interview with The Straits Times, he revealed that the band started getting invites to gigs at local festivals including 100 + 50 Festival, Esplanade's Baybeats and Mosaic Music Weekend, after being invited to do an encore performance at LASALLE's Lunchtime Concert Series.
Canvas Conversations is a four-piece electronic band that has been heavily lauded by industry insiders for their creation of highly textured soundscapes. Comprising of our Music alumni - Jeff Hue, Lee Bing Xiang, Namie Rasman, and Vick Low - Canvas Conversations will collaborate with fellow schoolmate Aqilah Misuary, and singer-songwriter Ferry to stage a highly immersive performance for the Esplanade’s Mosaic Music Series.
Embodying the passion for filmmaking told from the Singapore perspective, The Puttnam School of Film collaborated with the European Union Film Festival (EUFF), the oldest foreign film festival in Singapore, to screen 29 short films by students alongside each of the EUFF feature films.
Encapsulated within the student films were core issues of national, cultural and personal identity, adding to the SG50 celebrations for the EUFF as they marked their 25th successful year in Singapore.
Two veteran industry experts talk about what it takes to draw audiences to Singapore-made television shows.
From writing believable dialogue for television and film to producing high quality content without busting the budget, budding scriptwriters were treated to thought-provoking insights at a seminar conducted by industry experts.
Over 90 minutes on 23 February, Visiting Experts Jonathan Lim and Cynthia Hsiung offered practical insights into crafting television scripts that all television writers need to know.
LASALLE BA(Hons) Film alumna Zuki Juno Tobgye was recently featured on The New York Times for her documentary, Searching for Wives, which she directed as her graduation thesis film in LASALLE.
Striving for originality by pushing traditional media genres to the extreme doesn’t always make the end-product better or more novel, says film industry veteran Sophia Wellington.
What’s a Western film without a gun fight; an action flick lacking a car chase or a romantic comedy that doesn’t have the main characters sharing a kiss? Even as film makers strive for originality, there are some conventions that they may have to adhere to for a genre movie to hit the mark with their audiences.
Berita Harian speaks with curator Hyrol Sami'on and artist Shazwany Aziz, both LASALLE BA(Hons) Fine Arts alumni, on the exhibition Every move you make at LASALLE's Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) Singapore.
LASALLE's Senior Fellow, Milenko Prvacki shares his inspirations and vision for Tropical Lab, an annual international art workshop at LASALLE, where Master’s candidates from the world’s top arts institutions gather to research, experiment and collaborate to create contemporary art.
Berita Harian reports that nine out of 10 graduates of LASALLE College of the Arts are successful in finding employment based on a study conducted late last year on more than 700 former students.
It also highlights the speech of Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Education & Ministry of Social and Family Development, Associate Professor Dr Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim, for the recent Committee of Supply Debate 2017 where he shared that "around 6,000 students" have pursued an arts education in 2016.
