The Kickstart Drama project: performing ‘small’ acts of solidarity in Singapore
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bin Subhan, Sophiaan
Tapia Parada, Carla
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This paper focuses on a group of young people in Singapore connected by the love for their communities and their desire to use drama for social change. In particular, we investigate how a participatory arts-based approach can enable young people to reflect on the importance of solidarity. We draw on Freire’s pedagogy of solidarity, arguing for the importance of ‘small’ acts of solidarity that foreground the experiences of systematically excluded communities, such as young people living in social housing. Understanding this experience of solidarity and activism is particularly important in a country like Singapore, where civic and political participation is highly circumscribed.
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Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance
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29
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3
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© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
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Community planning
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Performing arts
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Lazaroo, N; bin Subhan, S; Tapia Parada, C, The Kickstart Drama project: performing ‘small’ acts of solidarity in Singapore, Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 2024, 29 (3), pp. 439-454