Programmes
Gather at 42 Waterloo Street and join us in cooking up care practices across Singapore’s arts ecosystem.
DAY 1 – 28 June, Friday
Bye for Now! Recess Time: CITRUS fest
BRING YOUR PLATE (GATHERINGS)30 June, Sunday
7.00-10.00 PM
Rear Courtyard
We want to close CITRUS fest in the same spirit as its opening – with lively and self-reflexive conversation over delicious food prepared in sustainable ways. And so once again, we are very pleased to have Practice Tuckshop to host, in a special edition of their ‘Recess Time’ programme!
Combining the art of cooking, making conversations and storytelling into a single encounter, Recess Time by Practice Tuckshop is an "ugly produce" communal dining experience. It is a long-running participatory work that stages a social event, i.e. a meal, as the site for performance and engagement.
"Makan Masters" go on veggie rescue missions to salvage unwanted or ugly produce, and incorporate them into a menu of their choosing. Recess Time conversations are also documented using an auto-ethnographic approach by a floating interviewer, known as the "Kaypoh" (Busybody) Queen/King and recorded inside the Recess Journal, which also contain messages from past chefs, photos and food-waste friendly recipes.
Note: The menu contains no pork, lard, beef and alcohol. Please let us know if you have any dietary restrictions or food allergies at least 7 days before the event. Halal-certified bento boxes can be made available upon request.
ABOUT THE ARTS WORKERSPRACTICE TUCKSHOP
A key initiative of The Theatre Practice, Practice Tuckshop has advocated for sustainability in green practices since our inception. Our works push theatrical boundaries, to open up critical conversations on sustainability. As an arts space, we work with our artist-collaborators to incubate new works, and cultivate a space where different communities (and ideas!) can converge.
IG: @practicetuckshop
practice.org.sg/tuckshop
ANG XIAO TING
Ang Xiao Ting (she/her) is a freelance hyphenated theatre practitioner (actor, director, dramaturg, facilitator). She is an Associate Artist with The Theatre Practice (Singapore) and Programmer for Practice Tuckshop. Her practice in Eco-Theatre prioritises the various degrees of an integrated ecological practice, with a focus on Southeast Asian foodways. In 2023, her Eco-Theatre work was featured in Vogue.sg.
IG: @angxiaoting
angxiaoting.com
Gentle Ferocities
BRING YOUR PLATE (GATHERINGS)29 June, Saturday
8.00-10.00 PM
Rehearsal Studio
How are we listening to each other, our environments, our bodies, our creaturely companions, and reconfigured rhythms of time and disembodied sounds from virtual realms? What might we witness and what is animated when we situate ourselves in places that ask for your whole body to listen? How can we allow and trust our senses and instincts to lead us in times of crises, transition, healing, dreaming and transformation?
Come sit and unfold these questions for yourself and others through the sharing of food, storytelling and the crafting of a small handmade effigy/talisman (made from a recipe of organic materials, soil, selected spices, aromatics and flowers).
ABOUT THE ARTS WORKERSRUMAH RIMAU DAPOR
Rumah Rimau Dapor (Zarina Muhammad) is a peculiar habitat and shelter that invites and welcomes delight, softness, ferocity, and the quiet pauses and spaces of multispecies cohabitation. Zarina Muhammad (she/her) is an artist, educator and researcher whose practice is deeply entwined with a critical re-examination of oral histories, ethnographic literature and other historiographic accounts about Southeast Asia.
IG: @girlsandghostsintrees
girlsandghostsintrees.com
PORT OF RECIPROCITY
Port of Reciprocity (Irfan Kasban) is a space and time shared to alleviate the aches of being a burnt-out artist. Irfan Kasban (he/him) is a transdisciplinary artist who writes, directs, performs and designs, as a way to create intricate universes to honour space and time.
IG: @irfan.kasban
irfankasban.wordpress.com
Opening Dinner: Come Say Hi!
Practice Tuckshop & Chef Priscill Koh
BRING YOUR PLATE (GATHERINGS)28 June, Friday
7.00-10.00 PM
Rear Courtyard
In the spirit of all CITRUS gatherings, we want to meet old and new friends around tasty and healthy food. To kick off CITRUS fest, we have thus invited special guests Practice Tuckshop & Chef Priscill to cook up a storm for our opening dinner! Inspired by the colours of CITRUS’ logo and the festival’s focus on care and intentionality, Chef Priscill will present a three-course communal dining experience. Her vegetarian dinner spotlights sustainably-grown local produce, and will include a selection of rescued veggie pickles and condiments.
Note: The menu contains no pork, lard, beef and alcohol. Please let us know if you have any dietary restrictions or food allergies at least 7 days before the event. Halal-certified bento boxes can be made available upon request.
ABOUT THE ARTS WORKERSPRACTICE TUCKSHOP
A key initiative of The Theatre Practice, Practice Tuckshop has advocated for sustainability in green practices since our inception. Our works push theatrical boundaries, to open up critical conversations on sustainability. As an arts space, we work with our artist-collaborators to incubate new works, and cultivate a space where different communities (and ideas!) can converge.
IG: @practicetuckshop
practice.org.sg/tuckshop
PRISCILL KOH
Priscill Koh (she/her) is a freelance culinary instructor and consultant, whose current passion involves creating healthy alternative dishes that are super yummy. She is also a part-time urban farmer! Priscill is a long-time Makan Master for Practice Tuckshop’s Recess Time and one of the facilitators of Pickle Pop-Up.
IG: @taitaichef
ANG XIAO TING
Ang Xiao Ting (she/her) is a freelance hyphenated theatre practitioner (actor, director, dramaturg, facilitator). She is an Associate Artist with The Theatre Practice (Singapore) and Programmer for Practice Tuckshop. Her practice in Eco-Theatre prioritises the various degrees of an integrated ecological practice, with a focus on Southeast Asian foodways. In 2023, her Eco-Theatre work was featured in Vogue.sg.
IG: @angxiaoting
angxiaoting.com
Rest & Digest Corner
BRING YOUR PLATE (GATHERINGS)28–30 June, Friday-Sunday
12.00-10.00 PM daily
Rehearsal Studio
Alongside the deep and persistent work of care, we need to insist on spaces of joy and pleasure. Whether you are looking for a temporary layover between programmes or a space to decompress from work and life, the Rest & Digest Corner will be open to arts workers and all throughout the festival. There will also be a space to leave brief thoughts and to respond to other people’s reflections over the three days. (:
ABOUT THE ARTS WORKERSBoth Port of Reciprocity and Rumah Rimau Dapor were conceived as spaces of communal gatherings, offerings and collective listening, where rest, unfurling, shapeshifting and renewal are held. We hold space for gathering in ease, for dreaming, for the tenderness existing in the things that comfort, burden, bewilder or fascinate us. We welcome the restlessness between solitude, companionship and the deep presence that emerges when safety is created in the spaces and interconnected kinships-ecologies we safeguard and choose to return to.
RUMAH RIMAU DAPOR
Rumah Rimau Dapor (Zarina Muhammad) is a peculiar habitat and shelter that invites and welcomes delight, softness, ferocity, and the quiet pauses and spaces of multispecies cohabitation. Zarina Muhammad (she/her) is an artist, educator and researcher whose practice is deeply entwined with a critical re-examination of oral histories, ethnographic literature and other historiographic accounts about Southeast Asia.
IG: @girlsandghostsintrees
girlsandghostsintrees.com
PORT OF RECIPROCITY
Port of Reciprocity (Irfan Kasban) is a space and time shared to alleviate the aches of being a burnt-out artist. Irfan Kasban (he/him) is a transdisciplinary artist who writes, directs, performs and designs, as a way to create intricate universes to honour space and time.
IG: @irfan.kasban
irfankasban.wordpress.com
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