Organization

Project DARI

Project DARI works with diverse theatre companies and festivals as a producer, programmer, and facilitator. ‘Dari’ means ‘Bridge’ in Korean. Going beyond the walls and boundaries are the key value of Project DARI in order to bridge arts/artists/society for the better now and future. Project DARI works in various forms from support in the creative ideas and process to the production and development; from touring of the shows to international collaboration.

Partner organization

Producers SG, Producers of Thai Performing Arts Network POTPAN, Bangkok International Performing Arts Meeting BIPAM, In-Situ Arts Management Consultancy

Producers SG is a network and community of practice  for independent producers, arts managers, and self-producing artists / artist-producers in Singapore. We connect the independent sector, organising and sharing information, resources, support, and opportunities for capability development.

Producers of Thai Performing Arts Network (POTPAN) aims to gather people who are interested in producing performing arts and create a network to build connections and share knowledge and experiences among members. We invite guest speakers and hold capacity-strengthening activities for Thai performing arts producers which will lead to the development of a stronger and more competent performing arts community in Thailand.

Bangkok International Performing Arts Meeting (BIPAM) is an organization which holds annual performing arts meetings since 2016 to encourage exchanges and networking among artists and performing arts practitioners to develop Southeast Asian performing arts communities and to be a platform for Southeast Asian performing arts professionals to connect with the international performing arts scenes.

IN SITU is an arts management consultancy founded by Tan E-Jan, a creative producer and arts consultant based in Malaysia. ‘Situ’ is about placemaking - ‘site’, ‘situate’, a ‘local position’, essentially ‘here’; in Bahasa Malaysia, however, ‘Situ’ means ‘there’. These meanings play against one another in a way that captures the sort of work E-Jan is interested in, the collaborative, the entangling in the facilitation of art and futures that makes ‘t/here’.

Project

Majungmul Project : Network for the Future

Majungmul Project is a professional exchange and residency initiative, gathering emerging and mid-career producers from Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, and Thailand. Taking its name from ‘majungmul’, the Korean term to describe the act of priming water in a water pump in order for the water to flow better again, this pilot project aims to gather producers from these countries to: Learn about each others’ contexts and challenges, Discuss and research existing and future barriers to international  collaboration, especially between these countries, Develop ideas and plant the seeds for a future efforts at internationalisation and developing networks of collaboration