Apply to join Production: Reimagine Tales

Description

[Application to join the Reimagine Tales Production will be opening at the end of March. Please register interest if you want to be the first to know when it opens!]

If you’re looking for a fun and creative way for children to spend their time, then consider joining our fractured fairy tales drama production! Children will form teams on their own, create their original fairy tale story with their own twist, and come together to create a production they can call their own!

 

​We’re looking for young people between the ages 5 and 16, with difference experience levels to participate, so whether you’re a seasoned performer or have never stepped foot on stage before, we’d love to have you!

Form a team of up to 5 people.

Come up with your own version of a fairy tale story. Even better, mishmash them from different stories and make it uniquely yours. Register

​Our philosophy: We are not performance or product focus. We want to honour the journey that each child takes. It will not be about how polished a work is, but it is about respecting a child’s authenticity and pride to call it their own.

 

Rehearsal Date

4th June 2023, Sunday, 9am – 11.30am @ Aljunied (TBC)

Full dress rehearsal & Production Date

10th June 2023, Saturday, 9am – 1pm

Performance Joining Fee $45 / pax

Includes:

• 1 off-stage rehearsal on 4th June 2023, Sunday, 9am – 11.30am in Aljunied
• 1 full dress on-stage rehearsal on Production day 10th June 2023, Saturday, 9am – 1pm
• Rental of basic costumes
• 2 General Admission tickets worth $10 each

Note: Excluding the cost of 2 tickets, the registration fee is $25 / pax. If you have more than 1 child participating in the event, but do not have sufficient attendees, please consider selling your ticket to other families who might need more tickets, or upgrade your seats to premium seats.

 

​Our philosophy: We are not performance or product focus. We want to honour the journey that each child takes. It will not be about how polished a work is, but it is about respecting a child’s authenticity and pride to call it their own.

 

 

About the Producer, Self-directed Life

Self-directed life coaches parents and educators to parent and educate mindfully, in a child-centered and self-directed way. Self-directed Life is also the organiser of Children’s Entrepreneurship Fair, which saw a total of 63 students participating and 200 attendees.

 

About the Director, Claris Tan

Claris Tan is an actor, singer, and theatre practitioner from Singapore. She graduated from LASALLE College of the Arts with a BA (Hons) in Musical Theatre in 2018. Her professional acting career started at the age of 4, and she made her movie debut in I Not Stupid II in 2006. Selected theatre credits include: Hutan (Sensorium Theatre, Perth), In Pieces (⅞ Musical Collective), Mars I Do This? (Zip Zap Zoom Collective), The Amazing Celestial Race (Wild Rice), Little Red Riding Hood in an Indonesian production of Into the Woods (Teman Musikal Nusantara), the Mandarin version of Cat In the Hat (Singapore Repertory Theatre), One Kind of Science Musical (Players’ Theatre), The Great Wall: One Woman’s Journey (Glowtape Productions), ensemble in The Tempest (SRT) and Caucasian Chalk Circle (SRT Young Co). Selected film credits include: Codetta (Viddsee), Waiting For You (Viddsee), Kin (Mediacorp), and Mata Mata 3 (Mediacorp).

Apart from being a performer, Claris has also exercised her ability as a creative through various platforms. She is one of the co-founders of Zip Zap Zoom Collective, a TYA-focused collective. Under Zip Zap Zoom, Claris worked as an actor and co-playwright on Zip Zap Zoom Collective’s children’s theatre production, Mars I Do This?, in collaboration with The Artground and Science Centre Singapore. She also directed a TYA show entitled Pop!, which premiered at the opening weekend of Children’s Museum Singapore. She was also one of the directors, as well as the music composer for a children’s immersive experience entitled Blast Off!, that was created by Zip Zap Zoom Collective under The Artground’s Groundbreakers programme. Claris is also currently working with the children’s team in Esplanade as one of the facilitators for the SEEDLINGS programme, which seeks to develop child-centric artistic experiences by allowing the selected children to engage and respond to the children’s programming at Esplanade. In PLAYlab+ 2020 under Esplanade, Claris directed Transportation, a devised sensory experience for children with additional needs. As a performer for devised work, Claris has worked with Sensorium Theatre from Australia in Hutan, a commissioned work for National Museum Singapore and the Awesome Festival in Perth. She was also a collaborator and singer in several devised cabarets, including 2 cabarets for Esplanade’s Concourse programmes: Red Dot August and From Books to Broadway. Being familiar with mascot choreography, she has also worked as a choreographer for PJ Masks Sunway Pyramid in Kuala Lumpur.

 

TERMS

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1. Application and payment does not guarantee the approval of your application. Strictly no refunds once your application has been approved. Any refunds prior to approval will amount up to 95% of your total fee paid to account for the transaction fee lost to stripe and a minute amount of admin fee.
2. The organising committee will take care to limit and avoid stories / plays that are too similar. If a new applicant’s play is similar to entries that were accepted earlier, the committee will notify the applicant and provide the opportunity to resubmit a new application.
3. Applicants must be between the ages of 5 and 16 on the Production date (10th Jun 2023)
4. There must be a minimum of 2 children and maximum of 5 children in a team.
5. All plays must be original stories and must be submitted to the organising committee for approval. All plays must strictly be less than 8min long.
6. For a consistent look and feel of the production, basic costumes will be provided by the organising committee. If there is a need for you to provide your own costumes or props, please seek approval from the organising committee before purchase.
7. This Production is designed to give children a taste of running their show. Please let them have this experience by supporting their wacky ideas and letting them work out any difficulties (other than health and safety issues)
8. Should there be mistakes or further room for improvement observed during the Production, we strongly suggest adopting the “Hands Behind, Lips Sealed” strategy to avoid criticisms, and allow our children to reflect upon and discuss this with you post Production.
9. Permission is granted for me and/ or my child to be photographed, recorded, and/or videotaped in any form of media for the purposes of assessment, planning, evaluation, documentation in blogs/ newsletters, public or private events, and for publicity. Such photograph(s), video recording(s) shall remain the property of the Self-Directed Life, and New School Learning Dojo.
10. The organising committee reserves the right to cancel the Production or change the terms at any point in time. Should there be an unfortunate need to cancel the event, the performance joining fee will be held as credit for another event in the future.

 

Apply to Join

Note: Filling up the form and payment does not guarantee the approval of your application. Please do NOT fill up empty or TBC answers to ‘book’ your slot. This will automatically be disqualified. Any refunds back to you will be amount up to 95% of your total fee paid to account for the transaction fee lost to stripe and a minute amount of admin fee.