Reimagine Tales
A fractured fairytales festival
Fairytales festival
Join a fractured
fairy tales drama production
10 Jun 2023
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!
Form a team of up to 5 people
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!
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.
Dates
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
Includes
$
45
/ pax
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1 off-stage rehearsal on 4th June 2023, Sunday, 9am – 11.30am in Aljunied
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1 full dress on-stage rehearsal on Production day 10th June 2023, Saturday, 9am – 1pm
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Rental of basic costumes
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2 General Admission tickets worth $10 each
Limited Slots
Self-directed
Develop your own storyline
Creativity
decide your Own script and costumes
Organisation
production involvement
Ownership
A Product of your Own
Teamwork
Work with Consensus
About the Organisers
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 Producer, Self-directed Life
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. 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.
About the Director, Claris Tan
Frequently Asked Questions
- Form a team of 2 to 5 children between the ages 5 and 16
- Decide what your play is about. It has to be according to the theme of fairytale.
- Apply to join with details of your team mates and
- Pay the Performance Joining fee and wait for approval!
Each team can produce a play of not more than 8 minutes. The whole production is 60mins, maximum 75mins.
It costs money to rent a professional venue. Children deserve a proper venue. It puts value to the work that they put in. The fee will also include the fee for 2 rehearsals and basic costumes. By the including the cost of 2 tickets to watch the production, we’re ensuring that the house is filled.
The Performance Joining Fee is $45 / pax.
- 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.
Any child between ages 5 and 16.
Create Your Own Play course is an optional course offered by NEW SCHOOL Learning Dojo, the in-practice microschool arm of Self-directed Life, the organising committee. Similar to the Children Entrepreneurship Fair we organised, we offer two tracks for children to take their self-directed path. You can choose to DIY form your own team and go on your own, or work with a coach who will take you on a self-directed journey. Create Your Own Play course differs from drama academies as it is deliberately set up to support children to create a end-product on their own, to be involved in the production creation, and not just by reading a script and being an actor. You’re welcome to sign up for the course at an additional fee.
Terms
- 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.
- 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.
- Applicants must be between the ages of 5 and 16 on the Production date (10th Jun 2023)
- There must be a minimum of 2 children and maximum of 5 children in a team.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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