8:30    

Registration

9:00

Welcome & Introduction by Emcee

9:15

Opening Remarks
Mr. Kenneth Kwok
Assistant Chief Executive, National Arts Council, Singapore

9:30

Keynote Address 
Mr. Vincent Poussou
Director of Audiences and Digital, Grand Palais

10:30

Tea Reception

11:00

Panel 1: Understanding the 22nd-Century Audience

12:00

In Response: A Conversation With Our Future
Mr. Clifford Chua 
Academy Principal
Singapore Teachers’ Academy for the aRts (STAR)
Ministry of Education

12:30

Lunch

13:30

Panel 2: To Tech Or Not To Tech

15:00

Tea Reception

15:30

Panel 3: Alternative Learning Spaces

16:30

Closing Lecture 
Mr. Cai Yinzhou
Geylang Adventures

17:20

Closing Remarks
Dr June Yap
Director, Curatorial, Programmes & Publications
Singapore Art Museum (SAM)

17:30

End of Symposium

Panel 1: Understanding the 22nd-Century Audience

What are the needs of the children and youth of tomorrow? What are their priorities and passions? Why, what, and how do museums prepare for the needs and demands of the 22nd-century audience? In this panel, speakers will explore implications for museums, on issues ranging from interdisciplinary learning, social-emotional development to mental health.

Ms. Nina Ernst 
Associate Director, Programmes
ArtScience Museum    

Ms. Seow Ai Wee is the Deputy Director, Art, at the Singapore Teachers' Academy for the aRts (STAR), Ministry of Education. She leads with her team of Master Teachers and Academy Officers to design and implement varied professional learning experiences that would nurture professional identities of art teachers and transform art learning in schools and museums.

Ai Wee began her teaching career as an art teacher at Outram Secondary School. While pursuing her master's degree at Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York City, she joined the Museum of Modern Art, first as a Teaching Resident and then as a Museum Educator. She went on to work for the next six years at the Whitney Museum of American Art as the Coordinator of School and Teacher Programs. Prior to STAR, Ai Wee was an Assistant Professor of Arts Education at Tamagawa University, Tokyo, where she taught undergraduate courses on developmental theories, learning approaches and curriculum design.

Ai Wee is currently a doctoral candidate with the Art and Art Education Department at Teachers College. Her research focus is on ecology of long-term museum-school partnerships.

Ye Shufang serves as Deputy Director of Education at National Gallery Singapore. She leads the direction and development of learning resources and programmes for families, students and teachers. She also heads the Gallery’s Keppel Centre for Art Education, a dedicated learning facility that provides creative spaces and activities for children to discover art through imaginative play.

Shufang’s experience in education spans over 20 years. She served as Programme Leader for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Programmes at the Faculty of Fine Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts (2002 to 2007). Shufang developed and implemented the visual art practice, research and assessment framework for both programmes. She has supervised over 8 cohorts of Undergraduate students and Postgraduate candidates in their practice and research in visual arts.

In 2007, Shufang joined School of the Arts (SOTA), the first pre-tertiary art school for students ages 13 to 18 years old. As the Head of Visual Arts Faculty, Shufang led the research, development and implementation of a 6-year curriculum for Studio Practice and Theory and History of Art for the International Baccalaureate Diploma. Shufang also developed an assessment framework for different art disciplines, providing training for her faculty in assessments and moderation.

Over the past decade, Ye has served on several curriculum planning, review and advisory committees with a number of art education institutions. She currently serves on the Annual Grant and Scholarship Applications and Assessments Panel with National Arts Council and on the Curriculum Development Advisory Committee with Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts.

Dee is known to most students who visit SAM Exhibitions as “Teacher Dee” or the ‘cher’ from SAM. Dee began teaching in 1997, and has worked with students and schools of varied profiles and age groups, ranging from 5-18 year olds, and from the gifted to those identified with special educational needs. She has served in various positions and areas, including heading the Humanities, Visual and Performing Arts as well as Student Development Departments in various schools and Senior Specialist for Art at the Ministry of Education where she helped develop the Student Learning Space (SLS), a nation-wide learning portal which provides learning resources for all students in Singapore.

In her current role as Head, Education and Programmes at SAM, Dee oversees and implements Education and Public Programme initiatives at the museum, such as the Contemporary Art and Mental Health Programme, Project Happiness @ SAM, the Think! Contemporary and Think! Contemporary Preschool Exhibitions which showcase Preschool and Primary School students’ artworks in response to SAM’s contemporary art exhibitions. She also champions initiatives which make SAM more accessible, such as the SAM Touch Collection and Kopi Teh and Contemporary Art for seniors.

Since the days of his youth—many of which were spent exploring the streets of Geylang—Cai Yinzhou has had an impulse for discovering hidden stories.

To this young, compassionate tour guide, old buildings are filled with lessons from the past, and neighbourhoods are classrooms where personal narratives entwine with the arc of history.

Yinzhou’s many social initiatives include Geylang Adventures and Dakota Adventures which aim to unpack social issues through sight-seeing, and Backalleybarbers, a project offering free haircuts to migrant labourers. For his efforts in aiding Singapore’s disadvantaged, the young advocate of social change was conferred the Singapore Youth Award in 2017. During the 2018 National Day Parade, the founding story of #backalleybarbers was also featured during the parade show segment.

Yinzhou will share his experiences in using tours to access and unpack to understand multifaceted perspectives of the sidelined communities, and setting up spontaneous social initiatives hoping to inspire and advocate the belief of loving thy neighbour.