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How do you quantify the intangible?

Scene from Tan Lay Heong’s shadow play performance, conceptualised and performed to a private audience at Rimbun Dahan | Photo by Dee May Tan We were both given the gift of space to grow and play. Lay Heong, an artist from Penang, was here at this artists/writers residency to work Read more

By deemay.tan, 5 years14 January 2021 ago
Dispatches

Plates’ year in review

The yays and the nays. Yes, it’s one of those posts — humble-bragging what went well and an attempt at seeing the silver lining for what didn’t go that well.

By deemay.tan, 5 years31 December 2020 ago
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The Breakfast Club after hours

On the other side of the alternative school is an unused, but neatly kept wooden house, where two mothers wait on the raised verandah, away from the sun, patiently for their children to finish school. “Come on up, teacher. It’s hot down there,” they say as our conversation prolongs past Read more

By deemay.tan, 5 years24 December 2020 ago
Dispatches

To the early ones at the table

Often the most vocal ones are the ones who are most afraid. Afraid of looking bad if they support a dream of yours that doesn’t become a reality.

By deemay.tan, 5 years17 December 2020 ago
Dispatches

What makes a good online event: A 200-hour observation

Don’t apologise for dropping out of painful online sessions that don’t respect your time.

By deemay.tan, 5 years10 December 2020 ago

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