IPS-SAM Spotlight on Cultural Policy Series Seven: Roundtable on Our SG Arts Plan (2018-2022)

The recently unveiled Our SG Arts Plan (2018–2022) maps the strategic priorities and initiatives of the National Arts Council (NAC) over the next five years. This blueprint follows on earlier masterplans, namely the 1989 Report of the Advisory Council on Culture and the Arts, the Renaissance City Plans of the 2000s, and the 2012 Arts and Culture Strategic Review.

To what extent are the priorities in this new plan the most important ones facing Singapore arts and culture at this stage of development? Are there areas that ought to be part of it but which have been left out? What are the issues and challenges that the NAC will face in implementing the plan? What, in particular, are the specific opportunities and obstacles faced by each sector?

This is the seventh in a series of roundtable discussions jointly organised by the Institute of Policy Studies and the Singapore Art Museum about cultural policy in Singapore. To allow for free and frank exchange, this will be a “closed-door” roundtable held under the Chatham House Rule.

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About the IPS-SAM Spotlight on Cultural Policy Series

The IPS-SAM Spotlight on Cultural Policy Series is a space for frank, robust and collegial discussion of the issues and challenges related to arts and cultural policy in Singapore. Each discussion will gather members of the arts and creative community, policymakers, academics and other stakeholders working across different fields, to discuss a specific, timely topic about the arts and cultural policy landscape in Singapore. The goal is to assess current policies and offer recommendations for the future. The Singapore Art Museum (SAM) is the venue sponsor for the 2015–2018 series.

The seminars in the series are:

• IPS-SAM Spotlight on Cultural Policy Series One: Roundtable on The State of Literature Education and its Implications
• IPS-SAM Spotlight on Cultural Policy Series Two: Roundtable on Place Management and Placemaking in Singapore
• IPS-SAM Spotlight on Cultural Policy Series Three: Roundtable on Development of Community Arts in Singapore
• IPS-SAM Spotlight on Cultural Policy Series Four: Roundtable on The Future of Cultural Leadership in Singapore
• IPS-SAM Spotlight on Cultural Policy Series Five: Roundtable on Whither Arts Funding: Priorities, Values and Control
• IPS-SAM Spotlight on Cultural Policy Series Six: Roundtable on Bang for the Funding Buck: KPIs and Capturing the Impact of the Arts
• IPS-SAM Spotlight on Cultural Policy Series Seven: Roundtable on Our SG Arts Plan (2018-2022)
• IPS-SAM Spotlight on Cultural Policy Series Eight: Roundtable on Making Friends and Influencing People: The Art of Cultural Diplomacy
• IPS-SAM Spotlight on Cultural Policy Series Nine: Roundtable on Growing Singapore’s Film Industry: Projecting From the Past and Present into the Future
• IPS-NGS-SAM Spotlight on Cultural Policy Series Ten: Roundtable on Art in the Time of Pandemic: Meaning, Relevance and Future
• IPS-NGS-SAM Spotlight on Cultural Policy Series Eleven: Roundtable Discussion on Art in the Time of Pandemic II: Keeping the Arts Afloat
• IPS-NGS-SAM Spotlight on Cultural Policy Series Twelve: Roundtable Discussion on A Year of Living Precariously: Artists on Surviving the Pandemic
• IPS Spotlight on Cultural Policy Series Thirteen: Roundtable on Singapore’s Television Industry: The View Ahead
  
  
  

Downloads

• Of Bureaucracy and Creativity – Full Report on the IPS SAM Roundtable on Our SG Arts Plan
• Presentation Slides of Mr Terence Ho
• Presentation Slides of Ms Kathleen Ditzig
• Presentation Slides of Mr Tan Peng Sing
• Presentation Slides of Ms Charmaine Poh