We are delighted to share that Children’s Museum Singapore (CMSG) will be helming Children’s Season (CS) for the first time. As part of the programming, we will be organising a series of performances at selected Museum Roundtable (MR) museums. These performances will be featured as the Signature Programme of CS 2024. Through this open call, we would like to invite you to pitch for a site-specific work for the Signature Programme of up to 2 locations of your choice as listed in Annex A.

As a museum, we aim to be a place of wonder and joyful learning for all children to engage with Singapore and the world. Using Children’s Season as a platform, we hope to provide authentic experiences for children that are thoughtfully designed, taking into consideration their views. Hence, the submitted proposals will be shortlisted for a pitch session by a children’s panel on 15 March 2024, Friday at 11am. The children’s panel will select 4 works that they hope to see develop further.

The details are as follows.

Selection criteria for the proposal:

• Suitability for young audiences
• Artistic quality and intention
• Clear incorporation of the theme of Children’s Season 2024 on Innovation and selected artefacts/objects as proposed by the selected museum
• Overall duration of the proposed programme must be 1 hour. The programme may consist of several components e.g. 40 mins performance, 20 mins craft.
• Creative use / activation of space(s)

Pitch session on 15 March 2024, Friday:

• Each artist / group will be required to present a 10 – 15 mins presentation of their proposed idea to the children’s panel live.
• The presentation can take the form of a lecture-performance, demonstration, workshop, or any other presentation formats that best benefit the proposal.
• The presentation venue will be at Children’s Museum Singapore.
• Each presentation will be accompanied by a question-and-answer session by the children’s panel.

Upon selection, artists will have:

• A project stipend of up to $6,000, depending on the nature of the work
• Rehearsal space (depending on availability of selected location)
• Test trial(s) at the selected location of your proposed work (depending on availability of selected location)
• Feedback provided by children, parents, museum programmers

Timeline:

Should this be of interest to you, kindly submit your idea by 31 January 2024, Wednesday by 2359hrs via this link.

If you have any queries, kindly email to Glenda Ng at glenda_ng@nhb.gov.sg.