2009年2月2日
我走遍了芽茏！
最近，为了戏剧盒４月的演出，必须到芽茏收集资料。
今天，我和佳宜到了芽茏。接近傍晚时，我就“邀请”了海彬来芽茏保护我们！哈哈。大家应该知道为什么我要叫海彬“保护”我们吧！虽然自己不喜欢 stereotype 一些人或地方，但为了安全，还是决定找个男生来陪我们到芽茏。
在回家的路上，海彬问了我一个问题“身为一个女生，到了芽茏，你有什么感受？”
哇～我想了一下。。。 就想到我和佳宜在海彬还没来之前的事情。我们这两个路痴 （ok, 也许只是我而已！哈），有时会找不到我们要去的地方，便会停下来看地图，或问人。当我们停下来时，自己会有一种压力。因为受不了身边的 uncles 或劳工的眼神。顿时，觉得自己很像动物园的动物， 很不自在。 好像我们，女人，来到芽茏就成了一个物品，让人从头到脚“欣赏”到他们爽为止。我会安慰自己说，也许是我因为对芽茏的错误印象而over-react。 但还是会对那些喜欢坐在咖啡店或路旁欣赏经过的女人的人，感到有点愤怒。（不知那些有去过芽茏的人，也感同深受？）
我跟海彬还开玩笑，说要举办活动，呼吁女人们，站起来，一起对付那些喜欢把在芽茏行走的女人看成一种物品的男人！哈哈。但是，自己还是会不由自主地把在芽茏的女人看成那种不三不四的女人。:s
这又让我觉得很苦恼。虽然，我知道这么想是不对的，但还是会被社会的想法牵着鼻子走。我这才发现自己已经被媒体传达的一些讯息或其他因素影响很深，很难摆脱这些所谓的 stereotypes。也许这些stereotypes很难也需要很长的时间，才能彻底的消除。 但希望大家能和我一起努力，为建设一个stereotype-free 的社会吧！哈哈
哦，同时也祝大家新年快乐（：
关于艺树人
艺树人是本地剧场戏剧盒旗下的青年部，由12位充满热忱的年轻人组成的团体。我们希望能通过戏剧对各阶层的民众有更深入的了解和联系。
艺树人的创立是为了提供青年一个多方面训练的平台。通过三年的培训，艺树人希望能培育处一群拥有文化和社会意识的本地戏剧实践者。
我们使用一个名为O-A-O-R （ Orientation – Artistic – Organisation – Regeneration/ 定向 – 艺术性 – 组织 – 再生 ）的模式，让青年们得到的不仅是艺术方面的训练，也学习组织群体和制作管理的技能。除此之外，他们会接触到各种类的戏剧，例如论坛剧场、新闻剧场等等。他们同时还会接受其他艺术形体的培训，如音乐和多媒体。
除了提高社会问题的认识和讨论，艺树人希望能质问及挑战人们的思维，并改变大众对低下层或边缘族群的一些刻板观念，让单方向的独白转化成双方都能参与的对话。
2012 年将会是第一届艺树人青年的最后一年。我们将会在毕业前呈现一部作品，而灵感来至于高行健的《车站》。这作品会是艺树人培训三年来的精髓，也是我们对于原作和现今社会的反思。
About ARTivate
ARTivate - the youth wing of local theatre company Drama Box - is made up of a group of 12 passionate youths who aims to reach out to the community through the arts.
ARTivate was first established with the aim to provide a platform for youths who want to explore and gain all-rounded insight into theatre. Through a three-year program, ARTivate hopes to nurture a group of youths into cultured and socially aware theatre-practitioners in Singapore.
Using an O-A-O-R (Orientation-Artistic-Organization-Regeneration) model, these youths are trained not only artistically but also in organizational skills and production management. They will be exposed to different forms of theatre such as Forum Theatre and Newspaper Theatre. They will also be trained in other art forms such as music and multimedia.
Besides bringing awareness to the themes explored, ARTivators hopes to question, probe or even challenge minds. They want to engage audiences in discussion – to turn monologues into dialogues.
As 2012 will the last year of the pioneer batch of ARTivate youths, they will be putting up a piece of performance, Bus Stop, inspired by “Bus Stop” written by renowned playwright, Gao Xing Jian. This performance will be a collation of the trainings the youths had undergone for the past 3 years, as well as a critical perspective and evaluation of the script, in reference to the current society the youths are in.
许慧铃 Koh Hui Ling
艺术总监 Artistic Director
母性泛滥; 热爱人
着重于戏剧／剧场的应用与教学法
Overpowering maternal instincts
Loves Human(ity)
Aims at developing the use of applied drama / theatre
梁海彬 Neo Hai Bin
长着翅膀
在剧场里翱翔...
一个
鸟人。
The world's a stage...
I'm in the latecomer's queue.
刘佳宜 Liew Jiayi
我在南大念心理学科。心理学对我来说，跟戏剧的妙处不相上下。
越做，越发现，我懂得不多。越不懂，就越想发现，越想继续做 (:
I am currently an undergrad in NTU. My major is psychology and the most common question asked when I reveal that fact is whether I can read his/her mind. Honestly, I cannot lah. Currently, I am daydreaming about my future hoping to achieve 2 things i enjoy alot in life: Theatre and Psychology (:
林丹凤 Lam Dan Fong
就读南洋理工大学。
习惯催眠自己就读的科目与艺术（剧场）有关。还在探索当中。
2012年5月毕业后，领悟到了答案再跟大家分享。
Studying Accountancy in NTU and living a second life in theatre, where (fortunately) the former will end in 2012 May. Believes that there is a connection between numbers and the arts, or maybe, I am just living in denial all the time.
林慧萍 Lim Hwee Peng
法律系学生。
正在面临"刻年"危机。
志愿当长发公主。
Law student.
Currently experiencing "quarter-life" crisis.
Aspiring Rapunzel.
张英豪 Teo Eng Hao
正值后青春期的门槛状态。
剧场爱好者，正在学习做个剧场人。
热血梦想：征服全世界，或，不被世界驯服。
励志宣言：剧场就是Play! 让我们一起玩转地球！
A post-graduate student from NTU Division of Chinese.
韩雪梅 Han Xuemei
热爱的东西太多，拥有的时间有限。
记性日渐退化，一年比一年老。
Carries an overwhelming amount of passion for an overwhelming number of things, coping with the limited amount of time.
Struggling against a degenerating capacity to remember, and aging year by year.
Like anybody else.
王放 Kate
在国大读书.
写这个东西简直比写任何论文还难！
An undergrad at NUS.
Coming out with this line is harder than any paper I've ever written.
谢秀彬 Entia Seah Siew Ping
南大中文系毕业。非常健忘，经常丢三落四。
热爱教育，喜欢和人接触。
Some people say that I look like an ah-lian when I’m quiet and sounds like an auntie when I speak.
I embrace all these comments and aspire to be an elegant ah-lian and intelligent auntie!
何健僮 Ho Jian Tong
在2009年毕业于新加坡国立大学的科学系。由于我目前还在学习编剧和导戏的工作，未能有值得一提的代表作。
Graduated from “The Brainforest of Clementi” with an Honours degree in Life Sciences. As I am currently learning to write and direct plays properly, I do not have any work that is worthy of mention as yet.
骆丽诗 Myra Loke
爱与剧场牵手，与社会学接吻。
Sometimes we need to be crazy, to be human.
陈玮婷 Tan Wei Ting
艺树人面试那一天，我告诉许慧铃："其实我想要做的是电影。"
南大电影系上课头一天，我告诉教授："其实我要做的是剧场。"
三年的时间找一找自己，也够了。
I started doing Theatre thinking that I want to do Film.
Now I'm studying Film determined to do Theatre.
Funny yea?
2009年2月2日
我走遍了芽茏！
最近，为了戏剧盒４月的演出，必须到芽茏收集资料。
今天，我和佳宜到了芽茏。接近傍晚时，我就“邀请”了海彬来芽茏保护我们！哈哈。大家应该知道为什么我要叫海彬“保护”我们吧！虽然自己不喜欢 stereotype 一些人或地方，但为了安全，还是决定找个男生来陪我们到芽茏。
在回家的路上，海彬问了我一个问题“身为一个女生，到了芽茏，你有什么感受？”
哇～我想了一下。。。 就想到我和佳宜在海彬还没来之前的事情。我们这两个路痴 （ok, 也许只是我而已！哈），有时会找不到我们要去的地方，便会停下来看地图，或问人。当我们停下来时，自己会有一种压力。因为受不了身边的 uncles 或劳工的眼神。顿时，觉得自己很像动物园的动物， 很不自在。 好像我们，女人，来到芽茏就成了一个物品，让人从头到脚“欣赏”到他们爽为止。我会安慰自己说，也许是我因为对芽茏的错误印象而over-react。 但还是会对那些喜欢坐在咖啡店或路旁欣赏经过的女人的人，感到有点愤怒。（不知那些有去过芽茏的人，也感同深受？）
我跟海彬还开玩笑，说要举办活动，呼吁女人们，站起来，一起对付那些喜欢把在芽茏行走的女人看成一种物品的男人！哈哈。但是，自己还是会不由自主地把在芽茏的女人看成那种不三不四的女人。:s
这又让我觉得很苦恼。虽然，我知道这么想是不对的，但还是会被社会的想法牵着鼻子走。我这才发现自己已经被媒体传达的一些讯息或其他因素影响很深，很难摆脱这些所谓的 stereotypes。也许这些stereotypes很难也需要很长的时间，才能彻底的消除。 但希望大家能和我一起努力，为建设一个stereotype-free 的社会吧！哈哈
哦，同时也祝大家新年快乐（：
艺树人的过往镜头
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- The FLAMES利用环保乐器所带来的精彩表演
补天计划之《绿吗？》
2008年1月
《绿吗？》是戏剧盒08年以环保为主题的社区演出系列的一部分。
艺术人希望通过此活动，让公众,特别是青少年,对环境有更深的认识，并且更了解自己对环境造成的影响。
《父。女花》
编剧： 林丹凤
- 艺树人呈献的戏剧小品
创作灵感取自柯思仁《梦树观屋》中一句:
“砍倒一棵树，可以再种。对人类来说，这只是一件微不足道的事”。
剧中描述的是女儿面对父亲酗酒赌钱，因而要她把心爱的花卖掉的抉择。
《塑料杀死猫》
编剧： 何健僮
一个神秘女子为了名利而开始进行实验，培植一种智慧崇高的动物。因为要去远行休息，女子把实验品交给了她的管家照顾。
可是实验出现了无法想象的变化，因而对豪宅与人类的安全造成了威胁。
最终，为了把家中的大害除掉，她和管家与一手创造的动物大动干戈！
- 非一般的小型户外市集
协助编剧：郭庆亮
执导：许慧铃
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Project Mending Sky: THE GREEN MAN!
January 2008
The Green Man is part of Drama Box’s community project on Environment.
Conceptualized and organized by ARTivate, the event consists of:
- - ARTivate’s thought-provoking plays on environmental conservation
- - “The Flames” musical performance by girls from Andrew & Grace Home
- - A mini bazaar that promotes environmental conservation
Selfish, written by Lam Dan Fong, reveals a story about the decision of a daughter -
to escape into a perfect new world or remain in the world of self destruction.
Plasti-City Kills the Cat written by Ho Kian Tong, explores the harm brought about by plastics to the environment.
The plays are written under the dramaturgy of Kok Heng Leun and directed by Koh Hui Ling.
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What Matters?
July 2008
What Matters? is a package of one forum theatre play and three fringe activities which explores the issue of race with the youths of today.
Through the series of fringe activities and the Forum Theatre play, ARTivate aims to probe further into the awareness of racial issues with the youths of today and understand the true meaning of harmony between races.
Forum Theatre Play
3 students of different races set up an Adventure Club in school. As they prepare to go on a new adventure to search for fugitive Mas Selamat in their club room, an accident happened in the school and conflicts arose within the group.
*The play is performed mainly in English with some Mandarin and Malay
Fringe #1: Race in School – Stereotypes and Others
The youths were asked to move, play, think and discover, thus finding the way of dealing with racial issues in real life.
Fringe #2: Movie screening – To Kill a Mocking bird
Based on the novel by Harper Lee, this award-winning classic film present racial issues vividly on screen.
There was a discussion session after the screening facilitated by Mr. Danny Yeo.
- Sharing by young actors of Class Enemy from Bosnia
Fringe #3: Survival Ethnic Conflicts in Bosnia – a Singapore Arts Festival programme
Sharing by young actors of Class Enemy from Bosnia on their personal experiences of the war-torn times and how they have learnt to cope with growing up in an environment filled with violence caused by racial and ethnic conflicts.
Speaker: Director Haris Pasovic and the cast of CLASS ENEMY (East West Theatre Company)
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Project Mending Sky: Movie Screening
August 2008
- Learning about the environment
The Movie Screening is the second installment of Project Mending Sky: The Green Man, held in conjunction with Project Mending Sky: ME (补天计划之我).
Through movie screenings and post-movie discussion sessions ARTivate hopes to explore issues surrounding our Earth’s survival amidst the damages we are inflicting on her.
Documentary-Movie #1: Winged Migration
- Teaching the audience how to make dustbins using flyers
Directed by Jacques Perrin, a noted actor and film producer in France, this Academy Award nominated movie records the flight of dozens of different birds from around the globe as they follow their navigational instincts and make the taxing journey to more temperate climates in the fall.
Documentary -Movie #2: The Greening of Cuba
Cuban farmers and scientists working to reinvent a sustainable agriculture based on ecological principles and local knowledge rather than imported agricultural inputs which remind us that developed and developing nations alike can choose a healthier environment and still feed their people.
- The audience sharing
Documentary -Movie #3: The Power of Community
A follow-up to The Greening of Cuba 10 years later to see how the Cuban transitioned from a highly mechanized, industrial agricultural system to one using organic methods of farming and local, urban gardens.
Discussions facilitated by: Mr Danny Yeo and Mr Tay Lai Hock
*Language: English (with English subtitles)
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《 城S 》
2009年7月
《城S》是艺树人首个以集体创作的方式完成的作品也是艺树人经过一年演员及编剧培训后的首个演出。在集体创作引导者郭庆亮和导演许婉婧的指导下，艺树人尝试了各种即兴表演，经过不断的试验剧本才达到了令人满意的成果。
《城S》以新加坡社会和现今高度融合及环球化的世界作为语境，对城市包容性的概念进行探索。
剧中的故事呈现城市的各个面向并由一系列的行李箱奏鸣曲所串连。行李箱奏鸣曲象征了一个旅程，让大家通过这个旅程反思多数人如何建构与看待社会中的意识形态。
在剧中，转制的体制，不和谐的状况，受歧视，被限制，被异化，被压抑等诸如此类的现实情况将被正视。多数人所作的决定能代表少数人的意见吗?在这场力争上游的竞赛中，精英又是否会考虑到一般老百姓的福利呢？你的言行举动是出自你的本意又或是受到其他人的影响？
艺树人希望观众能够通过观赏此剧重新思考真正具有包容性的城市所蕴含的意义再回答自己这些问题。
由艺树人集体创作和演出, 郭庆亮担任集体创作引导者, 许婉婧(戏剧盒艺术工作伙伴)导演.
*演出主要以中文进行。（提供英文字幕）
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CityS
July 2009
Part of a double-bill during
Singapore Drama Educators Association (SDEA) Celebrate Drama 2009
“CityS” is ARTivate’s first devised play. It is also ARTivate’s debut presentation following a year-round capacity-building process, during which the ARTivators underwent a series of training involving acting and playwrighting.
It is conceived and brought to satisfactory theatrical fruition by the collaboration of all ARTivators via a gradual process and accumulation of brainstorming and improvisation, under the guidance of devising facilitator Kok Heng Leun and director Koh Wan Ching.
“CityS” explores the concept of an inclusive city, in Singapore’s context, and in the context of our current highly integrated, globalised world.
In this play, stories from different aspects of a city are connected by a series of luggage sonatas which symbolizes a journey that questions the ideology constructed and perceived by majority of the society. Realities are confronted: autocracy, disharmony, discrimination, limitations, alienation, oppression and the likes. Does the decision of the majority always account for the minority? Will the elites ever consider the welfare of their downtown folks in this race to the top? Is that action you took out of free will or under the influence of others?
ARTivate hopes that audiences will reconsider the meaning of a truly inclusive city after watching the play and in turn, answer these questions for themselves.
Devised and performed by
ARTivateDevising facilitated by
Kok Heng Leun Directed by
Koh Wan Ching
*Performed mainly in Mandarin. (English Surtitles provided)
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《嘘… 审查：论坛剧场演出》
2010年9月
为了提高人们对审查制度的意识并让大家了解审查如何渗透生活，这个演出原本准备使用具象征性的舞台设计并进行现场音乐伴奏，冲破语言和种族的障碍让观众发现审查的力量。演出以5个小品组成，是艺树人经过5个月严密训练创作的结晶。
然而，距离演出仅剩三周的时候，新加坡媒体发展局告知我们户外表演执照不被批准。由于短剧探讨”敏感”课题，当局要求演出必须附上“含有成人议题”的说明并声称只有在室内演出，才能有效地执行说明。
因此，我们最后决定取消原本的演出，重新创作另一出论坛剧场来探讨在重要的课题上保持沉默，或刻意隐瞒实情所带来的诸多问题，而这些问题又如何导致沟通、对话上的断层。
导演：
郭庆亮， 与
艺树人联合创作
现场音乐：
光弧宫
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shh… censorship: a forum theatre performance
September 2010
This forum theatre performance is a wordless piece that comprises of 5 short pieces. Using a symbolic set design, and featuring live music accompaniment by ARCN TEMPL, this performance hope to transcend language and racial barriers, leading its viewers in discovering the power of censorship, with the aim of creating awareness in the communities about how censorship affects their daily lives.
However, just 3 weeks from our performance, MDA denied us of an outdoor performance license. The authorities gave an advisory for mature content due to the “sensitive nature” of the topics discussed, and claimed that we had to perform indoors in order to administer the advisory.
We stand by our position that the piece should be performed outdoors to reach as diverse a crowd as possible and believe that the issue of censorship should still be addressed. Therefore, we decided to withdraw the original piece from our programme, and replaced it with a new Forum Theatre performance, which discussed the problems of imposing silence and withholding information about important issues.
Devised and performed by ARTivate, this performance is the result of five months of training in Forum Theatre.
Comprising of five short pieces, imploring you to join us in discovering the power of censorship.
Directed by
Kok Heng Leun, co-created with
ARTivate
Live music by
ARCN TEMPL
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戏剧盒是新加坡最富代表性的现代华语剧团。它也是非盈利的慈善团体。成立于1990年，它凭着关怀社会的人文精神，对公民教育的积极态度，获得了广大观众的肯定。我们的演出除了富娱乐性和趣味性，也常常让观众深思并省思。
Drama Box is Singapore's most prominent contemporary Mandarin theatre company. It is a professional non-profit company with charity status. Formed in 1990, it has since gained a respectable reputation for its acute sensitivity and perception in heightening social awareness and civic responsibility. Our productions remain fun and entertaining, yet thought-provoking and reflective.
戏剧盒omy部落格告诉你戏剧盒的点点滴滴！
白色空间 之 编剧系列
继2001年演员训练工作室《白色空间》后，戏剧盒再度出发为本地中文戏剧界开拓新能量，推出为期18个月的剧本孵化室 --《白色空间之编剧系列》。通过新旧剧本创作者的定期沟通与互动，催生新一波原创剧本，捕捉属于我们时代的脉动。
Blanc Space
The Blanc Space was inaugurated in 2000 to provide a training platform for performers. In 2007, the company expanded Blanc Space to include programmes for budding directors and aspiring playwrights.
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6 条评论:
哈，看了你写的东西，第一时间想到的是你和佳宜知道要到芽茏时，是否在穿着上有刻意穿得比平常更密实呢？
因为平常看到你们都是 spag stRap 短裤 。。。
也许很多人想到要去芽笼，也会刻意不要穿得太过暴露 。。。其实，我们要把这种行为看成是 steReotyping 还是一种基本的自我保护呢？
哈哈。
看到你写的最后一句话：“建设一个stereotype-free 的社会”，我有些错愕。
我心里想的第一句话就是， “怎么可能！”
我想，那是因为大多数的人都有着先入为主的观念，又被媒体夸张似的呈现方式所影响，让我觉得这一种社会是不会存在的。
其实芽笼也有好心的路人，之前在那里迷路，不小心（真的啦！XP）走进了他们工作的巷子里，那边的女人，仿佛是印尼人或越南人。不知道她们是到底愿不愿意千里迢迢来到新加坡当一个姓爱服务者。还是他们有种种的苦衷（不管是太傻还是太天真）到最后每办法所以才来的...还是他们是自愿的，因为sex sells?
芽笼很有趣，除了买爱，也买好吃的东西。我最喜欢，最 <3 那里的永和豆浆油条！！！
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其实 Jed 一直跟我强调，芽笼一点都不危险。在芽笼会遇到的人，在新加坡任何角落也会遇到。
我第一次到芽笼时，也是很害怕，到较偏僻的角落时，会不经意的拉英豪的手臂。但是现在回想起来，我的确像太多了。
讲真的，我对芽笼的女人或是妓女一点反感都没有。反而，我还有点同情她们。因为以前（很久以前）看了一部戏是述说一些妓女的故事。我想没有人会喜欢卖身吧？如果有选择，我想他们一定不想做妓女。为什么要沦落到让那些色伯伯摸来摸去呢？
1： 为了钱
2： 被骗， 可能有些妓女原本来到新加坡工作，根本没有想到自己回卖身。
3： 可能因为他们的education不足，没法找到他工作，要维持自己，又要被其家庭负担，能不选择这一条路吗？
等等等。。。
我想，每个人都有自己的故事。
知道大部分的客工，到新加坡来都被中介“敲”了一大笔……听说单单只是中介费就要S$7k~s$10K，可能甚至还有更多的……那些对客工来说可是天文数字呀！而那所付出的天文数字必须在几年内赚回……
有谁在监管这些不道德的牟利手法吗？
难怪第三世界富的更富，穷的更穷……
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上次到了草根，买了一本何春蕤所编的《性工作 妓权观点》，虽然我还没看完，但是我觉得妓女，或性工作，这份行业真的是一体两/多面的。
有些迫于无奈，但是在何春蕤那本书中有几章“卖淫就是工作”、“我的工作，我的尊严”或许体现/再现的是性工作的另一面。
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