The Arts Granary

A PEOPLE’S MARINE ART ASSEMBLAGE is officially open!

To celebrate the opening, provided a primer into the current challenges and efforts to protect Singapore’s waters. This was followed by creative movements inspired by maritime debris and pollution. The movements served as a reflection on how these items, while inherently useful, can significantly impact the environment depending on how we use and dispose of them.

Bring your children for a meaningful outing to the Singapore Maritime Gallery this festive season and explore the complexities of progress, protection, and conservation.

A PEOPLE’S MARINE ART ASSEMBLAGE
13 - 31 December 2025
Singapore Maritime Gallery (closed on Mondays)
FREE ADMISSION

AI Artist Joyce “Gups” Ng is in her element assembling the marine spare parts for the installation — A PEOPLE’S MARINE ART ASSEMBLAGE. Assisting her with the installation tasks are the multi-skilled Arts Fission dancers.

The final marine art installation reflects Singapore’s relationship with the ocean around us. There’s nothing romantic about an ocean streaming with plastic waste. All the child performers in our environmental dance-theatre production, as well as the young art-makers in the workshops, will tell you about the perils of ocean pollution!

1 DAY TO GO!

A PEOPLE’S MARINE ART ASSEMBLAGE OFFICIAL OPENING
13 Dec, 10:30am
Singapore Maritime Gallery
FREE ADMISSION
RSVP through the link in our bio
(https://apeoplesmarineartassemblage.peatix.com)

AN UNUSUAL GLIMPSE OF A LOCAL SHIPYARD!
As an island-state, our lives depend heavily on cargo deliveries from ships all over the world. With such high sea traffic, it’s no wonder that maintenance works on sea crafts are nonstop activities in our shipyards (often unbeknownst to us common folks).

To gather the broken parts and recycled materials of decommissioned vessels needed for our marine art installation, we were connected to Bee Sin Shipyard to source these materials.

The visit to the shipyard was a huge eye-opener for us! For the artists walking into the shipyard’s outdoor piles of metal junk in all shapes, sizes, and textures, it felt exhilarating—almost like “kids let loose in a candy store.”

We walked away with a ton of nautical pieces, and the kind folks at Bee Sin Shipyard were most generous and helpful in facilitating our requests.

Come join us for the installation art opening this Sat! The installation, A PEOPLE’S MARINE ART ASSEMBLAGE, will be on display until the end of Dec 2025. It’s worth your while to catch this poignant maritime profile of Singapore!

2 DAYS TO GO!

A PEOPLE’S MARINE ART ASSEMBLAGE OFFICIAL OPENING
13 Dec, 10:30am
Singapore Maritime Gallery
FREE ADMISSION
RSVP through the link in our bio
(https://apeoplesmarineartassemblage.peatix.com)

CHILD-PLAY ENGINEERING at the Singapore Maritime Gallery!

Note the energy of these preschoolers intensely engaged in the mission of building a vessel to tackle ocean pollution. As a group, they were first tasked to make different parts of a boat before putting it all together.

We say this is absolutely no child’s play. Salute to the young engineers!

The children’s vessels will be part of a large-scale installation displayed at the Singapore Maritime Gallery from 13 -31 December 2025.

3 DAYS TO GO!

A PEOPLE’S MARINE ART ASSEMBLAGE OFFICIAL OPENING
13 Dec, 10:30am
Singapore Maritime Gallery
FREE ADMISSION
RSVP through the link in our bio
(https://apeoplesmarineartassemblage.peatix.com)

A PEOPLE’S MARINE ART ASSEMBLAGE

The YPED production of LOOKING FOR PAVONA is over but its spirit of marine conservation continues on in a special community art installation!

A PEOPLE’S MARINE ART ASSEMBLAGE is conceptualized by Artist/Designer Joyce Ng with the incorporation of art pieces made by preschoolers, adults and seniors. The installation runs from 13 - 31 December at the Singapore Maritime Gallery, and is supported by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore.

Join us for the official opening programme, featuring a talk by marine biologist Sam Shu Qin, and an introduction to the installation through words, music, and creative movement.

A PEOPLE’S MARINE ART ASSEMBLAGE - opening programme
13 Dec, 10:30am
Singapore Maritime Gallery
FREE ADMISSION
RSVP through the link in our bio
https://apeoplesmarineartassemblage.peatix.com

IT’S A WRAP: LOOKING FOR PAVONA
A sea of colourful coral performers taking their bows at the end of the show. Notice also many young audiences took to the stage where the reef structure was to join the churning dance of food for baby corals.

Don’t go away yet. We are wrapping up public art making efforts for the final marine art installation to be unveiled at the Maritime Gallery in early Dec. Stay tuned!

Drama Centre Black Box comes alive with dancing corals!

Audience go underwater n encounter reef structure and other marine creatures.

✅6 of 7 shows done!

📷Peng Siong

1 DAY TO GO
A tattered rope bridge or a discarded fishnet floating in the seawater?

Looking up from beneath the ocean through long sea grasses, that’s the forlorn views of the corals’ daily sightings of ocean waste.

The centre piece of the set is a reef structure marine biologists built for coral restoration under the sea.

You should come and feel the magic!

Lights design by

LOOKING FOR PAVONA
12, 13, & 14 Nov, 11am & 2pm
Drama Centre Black Box
SG CULTURE PASS ELIGIBLE
SG60 FAMILY PACK of 4 at $50 via SISTIC (excluding booking fee)
Link in bio.