Artistic Directors Academy (ADA), led by T:>Works Artistic Director Ong Keng Sen, is a research laboratory to develop Artistic Directors, harnessing international cultural innovators to helm Modules, as well as individual mentoring to sharpen and intensify skillsets.


ADA focuses on giving perspectives to existing and potential Artistic Directors who wish to facilitate creative platforms, collectives, engagement projects, companies, venues, and festivals. ADA is a curriculum-based capacity development project where T:>Works will share its immense skills in the international field, translating international developments to artistic positions in the local context, and therefore opening up creative avenues internationally whilst being based locally.



Who is Artistic Directors Academy (ADA) for?

ADA is open to aspiring and existing individuals facilitating the content of, producing for, curating, or dramaturging, any of the following:

• creative platforms, collectives (including visual arts), performance groups, arts education, archives (including film/moving image), discourse networks;
  community engagement projects; and
• exhibition spaces, interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary arts centres;
• also those who are potentially interested in becoming curators, directors, producers, dramaturgs, and programmers of festivals – literary, film, visual culture, sound & music, traditional arts, design & architecture, or digital (small & large scale, live & virtual, outdoors & indoors, local & international).

Please contact ada@tworksasia.org, for more details.