NUS Symposium

Join us for a day and a half at the NUS's Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music with panels, breakout rooms, and keynote from renowned speakers

Day 1 Schedule includes:

Panel: Building the infrastructure for healthy ageing through the arts

Join moderator Joanne Yoong and panelists Kua Ee Heok, Emi Kyota, Ngiam Su-Lin, and Sharon Chang as they discuss how Singapore can design the systems, spaces, and policies needed to embed the arts in healthy ageing and bridge research, practice, and community for a more creative, caring future.

Breakout Talks: Research in Arts for Healthy Ageing

Explore emerging studies and programmes linking the arts with healthy ageing. Featuring speakers from NUS, NTU, National Gallery Singapore, and other partners, these concurrent sessions showcase innovations in music, dance, theatre, and visual arts that enhance wellbeing, connection, and care.

Healing Arts Singapore Concert

Day 2 Schedule includes:

Arts on Prescription: Integrating Arts into Care

This session brings together April Lee, Kheng Hock Lee, Michael Tan, Adeline, Lim Yuan Kang, and regional partners to explore how Arts on Prescription can bridge creative practice and healthcare systems to advance person-centred and evidence-based models of care across South East Asia.

THRivE Launch

Launch of Asia’s first Evaluation Toolkit for Arts, Heritage and Health (the THRivE Toolkit: Tools for Health Research and Evaluation in arts and heritage) co-funded and supported by National Heritage Board and Tote Board of Singapore, with the preliminary version supported and funded by National Arts Council.