re:ACT Festival 2024

The re:ACT© Forum Theatre Festival 2024 ran at the Arts House, Singapore from 19 - 24 April 2024. The 2024 theme was Caregiving. 6 participating schools completed their re:ACT© Workshop Series with 6 different elderly active ageing centres across Singapore, and devised works based on real-world issues that they gathered from this experience. The students presented their Forum Theatre plays and invited audiences to intervene and solve problems with creative solutions.

The participating schools for 2024 were:

Ang Mo Kio Secondary School
Hwa Chong Institution (High School)
Kent Ridge Secondary School
Montfort Secondary School
North Vista Secondary School
Peirce Secondary School

The participating senior care active ageing centres for 2024 were:

Thye Hwa Kuan AMK 645
Thye Hwa Kuan AMK 208
TRANS FOCUS Active Ageing Centre
Precious Active Ageing Centre (Compassvale)
Precious Active Ageing Centre (Punggol breeze)
SASCO Senior Care Centre.

An interactive theatrical showcase, the re:ACT© Festival celebrates the strength of advocacy from empowered youths.

re:ACT© addresses a wide range of topics from mental health to misogyny. We harness the power of theatre to showcase the different strategies that our youth take to make a positive change in their society.

Our performances are interactive, inviting the audience to be an active agent of change. The audience is given opportunities to step onto the stage, role-play as characters and experiment solutions to the conflict presented. This ‘dialogue-through-action’ encourages participants to think critically and serves as a rehearsal for real-life.

We do it to:

- To express today’s challenges authentically through story-telling

- To design an experience that is out of the box

- To create innovative theatre.