Intercultural Theatre Institute gets $1 million gift from OUE executive chairman Stephen Riady

Dr Stephen Riady's gift, with dollar-for-dollar matching from the government's Cultural Matching Fund, means the Intercultural Theatre Institute will receive a $2 million windfall. PHOTO: COURTESY OF DR STEPHEN RIADY
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SINGAPORE - The Intercultural Theatre Institute (ITI) is naming a chair after real estate company OUE executive chairman Stephen Riady, who donated $1 million to the performing arts school.

The Stephen Riady Master Chair in Beijing Opera is an acknowledgement of the largest donation from an individual donor to an independent arts organisation in Singapore.

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