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SG Culture Pass should open new windows – don’t narrow its potential
Later editions of the scheme should curate offerings more tightly and not shy away from art that challenges social norms.
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The Singapore International Festival of Arts' Bedok Pavilion showed that people can be enthralled by "high" art.
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SINGAPORE – A recent discussion with a Dutch journalist made me realise how lucky Singapore is when it comes to the roll-out of the SG Culture Pass scheme.
Receiving taxpayer dollars to spend on arts and heritage is indicative of the state valuing the “softer” and not always electable platform of culture, he said. It made for a more curious populace and an open-mindedness that is especially rare at a time of nationalistic backlash and insularity in Europe.
