Propose Your Show
Overview
CFA oversees many arts programming opportunities on campus.
Everyone has a story, and we can help set the stage for you. Members of the NUS community (students, faculty and staff) as well as arts industry professionals are eligible to submit proposals to CFA for consideration. Read on to find out about CFA’s selection criteria as well as platform-specific edibility criteria.
Primary selection criteria
All works proposed must have a demonstrated benefit to the NUS community.
Values of being Generative, Responsive, Collaborative, Self-Reflexive, and with Agency are important to CFA, both in the artistic work we programme and our everyday operations. Below are some suggestions to assist in developing your ideas:
Generative: How are you contributing to an environment that is generative? If you are an NUS student, we are looking for a desire and drive to produce, create, and originate – an energy that outweighs tangible resources. If you are an external artist, how can you support this energy on our student-centric campus? Our guest artists should want to work with CFA not just to access resources, but to mutually grow from this generative environment with our students.
Responsive: Is your work relevant and engaged? Are you responding to the world at large or changing social patterns? How is your performance responsive to its site or place? Does it consider the context it is in, with peoples, histories, or cultures?
Collaborative: Are you exchanging resources and skills with others, pooling strengths? Are you generating ideas and creating works through collaboration, allowing you to achieve levels of innovation and depth that you would not be able to reach on your own? Does your process question and transform collaborative structures?
Self-Reflexive: How is your practice sustainable and self-reflexive? Are you demonstrating a constant negotiation of the self, with a willingness to grow, shift, change, and open yourself up to critique?
With Agency: Effective agency requires forethought, intentionality, and awareness of the self, the social and your resources. How can you take agency on the action that you wish to create?
Additional selection criteria specific to our presentation platforms can be found in their respective sections below.
third space supported by ExxonMobil Asia Pacific
third space is a new platform for experimentation and outreach-focused programmes on campus.
third space was conceptualised as a reimagination of the ExxonMobil Campus Concerts, as a response to shifting needs and desires of the NUS arts community. Through third space, we hope to create regular arts gathering spaces on campus and provide more opportunities for arts encounters. We also wish to support long-term processes of experimentation, gathering, blue-sky thinking, creation and play.
third space officially launched in AY24/25 and has supported a wide range of programmes and initiatives.
Please visit the third space event page for more details on our past and ongoing event offerings.
Follow the third space Instagram page to keep updated on latest happenings!
If you would like to propose a new programme for third space that fulfils CFA’s primary selection criteria, as well as has a focus on experimentation and/or outreach, do take a look at the Propose to third space web page for more details.
On this page, you will find more information such as:
- Eligibility criteria
- Guidelines for your proposal
- More information on what third space supports
- Guidelines for your proposal, including a proposal template
- Essential resources, should your proposal be accepted
If you have any questions, you may also write to us at cfathirdspace@nus.edu.sg.
NUS Arts Festival
Presented every year in Semester 2, the NUS Arts Festival is largest arts event on campus, with collaborative practice at the heart of its programming.
Working with local and international practitioners, our student artists are encouraged to avail themselves to the content-rich environment within the University, grounding their work in deep knowledge and using it as the basis of the development process.
Each iteration of the Festival is crafted with a core theme that responds to contemporary issues and facilitates the integration of research and learning as part of the artistic process, in addition to showcasing performances with mass appeal.
- The NUS Arts Festival welcomes applications from most genres of the performing arts
- Proposals that demonstrate interdisciplinarity will be prioritised
- The performance/production needs to be of a professional level
- Originality and experimentation in theme, artistic form and/or performance venue are encouraged
Supernova (Open to NUS students only)
Supernova is NUS' annual campus music and dance festival. Supernova: Rising Star 2024 is co-presented by the Office of Student Affairs and University Campus Infrastructure, in collaboration with NUS Students’ Union.
Visit the Supernova event page for more details.
Student Life Fair (Open to NUS students only)
The Student Life Fair (SLF) is an annual event aimed to showcase the vibrancy and diversity of student bodies in NUS.
All performing arts groups will be informed of performance opportunities at SLF leading up to the fair.
Other platforms
If none of the platforms above are suitable for you, you may also self-present your show with various forms of funding support available from OSA, or seek out other presentation platforms offered by NUS. Do note that other presentation platforms will not be under the purview of CFA.