Last night, the curtain fell on a spectacular show titled Poets Among the Stars. Poets Among the Stars is a Singapore Writers Festival (SWF) satellite event, and is the 11th one at that. There were no curtains around though, for we performed under the massive Omni Theatre dome. It is not a stretch to say the event was a performance, not a reading. The National Arts Council (NAC) commissioned 8 local writers to pen poems set to the Omni Theatre’s planetarium display. We were to be disembodied voices floating in the dark, lending our poetry to a medley of light and music. For the NAC, this is the first time they are collaborating with the Singapore Science Centre for an event of this kind. Collaboration is a recent buzzword in creative circles, implying synergy, hybridity and shared burdens. Some collaborations implode while others explode in hitherto uncharted directions. What the 8 of us participated in last night represented an earnest, if tentative, melding of science and art. Singapore society tends to box reality into discrete categories, and I for one am pleased that this SWF event brought us out of the box.
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