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Musica Intimae: Intersections was a week-long festival held at Aliwal Arts Centre from 26–30 November 2025, dedicated to the lived realities of inter-ethnic and inter-faith couples in Singapore. Through storytelling, music, and dialogue, it invited audiences to listen deeply to how love navigates difference, compromise, and shared futures.
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At the heart of the festival was a data-driven approach: from February to April 2025, we conducted in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with couples and community members, gathering personal narratives about courtship, commitment, children, and commemoration. These stories, alongside archival and textual research, became the backbone of the festival’s exhibition, performances, and unconference.
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The static exhibition, accompanied by an intimate audio guide accessed via QR codes, allowed visitors to “eavesdrop” on phone-call style conversations that wove together real experiences of negotiating culture, religion, and identity at each milestone of a relationship. Docent volunteers supported a self-guided flow, offering a contemplative space where visitors could move at their own pace and sit with what they heard.
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On 28 and 29 November, the performance component brought these stories to life through a cappella choral music and Forum Theatre-inspired anti-plays, staged within the exhibition environment itself. Newly commissioned works explored romance, partnership, parenting, and grief, while the audience was invited to reflect, respond, and share in a post-show talkback on how these themes resonated with their own lives.
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The festival culminated in an unconference that gathered community activators, academics, cultural workers, and members of the public to co-create knowledge and strategies for navigating inter-ethnic and inter-faith relationships. Using formats such as World Café, lightning talks, and collaborative problem-solving, participants collectively surfaced questions, practices, and aspirations that extend beyond the festival week.
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Musica Intimae: Intersections ultimately aimed to do more than present “content”—it sought to open a brave, empathetic space where stories of difference and love could be heard on their own terms. This throwback video revisits those moments, voices, and encounters, and invites you to continue the conversation on how we might live together in a more honest, compassionate, and plural Singapore.

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