Children's Museum Singapore (CMSG) is delighted to run Children's Season (CS) for the second year. As part of the programming, we will be organising a series of performances at selected Museum Roundtable (MR) museums. These performances will be featured as the Signature Programme of CS2025. Through this open call, we would like to invite you to pitch for a site-specific work for the Signature Programme of up to 2 locations of your choice as listed in Annex A. 

As a museum, we aim to be a place of wonder and joyful learning for all children to engage with Singapore and the world. Using Children's Season as a platform, we hope to provide authentic experiences for children that are thoughtfully designed, taking into consideration their views. Hence, the submitted proposals will be shortlisted for a pitch session by a children's panel. The children's panel will select 4 works that they hope to see develop further. The details are as follows.

Selection criteria for the proposal: 

• Suitability for young audiences
• Artistic quality and intention
• Clear incorporation of the theme of Children's Season 2025 on "Belonging" and selected content/artefacts/objects as proposed by the selected museum. 
• Overall duration of the proposed programme must not be lesser than 1-hour. The programme may consist of several components e.g. 40 mins performance, 20 mins craft.
• Creative use / activation of space(s)

Pitch session on either week of 17 or 24 Feb 2025, weekday afternoon (date and timing to be confirmed): 

• Each artist / group will be required to present a 10-min presentation of their proposed idea to the children's panel live. 
• The presentation can take the form of a lecture-performance, demonstration, workshop, or any other presentation format that best benefit the proposal. 
• The presentation venue will be at a designated primary school to be confirmed. 
• Each presentation will be accompanied by a question-and-answer session by the children's panel. 

Upon selection, artists will have:

• A project stipend of up to $6,000 (depending on the nature of the work and review of budget submitted).
• Rehearsal space (depending on availability of selected location). 
• Test trial with the children's panel for your proposed work.

Timeline:

• Dec 2024: Open call for proposals. Submission by 10 Jan 2025, Fri by 2359hrs. 
• Jan 2025: Shortlist of proposals. Shortlisted proposals are informed by 27 Jan 2025, Mon, to prepare for pitch session.
• Feb 2025: Pitch session on either week of 17 or 24 Feb 2025, weekday afternoon (date and timing to be confirmed). Selected works will be informed by mid-Mar 2025.
• Mar to May 2025: Preparation of work which includes but not limited to publicity, script and/or programme outline, rehearsals, trial, full-dress rehearsal, media preview
• 31 May to 29 Jun 2025: Children's Season 2025 
  
  

Should this be of interest to you, kindly submit your proposal to the Artist Open Call Participation Form by 10 Jan 2025, Fri by 2359hrs. Should you have any queries, kindly email to Glenda Ng, Manager, Audience Engagement at cmsg_prg@heritage.sg.