About this Event
Our hands carry and shape more than we realise—imagination, memory, care, labour, and possibility.
On 23 May, we invite you to spend a day noticing what we do with them: how we hold, make, and connect with one another. Moving through moments of conversation, reflection, and hands-on activities, this is a space to slow down and to be present with ourselves, with others, and with the thankless work of our hands.
Programme Outline
☕ 10:00AM – 12:00PM: Bakes and Brews
Begin the morning with us: gathering, holding a cup, breaking bread. This gentle start invites connection through small gestures; a reminder that care often lives in the simplest things we do with our hands.
If you’d like to bring something you’ve baked to share, your spot is on us. If not, you’re still very welcome to join at a small cost.
🤲🏼 1:00PM – 2:00PM: The Things We Carry
Join us for a lunchtime session with Rosie McGowan, applied theatre practitioner, facilitator and integrative therapist.
The session begins with an interactive, guided somatic exercise where participants will be invited to approach themselves with curiosity and compassion: noticing what feels present, what surprises us, and what our bodies might be trying to tell us.
From there, the session opens into conversation: How do our experiences live in our bodies? Can it map who we are, where we’ve been, or what we carry forward?
Lunch and snacks provided.
Speaker/Facilitator: Rosie is an actor, director, applied theatre facilitator, educator, and counsellor who uses drama and theatre to explore potentially difficult and sensitive themes.
As a freelance applied theatre practitioner, facilitator and educator, Rosie runs workshops and projects exploring themes such as self-care, sexual assault trauma, self-harm, communication, leadership and understanding and supporting mental health. She has designed and run projects in two Singapore halfway houses - the Community Rehabilitation Centre, and The Turning Point - and works with various local theatre companies and venues– T:>Works, The Necessary Stage, Wild Rice and The Esplanade - offering artist wellbeing support sessions.
Rosie’s latest projects include co-writing, co-directing, and co-producing Singapore’s first staged lesbian musical, A Lesbian Love Story: The Musical; and setting up a new creative wellbeing studio.
🎨 3:00PM – 4:30PM: Made by Hand
In this tactile clay workshop, participants will be guided by Swan to shape their own earrings, rings, or trinkets. Each participant will receive a set amount of clay to work with.
If you’ve ever wanted to try making something for someone or yourself, come play with polymer clay! If you don’t know what to do, don’t worry we have a whole document full of inspo pieces you can refer to!
Pieces will be baked and glazed on site. Participants can pick up their pieces at the end of the day.
Facilitator: Swan has 1000+ projects going on at all times, from DIY wood-clay shelves to pulling apart vintage Nintendo switches to make eyeshadow palettes. She just never really “finishes” them. Polymer clay is one of these projects.
🥁 5:00PM – 6:30PM: Hands in Rhythm
This event is perfect for beginners, music lovers, or anyone looking to de-stress and connect with yourself and your community. Led by Evelyn from Please, Sing Casually, this session invites participants to come and explore how our hands connect us to our communities.
Drums are provided. No experience required.
Facilitator: Evelyn is a registered music therapist and facilitator of Please, Sing Casually, a one-day singing community. She is also the founder of Prospect Music Therapy, a music therapy practice that is queer affirming and inclusive.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Proud Spaces SG, 243 Alexandra Road, Singapore, Singapore
SGD 0.00 to SGD 43.01
