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‘Friends’ Music Video Launch Party

March 28, 2020 by Admin

acting, collaboration, event, launch party, music video, new release, original music, release, short film, storyline, video

On 25 March 2020, the ‘Friends’ music video was released at a launch party held at Metta Bar in Tanglin Mall.

Five films were screened at the event: the ‘Friends’ music video co-starring actor Jeremy Ward, a short film called ‘Gaia’, another short film called ‘Approved’, a music video for ‘Tryin” by Jack & Rai, and a video for the remix of ‘Friends’ featuring rapper AngelK.

The music video was made in collaboration with Deepesh Vasudev & Tejas Ewing, collectively known as DVET. Their short films have previously won awards such as the international #Nucleus Short Film Competition organised by Goethe Institute.

Watch the ‘Friends’ storyline-based music video below (and look out for the twist at the end):

Voice acting for #FacetimeWithHistory

December 30, 2018 by Sasha M

Work

acting, history, interactive, National Museum of Singapore, voice acting

In October this year, I was selected as one of the voice actors for #FacetimeWithHistory, an interactive programme run by the National Museum of Singapore to commemorate its 131st anniversary (yes, the museum is older than our nation state!).

As a voice actor, I was to play the role of one of the grandstand seats at the Old National Stadium (which many of us used to call Kallang Stadium). There were three of us playing seats, and we formed a “Sisterhood of Seats”, which made it really fun. It was a great experience chatting with unsuspecting museum guests, sharing stories with them about the historical events that happened in the museum. We even got them to sing along to National Day songs and do the Kallang Wave! You can see the highlights from the event in this video made by the National Museum of Singapore.

And here’s a photo of all of the voice actors!

Corporate Workshop Facilitation for OCBC

July 4, 2018 by Sasha M

Work

acting, artist, community, corporate, culture, facilitating, HCAC, improv, soft skills, theatre, training, workshop, worldview

Yesterday, I assisted Kamil Haque from the acting school HCAC as a facilitator in an improvisation-based workshop for OCBC. It was a team building workshop with the objective to create a new company culture. We worked with fresh graduates who had just entered the company and had not yet become integrated into the old company culture. There were 68 participants, and for such a huge group of people, we had eight facilitators as well as Kamil leading the full-day workshop.

Kamil is a boss ass workshop instructor who can handle any group size

It was really interesting working with so many people. As a performer, I’m used to training myself to improve my own skills at a craft. It’s very different to try and teach other people how to do those skills, especially when everybody has their own ideas and strengths. However, I must say I was very impressed by how the participants performed in the workshop, as they largely seemed to grasp the principles we were trying to express through our programme.

Everyone was paying close attention even at the end of a long day

Working so closely with such a large group for over 8 hours, I definitely learnt a lot from my interactions with the participants. I’m glad for the effort they put into all our games and exercises, and especially for their sincerity in reflecting on the activities. I, too, had much to reflect on as the day drew to a close.

Seriously there were so many people it was amazing that the day wasn’t mostly chaos

I’m very happy and honoured to have been part of this wonderful team of people, working on something that I find incredibly meaningful, and making an impact on people. My main objective as a performer is to have an impact on how people think and feel about things, and it’s great to be able to open up my perspective on that and do this kind of work in a facilitator role as well. It’s creating art in a whole different way.

Every single one of these amazing individuals is a talented gem of a human being!

Most of all, I feel incredibly glad to be part of this community of people who share similar worldviews as myself, with a similar approach to life and how we interact with the people around us. I hope to always keep learning and growing with them!