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Cultural Centre
About
The Cultural Centre of Singapore Council for Adult Education at Canning Rise, opened in 1957 and was managed by Singapore’s Adult Education Board. Housed in a brick building tucked away at the foot of Fort Canning Hill, it became a space where cutting-edge and sometimes avant-garde post-war local theatre took place. Robert Yeo’s first play, Are You There Singapore? (1974), was staged here. The center was renovated in 1975 and renamed the Drama Center in 1980.
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Photo: 21 June 1957: Downloaded from the National Library Board Singapore.
Original description: View of the Cultural Centre of the Singapore Council for Adult Education at Canning Rise. Ministry of Information and the Arts Collection, courtesy of the National Archives of Singapore.
Sources
Cheong, Colin. 2013. Esplanade: Theatres on the Bay, Singapore. Edited by Ilsa Sharp. Singapore: Straits Times Press, 19.
Contributor
2025. “Cultural Centre of Singapore Council for Adult Education“. In Performing Archipelagos, edited by Kyueun Kim, Alvin Eng Hui Lim and Hedren Wai Yuan Sum. Singapore: National University of Singapore.
