Conflict Reading Club
Members of Continental Drift: Connecting Asia-Europe Dramaturgies during a working session on the dramaturgies of conflict in May 2026.
Photo credit: Ming Poon for the Asian Dramaturgs’ Network
venue12 Aug: Zoom
30 Aug: Black Box, 42 Waterloo Street
DATES12 Aug, Wed (digital)
30 Aug, Sun (in-person)
Times12 Aug, Wed: 7.30 - 9.00 PM (UTC+8)
30 Aug, Sun: 12.30 - 2.00 PM
ADMISSIONFree with registration at citrusfest2026.peatix.com
SynopsisConflict takes place on various scales, from the interpersonal to the geopolitical. In our varied arts contexts, how can conflict be something essential and transformative? As part of the Asian Dramaturgs’ Network’s three-year Continental Drift: Connecting Asia-Europe Dramaturgies programme (2026-2028), arts workers from Southeast Asia and Central/Eastern Europe are exploring how artists and practitioners contribute to reshaping our relationships with conflict, tapping into both embodied and existing knowledge about conflict in art-making.
The Conflict Reading Club is the epistemic spine to the group’s hands-on explorations. Together, we will read selected excerpts from Conflict is not abuse: Overstating harm, community responsibility, and the duty of repair (2016) by novelist and playwright Sarah Schulman. We will discuss the vocabularies we have constructed around conflict, as well as how much Schulman’s ideas are helpful (or not) for our own contexts. Reading materials will be shared before a digital session on 12 August co-facilitated by Corrie Tan and Siree Riewpaiboon, followed by an in-person communal digestion on 30 August with Ang Xiao Ting and Chong Gua Khee.
We look forward to a diversity of experiences: How each of us have witnessed and responded to conflict, and how we might approach dissensus with dignity, generosity, and grace.
Please note:
You can register for either one or both sessions.
There are no prerequisites to participate. However, should the workshop be oversubscribed, we will select a broad group of participants from different disciplines, backgrounds and interests.
We will confirm your participation by 3 Aug (for the 12 Aug session) and 17 Aug (for the 30 Aug session), and will send any materials and further information then.
About the Arts Workers
Corrie Tan (she/her)
Director, Asian Dramaturgs’ NetworkCorrie Tan makes sense of art through intimate writing. A wayfarer and wayfinder between journalism, academia and artistic practice, her work traverses cultural criticism, conversation and creative nonfiction. She’s the arts editor of the indie magazine Jom, director of the Asian Dramaturgs’ Network, and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Arts at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.
Photo credit: Geraldine Kang
Siree Riewpaiboon (she/her)
Associate Artistic Director, Bangkok International Performing Arts Meeting (BIPAM) Siree Riewpaiboon is a performer, interpreter, performing arts manager and producer. She is interested in the artistic and production process of interdisciplinary collaborations and co-curation/creation with different sectors. She is the Associate Artistic Director of BIPAM, and is pursuing her PhD at the Graduate School of Design, Kyushu University (Japan).
Ang Xiao Ting (she/her)
Associate Artist, The Theatre Practice
Programmer, Practice TuckshopAng Xiao Ting is a freelance theatre practitioner (actor, director, dramaturg). Her practice in Eco-Theatre prioritises the various degrees of an integrated ecological practice, with a focus on Southeast Asian foodways. She is a member of the International Advisory Panel for the Culture for Climate Project (P+ERL, Australia) and is a core member of the Theatre Green Book (Singapore) working group.
Photo credit: @thefatfarmer
Chong Gua Khee (she/her)
Director and DramaturgChong Gua Khee is a director and dramaturg based across Singapore and Helsinki/Finland. She is endlessly curious about so many things, but especially about how your everyday experiences are shaped by societal factors - and how you in turn shape the world around you!
Photo credit: Antti Rintala
