THE LITTLE ARTS ACADEMY
managed by The Old Parliament House Limited

Launched in November 2008, The Little Arts Academy grew out of a need to provide more systematic arts training and a dedicated creative learning space for The Business Times Budding Artists Fund (BT BAF) beneficiaries.  With its varied facilities that include a dance studio, practice rooms, a recording studio as well as a kitchen for culinary classes, The Little Arts Academy, which is an initiative of and managed by The Old Parliament House Limited, offers a broad-based curriculum that aims to give children a holistic education which has its foundation in the arts.

Offering professional training in dance, drama, new media, visual arts, music and singing, The Little Arts Academy provides opportunities for all children who have strong interest and artistic potential to receive interdisciplinary training in the arts.

From performances to parent-child workshops and meet-the-artist sessions, The Little Arts Academy’s Open House will give parents and children a taste of programmes to come to The Little Arts Academy. Let your children realise their full potential in the arts, and unlock their imagination and creativity through our interdisciplinary workshops in theatre, music, visual arts and dance.  

Visit us at PoMo, #05-01/02, call 6513 3013 or email enquirieslaa@toph.com.sg for more information on our programmes.

OUR PEOPLE

Phan Ming Yen
Director

Prior to The Little Arts Academy, Phan was a former journalist, having covered the Singapore arts scene for nine years: he first worked with The Straits Times and was subsequently founding editor and later contributing editor of The Arts Magazine, formerly published by Esplanade-Theatres on the Bay. From 2000 – 2002, he was a research scholar at the National Institute of Education, his area of research being Western art music practices in 19th and early 20th century Singapore. He has contributed to Narratives: Notes on a Cultural Journey, Cultural Medallion Recipients 1979 - 2001 and was writer and researcher for Touches: 10 Years of the Singapore Dance Theatre. Phan is at present also Director, Artistic Development, The Arts House.

A firm advocate of arts education, Phan has taught music criticism and music promotional skills at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and music history at LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts. Phan was also a member of several of the National Arts Council’s advisory panels, including being a member of the National Piano and Violin Competition Advisory committee. 

Johnson Kee
Assistant Director

Johnson has been involved in the activities of The Business Times Budding Artists Funds (BT BAF) since late 2005 with the planning and execution of training programmes, collaborating with partners to develop these programmes, organising arts camps and other outreach activities to the community.

Prior to this, he has worked in the advertising industry as an account servicing person for both local and regional clients. His scope of responsibilities include managing the communication needs of the clients, developing and executing their advertising strategies, launching of new products and projects management, just to name a few. Johnson joins The Little Arts Academy as the operational and marketing person with experience from his work with children and non-profit organisations.

Adelina Ong
Manager

Adelina Ong has been active in theatre scene since she was in her teens. Since her beginnings as a founding member of SRT’s Young Company in 1997 and as company manager from 1998 – 2001, Adelina has acted widely on stage and television and was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Life! Theatre Awards for her role in Postcards from Persephone (2000) which she also co-produced. Adelina also co-organised interdisciplinary festival such as the digital film project Digital Compassion 02 (2002) and Pulp (2003) which focused on creating respect for street arts. In 2004, she was honoured to be one of fifty international female theatre practitioners selected to participate in TRANSIT IV: Roots – an international theatre festival in Holstebro, Denmark.

Working closely with non-profit organisations through the National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre from 2005 – 2007, she has learnt much from the social sector and hopes to combine this knowledge with her experience in theatre to benefit the children of The Little Arts Academy and help them achieve their dreams.