Just four months ago, 11-year-olds Emiri and Takaharu had never left their native Japan. But over the weekend of 20th December 2008, together with four others from western Tokyo, Emiri and Takaharu found themselves over 5,300 kilometres from home in Singapore, presenting traditional Japanese toys, songs and landmarks through the classic storytelling technique of kamishibai (paper dramas) made digital and created their own toy robots.

For 2 days in December, 20 children from The Business Times Budding Artists Fund (Singapore) and Budding Artists Fund Japan got to exchange stories, create robots, make popiah and learn to hip-hop together as part of the inaugural Business Times Budding Artists Fund International Children’s Art Exchange in Singapore at The Little Arts Academy.

From painting to baking to podcasting, The Little Arts Academy (LAA) is an interdisciplinary creative space, which aims to discover and develop artistic talent, build confidence and nurture compassion in every child through the arts.

Reports from class - Visual Arts, Brick Films, Ballet amd Theatre programmes!

Offering training by professionals 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.

Set to open 18 November 2008, The Little Arts Academy (LAA) originated from a seeks to provide more systematic arts training and a dedicated creative learning space for all children. With its varied facilities that include a dance studio, practise 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 Arts House, offers a broad-based curriculum that aims to give children a holistic education which has its foundation in the arts. Come and join our Open House from 22 - 23 November to find out more about our programmes!

Jointly organised by Seagate Technology International and the BT BAF, the day long event was based on personal objects brought by the beneficiaries, relating to people who are important to them.

First organised in December 2005 by The Arts House, the BT-BAF Arts Camp is a three-day activity that aims to create a fun environment for young children to be exposed to different genres of the arts (in visual arts...