#EverydayCreativity 2021 | Playeum (2023)

A Virtual Festival Fundraiser

Come celebrate creativity in

our everyday lives.

Everyday Creativity is about shifting the lens on how we view creativity in our lives. From free interactive activities, engaging workshops to insightful talks, for the young and the young at heart – there is something for everyone!

All experiences are free and by donation.

This virtual festival is also to fundraise for Playeum’s impact work in 2022. We hope to reach out and support more children, especially those from marginalised backgrounds, and also to empower more adults to be their creative facilitators.

Here are the 3 ways you can join us and be part of our Everyday Creativity Festival!

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Register and take part!

View Calendar of Events.

All experiences are free and by donation, if you wish. Click here to sign up!

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Donate!

Donations of $10 and above are tax-deductible. Find out where your fundraising support will go.

By paying it forward and donating during this virtual festival you’ll help fund Playeum’s impact work in 2022.

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Share about the cause!

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Help us spread the word by sharing with the world about #EverydayCreativity and tagging us (@playeum)!

Play Sessions

Calendar of Events

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For Children (5 years and above)

Play Sessions

From everyday recycled materials to food scraps, look around you and discover what we can create with them! Join us in a myriad of free interactive workshops for children ages 5 years and above.

For Parents, Youths and People Working with Children

Experiential Workshops

Are you ready? We invite youths, parents and adults who work with children to join us in our hands-on workshop as we go on a journey to discover our own creative selves.

For all Adults and Youths

Kampong Konversations

Calling all adults to join us in conversation with Friends of Playeum from different sectors as they share their expertise and creative experiences!

Dr Barbara

Everyday Creativity Kampong Konversations with Calvin, Dylan, Ava Soh

Online Talk via Zoom | 04 Dec 2021, 11:00AM - 12:30PM

Two teenage siblings who run their own startups and an unconventional dad. We bring together members of Singapore’s one-of-a-kind family who have encouraged their children to take the paths less travelled. For Dylan and Ava, what is it like growing up in a creative environment? What choices did Calvin make as a dad that gave his children voice and autonomy from a young age? Discover the family’s unorthodox take on how to raise a child, and how creativity is the new superpower that our young ones need in today’s world.

This programme includes a live Q&A towards the end of the session.

About the Speakers:
Despite being the youngest APAC President and Chief Creative Officer, and ranked No. 1 in Asia by Campaign Brief, Calvin left his illustrious advertising career behind to find a way to live a new life and reinvent himself. Now, he is dedicated to creating an ecosystem that champions one-of-a-kind ideas in the face of exponential change in today’s world.

He created One Kind House, a sustainable urban farming home in Singapore with soil and hydroponic farming built-in, and is the co-founder of One Kind Block, the world’s first LEGO-like hydroponic system designed to make cities greener and kinder. He advises various organisations such as ofnoah.com, BHuman, and Castlery, and has co-authored a children’s book The Big Red Dot with his teenage son.

Calvin is a full-time father to his son Dylan, daughter Ava and Jack Russell Pai Kia.

He gave his first TEDx talk in Singapore when he was 10. Now at the age of 17, Dylan has already succesfully funded a Kickstarter project (Grow-It-Yourself Stick), co-authored a children’s book with his dad, and scored an internship with internationally-known mobile game Angry Birds. After his O Levels in 2018, he enrolled in an international school in Finland. He is now back in Singapore to work on his second Kickstarter project The One Kind Block.

At the tender age of 13, Ava started her own jewellery collection under her brand Daughters of the Revolution in her cause to empower women and inspire them to “love themselves”. Within three days of its launch on Kickstarter, the collection was successfully funded by 200 percent. The 14-year-old is also a national figure skater and has no trouble waking up at 3.30am to go for her training.

Online Experiential Workshop with Ng Aik Yang

Online Experiential Workshop for Youths via Zoom | 19 Nov 2021, 7:00PM - 8:30PM

How can we turn our frustrations into passion and creativity? Youths today carry the weight of complex frustrations and global issues - climate change, mental health, to name a few. It is now more important than ever for us to find ways to channel these into creative outputs, and find our tribe to tackle these frustrations together. Join Aik as he leads us through a process of discovering what drives us to creatively turn deep frustrations into impactful projects, and eventually finding collaborators with a shared vision.

This programme is recommended for youths with an interest in social innovation and education.

About the Facilitator:
Aik is part of the founding team of HoloTracker, an EdTech tool that accompanies teachers in substantiating holistic education. For the last 8 years, he has been driving multiple projects in educational pedagogy and technology in Southeast Asia and East Africa. These include engagements with African Leadership University and the Equitable Education Fund in Thailand.

His mission has been about bold empathy- listening to schools and teachers and supporting them in taking steps to improve the state of education. This passion for social innovation and education has led him to be involved in global networks such as ASHOKA Changemaker and UNLEASH Global Talent. He is currently pursuing Anthropology at Yale-NUS College.

Online Experiential Workshop with Sumitra Pasupathy

Online Experiential Workshop for all Adults via Zoom | 20 Nov 2021, 2:00PM - 3:30PM

A huge part of becoming a creative facilitator for your children is about discovering and understanding yourself first. What is your inner voice that guides your beliefs about yourself, children, creativity, play, and the wider context around you? Join Sumitra Pasupathy, co-founder and Board Director of Playeum in this workshop as she goes into the shifts we can make to change our perspectives and how we can tap into the creative power within us.

This programme is recommended for parents and educators, but open to all who work with children.

About the Facilitator:
Sumitra is a chemical engineer by training with over 25 years’ experience in the private and public sector in Europe, US and Singapore. She has found her passion in unleashing the inner powers of all towards creating a better world, and enjoys innovating for new ideas, pathways and solutions with over 10 start-up innovations. She actively works with communities as co-creators to solve complex problems that are emerging in our everyday lives particularly in the field of children and young people.

Sumitra is currently the Managing Director of Global Partnerships for Ashoka, co-founder and Board Director of Playeum, Advisory Board member of Pratham Books, Trustcircle , Avanti Learning, YPO Exco-committee and Sofina CoVid Fund Investment Committee member. She is a Developmental Coach from the School of Integral Coaching (CfD) from University of Cape Town, Graduate School of Business.

Online Play Session with Playeum at Home - Lost & Found

Online Play Session with Playeum at Home - What to Eat

Click here to sign up for the programmes via eventbrite.

Play Sessions

Online Play Session for Children via Zoom | 18 Nov 2021, 4:30PM - 5:15PM

Where did it go? How can we find our lost items and ideas? From lost stationery to ideas in the shower, how can we remember the forgettable?

In this edition of Playeum at Home is about shifting the lens on how we view creativity and how we all practice it differently in our own ways. Whether big or small, they are all creative ways! To change the way we see creativity in ourselves also changes how we see and cultivate it in children.

Playeum At Home is a series of play sessions that looks at discovering different ways of experimenting, playing and creating with everyday recyclable materials that we typically find in our own homes!

Online Play Session for Children via Zoom | 25 Nov 2021, 4:30PM - 5:15PM

It's time to eat but..hmm, what are we going to have? With so many options and so little time, how will we decide?

This edition of Playeum at Home is about shifting the lens on how we view creativity and how we all practice it differently in our own ways. Whether big or small, they are all creative ways! To change the way we see creativity in ourselves also changes how we see and cultivate it in children.

Playeum At Home is a series of play sessions that looks at discovering different ways of experimenting, playing and creating with everyday recyclable materials that we typically find in our own homes!

Online Play Session with Artably and Playeum

Online Play Session for Children via Zoom | 26 Nov 2021, 3:30PM - 5:00PM

Playeum and Artably are teaming up to bring you a new edition of Hello New Friend! In this workshop, Artably will take us through how to use Powerpoint to create our own digital friends. Our new friends will then take a journey off the screen and explore a new world you create using everyday recyclable materials! What adventures will we go on?

Facilitated by the Playeum team and Aminur from Artably, a social enterprise which aims to empower disadvantaged children and underserved communities through art and design.

Online Play Session for Children and their Adults via Zoom | 27 Nov 2021, 11:00AM - 12:00PM

How can we make our food scraps roar? Join HaruPlate as we play with food and create miniature animals from everyday food scraps. What kind of animals will you make? Will we discover new species? This Christmas, join us on an incredible safari journey!

Facilitated by HaruPlate a Singapore kids food brand led by a purpose to plant a lifelong love for healthy food today to grow happier and mightier communities tomorrow.

Online Play Session with Playeum at Home - Because Chores

Online Play Session for Children via Zoom | 02 Dec 2021, 4:30PM - 5:15PM

GAH! Clothes left unfolded, the dirty dishes are still in the sink – what should we do? How can we make chores fun? Let’s find out together!

This edition of Playeum at Home is about shifting the lens on how we view creativity and how we all practice it differently in our own ways. Whether big or small, they are all creative ways! To change the way we see creativity in ourselves also changes how we see and cultivate it in children.

Playeum At Home is a series of play sessions that looks at discovering different ways of experimenting, playing and creating with everyday recyclable materials that we typically find in our own homes!

Online Play Session for Children via Zoom | 08 Dec 2021, 4:00PM - 5:15PM

Let's think deeper about creativity. What is creativity? What makes a process or a thing creative? Can a machine be creative? Let’s put on our thinking hats and dive into these questions and more in this workshop.

Facilitated by Li Yi, co-founder of Little Philosophers LP, a registered limited partnership that introduces children to the love of wisdom.

Online Play Session with Playeum at Home - Mystery Mission

Online Play Session for Children via Zoom | 09 Dec 2021, 4:30PM - 5:15PM

What can we expect next? In this mystery session, we will be solving a surprise problem. There’s no everyday problem that we can’t solve!

This edition of Playeum at Home is about shifting the lens on how we view creativity and how we all practice it differently in our own ways. Whether big or small, they are all creative ways! To change the way we see creativity in ourselves also changes how we see and cultivate it in children.

Playeum At Home is a series of play sessions that looks at discovering different ways of experimenting, playing and creating with everyday recyclable materials that we typically find in our own homes!

Online Play Session with Cultivate Central

Online Play Session for Children and their Adults via Zoom | 10 Dec 2021, 4:00PM - 5:00PM

The soil needs you. Plants need you. The environment needs you to…compost! There must be a better way to deal with the waste we create at home, namely our kitchen, garden and paper waste. How can we design a better way to deal with our organic waste? Beyond learning about composting, design ways you and your family can make this part of your daily life at home! Join permaculture designer Nova Nelson as she shares the fundamentals of urban composting and a framework that’ll help you adapt and design a composting way of life at home or as a community.

Facilitated by Nova the founder of Cultivate Central and also a permaculture designer, a gardening coach, community farmer and educator.

Experiential Workshops

Online Experiential Workshop for Youths via Zoom | 19 Nov 2021, 7:00PM - 8:30PM

How can we turn our frustrations into passion and creativity? Youths today carry the weight of complex frustrations and global issues - climate change, mental health, to name a few. It is now more important than ever for us to find ways to channel these into creative outputs, and find our tribe to tackle these frustrations together. Join Aik as he leads us through a process of discovering what drives us to creatively turn deep frustrations into impactful projects, and eventually finding collaborators with a shared vision.

Facilitated by Aik, part of the founding team of HoloTracker, an EdTech tool that accompanies teachers in substantiating holistic education.

Online Experiential Workshop for all Adults via Zoom | 20 Nov 2021, 2:00PM - 3:30PM

A huge part of becoming a creative facilitator for your children is about discovering and understanding yourself first. What is your inner voice that guides your beliefs about yourself, children, creativity, play, and the wider context around you? Join Sumitra Pasupathy, co-founder and Board Director of Playeum in this workshop as she goes into the shifts we can make to change our perspectives and how we can tap into the creative power within us.

Facilitated by Sumitra, the Managing Director of Global Partnerships for Ashoka and the co-founder of Playeum, she actively works with communities as co-creators to solve complex problems that are emerging in our everyday lives particularly in the field of children and young people.

Online Experiential Workshop with the Playeum Team

Online Experiential Workshop via Zoom | 27 Nov 2021, 2:00PM - 3:30PM

Engaging children in conversations can be intimidating to some. What do we talk to them about? How and where do we even start? For us at Playeum, it is always through play and the arts!

In this workshop, we will be sharing with you our experience engaging children through play and the arts over the past decade and an introduction on how you can also be creative facilitators for them. You will be crafting along with us as we open up this conversation and share tips with one another. So grab some recyclable materials and join us in exploring our creative side!

Facilitated by the Playeum team.

Online Experiential Workshop with Nilisha

Online Experiential Workshop all Adults via Zoom | 04 Dec 2021, 2:00PM - 3:30PM

Do you consider yourself a Creative? Some of us may say ‘yes’. Some may say ‘no’ or ‘maybe’. But what if we tell you that each of us is capable of exceptional creativity? Join Nilisha Mohapatra for a 90-min session on joyful expression, discovering your creativity, and making meaningful connections with people from around the world. You might be in for a playful surprise!

Facilitated by Nilisha who leads the Global Partnerships team at Partners for Youth Empowerment. She works at the intersection of adult learning, social impact and ed-tech.

Kampong Konversations

Online Keynote Address via Zoom | 11 Dec 2021, 2:00PM - 3:30PM

Listen to renowned researcher and arts consultant Dr Piscitelli as she shares her experiences throughout her career championing children and their voices, where she builds her collection of children's stories through their artworks, and advocates for the engagement of children as cultural citizens. The session also delves deeper into how these engagements have impacted the children, their families and communities.

This programme includes a live Q&A towards the end of the session.

Presented by Dr. Piscitelli who began her career as a teacher of young children, and then spent more than 20 years working as an early childhood lecturer and researcher in the university sector. Her work focuses on children as cultural citizens, and explores cultural policy and early childhood visual arts education. Barbara currently consults in the arts and cultural sector, works directly with children and communities, and collects and curates children’s art.

Steven Chia of Channel News Asia also joins us as a guest speaker, as we talk about children's voices, learning to listen and listening to learn -- why that's important for the development of our children and our society going forward.

Hosted by Jennifer Loh who is the co-founder and Board Director of Playeum, a Singapore-based charity that champions creativity and confidence in children through play and the arts, and the executive producer of a children-inspired global music project, Search for the Sparkle.

Online Talk via Zoom | 04 Dec 2021, 11:00AM - 12:30PM

Two teenage siblings who run their own startups and an unconventional dad. We bring together members of Singapore’s one-of-a-kind family who have encouraged their children to take the paths less travelled. For Dylan and Ava, what is it like growing up in a creative environment? What choices did Calvin make as a dad that gave his children voice and autonomy from a young age? Discover the family’s unorthodox take on how to raise a child, and how creativity is the new superpower that our young ones need in today’s world.

This programme includes a live Q&A towards the end of the session.

Presented by Calvin, creator of One Kind House, a sustainable urban farming home in Singapore with soil and hydroponic farming built-in, and is the co-founder of One Kind Block, the world’s first LEGO-like hydroponic system designed to make cities greener and kinder. He will be joined by his children, Dylan and Ava.

At 17, Dylan has already succesfully funded a Kickstarter project (Grow-It-Yourself Stick), co-authored a children’s book with his dad, and scored an internship with internationally-known mobile game Angry Birds. While Ava, at the tender age of 13, started her own jewellery collection under her brand Daughters of the Revolution in her cause to empower women and inspire them to “love themselves”.

Everyday Creativity Kampong Konversations with Kuik Shiao-Yin

Online Talk via Zoom | 20 Nov 2021, 11:00AM - 12:30PM

What does creativity in leadership look like in times of crisis? In the current COVID-19 pandemic, many leaders are challenged with uncertainties on several fronts - sustainability, strategy, impact, and manpower to name a few. How do we pivot, and how can creativity add a different lens to this climate? Hear from Shiao-Yin about her challenges and how being creative can play a part in leading change in today’s workplace.

This programme includes a live Q&A towards the end of the session.

Presented by Shiao-Yin who works as a cultural change strategist, systems/organisational development consultant, process facilitator, executive coach, communicator and trainer. She is passionate about helping large systems develop a more empowering and empathetic way of working with diverse stakeholders through complex issues and volatile times.

Play Sessions

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Explore your creativity!

Make something for our friend, Cup

Cup is wondering if you have any ideas to spare! Gather your recyclable materials at home and see what you can create. Will you be taking Cup to a new world? Will Cup be meeting a new friend instead?

Meet Cup! Watch this video to find out more ☺

Your sharing can come in various forms – it could be in form of drawings, photos or anything that sparked your imagination.

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We would like to especially thank our Game-changing Donors and Creative Ambassadors for supporting Everyday Creativity - the Virtual Festival as well as Playeum's mission.

Game-changing Donors

Quantedge Foundation

Jinhyuk Fred Chung, CSO/CEO of Xylonix

Creative Ambassadors

Diana Britt, Global Head of ISV Incubation of Google Cloud

Charmaine Sng Account Manager of Cisco

Eugenia Koh, Co-founder of Playvocates in Action

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