Spotlight Singapore

Spotlight Singapore
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Inaugurated	January 2006 (2006-01)
Organised by	The Old Parliament House Limited
Website
spotlightsg.com

Hong Kong
Tokyo
Moscow

Spotlight Singapore is a cultural diplomacy platform hosted by The Arts House, the arts and heritage centre of the Old Parliament House, Singapore, Spotlight Singapore combines artistic, economic and educational activities, with the objective of creating understanding, dialogue and sustainable collaborations between the arts and business communities of Singapore and her counterparts.

Spotlight Singapore began as an international showcase for Singapore artists and their works. The programme subsequently grew to become a "business-friendly" event utilising cultural diplomacy.

It began in 2006 in Hong Kong as a cultural exchange programme, and travelled to Tokyo in December 2006 with a business element introduced. By the third edition, which was held in Moscow in June 2008, Spotlight Singapore had an intensive 4-day cultural-business programme that introduced the Russian capital to Singapore's lifestyle, and enabled the delegates to meet and seek out business opportunities while developing friendship with their counterparts through the exchange of cultures.

In 2011, Spotlight Singapore hosted the programme in South Africa

With plans to venture into the European markets, Bratislava and Prague, capital cities of Slovakia and the Czech Republic respectively, were chosen as Spotlight Singapore's fifth destination in 2012.

Spotlight Singapore was first launched in Hong Kong in January 2006 on invitation from the Hong Kong Fringe Club, as part of the City Festival. The programme for Spotlight Singapore in Hong Kong consisted of Sound Thinking, a 10-minute work commissioned for electronica and from four vacuum cleaners and the Earshot Exhibition that showcased key Singapore literary works and an exhibition of Singapore poetry.