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About Swee Yean
Storyteller & Theatre Practitioner
Swee Yean has 20 years of experience as a professional storyteller and theatre practitioner, both in Singapore and the region. She was a 4-term president of the Storytelling Association (Singapore) and is the Director of the 398.2 Storytelling Festival.
She is a storytelling specialist but has developed a broad skill set from working across many different sectors. She has conceptualized and conducted workshops using storytelling to build community connectedness and preserve cultural heritage, bring artworks and history to life, and educate at all levels.
Swee Yean’s storytelling skills and experience is diverse because of the wide range of people she has worked with. They include children, secondary students, young adults, adults, senior citizens as well as teenagers with specific learning abilities ranging from low ability to highly gifted. She can vary her style to engage and influence. Her manner of storytelling is warm, inviting, and non-didactic, stirring up empathy and creating gentle positive change.
Swee Yean has performed commissioned works for the Singapore Land Authority, the Urban Redevelopment Authority, the Malay Heritage Centre, the Singapore Heritage Festival, and more.
She has conducted training for organizations such as HDB, MOE, NAC, Nanyang Polytechnic, NLB, NTU, Singapore Discovery Centre, SLA, ST Engineering Centre for Management Development, URA, and Yale-NUS College. Being fluent in Mandarin, Swee Yean has engaged with senior citizens in Silver Arts projects to preserve the oral heritage of the Chinese community as well as use storytelling for community building. She has conducted storytelling workshops for active senior citizens in Active Ageing Centres and the cognitively challenged seniors in nursing homes and hospice.
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