The Postgrad Experience
1–12 Nov, various timings
Step into The Postgrad Experience
Get an insider’s view of postgraduate study at The Postgrad Experience and explore the practice and research cultures of LASALLE’s MA programmes.
From hands-on workshops, engaging talks and roundtables to immersive graduate showcases and exhibitions, gain first-hand insights into the programmes that shape the cultural and creative industries. Meet lecturers, connect with students and alumni, and discover how a LASALLE postgraduate education can further your practice and professional journey.
Your next step in advancing your thinking and practice begins here—RSVP now for The Postgrad Experience, spots for each session are limited.
From 1 to 30 November 2025, enjoy a waiver on application fee when you apply for any of our MA programmes.
Programme highlights
Championing culturally-informed, evidenced-based art therapy
1 Nov, 11:30am–12:30pm
The MA in Art Therapy is a globally-situated, training-intensive postgraduate programme. Since 2006, it has offered supervised professional training to prepare qualified art therapists for the demands of an ever-changing world, fostering new ways of creative self-expression, mental health and well-being. Join MA Art Therapy Programme Leader Dr Ronald PMH Lay, lecturers, current students and alumni at this informal Q&A session as you are invited to explore our research, projects and exhibitions, and ask questions about the programme.
Advancing care and well-being with evidence-based music therapy
1 Nov, 12:30pm–1:30pm
Discover how the MA Music Therapy programme offers rigorous professional training that prepares music therapists to work in diverse cultural contexts—fostering creative self-expression and well-being while cultivating research, community outreach and professional skills. Join MA Music Therapy Programme Leader Dr Indra Selvarajah, lecturers and current students at this informal Q&A session and have your questions answered about postgraduate study, training pathways and career development opportunities, and get an insider’s view on life in this MA programme.
Writing about Objects: An MA Creative Writing workshop
3 Nov, 6:00pm–7:30pm
Come prepared to flex your writing skills at this creative writing workshop which offers participants the opportunity to write through activities focused on objects, point of view and setting. An information session on the MA Creative Writing programme will be held after the workshop.
In, By, Through Design: An MA Design roundtable
5 Nov, 5:00pm–7:00pm
Be part of an evening of ideas, exchange and connection at this MA Design roundtable. Through fast-paced PechaKucha-style presentations, our alumni will showcase their diverse projects and journeys—offering inspiration and reflections from both practice and research, inviting lively discussion and dialogue in, by, through design, highlighting the richness and experimentation of the MA Design experience. The evening will conclude with networking opportunities to connect with current students, alumni and industry to learn more about the programme.
Mending Material Futures: An MA Arts and Ecology workshop
5 Nov, 7:30pm–9:30pm
Join this hands-on, practice-based and research-led engagement with indigo dyeing, slow stitching and repurposed materials to craft new ecological narratives that constellate kinship, heritage and sustainability, towards resisting and counter-acting disposable culture. Current students, alumni and faculty will be on hand to answer your questions about the MA Arts and Ecology programme. Take the opportunity to view the final year projects by the programme’s inaugural Class of 2025 in Praxis Space.
Beyond the classroom: A conversation with MA Arts and Cultural Leadership graduands on their postgraduate journeys
6 Nov, 6:30pm–8:00pm
Meet the graduands of the MA Arts and Cultural Leadership programme—artists from the visual and performing arts, educators, producers, arts managers, community organisers—as they share the impact of the learning journey on their practice, aspirations and ambitions. Find out more about what arts and cultural leadership means, and get a glimpse of how learning extends beyond the classroom.
Art School Confidential: Insights into contemporary art praxis and research in MA Fine Arts
6 Nov, 7:00pm–8:00pm
Engage in a roving and capacious discussion between MA Fine Arts faculty and alumni as they explore the intersections of art-making and research. The experience features a selection of works from the Class of 2025, showcased alongside videos of our distinguished alumni.
MA Asian Art Histories Inside the MA Asian Art Histories experience: A fireside chat
6 Nov, 8:00pm–9:00pm
Participate in this intimate, moderated conversation between MA Asian Art Histories Programme Leader Jeffrey Say and distinguished alumna and former Arts Nominated Member of Parliament Usha Chandradas, offering candid insights into the academic journey, research opportunities and career pathways shaped by this programme. Don’t miss the digital poster presentation on display in Praxis Space, where the Class of 2025 reframes Asia through historical art narratives.
Connecting research to our communities: An MA Arts and Cultural Leadership symposium
8 Nov, 1:00pm–6:00pm
Led by MA Arts and Cultural Leadership graduates, the symposium comprises a series of curated presentations, conversations and workshops around the themes and findings from graduands’ dissertation research. These span a range of concerns, including Singapore’s theatre ecology, stakeholders in community arts, contemporary circus in Singapore, the indie and alternative music scene and Southeast Asian artist-leaders working in the ecological domain.
Liminal Lab: An MA Arts Pedagogy and Practice showcase
10 Nov, 7:30pm–9:00pm
Join current students from the MA Arts Pedagogy and Practice programme as they present their annual showcase of experimental and emergent work, reflecting the playful exploration of their first semester. Structured into three presentations, groups will share the practice-based outcomes of their transdisciplinary inquiry into how they learn, teach and create.
Shophouse: MA Creative Writing graduate reading
11 Nov, 6:30pm–8:00pm
Join graduates of the first taught Creative Writing master’s degree in Singapore and Southeast Asia as they read from their creative writing theses.
Exhibitions
Question everything—In, By, Through Design
Mon–Sat 4–12 Nov, 12:00pm–8:00pm
10 Nov, 12:00pm–9.00pm
Design does not begin with answers; it begins with questions. To question is to linger in uncertainty, search for other vantage points, imagine what might yet be.
Question Everything is less a provocation than a practice: a way of designing that resists default solutions and unsettles the familiar, revealing the latent and the possible. In this spirit, questioning becomes a mode of making, of critique and of imagining futures otherwise.
To question in, by and through design is to engage the world as an unfinished conversation—one that is always contextual, always relational, always open to transformation.
Organically Sourced
Mon–Sat 4–12 Nov, 12:00pm–8:00pm
10 Nov, 12:00pm–9.00pm
Organically Sourced is a collaborative installation examining the inner workings of Generative AI (GenAI) model training. This work visualises how models consume vast artifacts of human creation, absorb them and reconstitute itself in the image of nature. Come, take a seat and rest under the shade of this all-consuming tree.
This work is a showcase by students from the MA Arts Pedagogy and Practice programme following their first semester of transdisciplinary inquiry into how we learn, teach and create.
McNally School of Fine Arts postgraduate showcase
Mon–Sat 4–12 Nov, 12:00pm–8:00pm
5 Nov, 12:00pm–9.30pm (Praxis Space)
6 Nov, 12:00pm–9.00pm (Praxis Space and Project Space)
Echoing the expansive and engaged ethos of creative enquiry encouraged by LASALLE’s late founder Brother Joseph McNally, the McNally School of Fine Arts is honoured to present a multimodal collage that amplifies conversations between the final research projects by our first cohort of graduates to be conferred with a University of the Arts Singapore MA degree in Fine Arts, Asian Art Histories and Arts and Ecology.
Across Project Space and Praxis Space, experience the contours and concerns of practice-led thinking and making, towards imagining how lives can be lived.
Project Space
nospacefortomorrow (a postscript): MA Fine Arts showcase
Praxis Space
Shaping and Sustaining Ways of Knowing: MA Arts and Ecology and MA Asian Art Histories showcase
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