Grace Low is Head of the Community Engagement (CE) unit at Esplanade that organises some 500 activities each year, reaching out to over 10,000 Voluntary Welfare Organizations (VWOs) beneficiaries. These include vulnerable children, at-risk youth, the elderly, persons with special needs, those marginalised as well as beneficiaries from low income households.
Besides hosting VWO beneficiaries to the centre, organising off-site single-session arts workshops at VWO centres or performances in hospitals and hospices, each year, the team runs eight flagship projects based on a performing art form. Spanning 3 - 4 months per one group of VWO beneficiaries, these projects aim to improve self-esteem for participants and provide creative outlets for personal expression. Some examples include hip-hop dance projects for at-risk youths and seniors, song-writing project for troubled youths, and singing projects for seniors including dementia patients.
Grace is passionate about reaching out to communities-in-need through the arts, and goes about her work with deep conviction and purpose. She aspires to touch the lives of as many people as possible through the arts and to extend current practice into new paradigms of community arts engagement in Singapore. In her free time, Grace volunteers in social mission activities that involves the sick and the elderly.