CITRUS practices
(2021–ongoing)

CITRUS practices stands for: Care, Intimacy, TRaUma-informed & Safer practices in the arts. 

We are a loose working group of arts workers and practitioners who are based in Singapore, and our aim is to deepen and expand conversations and better practices in the arts.

In the long term, we hope to improve the mental, emotional, and physical well-being of arts and cultural workers, so that working within the arts ecosystem is more sustainable for current and future generations.

CITRUS practices first convened officially in 2021 under Centre 42’s Co-Lab residency.

CITRUS practices initiates our own projects, such as Library of Care (2022-ongoing). We also support other people’s related projects as much as our capacity allows!

The following principles are important to the CITRUS practices culture:

  • 💖Care and pleasure💖 - to the best of our capacities, we will look out for our own and each other’s wellbeing as we interact with each other, and also be mindful of how we might interact and work with each other in ways that are more satisfying and life-affirming. We will work towards being clear and specific about expressing our needs, feelings, boundaries, capacities and requests, and to be patient (and delighted!) when receiving these from someone else. 

  • 🕸 Porosity 🕸 - anyone can engage with CITRUS practices’ and its activities whenever and to whatever degree of capacity people can offer, and also to disengage whenever. And if/when people next have capacity, people are very welcome to re-engage again, in a fluid cycle. We just ask that if you anticipate having to disengage and if you have committed to certain responsibilities, that there is a process of handing over work to someone else before leaving. 

  • 🔥Desire and capacity🔥 - as a working group, we will only engage in activities that at least two CITRUS folks find meaningful and where there are enough people and/or resources to develop the activity (either existing or that can be found!)   

    • This includes activities to maintain the working group itself - if there is a time when there are fewer than two people who find the working group meaningful and who are willing to contribute to it, then CITRUS practices as a working group will go on an indefinite hiatus until at least two people decide to re-activate it!