ABOUT
TRUE COLORS FESTIVAL
TCF is a long-running international festival of performing arts that celebrates diversity and inclusion. It is presented by The Nippon Foundation.
In 2018, the first international edition of True Colours took place in Singapore. Presented by The Nippon Foundation and UNESCO, it drew an audience of 10,000, who watched some 200 performers from 15 countries in a live concert.
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The accompanying Festival Village included – for the first time at a single event here – more than 20 disability-related organisations in Singapore which engaged in novel awareness-building activities with festival goers. The free entry Village also included LIVE performances, workshops, panel discussions, film screenings and an inclusive theatre production.
During the COVID-19 years, TCF created an extensive slate of online, video and hybrid content, including two international online film festivals, two critically acclaimed documentaries and two original music videos, all celebrating the many facets of diversity and inclusion.
In 2022, TCF culminated in THE CONCERT, a LIVE and LIVE streamed global event held in Tokyo. It featured more than 90 performers from 12 countries and was headlined by mega-pop star Katy Perry.
To date, TCF has touched a global audience of more than 3.5 million.
PAST EVENTS
This Is Hip-Hop 2020
This no-holds-barred online discussion featuring 9 hip-hop innovators from diverse backgrounds who have found their voices, their souls, and their liberation in hip-hop. These artists from the UK, Indonesia, Canada, Singapore, the US and Japan get real! led spirited exchanges about cultural appropriation, diversity and inclusivity. They explored hip-hop's image problems, set against its significance as a contemporary agent of social change. To cap the discussion, the international virtual audience were treated to a hip-hop performance by 20 dancers from 4 cities, freestyling to music by Singapore-based artist, Wheelsmith.
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Film Festival 2020
A free online film festival reflecting the “One World, One Family” theme and the universal experiences of connection, diversity, hope, dreams and transformation. 18 award-winning short films, documentaries and post-screening dialogues by talented filmmakers from Asia and beyond.
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Film Festival 2021
The theme Perspectives honors these shifting times and invites us to sit with our discomfort and re-examine our comforts in the pandemic years. Chance encounters that changed lives, the concept of heaven, life journeys with autism, historic inclusivity and more. These stories about inclusion, diversity, hope, empowerment and human connection mark a quiet revolution of voices changing the way we perceive our differences and our similarities.
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THE CONCERT 2022
THE CONCERT 2022 was a stunning multimedia experience that featured an international line-up of diverse singers, dancers and musicians from around the world.
More than 20 groups and soloists from 13 countries, performing on a single stage. Stellar performances, powerful moments of connection and original film content – a first-of-its-kind concert experience.
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A celebration of beautiful diversity, THE CONCERT 2022 shone the spotlight on the uniqueness of each artist while celebrating the things that connect us as humans.
