Many men are taught the same script: be strong, stay composed, and carry on.
But what happens when strength is measured by silence?
Songs for the Crossing is a sonic theatre ritual exploring the quiet pressures many men carry today—expectation, isolation, endurance—and the possibility of moving from solitary strength toward shared holding.
Songs for the Crossing
20–21 March | 7.30PM
Play Den @ The Arts House
Step with us into the crossing.
🎟 Tickets available via the link in our bio.
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I am deeply honoured to have been featured as a Thought Leader in Robb Report Singapore, reflecting on my journey with SAtheCollective and the role of the arts in shaping our lives.
From my earliest ambitions of mastery and recognition, success now means something more profound: seeing someone feel seen, moved, or transformed through our work.
Becoming a father has shifted my perspective. It sharpened my sense of responsibility—not just for art, but for legacy. How do we build futures through creativity, presence, and authenticity?
I believe the boundary between tradition and innovation is not a chasm but fertile ground. We are exploring the future at intersections: heritage and new technologies; ritual, sound, and wellness; ancient practices and emerging science. Bioacoustics, vibrational therapeutics—these are not just curiosities but keys to transforming performance, healing, and immersive experience.
My hope is that we continue to shift how society perceives the arts. From luxury or afterthought, to something essential: a force for reflection, connection, transformation. That the arts belong in our homes, schools, public spaces. Shaping how we live and relate.
Thank you to everyone, colleagues, collaborators, audiences, who have walked this path with me. To more conversations, more art, more rootedness.
Thank you Robb Report Singapore for this feature.
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Photography by Eugene Lee of @enfinite.studio
Hair & Makeup by Sophia Soh of @suburbs.studio
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Amazing day in London working on the rehearsal of Tan Dun with Zhao Jing, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Looking forward to the concert!
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Reflecting on the current times.
In a world that constantly asks us to compare, perform, improve, and prove ourselves, self-love becomes the quiet act of returning to who we are beneath the noise.
Self-love is learning to meet ourselves with honesty, patience, and care.
It is choosing boundaries over resentment.Rest over burnout. Growth over self-punishment. Peace over approval.
#selflove #reflection
Thank you to everyone who came for Songs for the Crossing.
I have been sitting with this work and all that it asked of us.
This piece came from a deep place. It began with questions around masculinity, what men carry quietly, what gets inherited, what gets buried, and what lives underneath the versions of strength we are taught to perform.
I did not want to make a work that explained these things too neatly. I wanted to create a space where they could be felt. Where sound, body, image, and presence could hold what words alone sometimes cannot.
This also feels especially meaningful as part of SAtheCollective’s 10th year. In many ways, Songs for the Crossing reflects the journey we have been on, trusting sound as a way into deeper reflection, encounter, and transformation.
Thank you to everyone who came with openness.
Thank you to the artists, collaborators, and crew who held this work with such care and commitment.
Beneath so much silence, there is feeling.
Beneath so much isolation, there is still the possibility of kinship.
Thank you for crossing with us.
Andy Chia
Founding Artistic Director, SAtheCollective
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What does it mean to move from silence into being held?
In this feature with Augustman, Andy (@andy.cql ) shares more about Songs for the Crossing—a sound theatre work shaped by themes of masculinity, vulnerability, and transformation.
Read more on Augustman:
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Post-Show Panel: Masculinity, Vulnerability, and the Work of Becoming
On the evening of 21 March, Songs for the Crossing extends beyond the stage into a live conversation that holds space for what many men carry, but seldom voice.
Joining us for this post-show panel is Dr. Glenn Graves, founder of Counseling Perspective, alongside psychologists and practitioners Marissa Nasution, Andy Yang, and Zhuo Zihao, Andy Chia.
Dr. Glenn Graves holds a PhD in Psychology with a specialisation in Creativity. His work centres on healing through expressive arts, shaped by early experiences supporting victims of human trafficking. This foundation has led to a practice dedicated to trauma healing, crisis intervention, and guiding individuals through periods of profound transition.
Marissa Nasution is a psychologist who specialises in emotional clarity, regulation, and resilience. Drawing from her training as a Research Psychologist and member of the British Psychological Society, she uses evidence-based approaches including CBT and EFT to support individuals, families, and organisations in navigating complex emotions and creating meaningful change.
Together, the panel brings clinical insight, lived experience, and grounded practice into conversation with the themes of the work.
Drawing from the journey of the wayfarer in Songs for the Crossing—a movement from silence and self-containment towards relational strength—the discussion will explore:
• What does masculinity look like in today’s world?
• Why is vulnerability still difficult, even when it is needed?
• What are the unseen struggles men carry across different stages of life?
• How can we begin to hold ourselves, and each other, differently?
This is not a panel of answers, but of openings.
A space to reflect, to listen, and perhaps, to recognise.
Every crossing is carried by many hands 🌿
If this work resonates with you, consider supporting it.
Your contribution helps sustain the artists, the space, and the conversations this work holds.
Donate via the link in our bio or scan the QR code on the last slide.
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Songs for the Crossing
20–21 March | 7.30PM
Play Den @ The Arts House
🎟 Tickets available — link in bio.
#SAtheCollective #SongsfortheCrossing
A new year begins.
And with it, a chance to cross differently.
This Lunar New Year, Andy Chia reflects on that journey — and on Songs for the Crossing:
a ritual moving from isolation to shared strength,
from enduring alone to holding together.
If you believe in building spaces like this, we invite your support. The donation link is available in our bio. 📩
In this Year of the Horse,
may we move forward with courage —
not alone, but alongside one another.
May the new year bring prosperity and strength.
Happy Lunar New Year 🐎🎊
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There are journeys we are taught to make in silence.
Songs for the Crossing is a sonic theatre ritual shaped around endurance, rupture, and return—where masculinity is not performed, but witnessed.
Nine rites.
One crossing.
From “I endure” to “We hold”.
🗓 20–21 March
📍 Play Den @ The Arts House
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