Training Opportunities
From short courses to longer programmes, explore training opportunities across disciplines to build your skills, deepen your practice and adapt to a changing arts landscape.
Last updated on 26 September 2026
Grow your practice and stay ahead in a changing arts landscape
To grow a strong base of talent in the arts, the National Arts Council works with various industry partners to offer diverse pathways for professional development and provides access to meaningful training opportunities:
Work Based Training – We collaborate with local industry partners to offer on-the-job training, enabling you to gain skills and experiences in real-world settings while building valuable industry connections.
Short Courses – We work with training providers to co-develop short courses focused on in-demand skills.
Residencies – We curate key local and overseas residency opportunities that give you dedicated time and space to deepen their practice, create new works, and connect with markets, networks and audiences.
Work Based Training
Technical Theatre
Technical Theatre Traineeship Programme for Certificate in Technical Theatre & Production (Level 1) (opens in new tab)
This traineeship programme is a partnership between NAC and The Esplanade Co Ltd. The Technical Theatre Traineeship Programme for Certificate in Technical Theatre & Production (Level 1) offers comprehensive training in technical theatre and production management. Through practical workshops and mentorship, participants develop essential skills in light, sound and stage operations while gaining hands-on experiences in various venues and productions.
This programme is supported by NAC funding, with a training allowance of $7.50/hour provided to each trainee.
Applications Open
Stage & Production Management
Backstage Affair's Apprenticeship Programme (BAAP)
This apprenticeship programme is a partnership between NAC and The Backstage Affair. The programme offers Entry Track and Intermediate Track, which provides aspiring production and stage managers a safe and structured space for apprentices to learn the ropes of backstage management.
This programme is supported by NAC funding, with a training allowance of $7.50/hour provided to each apprentice.
Application for BAAP (Intermediate): Deadline 30 June 2025
Applications for BAAP (Entry): Closed
Arts Education & Pedagogy
NAC-AEP Recognised Pedagogy Training
En-Route to Inclusive Arts Education (opens in new tab)
This programme is a partnership between NAC and Rainbow Centre Training and Consultancy (RCTC). The programme equips arts educators with practical skills to create inclusive programmes through structured teaching and universal design principles. Comprising three segments - classroom learning, paired coaching, and hands-on practicum at Rainbow Centre Singapore - participants will learn to adapt existing arts programmes for diverse learning needs.
NAC supports up to 90% Course Fee Subsidy and a $7.50/hour Training Allowance for Self-Employed Persons for this course.
Applications are open.
Applied Arts in Communication Facilitation
Arts & Community Facilitator Programme (ACFP) (opens in new tab)
This train-and-attach programme is a partnership between NAC and ArtsWok Collaborative. The programme equips arts practitioners with the fundamental skills and practical experience to facilitate arts-based activities with seniors in Active Ageing Centres and similar community settings. Comprising two components — classroom training (via the Lab in Fundamentals for Arts & Community Facilitators) and an on-site practicum — participants will develop the necessary knowledge and skills, apply their learning in real-world contexts, gain hands-on experience and valuable professional networks.
NAC supports up to 90% Course Fee Subsidy and a $7.50/hour Training Allowance for Self-Employed Persons for this course.
Applications: Until 14 June 2026
To register, sign up here (opens in new tab)
Short Courses
NAC-AEP Recognised Pedagogy Training
NIE Essentials of Teaching and Learning
NIE Essentials of Teaching and Learning is designed for Teaching Artists working in Singapore schools. Combining both asynchronous and synchronous online teaching approaches, this course equips Teaching Artists with the skills and knowledge to conduct arts programmes in schools.
SDEA Drama Pedagogy Course – Essential Teaching and Learning Approaches
This course part-time drama pedagogical course for professionals in Singapore provides participants with fundamental pedagogical knowledge and skills to create a meaningful and imaginative learning experiences for students with drama.
This course aims to equip artists with key knowledge, skills and dispositions to work with children in the early years, primarily ages 4 to 6 years. This course offers a platform for artists to delve deeper into the foundation of their teaching beliefs and how that shape their practices that are aligned with the principles of teaching and learning in early childhood (arts) education.
Other Arts Education Training Opportunities
The National Arts Council (NAC) - National Instructors and Coaches Association (NICA) Training Support is a collaboration between NAC and NICA to support continuous professional development of self-employed NICA arts educators. This is achieved through the provision of course fee subsidies and/or training allowance to lower the barriers of attending selected courses that are assessed to be aligned with the Skills Framework for Arts (Arts Education).
An Introduction of Safe Dance Practice in MOE Schools
Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA)'s Introduction to Safe Dance Practice in MOE Schools is a mandatory baseline training course for all dance CCA instructors. This introductory course aims to equip instructors with basic working knowledge and skills, to ensure students’ well-being and optimal learning.
Literary Arts
Asia Creative Writing Programme
The Asia Creative Writing Programme is a collaboration between the National Arts Council of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University that advances the creative practice of literary practitioners through specialised development programmes.
Technical Theatre
The Esplanade Academy provides entry-level training in technical theatre in technical aspects of theatrical production such as construction and rigging, hanging and focusing of lighting, recording and mixing of sound, and organising or coordinating for a production.
Applications are open
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