Current & Forthcoming Events
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* unless otherwise noted, location of listed events is Singapore

14 November 2009 - June 2010
Southeast Asian Ceramic Society's 40th anniversary exhibition
@ NUS Museum, Singapore and launch of SEACS' new publication:
"Southeast Asian Ceramics: New Light on Old Pottery"

27 February 2010
Pottery Highlights: Tour of Ceramics Exhibition and Dragon Kiln
Meet at NUS Museum

6 March 2010
Ceramics Introduction Workshop @ NUS Museum

10 March 2010
SEACS AGM & Public Lecture
Chinese Ceramics made for export to Southeast Asia in the Victoria & Albert Museum
by Rose Kerr

20 March 2010
EXhibition Tour & Sherd Handling @ NUS MUseum

6-14 April 2010
study tour to Fujian & Jiangxi, China

Formed in 1969, the Southeast Asian Ceramic Society’s purpose is to widen appreciation and acquire knowledge of the ceramic art of China and countries adjacent to China, especially those of Southeast Asia. To pursue this aim, local members meet for periodic discussion, to hear talks by experts and to study and compare ‘pots’.

The Southeast Asian Ceramics Society organised an inaugural Exhibition at the University Art Museum, Singapore in 1971. This landmark exhibition consisted of 350 examples of Khmer, Annamese and early Thai pottery, drawn largely from the University collection built up by Mr William Willetts, the curator, who served as the first President of the Society. A substantial number of pieces also came from the collection of Don Sinclair and other Members of the first Council.

The historian Mr John Guy has noted that this "presentation of the then little known ceramic tradition of Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam caused a stir amongst the oriental ceramic cognoscenti.” Furthermore, that "the Willetts pioneering Catalogue for the Society inspired a generation of younger scholars and stimulated the interest of government archaeological departments throughout Southeast Asia." As a consequence, ceramic societies were to emerge in ensuing years in West Malaysia, Jakarta, Manila and Hong Kong, following the lead of the Singapore chapter.

The Society held 9 exhibitions in the period 1971-1993, and since 1999 has organised an annual William Willetts Lecture which is held immediately after the Society's Annual general meeting

In 2009, the Society celebrated its 40th anniversary. A new book entitled “Southeast Asian Ceramics: New Light on Old Pottery" has been published and an exhibition of the same name is being held at NUS Museum, Singapore from 14 November 2009 to June 2010.