Some four decades after gaining independence, Singapore, through its Ministry of Information and the Arts (MITA), is committed to the vision of a “Renaissance Singapore [which] will be creative, vibrant and imbued with a keen sense of aesthetics” (MITA, 2000, Introduction, p. 4). The Renaissance City Report aimed “to establish Singapore as a global arts city… [and] to provide cultural ballast in [her] nation-building efforts” (p. 4). So as to strengthen a sense of national identity and belonging in her citizens, the Report identified the need to “inculcate an appreciation of [Singapore’s] heritage…” (p. 4). One important area of focus of the Singapore National Arts Council (NAC) is to “boost the interest in ethnic art forms” so that young children could better appreciate their “rich cultural herit age” in a cosmopolitan city-state (Chong & Chia, nd, p. 1).