About The Green Beans

Who are we? 

The Green Beans is a CAS group initiated by 3 year 5 students from the School of the Arts Singapore; Becky (Visual Arts), Qing (Theatre) and Almira (Music). While CAS (Creativity, Action and Service) is a mandatory component in the IB Diploma Programme, the genesis of The Green Beans was formed primarily on our love for the natural environment and our hopes to share this love with other youths.

What do we do? 

The Green Beans aims to encourage Singaporean youths like ourselves to explore and develop a love for our local, natural green spaces. 

Aside from its therapeutic qualities, we also strongly believe that nature is a great source of inspiration for the arts and the creative process, which is important to us as arts students. 

We believe that immersing ourselves in nature is not only a way of connecting with the world and learning about the ecosystem, or a form of relaxation, but is also what pushes us to pause a little and reflect on the lives that we live. 

Everyone has different experiences with and takeaways from nature, such as environmental conservation, botany, physical and mental wellbeing, nature in the arts and so on. We all have different experiences because we're all different people. What The Green Beans aims to do is to provide the opportunity for these experiences. 

In Singapore, our rich natural green spaces are rapidly being replaced by concrete jungles, and we have seen for ourselves the many youths who unconsciously suffer from a disconnect with nature, as well as the loss felt by the many who have known these green spaces for decades. These spaces hold memories for many Singaporeans, and our greater aim is also to document the green places that we visit. Documentation through any way possible; blog posts, pictures, plant samples, sound montages, and stories. 

Go back to the basics. Treasure the small things in life with The Green Beans.