Featuring Wayne Lim and Christopher Gerard Grosse (Fauxe)

No awards, no accolades – “we just do it because we love it”. A mainstay in the scene, master luthier Wayne Lim has been fixing and making guitars for more than a decade. All the magic happens in his workshop and office, a.k.a his mum’s home somewhere in Toa Payoh. In his charmingly cluttered space, Wayne’s rapid-fire delivery got us scrambling to keep pace; at the heart of his craft, if playing music is not his career, then supporting the guys who play music is his calling.

In a similar vein, we check in on Fauxe, who leads the creative collective, School of Altruism (SOA). With Bubu, Chacha, plus a host of collaborators and jammers who flit in and out of his welcoming space (often leaving things behind), Fauxe devotes himself to bringing a community together, including people from all walks of life. For SOA, a lot of the work is done to “bring out the best of your people, not so much trying to find the best person…[to] champion around the world”.

This series was commissioned by Esplanade Offstage for Baybeats, the alternative music festival presented annually by Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay.