Softerfields is an independent culture house based in Asia.

We programme music, film, design and art for people who still believe in the quiet power of a room, a record, a film, an object, a conversation. Everything is independently curated and held close, with care for the work and the people gathered around it. Our gatherings run across Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, and Hong Kong.

The name comes from Jean-François Millet's The Gleaners. The painting shows workers collecting the remains of a harvest, while the world around them was still organised around wealth, land, and power. A reminder that culture is often found away from the centre, in the things people forget to notice.

To glean together is to search carefully through what others overlook.

That is the spirit of Softerfields.