S'pore Youth Festival extended to 2 months in support of YOG
This year's Singapore Youth Festival which kicks off on Saturday will run for two months instead of one month. The organisers have extended the festival to support the Youth Olympic Games.
Celebrate friendship in the spirit of the Youth Olympics through music and dance.
The Youth Festival which carries the theme the "Torch of Friendship" hopes to leave a mark on athletes and officials.
Sum Chee Wah, director, Education Programmes, Education Ministry, said: "We would like as many athletes and officials to attend the concerts and outreach events as many as possible.
“They can expect to be welcomed by the vibrant performances of the students. We have arranged two outreach events. One is going to be at Raffles City, the other is going to be at the National Library. And these are events that are free. Theere will be a mixture of performances by students from primary schools and secondary schools.
International guests are also invited to attend two other concerts held in August.
More than 10,000 youths from over 70 schools will be taking part.
12-year-old Joy Tan from St Margaret's Primary School has been chosen to sing the theme song.
She said: “It's been a very good experience and I have learnt to control my nervousness and how to perform on stage.”
This year will also see a bigger foreign presence with nine groups from abroad taking part.
They include concert and display bands from Japan, Australia and Malaysia.
Mr Sum added: "The reason why we have engaged them is that we would like our own students to benchmark their own music and dance against the international standards.
“This is also part of globalisation. We would like our students to be exposed to different performances across the world so that they will get a snippet of the culture, art performances in other countries.”
Students from the Australian International School in Singapore will also be performing for the first time in the festival.
-News courtesy of Channel Newsasia-
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