Singapore Street Festival goes to the heartlands
The Singapore Street Festival will be going to the heartlands for the first time in its 10th year running, showcasing a host of performances at Heartland Mall in Kovan, and White Sands in Pasir-Ris.
The festival will showcase, among others, rap, breakdance competitions, bellydancing and even a Muay Thai fight- Thailand's traditional martial art.
The festival's founder and organiser, Ms Annie Pek, says the festival is open to anyone to register and showcase their talent.
She adds that the youths will be the main focus, so much so that they were involved in every level of planning and executing of the festival.
"We are bringing it [to the heartlands] to engage the youth there. We noticed in the Street Fest that most of our performers come from the East, so we thought the best start is for them to go to the East, and see where it leads us," said Ms Pek.
Organisers say they expect youths from the region and Europe to participate in the festival as well.
"This is not Singapore Idol, this is not your usual television programme, we're not trying to commercialise this. We're trying to build this platform to discover raw talent and we're encouraging all youths to come forward to participate," said Mr Teo Ser Luck, Senior Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports.
The Singapore Street Festival will run from July 2 to 31 this year.
-News courtesy of Channel Newsasia-
Please take note that Singapore Street Festival 2011 is not going to Kovan, but to Hougang Mall as CNA has make a mistake on that reporting and had already rectify that.
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