PlayLAH! Let’s Celebrate is a specially curated platform that celebrates harmony, generational bonding and communal interaction in support of the local community.
SINGAPORE – PlayLAH! Let’s Celebrate Chinese New Year 2017 welcomed families from all over Singapore to usher in the Year of the Rooster with a four-day family carnival held at the Singapore EXPO. Organised by SingEx Venues Pte Ltd, the venue manager for Singapore EXPO and MAX Atria, the family carnival kept participants of all ages entertained with an exciting line-up of festive activities, complete with Chinese New Year-themed rides, workshops that catered to both young and old visitors, and education booths spanning four main zones – Play, Learn, Eat and Bond.
PlayLAH! Let’s Celebrate is a specially curated platform that celebrates harmony, generational bonding and communal interaction in support of the local community. Through the creation of this national platform, SingEx not only provides an avenue for members of the different communities living to Singapore to come together, but also encourages youth entrepreneurship while providing learning opportunities for students from tertiary institutions to thrive in a practical event environment.
Through a partnership with Ngee Ann Polytechnic and ITE College Central, students from both institutions were presented with the opportunity to co-organise and plan the programme for PlayLAH! Let’s Celebrate Chinese New Year 2017, and benefitted from the mentoring they received from SingEx’s venues management team. These students successfully facilitated the smooth running of the activities in the Play, Learn and Bond zones across all four days.
In addition, local businesses, non-governmental organisations, welfare organisations, non-profit organisations and social enterprises such as Very Special Arts, Yellow Ribbon Project, National Addiction Management Service and Dignity Kitchen were invited to be part of the festival, which provided an avenue for them to generate awareness of their individual causes amongst the general public as well as to raise funds.
Over the four-day event, the carnival attracted 10,000 visitors. It was well-received by the young and the young at heart, and saw people from the different communities in Singapore and all walks of life socialising and having fun together. A nine metre-high slide designed in the shape of a rooster and an inflatable obstacle course were amongst the attractions that young children thoroughly enjoyed as they explored the carnival grounds, while parents appreciated the various workshops being held each day for them to participate in with their children, learning how to create and design their very own red packets and Lunar New Year greetings.
Visitors were also entertained by the many exciting performances presented by Sheng Hong Arts Institute, which introduced to the younger generation of Singaporeans traditional Chinese art forms such as Nanyin, Chinese dance and martial arts. During the daily mandarin orange peeling and eating contest was held on-stage, crowds were astounded when a contestant polished off five oranges with an impressive timing of just 57 seconds.
Contestant of the Children’s Talent Competition.
Over the weekend, residents from the constituencies of Siglap, Marine Parade and East Coast visited Singapore EXPO to join in the festivities, and were accompanied by Dr Maliki Osman, Mayor of South-East Community Development Council, as well as Ms Jessica Tan, Member of Parliament for East Coast Group Representation Constituency.
PlayLAH! had also organised the very first nation-wide Children’s Talent Competition to be held during a family carnival. On the last day of the carnival, 10 young talents performed in front of a live audience and the judging panel made of celebrities, social media influencers and members of SingEx’s senior management team. The winner, 9-year-old Aadhya Anand, walked away with $1,388 worth of cash and prizes.
Photo caption: Traditional Chinese arts performances by members of the Sheng Hong Arts Institute.
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