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National Heritage Board unveils exciting
programmes for Singapore HeritageFest 2006 |
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This year¡¯s festival provokes thought and offers
an alternative platform to discuss the question of Identity |
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12 - 23 July 2006 |
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The National Heritage Board (NHB) today
unveiled what Singaporeans and visitors can expect from Singapore
HeritageFest 2006. |
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Focussing on the theme of Identity, and with
a tagline, ¡°What Makes You, You?¡±, the festival promises to provoke
thought and debate on the question of identity through specially-curated
exhibitions, cultural performances, a forum, heritage-based treasure
hunt and community trails. |
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Held from 12-23 July 2006, the festival will
engage everyone young and old, local and foreign, to explore what makes
them unique. |
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The festival this year will explore how an
individual views his or her identity and how each person takes on a
different identity at different stages of his life. Identity is explored
at five levels ¨C personal, family, ethnic and group communities,
national and global. |
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Said Mrs Lim Siok Peng, Chief Executive
Officer of National Heritage Board and Chairman of the Festival¡¯s
Steering Committee, ¡°We are excited about this year¡¯s festival as it
will explore a topic that is very close to all our hearts. We are always
grappling with who we are and what makes us unique at a personal and
national level. But the festival offers three other aspects of identity
to further complicate the soul-searching process! We hope that our
visitors will start their own personal discovery journeys after they
have taken part in the various programmes and outreach events we have
organised for them.¡± |
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Unlike in the past two festivals, the
festival this year promises to be different on many fronts. |
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One new feature added to the festival is
the inclusion of natural heritage and there will be specially
organised trails to two of our nature and heritage-rich parks,
Labrador and Kent Ridge Parks, where participants can come up close
and personal with some of the most exciting flora and fauna found in
Singapore. |
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Said Miss Karthigesu Thangamma, Director
of Public Education at NHB and the Festival Director, ¡°Including
aspects of our natural heritage was important as places also form
part of one¡¯s identity and they also contribute to a people¡¯s shared
history, heritage and memories. We have ignored the importance of
our natural heritage for a long time and we are very pleased to have
the National Parks Board partner us this year on this exciting
collaboration.¡± |
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Another new feature is the launch of a
pilot community trails project in collaboration with Central
Singapore Community Development Council. It will be launched as part
of the heritage hunt, Fun on Foot, Heartlands Singapore! and this
will be the first time that the series is visiting the heartlands. |
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A third new feature in the festival this
year is a forum on Identity that aims to engage people to discuss
how they view themselves through the various aspects of identity. |
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And finally, the festival has also
engaged the various ASEAN communities based in Singapore to showcase
their ethnic performing arts. This will also highlight the identity
that Singapore has as part of the ASEAN family. |
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Miss Karthigesu summed it up by saying,
¡°Singapore HeritageFest 2006 will be thought-provoking; it will ask
questions about what defines you which you may never have thought
of. At the same time, it is a celebration of our multi-cultural
heritage, its diversity and commonalities and it will take you to
visit places and people you never knew existed!¡± |
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¡°There is something for everyone, even
the youth who are coming together to put up a drama production for
their peers. Instead of history and nostalgia, our visitors will
encounter heritage as something that is living and constantly
evolving, something that is very dynamic¡± she added. |
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