Annex B – Heritage Walk: An Enchanting Evening

Annex C – All Things Bright and Beautiful: Prints By Young Singaporeans

Annex D – Paint Singapore

Annex E – Cakes in Kind

Annex F – Screen Singapore: A Festival of Singapore Films

Time: 7.30pm – 8.30pm

Venue: Paragon Shopping Centre

GOH: Dr Lee Boon Yang, Minister, Information, Communications and the Arts

      Time: 10am - 12.30pm

      Venue: Field at Boon Lay Way (opposite Boon Lay MRT Station)

      GOH: Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Minister, Education

      Time: 7pm – 9pm

      Venue: Alliance Francaise

            Time: 3pm – 5pm

            Venue: Mandarin Court D, Meritus Mandarin Hotel

GOH: TBC

            Time: 4pm

            Venue: TBC

            GOH: Mr Heng Chee How, Mayor, Central CDC

Singapore Express

Singapore Express, a project organised by Designers Association of Singapore (DAS) in partnership with MICA, is one of a series of projects to encourage greater participation in celebrating Singapore’s 40^th year of independence and promote greater expression of children’s artistic energies.

Singapore Express invited Primary 5 children from 42 participating schools island-wide to create fresh and innovative designs to decorate various modes of transport (buses, taxi cabs, a train) as well as bus-stops based on the theme ‘Happy Birthday Singapore!’. Around 12,000 children received design activity kits specially designed by top DAS designers. The kits, each comprising a CD-ROM, were designed to provide the children with a basic tutorial on design, and guidelines on how to design decorations for the modes of transport and bus-stops.

Unlike traditional National Day buntings and banners, the project's designs will be 'mobile' and will travel across Singapore on the vehicles they adorn. The project hopes to raise design awareness and encourage creativity amongst school children, as well as profile and promote the designs of young Singaporeans.

The participating schools worked on this project over six weeks. Seven winning designs were selected in June by a panel comprising DAS designers and the project’s sponsors.

Winning entrants have been notified through their respective schools, and are working closely with designers to translate their designs into actual decorations for the different modes of transport. Decorated vehicles will be unveiled at Boon Lay Way (opposite Boon Lay MRT Station) on 31 July (Sun) at 10am by Mr Tharman Shanmugratnam, Minister for Education, and will ply routes island-wide for three months.

MICA would like to record its appreciation to the following for their generous support:

3M Singapore Pte Ltd

BusAds Pte Ltd

Comfort Delgro Corporation Ltd

Designers Association Singapore

DesignSingapore Council

JCDecaux Singapore Pte Ltd

Microsoft Singapore Pte Ltd

Singapore Kindness Movement

SMRT Corporation Ltd

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1 JULY 2005

Annex B

Heritage Walk: An Enchanting Evening

Organised by the Heritage Walk Steering Committee, and managed by PICO Art International Pte Ltd, “Heritage Walk” will comprise a series of specially marked trails in the civic district that will engage participants in exploring Singapore’s historical landmarks and heritage. The event is organised with the aim of increasing Singaporeans’ awareness and appreciation of Singapore’s history in a fun, informative, and interesting way.

Kickstarting the Walk on Saturday, Aug 13 2005, will be a special event - “Heritage Walk: An Enchanting Evening”. The event will be an evening walk cum scavenger hunt for 2000 registered participants who will view exhibitions, participate in games and quizzes, and visit museums in the Civic District along the way. Participants will also experience vanishing foodstuffs and traditional games from yesteryear. The Walk will culminate in a carnival at the River Promenade (next to UOB Plaza), with outdoor film screenings and performances featuring our local cultural diversity.

To register for “Heritage Walk: An Enchanting Evening” and for more information regarding this event, go to www.heritagewalk.com.sg.

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Annex C

All Things Bright and Beautiful: Prints by Young Singaporeans

“All Things Bright and Beautiful: Prints by Young Singaporeans” is a collection of handmade prints and special edition portfolios that were produced by a group of 50 school children aged 8 to 9 years old. The project, organised by the Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI) and supported by MICA, was aimed at giving young Singaporeans the opportunity to contribute to the National Day celebrations in a creative way. An exhibition of the prints will be held at Paragon Shopping Centre from July 29 to Aug 10. Dr Lee Boon Yang, Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, will officiate the opening of the exhibition.

The school children were selected from primary schools recommended by the National Arts Council for their interest in art. Of the 50 participating children, 10 were chosen for the production of the special edition portfolio. All the prints were produced using the glue gun collograph printing technique.

To contribute to the needs of the less fortunate, and to forge a greater sense of national belonging, 60 prints and 100 portfolios will be put up for sale, with proceeds going to children’s charities supported by Community Chest. The charities are AWWA Special School, Katong School, Canossian School, MINDS Guillemard Gardens School, Rainbow Centre Balestier Special School and Care Corner Family Service Centre (Queenstown). Each individual print will be sold for $200, and each portfolio will be priced at $3000. The project aims to raise $300,000 to be equally distributed amongst the charities.

To view pictures of the prints, visit www.happybirthday.org.sg. Members of the public interested in purchasing the prints are encouraged to do so through the contact information listed on the website.

MICA would like to record its appreciation of Paragon shopping centre for their kind sponsorship of the exhibition space, and to Q Framing for their kind sponsorship of the mat boards used in the portfolios.

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Annex D

Paint Singapore

Paint Singapore is a mural painting project organised by Aljunied Town Council and North East CDC, and proudly supported by MICA. This community involvement project involves school students working together with residents from the Aljunied district to paint 9 large murals on large wooden panels measuring 16 by 8 feet. The murals will be displayed in public areas in the Aljunied-Hougang neighbourhood for a year as part of this year’s National Day celebrations.

Aimed at encouraging greater involvement of Singaporeans in celebrating the nation’s 40th anniversary, the murals give schools and residents the opportunity to express their individuality, artistic creativity and heritage. Paint Singapore also seeks to foster artistic vibrancy in our heartland while bringing different members of the community together.

The schools involved in this project are: Damai Secondary School, Bedok North Secondary School, Bowen Secondary School, Yuying Secondary School, Xinmin Secondary School and ITE Bedok. These schools conceptualised the designs according to themes celebrating life in Singapore. Some of the themes include Faces of Singapore, Heritage Link and Gracious City.

The murals will be completed at a painting event held on 3 July 2005 (Sunday) at Kovan Hub. During the day-long community event, close to 200 students will paint the murals together with over 400 residents.

The murals will be officially unveiled on 9 July (Saturday) by Mr Yatiman Yusof, Senior Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts. Held at Kovan Hub from 10am – 12 noon, the unveiling of the murals will be a morning filled with festive performances.

MICA would like to record its appreciation to Jotun Paints, for generously sponsoring paint, and to PUB.

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1 JULY 2005

Annex E

Cakes in Kind

Cakes in Kind is all about cakes, charity and celebration! Organised by the Singapore Kindness Movement and the Singapore Hotel Association, and proudly supported by MICA, Cakes in Kind is a tea party to celebrate the nation’s 40th birthday with 200 disadvantaged children and their care-givers.

To promote a sense of national pride and foster a more giving and gracious society, forty hotels and organisations have each been invited to contribute a birthday cake and a donation of any sum to six children’s charities supported by Community Chest. These charities are AWWA Special School, Katong School, Canossian School, MINDS Guillemard Gardens School, Rainbow Centre Balestier Special School and Care Corner Family Service Centre (Queenstown).

All forty cakes will be specially decorated with Singapore’s national symbols. The highlight of the afternoon will be the lighting up of all the cakes, with guests singing a birthday song and making birthday wishes for Singapore. To add to the festivities, there will be a performance by the Merlion children’s band playing the uniquely Singaporean Merlion wind instrument!

MICA and the organisers would like to record their appreciation for Meritus Mandarin Singapore’s support in sponsoring the venue and light reception for this event.  

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Annex F

Started with the aim of getting Singaporean youth involved in this year’s 40^th National Day celebrations, Decorate Singapore is a banner and bunting design competition open to all junior college, polytechnic, art institution and university students in Singapore.

Guided by the theme ‘Celebrate Singapore’,  students were encouraged to boldly incorporate Singapore’s national symbols, such as the flag, the lion head or the national orchid in their designs. The project has provided an excellent opportunity for students to express their national identity and contribute their talents to the National Day celebrations.

To give the winners a platform to showcase their creative works, the winning designs will be used to produce banners and buntings for display in MICA Building. With the distribution of these designs to various grassroots organisations for their use, Singaporeans can also expect to see these new buntings at various public buildings island-wide.

The following winning designs were selected by the Designer Association of Singapore:

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