World
Play Day is an international event celebrated by 25 countries across the globe.
Its purpose is to encourage family bonding through play. This year MYMCA hosted
this event for the 5th year at the Kallang Leisure Park.
World Play Day Taskforce
Upon
knowing our role of organizing the performances for World Play Day, we immediately
started contacting various performing arts groups and CCAs from our school and other
Junior Colleges and Polytechnics. However, we met with a quagmire of
difficulties. These ranged from the serious problem of being rejected by every
performing arts CCA in our school, as it was in the heat of the performing arts
season, to the simple difficulty of deciding on a date to meet our event organization.
There came a point in this month of preparation when we feared to believe we
would not even come close to our target of number of performances we had set
ourselves at the start. With only one 3 minute performance for a period of 3
hours, we took this apparent failure into our stride and poured in
even more effort. Such perseverance found us many performances in the end! With
the day drawing close, everyone was really excited and it warmed my heart just
thinking about how far we’ve come.
Till the very last day before the event, the task force was still working hard to tie up loose ends, to ensure the smooth run of the event. On the day itself, things largely worked out as planned, but many impromptu changes had to be made and I was impressed again with our members’ adaptability and efficiency when improvising to unforeseen situations.
Performances on stage
Throughout
the day, we were most delighted to see the audience enjoying the performances
and the event. World Play Day 2012 allowed all of us to leave everything aside
and to wholeheartedly have a good time, even if it was just for one day. Even though
the entire planning was hectic and frenzied, from the turnout of the event, I
believe it really ended a success!
The Finale!
