Grooving to the upbeat fusion music of k-pop, popular song and drum beat, 43 dancers from the Soka Youth Dance Crew performed in the finale segment of Chingay 2018 held over two nights on February 23 and 24. The dazzling street procession started its parade route from the F1 Pit Building and ended at the Marina Bay Floating Platform.
In the spirit to share the joy of spring with the community and to bring the Chinese New Year cheer to the less privileged, five Arts and Culture groups from SSA came together on the evening of February 23 to put up a mini-concert for the patients and visitors at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH).
On February 17, the second day of the Lunar New Year, SGS’s Sunflower Dance Ensemble (SDE) performed at the Istana Open House in the presence of Singapore President Halimah Yacob, her husband Mohamed Abdullah Alhabshee and members of the public.
It was a special evening for some of the patients in Singapore General Hospital (SGH) on November 24. Volunteers clad in yellow shirt entered their rooms sharing with them that they could look forward to a feast of cultural performances by SSA Arts and Culture Groups at the SGH Culture Night. These volunteers belong to the Soka Volunteer Group (SVG) and the event was a community engagement activity brought about by SSA in partnership with SGH.
After the Lotus Sutra Exhibition (LSE) was held at the Arts house from October 1st to 25th, it continued to be shared with community from November 1st to 18th at the Singapore Soka Association Headquarters, where 3 levels of the building were transformed into the exhibition ground.
After 11 months of intensive preparation involving some 4,000 volunteers, the Lotus Sutra – A Message of Peace and Harmonious Coexistence Exhibition was officially opened on 1 October, 2017, at The Arts House.
560 members and friends from the four divisions represented SSA at National Day Parade (NDP) 2017.
On July 13, Chief of Defence Force, Lieutenant-General (LG) Perry Lim Cheng Yeow, presented a certificate of commendation and a special edition crystal on behalf of Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) to SGI President Ikeda at SSA Headquarters, in recognition and appreciation of President Ikeda’s wise leadership which has set the direction for SSA members and inspired them to contribute to society as good citizens. SSA General Director Tay Eng Kiat received the certificate and crystal on President Ikeda’s behalf.
SSA Chingay 2017 item ‘Singapore City of Dreams” received two awards at the Chingay Awards Presentation Ceremony 2017 and Appreciation Night that was held on March 14 at Wavehouse Sentosa. Guest-of-honour for the evening was Ms Grace Fu, Minister for Culture, Community and Youth & Leader of the House.
When the upbeat music of the remixed song Cartoon Heroes by Aqua came in, the audience saw a contingent of 350 representatives from the SSA Future Division marched in in one of the brightest costumes of Chingay Parade 2017.
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