Event: Arts Village @ Taman Jurong and Taman Jurong's Got Talents 2013
Date: April 2013
Time: 5pm - 9.30pm
Venue: Taman Jurong Community Club
Guest-of-Honour
Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam,
Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister for Finance
Advisor to Jurong GRC Grassroots Organisation
Mrs Tharman Shanmugaratnam
Arts Village @ Taman Jurong is part of the PAssionArts Month Celebrations organised by the People’s Association that has started since last weekend from 30 March and will stretch till 28 April 2013. A total of 47 villages held at various community venues throughout Singapore. All events are open to the public. You can pick up a festival guide at our volunteer registration counter to know which of the villages that would happen over the next few weekends.
Taman Jurong’s Got Talent is our very 1st performing arts competition for our youths in Taman Jurong. The preliminary round was conducted through social media whereby participants created music videos of their performances and hosted them on youtube. Their video performances were then shortlisted through a combination of public voting and our internal committee selection. A total of 21 entries were submitted in the preliminary round and 12 individuals/groups had been shortlisted to perform their talents LIVE on this stage tonight.
Judges for Taman Jurong's Got Talents
1. Sylvester Sim is a Singaporean singer and first runner-up of the talent contest Singapore Idol in 2004. He is widely known as Sly to his fans and used to be part of the popular J-rock band L'zefier.
Sly's first album, Take Flight, was released in April 2005. He is currently the entertainment manager of Club Sonar – responsible for all artistes and production shows, and he also performs at the same Club.
2. Nur Hidayah Bte Abu Bakar, Dean, Faculty of Design, LASALLE College of the Arts
Nur Hidayah manages the demanding and challenging task of leading the pedagogical development and strategic growth of all the design programmes at LASALLE’s Faculty of Design
Under her leadership, the design programmes have achieved great success at regional and international design competitions and showcases including D&AD Student Awards, The Crowbar Awards, Furniture Design Awards, and Graduate Fashion Week in London.
Over the years, her excellent interpersonal and management skills have enabled her to inspire many students. Her vision and foresight has helped nurture these students into leaders that have contributed to the Singapore creative landscape.
3. Mohamed Raffee is a music producer from Singapore. Raffee has been in the music industry for more than twenty years and is currently based in Chennai. Raffee has performed in hundreds of musical shows and live concerts, and has over 2 decades of experience in musical arrangement and composition. He has worked with Oscar winning Composer AR Rahman ( Slumdog Millionaire) from 1995 till 2006 assisting him as a musical arranger and programmer, and as a singer in the Kollywood and Bollywood Movies produced in India. Raffee was also engaged as a Music Director / Composer for the Indian film " Jaggubhai" directed by acclaimed top Film Director KS Ravikumar. Raffee is notably the only Singaporean to have made major inroad into the Indian Movie Industry. Raffee has been a judge at the Vaanavil Singing Competition held at Genting Highlands, , and at the Vasantham Star Idol competition organised by Eagle Vision / Vasantham Central/ Mediacorp Singapore. Raffee is also the instructor of our very own Gift of Music at Taman Jurong!
Arts Village & Talent @ Taman Jurong
I am ready. Bring it on!
Git of Music Percussion Band
Group photo with all the participants
Photos from official photographers
