Press Release
For immediate release
Singapore- 18th March 08
Champion the Youth Cause – “The Globe is all in Our Hands”
It was a grand and solemn moment as 500 youths took the pledge led by a group of youth leaders from Tanjong Pagar CC Youth Executive Committee (YEC) and Singapore Management University (SMU) at the green concert GaiaMania 2008 on Friday, 14th March. Not the conventional pledge that you expect, but a pledge that commits to the environmental cause to take active ownership of our environment. As encapsulated in the slogan ‘The Globe is all in Our Hands’, these youths strongly believe that they have the power to make a difference by coming together to rally for the environmental cause.
GaiaMania 2008 is an event that aims to raise environmental awareness among youths through the effective medium of the Arts and Music. The concert is entirely initiated by youths, led by youths and put up by youths. It showcases the Singapore Youth Festival (SYF) performances of secondary schools that vary widely such as concert band, guitar ensemble, string ensemble, choir, handbell, angklung, harp ensemble and more.
The pledge card consists of simple everyday reminders to reduce, reuse and recycle at home, at work or out shopping. Its significance is to encourage the youths to engage in environmental conservation in every aspect of their lifestyle. The aim of the organizing committee is to ideally reach out to the masses by first “converting” the youths across Singapore to commit to the environmental cause as part of a holistic effort. These youths can contact the organizing committee or the organizations involved (NEA, SEC etc) to sign up as volunteers for future activities or to donate to their ongoing campaigns.
GaiaMania 2008 has also invited the youths from lower-income families to attend this concert. The organizing committee hopes to drive across the message that environmental conservation is everybody’s responsibility, regardless of age, background and status.
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Press Release
For immediate release
Singapore- 18th March 08
青年：“地球就在我手心”
近500个青年一同见证了一场既盛大又庄严的宣誓仪式。这群青年是由一组来自丹戎巴葛青年执行委员会（Tanjong Pagar CC Youth Executive Committee） 和新加坡管理大学（Singapore Management University） 的青年领袖带领许下这别具意义的‘信约’。这‘信约’并非国家信约，而是这组青年为了环保起义而发起的环保信约。这个活动是环保音乐会GaiaMania 2008的一部分，已于3月14日在职总大礼堂（NTUC Auditorium）举行。就如总结于音乐会的标语‘地球就在我手心’一样，这群青年深信，他们能通过团结的力量来为环保作出强而有力的贡献。
GaiaMania 2008是个通过艺术和音乐媒介来提高青少年环境意识的音乐会。 这项音乐会是完全由青年发起，策划并执行的。组织委员会希望，他们能以身作则，以实际行动带领其他青少年为环保尽一份绵力。音乐会集合了在新加坡青年节（Singapore Youth Festival）获奖的音乐团体参与演出，其中包括了9所学府的铜乐队、舞蹈、话剧、吉他合奏团、安格隆（Angklung）、合唱团、弦乐队、竖琴合奏团和手摇铃等。
在音乐会上，观众也踊跃地参与填写承诺卡。承诺卡上注明了一些非常简易的环保行为，让青少年了解，不论在家中、学校或外出时，都能与环保扯上关系。因此组委会不但希望环保能成为青年们日常生活的一部分，还能通过青年们的影响力，将环保意识传达给更多人。
GaiaMania 2008组织委员会也邀请来自低收入家庭的青少年出席这个音乐会。 组委会希望能借此传达 ‘环境保护是大家的责任，我们应该同心协力，不分年龄、背景、阶级，去维护和保存环境’的信息。
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P.S. I'm just pasting this here, in case it doesn't come out in any papers. Actually an email interview was done with a journalist and we're not sure which paper it might appear in.. And the journalist who came on the event itself, represented 'IN' paper, which only circulates in schools..
So, at least, there might be 2 appearances after all.
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