Reasons Why FUYO Inter-School is Rejected of Sponsorship from Youth Changemakers

Seeking sponsorship is a very normal thing for events, especially if its about 3k incurred from my own pocket :) so National Youth Council's motto of "reaching out to the youths, getting them to stay in sch" quote NYC's spokesperson from 11th March 2008 938live.sg news

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Popular Culture Training Centre to be set up


Come 2011, a new hub will be launched to specifically train Singapore youths in skills such as breakdancing and rapping.

This Popular Culture Training Centre will be built at a cost of about 4 million dollars.

Many Singaporean youths, it seems, now aspire to be just like the "cool" characters they see on their tv screens - the very same ones who grace the glossy pages of entertainment magazines.

This future hub will provide the proper training and guidance for them.

Annie Pek, who's the founder of the Singapore Street Festival, is involved in this project.

She says, the centre will also cater to youths who are less academically inclined.

"Why wait for them to be delinquents, but to get them engaged before all these happen. Singapore has so many art schools. We want to create something that's for the pop culture. (So where will this new school be?) At the moment, we are communicating with *scape, to see how we can do our setup there."

The new *scape Youth Hub beside Orchard Cineleisure will be ready in early 2010.

Ms Pek says, she currently trying to raise funds to set up the pop culture school.

And some local MPs, like Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports, Teo Ser Luck have voiced their interest in contributing to the project.

"We will be raising funds through shows. We will create our own shows. Mr Teo agreed that he will do something for it. We are trying to approach Indranee Rajah who will sing for us and Penny Low said that she will do something as well. We will speak to these MPs and see how they could do something for the youth channel here."

More details about the training centre will be revealed later this year.

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Where the hip can hone talents
By Jinny Koh, TODAY | Posted: 12 March 2008 1034 hrs

SINGAPORE - Aspiring young dancers, rappers and singers can look forward to a new training hub in popular culture, come 2011.

Initiated by the non-profit organisation Singapore Street Festival, the centre will be a platform for youths seeking an avenue to hone their skills in areas such as breakdancing and hip hop.

"Singapore has so many arts schools so we want to create something for the popular culture. Also, some of the performers from the festival are not so academically inclined so we want to facilitate these people too," said Ms Annie Pek, the organisation's founder, at the launch of registration for this year's Singapore Street Festival. It will be held from May 24 to June 8.

Currently, youths looking to be trained are referred to various trainers or community centres. But such private coaching is expensive and Ms Pek hopes that the cost can be reduced with this new centre, which will be heavily subsidised by the organisation.

"It's cheaper for them to go to the school rather than to a private trainer, or to LaSalle College of the Arts or the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts," she said.

Mentors at the centre will include singer Robert Fernando and half of the centre will be set aside for members or students to use, at a subsidised price or even for free. The other half will be used for commercial purposes.

Initial set-up costs could amount to $1.5 million and facilitating costs for the studios and equipment could hit $4 million, said Ms Pek. The money needed will be raised through gala shows.

Several Members of Parliament, such as Ms Indranee Rajah and Ms Penny Low, and Mr Teo Ser Luck, Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports, will be performing as part of the fund-raising efforts, said Ms Pek.

The organisers are talking to *Scape about a possible location for the training centre.

As for this year's street festival, Ms Pek said two competitions will be part of the festivities for the first time — a yoyo competition where the winner will represent Singapore in the Asia Pacific Yoyo competition next year, and a virtual online game "Power Adventure" competition.

Singer Liyana Abdul Jabbar, who has been performing at the festival since its inaugural year in 2002, feels it has provided her with many opportunities — through contacts provided by the Singapore Street Festival — to perform in various events, such as the National Day Parade.

"And with this new training centre, it will be even better for the youths because the main problem for many young performers is about getting started. They don't know who and where to go," said the 20-year-old polytechnic graduate, who has decided to go into singing full-time. - TODAY/fa



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Good job there. If your purpose of the Council is to prevent youths from becoming 'deliquents', why is FUYO Inter-School project rejected for the following reasons:

1st. Community angle is Shallow.
2nd. Doesn't satisfy the objective of getting youths to remain in school academically.
3rd. Poor Outreach.

"we would like to suggest that maybe you can tweak your proposal to meet our objectives." quote the panelist that called me and explained to me.

Click HERE for more about their objectives and website.

Yes, the word "shallow" was a direct quote from him. Not something I made up by myself.

And no I will not adhere to your sick objectives, if mine's exactly what I should be doing for the scene.

I did not scream at you for your ridiculous 'reasons for rejection', because after all, you own that 3k you wanted to fund me, and you can give whatever reasons you choose to NoT fund me.

But these reasons are indeed hilarous, especially if your spokesperson Annie Pek claims she's doing all this for the sake of youths.

Amuse us no more and just do yourselves a favour, take that fake front-line coverup somewhere else, and give a chance to those who REALLY wanna help the scene.

For those who know me well enough, recently I have run into alot of financial difficulty. But this event is still gonna happen, whether money comes from their pocket, or from my own.

For the FUTURE of Singapore's Bboying Scene.