Let's Celebrate Youth This Weekend At Orchard Road!

Hi Huneybees, 

The 10th annual SHINE Festival is here again and Huney'Z World is privileged to be supporting them all these years and back this year to introduce you to some of the featured acts. We were at their media conference yesterday and here's why you should be down to celebrate Youths this weekend too! =)

The people behind SHINE 2015 - Samuel and Edward

Themed “Build Your World” this year, it will be a three-days festival held along Orchard Road, from 10 till 12 July. This serves to encourage youth to explore and pursue individual interests as well as encourage youth through collaborations and global outreach. 

An exciting line-up of artistes from the local music, dance, sports, athletics, arts and pop culture scenes awaits, with appearances from David Choi, Arden Cho (YES! The new female Korean-American actress introduced in MTV's Teen Wolf to play the Kitsune, Kira Yukimura), Charlie Lim, JRODTwins and many more. 

Just performed a snippet of Love Me Like You Do with the @jrodtwins at the Shine Festival Press Con and I'm getting chills from the harmonies already!! Drop by the Shine Festival Ngee Ann stage tonight at 8pm to catch us live!!
Posted by Tay Kexin on Friday, 10 July 2015

Sneak preview of  Freestyle Football Showcase by Séan Garnier

Here are some of the featured acts I would recommend that you catch during this festival:

• Freestyle Football Showcase by Séan Garnier
• Performance by JRODTwins and Tay Kexin
• Parkour and Freerunning Showcase by Ryan Doyle

Ryan Doyle demonstrated the art of Parkour and Freerunning

Séan Garnier  is a French freestyle footballer. His career as an  association football player was cut short due to injuries. Back in 2006, when he studied to become a football instructor, he started a program of urban freestyle art gaining great fame with his own style and unique skills. Throughout his freestyle footballer career, he has garnered several titles:

• Double World Freestyle Champion
• 3X French Champion
• 1vx1 World Vice Champion
• REd Bull & XDubai Athlete
• Founder of S3 Society

Here's the schedule for the SHINE Festival...

For more details, kindly refer to: www.shine.nyc.sg. 

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[Updated] RTL CBS Is Taking Entertainment To The Extreme

Hi Huneybees,

OMG! Did someone died?!

Arriving at a crime scene was definitely something no one would want to go through, especially when you are being body searched and go through a lie test!

But guess everything's fine as long as you have cutie George Young going to jail with you eh? *winkz*

Why all these dramas? 

Well, coz we were there to see the RTL CBS Extreme HD channel launch.

RTL CBS Extreme HD is a general entertainment channel for the boys. It's all about the adrenaline rush with its mix of action series, extreme sports, world famous illusionists, extreme factual programming and action reality programs.

You can look forward to watching Asia Premiere and Exclusive programs like - 

• Extreme Sports: Cliptomaniacs, Art of Motion (Parkour across the globe), Red Bull Air Race World Championship
• Action Series: Hawaii Five-O, NCIS: Los Angeles, 
• Illusionists: Dynamo Magical Impossible, Troy, Cosentino, Criss Angel BELIEVE
• Extreme Factual: Fear Factor, What The Fact...?!

At the launch, I conquered my fear and kinda fulfilled my dream to take up the challenges on Fear Factor. 

First up, I had little creepy crawlies dipped in chocolate fondue and fed right into my mouth. Thinking it was maggots (the light was so dim), it was filled with proteins right? But only to feel nauseous when I was told it was cockroach babies. WTF!!!

Look at Stephanie Carrington's reaction after eating it, you will know how I felt...

Second, we all cheers to a shot of "Brain Juice". It looked yicky yucky but, it tasted great, like a White Russian with a Cranberry touch!

Then, there was the put your hands in a box full of maggots to get a coin, so that you can take a picture with either of these snakes. It's like so creepy in every level! I couldn't bring myself to have the snake around me, so glad I had Val...

After that, we were treated to an exciting parkour performance and a magical performance by Cosetino, sent chills down our spine as he did a death defying performace of escaping from the head-crushing knives...

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Of course, I also got a pic with George Young and the ever so funny Irene Ang before I left...

RTL CBS Extreme HD is broadcasted in English with Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Thai subtitles.

It is available in Malaysia - HyppTV Channel 617 and Singapore - Singtel mio TV Channel 335. For Thailand and Philippines, the channel would be launched soon.

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What's Installed For SHINE Youth Festival 2013

Hi Huneybees,

The annual Shine Youth Festival is back and bigger, this 2013 encourages youth to act on their passion and champion causes for the community. Performances of Parkour performed on an obstacle course, with a creative (and sometimes playful) reinterpretation or subversion of urban space were put up during the media conference. Along with music performances by the Cajon Society which was reminiscent of Samba music through the drum beats. The festival uses art and music of bridge gaps across communities and allows youth to effect a long lasting impact in the societies they live in. Helping to nurture the arts and cultural expression in  our city.

  

The theme #Freeyouryou which incidentally sounds like free your youth is the campaigns hashtag, along with a "Pledge to shine" initiative which encourages youth to go out there and commit to a social cause or personal development. Make a pledge today at www.facebook.com/shineYouth. 

Since 2005, the National Youth Council has been lighting up the Youth month of July with the Shine youth festival! a youth for youth initiative led by a committee of youth sector leaders and a team of youth volunteers.

The festival will kick off on 29th June at *SCAPE featuring performances from SMU, Singapore Street Festival, Dreamcatches and more.

 

PLEDGE TO SHINEPledge to Shine is a social, youth-driven initiative that encourages youth to express their commitment to action and showcase their talent.

PITCH TO SHINEPitch to shine is all about promoting a worth cause through the PITCH TO SHINE funding which identifies and funds youth projects that promote worthy causes and make a difference in the community.

Its main objectives are:

• Seed projects with strong alignment with the Festival’s position and objectives
• Identify projects/new partners with potential to become signature events/marquee or strategic partners for future SHINE festivals
• Identify suitable projects/events that are scalable to be featured as party of shine festival launch or closing highlight.
• Recipients of the PITCH TO SHINE award includes The Cajon Society who will be organizing workshops in their community to teach people their style of music and percussion.

Quotable quotes:

“I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.”
– Jane Addams

“Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love – for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment is it perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you from misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labours and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.”
― Max Ehrmann, Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life

(This article is contributed by Alethea. Photo Credits: Alethea)

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Alethea is a Lifestyle Blogger at www.altheajayne.com and Director of www.partyparlorsg.com by day, avid whisky and spirits connoisseur by night. 

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