Mid-Autumn Festival Event

At HealthServe’s Mid-Autumn celebration on Sep 27, close to 500 Chinese migrant workers and volunteers celebrated the festival with much tradition and fanfare. For the first time, the group of volunteers comprised of some 20 students from China – they had joined in to celebrate the festival and serve their fellow countrymen at the same time. There were lantern riddles and traditional Mid-Autumn Festival songs blasting throughout the night. Our staff member, Feng Guang even hammed up the evening with a cross-talk item that he scripted himself and co-performed with a Chinese migrant worker, Li Xiang Dong.


Under the guidance of Dramabox directors, Kok Heng Leun and Rei Poh, a small group of workers also staged a short skit with Heng's drama students from Singapore Polytechnic. The students had spent about a month collaborating with the workers on the script. Calligrapher Yu Chun Qiang from Shandong also had a little corner exhibiting some of his works. For those of us whose Mid-Autumn Festival has always been about mooncakes and more mooncakes, the celebration gave us a glimpse of the richness of Chinese culture and music. ~Jackie Tan~