the eating continues...

after three months of planning, the PAssionArts village came and went. if you didn't get a chance to experience the ongoings of 'Eat Your Art Out!', you can still be a part of the village via the special moments captured by the army of photographers. all the photos (that are not too scandalous!) are either on our facebook page or running on the instagram feed on our blog! if you are a fellow instagrammer, just search for either #kakibukitcac or #artsvillage.

but what a journey and experience it has been to bring this village from concept to execution. nothing is ever perfect and i am probably my own harshest critic: this could have been arranged better, that could have been pushed back. this could have been placed here! 

a picture speaks volumes: colours, sun, sweat, thumbs-up

however, like i told the team running the entire event, you must enjoy your own village and what you are doing. whether it was giving out peanuts to residents for them to eat then prompting them to toss it into our art installation or helping children with their (sometimes messy) cupcake decorations, it has to be an event where the working team has fun memories as well.

'Kopi Kaki Korner' before 'operation'

happy people, happy sandwiches!

i do miss my village. i miss residents walking by, (literally) wondering what was going on thus giving me an opportunity to walk them through the village. i miss the pandan rosette bouquets that residents made and were passing around. (there was a lot of 'i make one for you, okay?') 

i miss little leroy who came to our village around 4.20pm, which was almost our closing time. in conversing with his mum, i realised that they came by to our village specially to take a look. there were no workshops left for him to be a part of, no giveaways for him or no food demonstrations that he could watch except our peanut art installation. 

so i sat him down and taught him how to crack peanuts. it was the first time that little leroy (from horizon primary school... yes, i did ask the usual age and school question) cracked the shells of peanuts. it was also the first time he stepped on peanut shells and heard the shells crackled under his feet. this  encounter made all the late nights, meetings, emails and sweat worth it.

like i wrote in a script recently: a gift from the heart will be a treasure for the generations. 'Eat Your Art Out!' is truly a gift from the hearts of an extensively long list of people but we truly hope that we have created treasures for you and your days ahead.

anyway, before i run off for some kleenex, i would like to encourage you to visit this little application that we have. it's a photo contest that we are running on facebook so do pop by before 19th april 2359 and vote! till our next encounter...

catch the hARTbeat @ kaki bukit!

edwin