the four right chords can make me cry

USP musical!!! must come and support k! every cent of your ticket price goes to the Patient Care Centre (where I volunteer with the aids patients) directly because we have managed to get sponsors to cover the costs. But we need to sell tickets to prove that it was worth sponsoring, so do come enjoy the musical and at the same time donate to a good cause =)

Date: 13-14 May 2004
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: ACS (Barker) Drama Theatre
Ticketing: $18 per pax ($15 each for 4 pax or more)
Contact: me

Synopsis of Musical

The musical that is scheduled to be staged is an adaptation of the stageplay, "The Rise and Fall of Little Voice".
LITTLE VOICE is a magical musical comedy about the power and perils of expression. The whole story revolves around an aging but on-the-prowl widow who never shuts up and her reticent, reclusive daughter who barely speaks at all.
Dubbed “Little Voice” or “LV” by her uncomprehending mother, this unusual young woman is hiding an incredible secret gift. Little Voice may not speak, but she does sing, uncannily capturing the legendary inflections and personas of many a great songstress.
The play inspires hope in both young and old by showing that even the darkest clouds will have its silver lining and the plain and uninteresting in their own ways can razzle and dazzle under the right circumstances.
On a higher level, it encourages the acceptance of people for who they are by acknowledging that we all have our own strengths and weaknesses and only through mutual complementing can we advance together as an integrated entity.
Songs in the musical are original compositions of our own students.

Who we are

We are working under the banner of the University Scholars Club of the National University of Singapore. We are a faculty club that is made up of students under the University Scholars Programme. The University Scholars Programme is the premier education programme in NUS which aims to give students the unique university experience, aiming to expand the breadth as well as extend the depth of learning while inculcating students that have a global consciousness. Subjects taught to the students supplement the core modules that other NUS students undergo and try to introduce modules that are not taught in other faculties like Cyber Arts and Sonic Arts.
The University Scholars Club is into its 4th year of existence and of the 4 years, we have had 2 theatrical productions, with the current one being the third venture in the field of performance arts. This is also the first time we have incorporated an element of charity in the preparations so as to make our work more meaningful as well as to attract more people to join us in our cause.

Beneficiary

Patient Care Centre (PCC) of the Communicable Disease Centre, TTSH
PCC is a support centre for patients who have contracted the HIV virus and those who have full-blown Aids. Through its various programs and initiatives, it provides emotional and financial support to needy persons with HIV and Aids, rehabilitates and reintegrates these individuals into the larger community, and also combats the stigmatization of and discrimination towards these individuals. More detailed information on PCC's programs can be found in the attached document.

Objectives

1. To raise awareness of the discrimination towards AIDS/HIV patients and to correct misconceptions that have been around for years.
2. To raise funds for the HIV/AIDS patients at the Patient Care Centre.
3. To forge friendships and common experiences among students in the University Scholars Club.

Theme of Project

The theme of this project is No Positives, No Negatives, Just Equals! and the meaning behind it is as follows:
No Positives, No Negatives, Just Equals! works on a tri-tiered approach that brings together students, HIV patients and our community to achieve three main objectives.
Firstly, through various fund-raising events, the project will help raise funds for the Patient Care Centre, funds that will assist the PCC in handling its operational costs and ultimately benefit HIV patients undergoing various medical treatment programmes with the PCC.
Secondly, the project, involving students from the University Scholars Programme as well as other interested parties will allow our youths to undertake a multidisciplinary and holistic approach towards understanding, engaging with and contributing to a common social cause. Ultimately, what ‘social responsibility’ means to those involved would not merely be defined but realized.
Finally, through efforts to encourage acceptance in a post-awareness age of HIV and Aids in Singapore, the project wishes to help overcome the social stigma placed on HIV patients by the larger community. In this light, HIV is no longer a personal struggle faced solely by HIV patients themselves but is more crucially a social debilitation that our whole community faces. While medicine may yet cure HIV, acknowledgement, acceptance and proactive measures by our community as a whole can provide a social solution to the accelerating spread of HIV in Singapore.

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