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The Voice of Concordian 2021
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oncordian International School’s PY section successfully organized The Voice of Concordian Chinese Singing Contest Season 5 to celebrate the 2021 Chinese New Year and Lantern Festival. Every year the theme of the Voice is carefully chosen to be culturally representative and of significant meaning. This year we chose “Crane and Pine Trees” 松鹤延年。In ancient China, crane, the elegant and spiritual bird, held a dream of being immortal from the royalties and scholars. Over many years cranes and pine trees became the symbols of health and represent long life. We chose this theme to wish the entire Concordian community the best health in the year 2021! Our students this year created the beautiful wave decorations piece by piece. We hope the waves will inspire our students and all of us to never get discouraged and always rise again when facing challenges.
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After auditions, sixteen performances were selected to compete in the Voice Finale on the 25th of February 2021. Their talented voices, genuine emotions, singing techniques and individual styles, in conjunction with stage presence, won the hearts of our judges and the whole audience. The level of the contestants was probably the highest of all the seasons so far. Again, our contestants were competing with each other but most importantly, they were learning from each other and pushing each other to rise higher!
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We would like to express our appreciation to our judges: Ms. Megan, Ms. Sally, student judge Palmy (Grade 11), and last but not least, our guest judge Dr. Guo Xiaohui. Dr. Guo is the Vice President of Chinese Teachers Thailand Association. He has been actively involved in many cultural events in Thai-Chinese schools and local schools. We were very lucky and thankful to have him on our judge panel this year. We also would like to thank our Head of School, Mr. Laurent, for ensuring the live-streaming was successful. This was the first time our school did a live-stream show. Due to Covid-19 safety regulations, our students and teachers could not join us in the Grand Theater for the Finale. Thanks to the live streaming system, our students and teachers were able to watch the show live in the classrooms and cheer for their friends and classmates! Congratulations to the following students who won the Best Voice Awards: G1S Prim, G2C Tun Tun, G2I Mona, G2I Nita, G2D Times, G2S A-chi, G2I Terter, G4S Ken L, G4S Tatar, G4D Jasmin, G5S Jane, G5S Keaw and G5S Proud. Congratulations to the following students who won the Good Voice Awards: G1S Proud, G1D Songyun, G1D Chopin, G1I Keen, G1I Finn, G2C Mira, G2C Prang, G2I Rose, G2D Lilo, G2C Alicia, G3D CJ, G3D Grace, G3D Kairi, G4D Prim and G4D Ken J.
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I proudly present the team behind the scenes: our wonderful PY Chinese department! All the Chinese teachers, teacher assistants and support teachers spent long days over many weeks to ensure the success of the event. They did everything from creating stage decorations to monitoring the sound & lighting system, to screen designing! This event would not happen without their dedication. Also thanks to Khun Fang who created all the graphic designs and coordinated the event alongside me; Khun Peanut for coordinating the facility; Khun Game on the IT team, and Khun Ying on the maintenance team. On behalf of our Chinese department, I would like to thank the school for always giving us the ultimate support and putting the faith in our Chinese program. We look forward to the Voice of Concordian Chinese Singing Contest Season 6 next year! Ms. Ariel (Yu) Wang, PYP Vice Principal of Learning & Teaching/Head of Chinese
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