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Reflections Arts Festival 2023: Bringing performances galore to the community

Reflections Arts Festival 2023 featured image. Students crowding around South Agora stage for festival launch

The audience gathered for the opening ceremony performances to mark the official start of the Reflections Arts Festival 2023. (PHOTO: Dafinah Mazlan)

Performed live on school grounds, students, staff and members of the community revelled in month-long arts showcases, workshops and exhibitions. For those that missed out on the fun, here's a recap on the festival's highlights!

BY DAFINAH MAZLAN & LAILA MISHAZIRA

08 DEC 2023

Reflections Arts Festival 2023 featured image. Students crowding around South Agora stage for festival launch

The audience gathered for the opening ceremony performances to mark the official start of the Reflections Arts Festival 2023. (PHOTO: Dafinah Mazlan)

Symphonic rhapsody: The RP Wind Symphony Interest Group kick-started the Reflections Arts Festival’s (RAF) Buskers Series with a boastful performance on Oct 18. Led by year 1 Diploma in Mass Communication student Carpors Buntan, the ensemble raised audiences’ spirits with a lively rendition of Despacito by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee. (PHOTO: Dafinah Mazlan)
Winding up for later: On top of the busked tunes, RP Wind Symphony IG also gave us a little taste and a sneak peak before the official festival launch with their performance. (PHOTO: Dafinah Mazlan)
Powering through the performance: The crowd gathered around the South Agora after class on Oct 18 to watch RAF’s festival launch and Mixtape Vol. 5. They were stunned by RP’s Dikir Barat IG, whose members wore vibrant coloured outfits and performed with traditional instruments mixed with their harmonious voices. (PHOTO: @photorepublicig)
Wide shot of South Agora during the Reflections Arts Festival's launch and Mixtape Vo. 5. Both audience members and performers are shown.
Just the beginning: With performances from RP’s wide range of performing arts IGs, this marks the start of the upcoming few weeks filled with exciting events and captivating talents. (PHOTO: Dafinah Mazlan)
Dance the night away: Enthusiastic students, staff and members of the public showed up to watch the annual Muse dance showcase on Oct 21. Now on its 12th rendition, this year’s lineup consisted of RP’s dance IG’s, and guest performers from National University of Singapore’s Dance Ensemble. (PHOTO: @photorepublicsg)
Relaying messages through movements: The Modern Dance IG surprised audience members with their piece There’s Always Something to Say, which included a portion where the music cuts off and the performers begin dancing to a mismatch of voices. One by one, each of them moved away from their formations in a dramatic and seemingly unsynchronised fashion. (PHOTO: @photorepublicsg)
Unleashing Creativity: With an array of props, attendees of the Ah Boy and the Beanstalk ‘Create your World’ sensory workshop on Oct 28 were given the chance to perform their own sensory act while using their creativity and channelling their senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch. (PHOTO: Laila Mishazira)
The importance of all five senses: The workshop was led by Gloria Tan, the director for the Ah Boy and the Beanstalk performance. She shed light on how sensory plays were made to be more inclusive for children on the spectrum. (PHOTO: Laila Mishazira)
Staff got talent: The theatre was roaring with screams and applause as the RP staff gave it their all during the staff show on Nov 3. The dance performers in particular captivated the audience with their choreography to songs like Flower by Jisoo and Nobody by the Wonder Girls. (PHOTO: @photorepublicig)
Rocking it out: The School of Technology for The Arts (STA) Band – which consisted of staff members Emida Natalaray, Alexander Wong, Andrew Chen, Chua Ki Chye, Lee Hern Tzun and Kevin Mikhail – stunned the crowd with their cover of Hotel California by  Eagles. (PHOTO: Laila Mishazira)
Stories strung up on the wall: Made by the Art.titude IG and beneficiaries from Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore, the Our Stories Community Arts Exhibition provided the artists an opportunity to express themselves in a unique, abstract yet refreshing way. (PHOTO: Dafinah Mazlan)
All-out creativity: Splashed across the canvases is paint of various colours, in different stroke styles. The creative use of pipe cleaners provided a 3D element of texture. (PHOTO: Laila Mishazira)

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