4th Ubuntu
Hello everyone! My name is Grace from Year 10S and I am the artistic director of a small environmental group called Team Play with Dream. I’m really excited to share our 4th Global Warming Project, The 3rd UBUNTU International Online Exhibition/Concert with our community today.
Our Team Play with Dream consists of international students like everyone in our school and we work while aiming on what we can really do to help our earth as students, as one young person living in our new generations. And since 2016, our team members have been questioning ourselves in our daily lives of how we can make our home, our planet a better place to live while being able to fully understand our beautiful surroundings in this harmonious world in the most peaceful way. And we realized that there are so many ways to take action in this but we recognized that we loved music and art so much and we started to believe that these were the most beautiful and peaceful things in the world that can bring our humanity together without any arguments.
Global Warming Projects and Grand Art Tours
To take action and make a small change to our wonderful KIS and International Community, we have not only been hosting both online and offline UBUNTU Exhibition/Concert since 1st November of 2019 while collaborating with our school for the last 3 years, we first started our global warming project by doing many street performances while traveling around USA, Canada and Europe, including UK, France, Netherlands, Germany and Switzerlands from 5 years ago. And we have been doing our best ever since then to bring more people together from all around the world by using online platforms such as youtube, facebook and instagram. And even though the pandemic had come to us, our team didn’t stop and we searched for ways to spread awareness of this important climate crisis of the 21st century by hosting online exhibitions in our instagram account.
UBUNTU INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION/CONCERT
These exhibitions have gathered more than 400 friends and artists from 7 different countries and have collaborated with 6 schools based in KK and China and were also able to share these ideas that we can do to help our planet with two other environmental organizations based in Korea and in KK.
And, our 4th season of UBUNTU is back! Anyone and everyone can participate and there’s no age limit in this event. Every student, parent and teacher at KIS is more than welcome to participate and help us in making each of us more educated and knowledgeable as one of earth woman and earthman of our splendid planet. We do receive a joining/donation fee of RM100 which will be fully donated but you are also welcome to just do talent donations! You can join us by doing the following:
- Art: Painting / Sewing / Baking
- Music: Playing Instruments / Singing / Composing
- Dancing / Choreographing / Acting
- Poetry / Short Stories / Speeches
- Donation
As you know, there was heavy rain at Kota Kinabalu not so long ago, and this had damaged so many families and households by flood. And we, Team Play with Dream along with many friends who are connected with us, are trying to make our small yet our best effort this year again to turn this period into hope and love, when it can be remembered as pain and curse for someone.
Despite our dark and blue situation of COVID-19 pandemic where we can not even see what our future will hold, our team and I were able to focus our values on things that I can do and I must do rather than “giving up” and this was because I was with our friends who were practicing their love for our humanity and for our mother nature every single day. And this has allowed all of us to be here today and for me to write this article.
This year’s donation will be donated in full to the aforementioned flood victims in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia and to the Eco Committee of Kinabalu International School.
If you cannot participate in this year’s exhibition, don’t be too sad! We will always be back on 1st November every year so you can just relax and enjoy our online event by checking our instagram account (@play.withdream) on 1st November where there are going to be numerous videos and pictures of our wonderful UBUNTU community. There are also going to be a few professional participants from Korea and from Malaysia who will make your ears and eyes open and I’m sure there are going to be plenty of drawings and performances from many of your friends at our school.
If you would like to participate in UBUNTU 2021, have any questions or would like to donate, then please send me an email at S002613@kis.edu.my / playwithdream2016@gmail.com by today!
If you would like to donate, please kindly send the fee by the following bank account with your full name and amount of the fund written. Please take a picture of the receipt and send it to us by our email (play.withdream@gmail.com). We appreciate your warm heart.
Bank Account:
OCBC Bank 7652-4093-58
Lee Song Hyun
Our team wishes every student and our community a wonderful and a safe weekend!
Artistic Director of Team Play with Dream
Grace Lee
