Today, I had the privilege of watching Hope at work.
A group of children from the Prison Fellowship Care Corner performed a music drama adapted from Prince Bear & Pauper Bear in a closed door performance to families and friends.
This was the culmination of 6 months of training by the Diamonds on the Street (DOTS) team who provided voice training and drama skills to the children for this performance, empowering them with hope in the process.
One of the biggest highlights of their training was the cutting of a CD of their singing Beautiful Sight, the key song in the performance in a professional recording studio. The children were presented with a CD recording each after the curtain closed in what will probably be a one-of-a-kind experience which most of us will not even get to encounter.
Together with other original compositions by Singer-songwriter Crystal Goh and the DOTS team, the CD is now for sale at $15. Proceeds will be ploughed back into programmes for at-risk kids.Diamonds on the Street is a music collective that works with children and at-risk youths from underprivileged communities.
Thank you, Diamonds, for blessing those of us invited today to witness this transforming work which you are doing in the lives of these children.
Watching today’s performance and how Prince Bear & Pauper Bear got to play a part in this performance has made this a truly diamond-studded Christmas present!
Diamonds will have one public performance with at-risk youths at the Arts House Singapore tommorrow evening. Read more about that at the Diamonds on the Street blog and Facebook page.
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Hi Emily, thank you to you and Ben for gracing the event! Wished Caleb could have been there too.
We (the team, kids and I’m sure the audience too) were very blessed by your presence.
Thank you so much for the huge support that you’ve given to Diamonds. We are SOOOO appreciative of you and hope to collaborate with you one day again!
Meanwhile, here’s wishing your family and you a very Merry Christmas. Caleb, please get well soon! 🙂
Crystal, I have been blessed by Diamond’s good work and count myself fortunate that Prince Bear & Pauper Bear could have played a part in such a meaningful way! Here’s to doing more together next year 🙂
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