In Singapore, most of the dinner and dance which handle by event management companies, mostly having pre-events or fringe art activities before the arrived guests go in to the ballroom.
Entertainers
For dinner and dance pre-events or fringe art activities, common items presently including:
Airbrush temporary tattoo, Balloonist(while the event known having many children), Body Art (Glitter Tattoo, Henna painting, Face Painting), Caricature drawing, Caricature on Key Chain Shrink Art, Fortune Telling (Tarot Card, Poker Card Fortune Telling, Palm Reading, Numerology, Face Reading, Indian Parrot Fortune Telling, Hand Writing Character Analysis), Fun Button Making (which either draw something or write the guests' name and make it on the round badges as souvenir), Hand Phone Glitters, Instant printing of Glamour Shot, Roving Close-up magician, Silhouette Cutting, Sue's Wax Hand Making, Wire Crafts to make the guests' names, Writing the guests names on the stone (Pebble Art), Mini T-Shirt Name writing using airbrush
Based on the theme, what I came across including:
- Chinese Theme/Shanghai Theme: Chinese Calligraphy, Chinese Paper Cutting (mostly during Chinese New Year period), Rainbow Calligraphy, Chinese Calligraphy on Chinese Fans, Chinese Knotting Demo, Fortune Telling (Mostly palm reading or Face Reading), Chinese Dough Figurine Making Demo.
- Cultural Theme: Malay Ketupak making Demo, Malay Kite Making Demo, Indian's florist ring making for welcoming guests, Chinese cultural stuffs as per mentioned, Indian's Unique Fortune telling which the Fortune Card picking by Perot.
Quick Hairdo and Makeover could be one of the item especially in Retro Theme Dinner and Dance. It could be dancers or models roving around just to create some fun (all depend on client's budget allocation)
- For Casino Theme / Secret Agent Theme, there will be some game setting, either in-charge by the event staffs or by the costumed Models.
Some items rarely seen in pre-events or fringe art activities items that I ever came across including:
Stilt Walker, Fire Eater, Juggler, Snake Charmer, Roving Models or Costumed Models to serve drinks for the guests, "Rice Art" (which write the guests' name on the rise and then frame in a small container then bind to the key chain), Bean Art (using bean stick on about A5 size card or board to combine as a painting, and write some artistic words).
Musician
Sometimes we can see roving Guitarists playing music and songs, or stationary type of 3-4 Jazz Band around within the standard 1 hour dinner and dance pre-events or fringe art activities.
Varnishing Food
Pop Corn making on the spot booth is one of the items during dinner and dance pre-events or fringe art activities especially in "Movie Night" or Hollywood Night related Themes.
"Ting Ting" candy, Malt candy, Chinese Dragon Beard candy could be seen in the event as well. (Can be seen during Chinese New Year Event /Shanghai Theme/ Cultural Theme)
"Teh Tarik" and "Kacang Putih" which represent Indian culture or engaged under Movie Themes.
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Sunday, October 31, 2010
Event Artists need to Provide Quality and Resonable Quantites Works
Singapore had been growing real fast within this few years, and Singapore became a worldwide well known country since it had run the first F1 night race, building up the great entertainment area like Marina Bay Sand and Resort World Sentosa and held the first Youth Olympic Games in the world.
As professional event artists or entertainers, we should always enhance, improve and maintain our skill to the much more than the above average level.
Doing events like caricature, balloon twisting, face painting and etc, although we work independently, doesn't mean we can do our work anyhow, there are always people watching your quality or/and quantities of your works.
Singapore is not a big country, hence, if any event artists make serious mistake, all of us will know it through event organizers or event clients.
As professional event artists or entertainers, we should always enhance, improve and maintain our skill to the much more than the above average level.
Doing events like caricature, balloon twisting, face painting and etc, although we work independently, doesn't mean we can do our work anyhow, there are always people watching your quality or/and quantities of your works.
Singapore is not a big country, hence, if any event artists make serious mistake, all of us will know it through event organizers or event clients.
Friday, October 16, 2009
The Art of Control the Crowd II
Why need crowd control? We need to ensure we are not over work during the booking hour(s), the event organisers also might need to ensure the crowd proceed to the next stage (like getting every guests seated to pay their respect and attention to the related persons’ speech eg. the chairman giving speech the guests.)
This also ensures the rest of the planned programme to be running smoothly, for example, in the dinner and dance, usually the fringe activities start from 6.30pm – 7.30pm, the guests need to be seated in the ballroom by 7.45pm and then the dancers do the opening dance from 7.45pm till 8.00pm and follow by the chairman’s speech etc, every scheduled programming have to be execute in time!
Especially during the peak period of company dinner and dance like November and December, many entertainers having tight schedules (like those dancers, magicians, Chinese opera mask changing performance, vocalists, models etc. needed to rush to another place to do their performance.) hence any delay will cause the relevant schedule go hair wired, either the event organisers or the entertainers themselves.
Imaging you supposed performance your belly dancing 8pm till 8.30pm at hotel A and your next performance will be at hotel B from 9.15pm-9.45pm, you sure pray every of your show should be done within the scheduled time frame.
We, the fringe art artists (caricaturists, silhouette cutting artists, henna, airbrushes, glamour shoot and etc have to be stop in time to help the smooth running of the event.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
The Art of Crowd Control During Events
Whether you are in charge caricature drawing, airbrush tattoo or doing any complementary items in the events, I am very sure you always face the big crowd or people queuing for their free stuffs.
After many years’ experience doing event, I found that crowd control for complimentary stuffs is one of the very important thing we need to do.
To me, crowd control is an art. You can’t expect there is always having event officers or crew to help in the crowd control, hence you need to control by yourself and I found that is the best way to make the show running smoothly.
For example, during my caricature drawing session (stationary type, not roving type), I will estimate how many people I can draw within the last 30minutes, and then I will quickly go to the queue and past my colorized papers to the limited peoples in the queue, I told the queue I can only draw these amount of peoples within the last 30minutes’ working hour, hence basically avoided any disappointment and frustrations.
Some artists was passing own made queue number to the queue in 30 minutes in advance as well, it work as well.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Old Local Talented Artists
Met some senior art and crafts artists recently and complained to me that they hardly get booking from the event company for recent years, most of them realised those new immigrant foreign talents were under cutting them, I am sorry to say, I can’t help much for this.
This is because I found that some of these them really talented art and crafts originally local (Singaporean) artists who are in their 60s and above (calligrapher, dough figurine experts etc), I respected and salute their skills without any doubt, I ever tried my best helping them and promote their talents to event companies; unfortunately, they either unable to communicate with the related event companies or either do their art and craft demo in an old generation way during the event, means that they do not even wanted to communicated to the publics.
Sad to say, if they do not change their attitude and their thinking, they will be replaced by the new immigrant talent since not much local young people willing to learn such unique skills.
They will not qualify to complaint anything since they can’t change themselves to meet the realistic world; that was really wasted, thus, nobody know Singapore having such great local talents existing.
What a pity for these group of senior artist whose try their best to hide their skill after putting huge effort and time to learn and develop their special skills.
This is because I found that some of these them really talented art and crafts originally local (Singaporean) artists who are in their 60s and above (calligrapher, dough figurine experts etc), I respected and salute their skills without any doubt, I ever tried my best helping them and promote their talents to event companies; unfortunately, they either unable to communicate with the related event companies or either do their art and craft demo in an old generation way during the event, means that they do not even wanted to communicated to the publics.
Sad to say, if they do not change their attitude and their thinking, they will be replaced by the new immigrant talent since not much local young people willing to learn such unique skills.
They will not qualify to complaint anything since they can’t change themselves to meet the realistic world; that was really wasted, thus, nobody know Singapore having such great local talents existing.
What a pity for these group of senior artist whose try their best to hide their skill after putting huge effort and time to learn and develop their special skills.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Work in a Special Place
Time flies as arrow, the F1 event had been over. That was a great experience to work inside the F1 circuit‘s walkabout event area.
Within these 3 days, the most challenging things were the very warm whether and the roaring of the racing cars to me, so to many entertainers and the related work forces.
As a caricaturist, I need to spend more energy to concentrate to draw the guests in this warm whether as well as having distracted by the strong roaring sound by the racing cars.
While the racing cars passing by, you can’t hear any voice or sounds besides the roaring of the engines, due to some performances was on going in different stages like belly dancers, singers etc, they could be having a hard time to catching be their dancing and music rhythms.
Anyway, seems everyone enjoy the atmosphere being in the F1 racing area.
Many people was try to go in the racing track to take some photos after the ending of the race in the last day.
Within these 3 days, the most challenging things were the very warm whether and the roaring of the racing cars to me, so to many entertainers and the related work forces.
As a caricaturist, I need to spend more energy to concentrate to draw the guests in this warm whether as well as having distracted by the strong roaring sound by the racing cars.
While the racing cars passing by, you can’t hear any voice or sounds besides the roaring of the engines, due to some performances was on going in different stages like belly dancers, singers etc, they could be having a hard time to catching be their dancing and music rhythms.
Anyway, seems everyone enjoy the atmosphere being in the F1 racing area.Many people was try to go in the racing track to take some photos after the ending of the race in the last day.
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