Project :
Peace Poster Contest
– It is more than a contest!
Date : 22nd
September
2012 (Saturday)
6th October 2012 (Saturday)
6th October 2012 (Saturday)
Time : 9:00am - 12:00pm
Venue : SJKC On Pong 2 School, Pandan Mewah, Ampang, Selangor
SJKC Desa Jaya 2, Bandar Sri Damansara, Selangor
We quite like
the theme of 2012 - 2013 Peace Poster Contest (PPC) “Imagine Peace”. All of us
agree that embracing, mutual respecting
and equality are the key factors to achieve peace. It seems so easy and
simple, yet peace seems so distance to many of us. There are still wars, racial
conflicts, religious conflicts and many other conflicts around the world.
Our club
organised two PPC contests at two different areas. On September 22nd
we did it at SJKC On Pong 2 (On Pong National Type Chinese Primary School 2),
Pandan Mewah, Ampang,Selangor. We invited two other Natinal Type Chinese
primary schools and three National primary schools around Ampang area. There
were Chinese, Malay and Indian pupils took part in the contest. In the event
three best posters were selected.
On October 6th,
we did it at SJKC Desa Jaya 2, Bandar Sri Damansara, Selangor. We managed to
get one private school, one National Type Tamil primary school and two other
National Type Chinese schools around the area to participate in the contest.
The participants were come from different cultural and social economic
backgrounds.
On the Oct-6th
PPC, we wanted something different, as we notice that the so called winning
posters are seemed to share a similar idea; dove, rainbow, globe and flags, perhaps the difference could be the
colouring skill.
Our judge Mr
TanPoh Chuan of Poh Chuan Art Centre, an experienced and committed art teacher,
also teaches art for special need children, suggested to us that judging the
product of any contest should not neglect the potential of others; peace is
embracing and giving other the equal chance.
For the
Oct-6th PPC judging process, we followed Mr Tan Poh Chuan’s idea. At
the end of the contest, posters were divided into three groups:
First group,
the completed product of good colouring and drawing skill but low creative
skill.
Second
group, the completed product of moderate colouring, drawing skill and moderate
creative skill.
Third group,
incomplete product, moderate colouring and drawing skill but good creative
skill.
Another
judge, a class assistant in an International School, a peace lover, a yoga
instructor who majored graphic design in her varsity study, Miss Tan Li Xuan, suggested
to interview each and every participant about his/her product.
The first
group would tell you that that was the peace poster his/her art teacher wanted.
The second
group would tell you that they are trying to get close to the norm, but their
idea of peace could be different from the norm.
To our
surprise, the third group’s answer reflected our negligence; there are other
views on peace, their views would not be accepted by teachers, judges and other
adults. It was a touching moment, few pupils were in tear.
We then
selected the best from the three groups, an embracing outcome. Of course it was
not an easy process. We believe that it would not be well received by others,
as most of us are comfortable with the norm and the presence.
I would like
to suggest to Lions International HQ, instead of having Peace Poster Contest
annually, could we organise Peace Poster Exhibition annually at all levels?
There is no winner, but allowing our children, our youth to have their views of
PEACE to be shared by others, the local level and the international level.
Let the
people from all over the world; with different social economic and cultural
backgrounds share their views of PEACE.
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