Halloween Horrors @ Night Safari CANCELLED
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"Halloween Horrors" at Night Safari cancelled
SINGAPORE: Wildlife Reserves Singapore has decided to cancel its popular "Halloween Horrors" event at the Night Safari.
Students from Singapore Polytechnic, who've spent seven months organising "Halloween Horrors", said the abrupt cancellation of the annual event was unexpected.
They are disappointed but are taking the decision in their stride.
The students had conceptualised the theme, auditioned individuals and even designed the costumes.
Their involvement in "Halloween Horrors" is part of their final year project for their Diploma in Integrated Events and Project Management.
The polytechnic said the cancellation will not affect their grades.
Some 1,000 tickets were sold online for the month-long event, due to make its return for the sixth year on September 30.
Ticket holders will be refunded.
Night Safari's parent group, Wildlife Reserves Singapore, said it is refocusing its energy on other events with an Asian focus, like a Deepavali festival in October.
Isabella Loh, Director & Group CEO of Wildlife Reserves Singapore, said: "The successful launch of Moon Night which was attended by the President, marks the first of many Asian-themed festivities and family bonding events to be held at Wildlife Reserves Singapore parks.
"We are now staging a festival centered around Deepavali in October in our parks. This is a multi-cultural family event for all Singaporeans and tourists to join in. With our focus on Asian festivities, we have therefore decided to cancel Halloween in view of the clash in dates.
"The partnership with Singapore Polytechnic will now be directed to assisting us with the Deepavali event and we thank them for their continued efforts and support."
Lecturers at the polytechnic have requested for the students to have a last look at their work before it's taken down.
"It's a closure for this event, for them to move on. It's a learning experience for them as I would say, and for the students, to be able to say that okay, we have actually done a very good job," said Jacqueline Ho, lecturer at Singapore Polytechnic.
"Around 80 per cent of the work has been (completed) so far. We have done everything up to the point of rehearsal; we are only left with the execution of the event," said Kingsley Khng, a final year student at Singapore Polytechnic.
- CNA /lspoor students..............
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some organizations who bought their tickets for their staffs would also be dissappointed....
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if Asian focus, next year should also do 7th month getai at zoo
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Why the students never organise 7th month hungary ghost or mooncake festival?
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wow. i am glad i went last year.
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Originally posted by sinicker:
wow. i am glad i went last year.
What it is about, this alien event at night safari?
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Originally posted by Dalforce 25:
What it is about, this alien event at night safari?
themed event.
the tram ride will have ghostly figures scaring you at certain points (these points are usually between animal enclosures where there is nothing to see)
then there will be the haunted house... you have to walk through the maze and get real close and personal with the ghostly figures. they won't touch you that's for sure.
that's about it. i enjoyed it very much. so i am quite sad this year don't have. not that i am going again...... but good experience for others. -
Originally posted by sinicker:
themed event.
the tram ride will have ghostly figures scaring you at certain points (these points are usually between animal enclosures where there is nothing to see)
then there will be the haunted house... you have to walk through the maze and get real close and personal with the ghostly figures. they won't touch you that's for sure.
that's about it. i enjoyed it very much. so i am quite sad this year don't have. not that i am going again...... but good experience for others.I remember going for this at a fun fair when I was a kid.
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Mighty nice of WRS
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I remember i went to see my friend's audition after school sometime this year
They wanted to hear their most scariest scream
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that's bone-headed as all hell..
what the hell was wrong with letting it happen, then not doing it in 2012?
i bet someone complained and the spineless management capitulated without a fight
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heard Sentosa also got Halloween event. maybe dont want to compete for people...........
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isnt deepavali in night safari even more off???
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Originally posted by FireIce:
isnt deepavali in night safari even more off???
Well after the huge success of "cook a curry"They want to do a bollywood deepavali , "Dance with the animals" !!!!
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anyway, Night Safari A LOT OF INDIAN TOURISTS........
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did they ask the animals wat they prefer?
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Originally posted by FireIce:
did they ask the animals wat they prefer?
do Indian tourists taste better than PRC tourists?
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Originally posted by FireIce:
did they ask the animals wat they prefer?
yarh they should ask. last year, the PRC/ABNN tourists kept using their flash despite being told off not to. the animals stomped, some of them.
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Sad. I was there last year. The year b4 @ Sentosa
Night Safari halloween is better than Sentosa becoz its bigger and more things to see
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Good, more will come to my pub, infact, I and my gals are all really, our theme will be angel's devil, $50 per entry, free two drinks. If 1000 pples turn up, I very happy liao
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Originally posted by storywolf:
Well after the huge success of "cook a curry"They want to do a bollywood deepavali , "Dance with the animals" !!!!
They should cook curry in Night Safari, using monkey meat.
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Originally posted by BanguIzai:
if Asian focus, next year should also do 7th month getai at zoo
Haha, they should burn incense and suffocate the animals, like what my neighbours do to me :(
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The Night Safari has canned a Halloween event - even though 1,000 tickets have been sold - because of feedback that it has no relevance to conservation.
Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS) has pulled the plug just two weeks before Halloween Horrors was to be held on weekends between Sept 30 and Oct 30.
On Thursday, WRS, which manages the Night Safari, said the decision was made 'because of the negative feedback received from corporations, friends of the zoo, the public and the media about the event, especially over the relevance in relation to conservation'.
Ms Isabella Loh, director and newly-installed chief executive of the group, added that it agrees with comments made by President Tony Tan Keng Yam and that 'WRS parks should have more family- bonding and wholesome activities'.
halloween IS a family activity wat
and wat does deepavali got to do with conservation then?
cow head no match horse mouth
the biggest �害者 are the students.................
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Halloween is a western holiday with occult roots.
This holiday is an alien import from the west. I disapprove of night safari organising this event. They want horror as theme they can use "House of Horror".