Operation Smile Concert Poster

For Operation Smile, the club that supports children with hare lips, we are organizing a charity concert night on Saturday the 14th of April.

Those performing will be the Composers' Club from school: it's good practice and good experience for these students, as many of them are in IB Music or IB Drama, and so the performance should aid them in achieving better public speaking skills.
As well as helping ISK students, we are also helping Kenyan children with cleft lips and palates become cleft free and 'smile-prone'.

The problems that these children face every day include stigmatization, being ostracized and having people, including their own mothers and fathers, run away from them in fear.
They have huge difficulties when it comes to drinking, eating and speaking, and this hinders their social development. Many of them won't live for very long, and most will never have the chance to start a family.
With an operation that costs as little as $240, these children can live a normal life: go to school, make friends, grow up and create a family. (If you wish to Donate, Volunteer, Tell a Friend or Get Help, please click on the appropriate links.)

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I volunteered to make the poster for the concert, because I enjoy using photoshop, and I love doing creative things to help others:
(The girl in the poster's name is Brigid, and she lives in rural Kenya. She who received her operation shortly after this photo was taken.)

If you would like to come and see our students performing songs that they composed or re-written, and you would like to help us with supporting the Operation Smile project in Kenya, then please come to the concert on Saturday 14th of April at the ISK Arts Centre.

Prom Themes...

There were a number of themes that were proposed at the beginning of this year. They included 'Casino Night' 'Winter Wonderland', 'Arabia', 'Neon Nights', 'Wonderland', 'Chinese Dragon Festival' and 'African Nights'. I proposed one of them, the 'Alice in Wonderland' theme.

This is the theme that the prom committee agreed on, though it has been warped a little: now we're calling the 2012 prom 'Walk into Wonderland'.

This theme will hopefully be 'enchanting' for the seniors, though we are making a light psychedelic, (not relating to drug use in any way), twist on the theme.

We finally revealed it to the school on wednesday with a short video that definitely attracted our audience's attention. We also gave the two free tickets to the seniors who won them for the auction.

Prom Dates

There have been many obstacles in the way of our prom committee this year, one of which is the date of the event.
In the school calendar, it is scheduled for the 14th of April, a Saturday. However, that date is no longer free. Because we have chosen our location (Muthaiga Country Club), we need to settle our dates with them.
After having learnt that the 14th was no longer available, we opted for the 28th, which is also unavailable. We considered many other dates, but none were suitable. In the end, we had to pick Friday the 13th of April.
Unlucky for some, but this will be a great, and lucky, night for the seniors.

We are unveiling the theme soon.
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