The ISK Prom night, "Walk into Wonderland" took place last night.
The Decoration committee (of which I am co-chair with Sara L., as seen in the keyhole) along with a few other Prom committee members spent the whole day preparing for the event.
We had asked for the club to lend us decorations and props, such as fairy lights, drapes, tables, chairs etc. but most of the props and decorations came from us, lent by students or bought with the money we have accumulated over the year.
Many of the decorations were handmade too: for example, the cocktail tables with the mushroom table cloths were made by us, the lanterns hanging above them, the crazy colourful signs: all painstakingly hand made.
As all of these photos were taken in daylight, it might be hard to imagine what the event looked like at night with all the fairy lights twinkling, people chatting and dancing.
The prom was so much fun, and I think that this year's seniors truly enjoyed it: after all, the prom was for them, even though students from other grades had the opportunity to appreciate it.
As you can see, all the photos of the venue have a watermark on them, even though they are students' photographs. This is because the club didn't want people outside of ISK to know what the venue was like. However, these photos were taken before the venue, and they won't be shown to anyone outside of ISK, so problems with copyright issues have been resolved.
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I forgot to post that I also made the ticket for prom, as well as the video that played on a continuous loop on a backdrop (which can be seen in the photo above to the right). The video was meant to be hypnotising, and have an 'Alice in Wonderland' crazy feel to it. For the video, I used a few clips downloaded from the internet as well as excerpts from a video made by Shaheel P.
The actual video was 14 minutes long, though it was repeated again and again, with different quotes from ALice in Wonderland, such as "We're all mad here", "Off with their heads!" and "Curiouser & Curiouser".
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The Prom ticket's design was based on an old fashioned luggage tag, as I wanted to give the seniors a sense of elegance and charm: the theme is totally mad, and so there was no need to blast them with craziness from the start, as they would surely receive their dose of madness and fantasy once they arrived at the venue.
I used photoshop to create the ticket, and I used calligraphic handwriting for the words. At the bottom of the ticket, I inserted a quote from the novel: "Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right directions". I didn't use quotation marks, however, so that the students coming to the event would get a small notion of the craziness that is Wonderland.
Once the ticket was done, I tried to find ways to make the ticket look more original. And because the entrance to the prom was a keyhole, I had the idea of using a key in the ticket, to simulate 'unlocking' the door to Wonderland. I came across this picture from 'White Whimsey' (see below right), and so we attached a paper key (attaching real keys would sadly have been a little too expensive) to each tag.
It feels slightly unbelievable that a whole school year (and some) of hard work, fundraising and planning could amount to one evening that didn't last much longer than 4 hours. Of course, all this work didn't amount to nothing: our goal was to please our fellow students and ourselves, and I think that we achieved that goal quite well.
Today, NHS had its first bake sale to fundraise for the Golden Heart Scholars. The Golden Heart Scholars are 17 local high school students who have made, or are making a change in their community. As these students come from schools that are less well off than the international schools in Africa, we need to find sponsors to pay for their registration and accommodation.
