Hey...it's been a while since I post something here...
Good news, PuppetO finally made its first video project! We made a short movie, telling children on how important it is to keep our environment clean. Well, it was still made in Indonesian language, but we're looking forward to make more videos like this, with the English subtitle.
Last December, PuppetO was asked to be involved in a Christmas Charity program, held by some volunteers for the orphanages around Jakarta.
We invited 2 orphanages in Jakarta, to join the event. The first orphanage was the PA Van Der Steur and the second was the Pniel Orphanage.
The last one was the orphanage that took care of the children who were the victims of the Ambon tragedy back then in 1999.
The children from both of the orphanages really had very special talents in arts. They prove it through their performances in singing and music. And here's the video showing how incredible they were. The video itself is owned fully by MetroTV, the well known Indonesian News TV Station, which covered the event.
Wow....it's been so long since I wrote the last article.
Hey, I have something for you to tell. We, PuppetO, were given a chance to be involved in a video production project, by a company called : CXPro Indonesia. This is a company that provides services in training delivery, workshops, mentoring, employee development programs and other human resources stuffs.
The project was actually held to accommodate the company's need to deliver training material via the Internet. So, there we were, doing the video production for the CXPro Indonesia. There were three video clips as the pilot project, with the main theme on how we should know ourselves better, before we know other people. Perhaps it was more like the Soft Skills training program, but this was delivered online.
PuppetO also performed in these video clips, for the case study used in the program.
So, this was completely a whole new experience for us and we're looking forward on producing more video training like this with the company.
On early May 2014, PuppetO had a chance to join the social service event held by a local church in the West Jakarta area. The service took place in a school at the heart of Jakarta, called Kuningan area. This is a school established by a foundation to facilitate the children who can't afford to have the proper education. This means that they would go to this school for free!
Together with our fellow friends, we held a short class, teaching about the simple English for kids. After the class, PuppetO performed a show for the children, building an awareness among them about how to keep the environment clean.
The children were smart and well educated, and we had so much fun with them! And after the show, we asked them to have lunch together with us. At the end of the event, PuppetO also gave one piece of a hand-made puppet for the school, hoping that it would become a very useful media for the teacher to teach the kids.
Anyway, we hope that we can join such event like this in the future....
And below is a short clip about the event, please enjoy!
Ah....it's been a long time since we started this thing called PuppetO...We've been doing many shows and still going on. We've met new friends, and experienced many good things with them. There were so many stories behind every show, and we're glad we had them!
Our journey is going on and on and on...and we're looking forward for another new adventures. We've kept so many documentations about our journey, and I think it's time to give you a little bit about us...
So, here is a short clip telling you about PuppetO!
YES, I'm in love with the harmonica, and YES, I'd love to spread the wonderful magic of harmonica to people!
I'm a puppet-enthusiast and also a harp-player, so I thought it would be nice to be able to combine those two things through PuppetO. Well, in every show, we always did some fun games and activities with the kids, and I got an idea of giving a harmonica as one of the prizes for them. And since the sound of harmonica would definitely attract the kids, I was pretty much sure that the idea would work!
Well, it did...!!!
One day we held a show, and at the end of the fun games, a boy won a harmonica from us. He was very happy with that, and his friends sure did look very fascinated about it! Even his mother told us how happy she was to see her son got a harmonica...
Ah, what a relieve....:)
This would definitely motivate me to spread the magic of harmonica to as many children.
Celebrating Christmas doesn't always mean that you have to have many presents, wonderful decorations, tasty foods, or new clothes. Together with some children, PuppetO actually celebrated Christmas in a very simple way.
No luxurious room, no Christmas tree, no bright light, nor decorations. Just as simple as it could.
But that didn't stop us from having a wonderful Christmas celebration. The kids were happy and enjoyed the puppet show.
Here are some pics when PuppetO was doing a show for them :
