Malam Kebudayaan

On 17^th May 2017, Malam Kebudayaan or ‘Cultural Night’ was held as one of the closing events of the week-long Konvensyen Wanita Anggun. This event was held at Panggung Gemilang and was open to all residential colleges in UNIMAS. Its theme was ‘Mother’s Day’.

Cultural Night kicked off at 8.00 p.m., with a video montage of various students expressing their love towards their mother and showing gratitude and appreciation to all mothers around the world. After that, students from Bunga Raya College (BRC) entertained the audience with a dikir barat performance, which revolves around the theme of appreciating mothers.

The highlight of the event was the singing competition. With representatives from Faculty of Applied and Creative Arts (FACA) as judges, Tun Ahmad Zaidi College, Sakura College, and Bunga Raya College each sent representatives to compete as well as entertain the crowd with their amazing performance. All songs were about mothers or/and women empowerment. Besides that, Bunga Raya College (BRC) also gave acted out a drama centring around a child who believed that her mother was still around, despite having passed on a while ago.

After all the performances have ended, a prize-giving ceremony was held. Announcement of winners from previous KWA sub-events – Cake Chef and Explorace – was made and prizes were handed to the top three winners. As for the singing competition, an acoustic band from the Faculty of Engineering emerged as the top winner. Afterwards, tokens of appreciation were given to the invited judges from FACA.

The event came to a close at 10 p.m. with a video montage of all the sub-events of KWA.

Prepared by,

Imelia Kyra binti Mohamad Iskandar