Hello, guys! It's been a while since my last post, or it isn't? Nah, either way, today I'd like to tell you about my school's (SMA 3 Bandung) cultural festival that was held a month ago, exactly at 30th September, 2017.
Gathapraya is the name of SMA 3 Bandung this year's cultural festival. While the name of last year's cultural festival is Megantara. The name "Gathapraya" is taken from the words "ana gatha" and "abi praya". Gathapraya is open for public with the following price
1. Pre-sale 1 Rp.35.000
2. Pre-sale 2 Rp.45.000,
3. Htm Rp.55.000, and
4. Ots Rp.65.000.
Before the festival begins, SMA 3 Bandung's students had a parade from Sabuga Hall to Bali Field. Along the way, we were promoting so many Sundanese culture, such as wayang, traditional music, and traditional clothes that we wore.
We arrived at Bali Field at about 10AM, while the Festival's gate can be entered at 12.00 PM. The event was opened by singing national songs. After singing national songs, two representative of each class had a fashion show. After that, the bands and music classic of SMAN 3 performed. Also, there was a dance performance. The extracurricular collaboration of Music Classic 3, KPA (angklung), and gamelan rendition performed at 03.00 PM. After that, Tiloe’s Theater had an astounding performance about the story behind the name of Gathapraya, which is quite sad yet amazing, I'd say..
After Maghrib, we started to see another great performance from a local dancer who's famous internationally, that I thought was a woman, but actually a man. What a plot twist, huh? There's also a sand sculpter which is the contestan of the past "Indonesia Mencari Bakat" local show, and she is quite popular at that time, and even now. Gathapraya was very amazing. Audiences were so hyped and they all participated in cheering the performers up! Because the particiipants are cheering them up, the performers were able to delivered us a good time there. Well, Newton's Third Law DOES happen.
Followed by the appearance of the HiVi group whose songs make us feel like teenagers who really are in good times. At the very moment that HiVI made their appearance, visitors seemed to be swept away by the music and singing. The show closed with a spectacular performance from Nidji that taught us that we should become a good adults in the future and work hard to make this country better and better again.
Well, after that, I went home happily and maybe will go to next's year cultural festival, too! After all, our cultural's festival is so *Bip* amazing! :D
