Like any other 21st July, the schools in Singapore celebrate Racial Harmony Day today.

This day reminds us of the Race Riots that took place on 21 July 1964 and also emphasizes the importance of building a racial harmony society regardless of language, races or culture.

In schools, the children are encouraged to wear traditional costumes to schools.  The children learn more about other’s culture as they put on other races’ traditional costumes and also learn more about the traditional games played by others.

This year, Racial Harmony Day’s celebration presents a different experience for both Brendan and Darren.

Darren got to celebrate the occasion, for the first time, in a Primary School. He shared with us the traditional games that he played.

Brendan’s class was one of the few selected to take part in a musical instrument performance.  So, he has his first encounter with the agogo bells.

After 2 weeks of practice in school, he performed as a group today as part of the racial harmony celebration. His part was to create music with sticks and agogo bells. It is indeed amazing especially when the different small musical instruments can create such beautiful music!

This is a similar triple agogo bells that Brendan performed with

A happy Brendan with his little present (a little egg with beans) that he received after the performance

As the celebration ends with a high note in their school, I hope besides having FUN, the kids have indeed learnt the true meaning behind Racial Harmony Day.

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