Lantern Parade, Lantern Making and Coloring Contest and Cultural Performance

5 Oct 2025

Lions Club of Perak Silver rise to the occasion to help organise an eventful Lantern Parade with AEON Mall Station 18 and Loyal Academy in conjunction with Mid-autumn Festival.

Congrats OC Lion Wong Tong Meng, Vice OC Lion Wong Kean Rong, President Lion Dr. Adeline Tham, Club Branch Head Lion Chow Kin Yew and all our organising committee for the successful Mid-autumn Festival jointly organised by AEON Mall Station 18, Lions Club of Perak Silver State and Loyal Academy as main sponsor. The event held from 12pm until 9pm last night was graced by YB Sivakumar, member of Parliament for Batu Gajah,   involved the participation of more than 800 people taking part in Recycling Lantern Making and Colouring contest. There was also a cultural and dance performance and Lantern Parade accompanied by Lion and Dragon Dance.

Other Lion Members who came to assist in the event, which should be given due recognition include:

a. Secretary Tina Leong

b. Treasurer Girlie Lim

c. 1st VP Jemmy Lam

d. BOD Member Thinakaran

e. Jansen Ng Kar Weng

f. Maha Thevan 

This community and cultural programme involved the participation of multi-racial people giving them the exposure and meaning of the significant of Lantern and Moon Cake festival. Close to 100 people took part in the Lantern Making Contest offering RM1,000, RM300, and RM200 to the Champion, 1st runner-up and 2nd runner up respectively. Ten consolation prizes of RM100 each were also provided. This contest is to educate the public on the importance of embracing a recycling culure.

For kids between the age of 5 to 10, there was also a colouring contest held with the participation of about 120 people. The contest offer a prize money of RM200, RM150 and RM100 to the Champion, 1st runner-up and 2nd runner up respectively. Ten consolation prizes of RM50 each were also provided. This contest enable the young to express themselves freely and is important element in their development.

The contests were judged by independent judges from the Malaysia perak Art Societies.

Thank you District GST Coordinator Lion Soon Yeong Nee who came all the way from Penang to witness our event. Also present to support the event was Region 5 Chairperson Lion Dr. Richard Ng and Presidents of Perak Shun Tak, Perak Pun Yue, Perak Nam Hoi, Perak Sun Hing Wan Fow Association and Persatuan Keselamatan dan Komuniti Kepolisan Bukit Merah.

Many thanks too to CL Dance Studio, Yencci Dance Academy and Carol Dance Acaademy for the great dance performance.

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