Fashion Carnival Enlivened the 4th UPH Awards Nomination Announcement

UPH Award conferment night is getting closer! After “Pesta Rakyat” on March 29-April 1, 2010, now UPH residents are invited to watch the performance of Contemporary Indonesian Fashion Carnival.

UPH Award conferring night is getting closer! After the “Pesta Rakyat” on March 29-April 1, 2010, UPH community was then being invited to watch the performance of Contemporary Indonesian Fashion Carnival, featuring the work of the haute couture which escalates the noble cultural values of Indonesia. The fashion show involved 40 male and female students, UPH lecturers, as well as 20 designers from ESMOD fashion school and team from Jember Fashion Carnaval (JFC). Various fashion designs from batik, songket, and woven clothes were made in such a way to be unique and beautiful costumes.

Attending the event were UPH Rector ? Jonathan L. Parapak, Directorate General Cultural Art Values and Film, Indonesian Ministry of Culture and Tourism (Dirjen Nilai Budaya Seni dan Film Kementerian Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata RI) ? Tjetjep Suparman, and President of JFC ? Dynand Fariz, as well as UPH community and its surrounding area.

In his speech, UPH Rector appreciated the initiator of this event, because it had been a reflection of holistic education at UPH. “By having events like these, it is clearly shown that UPH is not merely prioritizing excellent education, but also total commitments toward the spiritual and character aspects. At UPH, all of those aspects may be developed to their maximum capacity,” he said.

On that occasion, representing the Minister of Culture and Tourism ? Jero Wacik –  Directorate General Cultural Art Values and Film, Tjetjep Suparman, also gave a speech, and said, “Events like these are manifestations of students? concerns to elevate Indonesian cultures. Hopefully, other universities could follow UPH?s footsteps to get the positive values of our culture,” he said as reading Jero?s speech.

Tjetjep added that Indonesian Ministry of Culture and Tourism would give souvenirs of book series about Indonesian culture. “We will donate several books for UPH library. We hope these books can be used as references for students who are conducting researches on culture,” he added.

      Jonathan Parapak

After the speeches, the audience was entertained by performances of students from UPH Conservatory of Music called Three Play Percussion, followed by a fashion show and the reading of UPH Award nominations from each category.

The idea of inviting fashion designers from the JFC and ESMOD originated from the appreciation given to Indonesian designers, who can elevate Indonesian culture to the world. “With this event, we want to open UPH students? insights to be motivated to explore the richness of our nation?s culture and able to produce works to compete in the international level, just like the JFC designers did,” said Bong Stevian, Chairman of the 4th UPH Award.

Tjetjep Suparman

JFC event itself is a series of carnival held by Jember community for achieving the mission to make Jember a part of a fashion center in Indonesia. The fashion designers are at the same time become the models for their own work. Not only around Indonesia, JFC team has also conducted road shows around the world including London ? England, Mumbai ? India, and Shanghai ? China. By applying the 4E concept: Education, Exhibition, Entertainment, and Economic benefits, JFC is very much loaded with creativity as expressed in fantastic and spectacular designs. The 4^th UPH Awards: let’s break the tradition! (sar/cyn)

 And the nominees are…

Jonathan Parapak striking the gong to open Contemporary Indonesian Fashion Carnival	Tjetjep Suparman striking the gong to open Contemporary Indonesian Fashion Carnival

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