Solar Festival now Begins!
Saturday 1 Dec 2007
by Woon SG-Thailand
Today, we directly headed to Kuta beach where the Solar Festival is going to take place. The stage was already set up along with few booths. Having only a few hours before the festival start, both SG delegates and the local volunteers joined to prepare the event. Some people set up the information boards about SolarGeneration and Greenpeace: some cut, some pasted, some hanged. Others worked on banner sandwiches which banner-man will use for promoting. Soon, more materials arrived and we split to prepare juices for the Solar Bar. Numbers of banners were put up to make the place look striking and attractive.
The only obstacle I felt was the heat! The sun at noon was so strong that a few minutes out of shadow could make us feel like melting. Also, the sand we stepped on was burning like we were on fire. Under that heat, 4 promoters including me walked around the surrounding areas with the sandwich banners to promote the festival. That was worth it though because was here were quite a lot of people coming. The stage performances were totally gorgeous. We had percussions and dances. Not at all less popular was the Solar Bar where people got free juices powered by solar energy.
In between the performance, we also had the launching of SolarGeneration Indonesia on the stage. Gali, the head of SG-Indonesia delivered a speech with SG-international on the stage as a support. “Youth Act Now!” was the phrase we shout altogether at the end of the speech as our commitment to the world. After that, SG-international was called for interviews by local media. It was one-by-one interviews, so I must admit that I was excited and a little nervous to be interviewed by the mass media for the first time in my life; our first message of who we are and what we are doing here was sent out.
