Imperial College PASS Annual Charity Concert

[Announcement on 2020 Charity Concert Cancellation ]

Due to the recent development of the pandemic, new government laws and a notification from our venue that they have revoked our rental agreement, we intend to not hold this year's charity concert.

Background:
We started planning a musical play based charity concert during February and have recruited 30+ crew members by March, before the end of term. In the meantime, we approached 15+ venues and negotiated a deal with last year's venue for a cost of ~20k. At that point, we believed that the pandemic would ease by September and planned to continue hosting it during September, though we were later deterred by the HK government's 4 person public gathering ban during April. Having decided our beneficiary, we decided to halt our progress during our 14 day quarantine and the weeks before our online exams.

As the pandemic eased in June and we finished our exams, we resumed planning. However, we noticed that we would have difficulty in financing our venue this year due to the likely reduction in audience numbers and sponsorship amount. We then decided to change the concert into a talent show/ livehouse based performance and invited other PASS societies to join. We successfully recruited UCLPASS and ManchesterPASS to help us and also Mockingbird to help us make this happen. Here, we were confident to have 100+ audience members join on that day. To further reduce costs, we approached three cheaper locations and luckily agreed to a venue rental at a secondary school for basically no cost. We also have contacted our beneficiary.

The third wave of the pandemic is amongst us now and is showing no signs of recovery. As such, the secondary school informed us that they will not be willing to let their venue out any more. The stringent measures launched by the government today also prohibits us from practicing our performances. As such, with the event and everyone's wellbeing in consideration, our confidence in holding a successful event during September is very low.

A few alternative measures were proposed by our committee members, to change to another form while keeping the goals of the concert intact (1. benefit charities 2. raise awareness for social issues 3. involve IC members)

Holding an online concert/campaign would not warrant any significant audience hence would not be able to generate money to donate to charity.

We also discussed performing to underprivileged groups instead of holding a concert for the masses. Judging how places e.g. elderly homes are closed, this would not be possible.

Moving the concert to the UK is unfeasible as the pandemic threat is likely to be looming until a wide vaccination programme. Also, our crew (also people from UCL and Manchester) is likely to be split between being physically in the UK and HK, which means little to no performers and audience members. Assuming everything is back to normal by Feb/March next year, any event during that time would clash with the Variety Show.

We hope you understand why we think that continue hosting a charity concert this year is extremely risky. We tried really hard to make this happen given the circumstances but we think that we should not proceed any more.

Thank you,
2020 Committee

Thank you for the continuous support towards ICPASS Charity Concert. Due to the uncertainties under the CoViD-19 pandemic, the committee of the Concert has decided to redesign the show as a livehouse gig. We will be collaborating with UCL PASS and Manchester PASS to organise a show with performers from all 3 universities. The Imperial performances are now open for application to all Imperial students in Hong Kong! We welcome all music-related performances such as singing, band music and dance, to name a few. The theme of the concert will be 「逆·情」, and we hope that the performances will surround how the current affairs in the past year or so has affected people’s mental health to raise awareness of mental wellness in these difficult times.
70% of the proceeds will go to New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association and 30% will directly go to COVID research/ relief funds.
Sign up to be a performer now! https://forms.gle/ckqBQyf1TH4FiUjE8
Feel free to contact any of the committee members for any questions😉 We look forward to receiving your applications!

2020 ICPASS Charity Concert Application Due to all kinds of uncertainties, this years' Charity Concert will be transformed into a Livehouse concert. The application as part of the Imperial performers is opened now!!! Details as below: The theme of the concert is 逆·情. Our current donation plan is for 70% of the profits earned to go to...

Performer+Crew Recruitment!!🤩🤩

We are holding an open audition for anyone’s whose interested in performing at the charity concert.🥰 For those who enjoyed and participated in vshow and would like to engage in another similar event, this is your chance!!🥳 And for those who missed the chance, this is now your chance, the stage is yours.😉 Similar to the variety show, the charity concert is now looking for performers in terms of actors/actresses, musicians, on-stage and off-stage helpers; and open to any category. We will be donating all of the profits to our beneficiary (related to mental illness and mental health), so if you love performing, take this chance to do something you love over the summer for a good cause!!🙌🏻

Please do sign up for audition (for more than one role😏) by filling in the google form here:
https://forms.gle/ZmoLL7EnU2MW6rD79 (deadline: 13/03 23:59)

And feel free to contact our
performance director: Vera Shek
on-stage director: Sze Hang Prudence Lee
off-stage director: Choy Hong Yau (Angus)
for any enquires regarding the concert!!♥

Best regards,
2020 Char Con Committee😌

ICPASS Charity Concert 2020 - Crew Members (Perfomers and Backstage) Application Form Charity Concert is a show where YOU get to exhibit your talents and help raise money for a local charity. We need YOU to make it happen so come join us and have some fun over the summer! Performers description: Actor / Actress: You get to act! The theme of the concert will surround mental illness re...

Congrats to all elected candidates for ICPASS Charity Concert Committee 2020 and we are pleased to announce the first-round results for the election:

Performance Director: Vera Shek
Marketing Director: Jackie Man
Operations Director: Yasmine Chan
On-Stage Director: Prudence Lee
Off-Stage Director: Choy Hong Yau

Once again, thank you to everyone participating in and coming to support the election! The positions of Producer and Creative Director are now re-opened for nomination. The deadline for second-round election manifesto submission is on 29 Jan, 23:59. Anyone interested in the positions is encouraged to approach the previous Charity Concert committee in preparation for the election.

The second-round election will take place on JANUARY 31 (this coming Friday) at SKEM 201 at 18:30. Once again, Congratulations to the our newly elected Charity Concert committee and we look forward to seeing you at our second-round election!🎉🎉

Thank you to all those who applied and we look forward to meeting you all at our Election tomorrow at SKEM 201 18:30! Do come and support your friends! For your reference, all candidates' manifesto can be found at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1FlMFIj3uozQd3aQbymYRlk5v3VgzI2_m

Please reminded that you must be a member of ICPASS by 12:00 Jan 23 to run for/ vote in the Charity Concert Committee 2020 Election. Furthermore, please refer to the following for the detailed election guidelines: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1lZhtx5kB9hHI4uatww3bZuZEbqZwucGN

Charity Concert 2020 Election (Shared) - Google Drive

Charity Concert Committee 2020 application is open NOW! The deadline for the manifestos for the 1st round application is 23:59, Jan 21, next Tuesday so feel free to refer to the slides below or approach any of the previous committee members for further questions and advice when preparing for your election! Hoping to see you all at the Election General Meeting!

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1u-U1GItLCyWXTqpB0ALtLKxHblwTq40za65bWEc4TRQ/edit?usp=sharing

For details, please refer to the description section of the event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1698622316972362/

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And that's a wrap! A massive thank you to all of you who supported our show and our corporate sponsors SmarTone, ICAAHK and all personal sponsors 🎉🎉

Seeing you all next year!!

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ICPASS Charity Concert 2019《軌。ANATTA》
九月六號 7pm 基督教家庭中心禮堂 （九龍觀塘翠屏道3號1樓）

網上購票：https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfLPpnuChLCjmxCPqQEp2BgTismG3OF85j2a4QyMxpatVXWWQ/viewform

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