2018 PSPA Festive Extravaganza @ Ipoh Car Free Day

In this festive December, PSPA will be participating in the Car Free Day on 23rd December 2018 with the endorsement and support from the Majlis Bandaraya Ipoh (MBI) to organize a PSPA Festive Extravaganza! Coinciding with the school holidays, Christmas and New Year 2019, PSPA hope to celebrate this festive season with the community in the spirit of JOY through performing arts of song, music & dance.

This is a 2-hour event starting from 7:30am to 9:30am along Jalan Raja Dihilir (Jalan Tambun), from 1 round about to the other. The road will be closed to cars but there is plenty of parking on all auxiliary roads! It will showcase our rich, diverse and multi ethnic’s performing arts through a display of dances, singing, music, mascots and etc. The Society has also invited participation of corporations and NGOs to display/sell their products such as food and beverage, gifts and souvenirs associated with this festive theme to boost the atmosphere of festivity on this Sunday morning.

To encourage participation, the Society has included a series of contests such as:

Festive Booth Display Contest
Festive Costume Contests
12 years old and below
Above 12 years old

Prizes include cash, Theme park tickets. Hence Young & Old can participate....as long as you are fun loving!

Download your Festive Costume Contest Form HERE.

Highlight of the event will be a ‘festive parade’ comes with goodies to be given away to the public. The parade led by Lost World Tambun and all the participants of the event which includes 10 performing arts groups and Perak's own PORT.

Event Schedule

7.30am to 8.30am - Booth competition & registration of costume competition

8.30am - Costume competition

9.00am - Festive parade

This colourful festive extravaganza comprising of some 37 participating groups/organizations in addition to the regular participants at the monthly Car Free Day which make up approximately 67 some booths amidst a carnival atmosphere is expected to draw a crowd of many thousands as well as various media coverage.

We truly believe this will be a fun filled Sunday morning not to be missed. This inaugural and exciting community event will also be supported by several generous sponsors namely:

Chang Jiang International Sdn Bhd
Cycledios Management Sdn Bhd
Gaharu Tea Valley, Gopeng
Golden State Resources Sdn Bhd
Kim House Tiling & Sanitary Sdn Bhd
Kuan & Ho Sdn Bhd
Meru Valley Resort Bhd
Mutiara Permai Trading Sdn Bhd
Pagoda Foods (M) Sdn Bhd
P.O.R.T Ipoh (People of Remarkable Talent Ipoh)
Ren Aun Health Care
Soon Hin Hardware Sdn Bhd
Sunway Lost World Water Park Sdn Bhd
Symphony Suites Hotel
Thomas Air-Conditioning & Electrical Sdn Bhd
Trinity Entertainment Sdn Bhd
Yee Lee Trading Co. Sdn Bhd
Yih Hor Engineering Workshop

PSPA wishes that the following end objectives will be achieved via the execution of this event:

To spread the festive spirit of Loving, Sharing, Giving!
To promote and practice performing arts within the state
To increase the accessibility of the performing arts to the public
To create exposure for multi ethnics performing arts groups
To achieve an artistically vibrant city through the collaboration between local authority and performing arts groups