Festival connects Singapore youths through shared culture
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Youth Leaders @ Harmony Circle organised the #commUNITY on Campus festival at Singapore Management University, bringing together over 600 young people to explore racial and religious harmony.
The event featured interactive booths where attendees could experience scents, tastes, and objects representing diverse faiths. Undergraduates Evlin Woo and Chloe Chua discovered the origins of scents used in their Buddhist traditions, while software engineer Fathima Raeesah learned about shared beliefs between Taoism and Hinduism regarding incense.
The festival’s organisers, a group of 80 young people and 15 student groups, designed the event to highlight commonalities across religions, such as shared incense rituals and traditions of hospitality. Attendees touched objects like prayer beads and learned about practices such as the Judaic tradition of wearing tefillin and tallit. Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Culture, Community and Youth, Goh Hanyan, spoke at the festival, stressing the importance of maintaining racial and religious harmony in Singapore.
Organisers plan to hold the #commUNITY on Campus festival every two years at a different institute of higher learning, preparing young people for a diverse workforce and reinforcing the value of harmony in society.
