The view from singapore with British High Commissioner to ... - NUSS
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Carpet auction Benefits<br />
good Causes<br />
WeaviNg Hope<br />
Date: 28 September 2012<br />
Venue: Kent Ridge Guild House<br />
Numerous unique<br />
carpet weaves were<br />
put up for auction in<br />
fundraising efforts at<br />
the <strong>NUSS</strong> Fundraising<br />
carpet auction, ‘Weaving Hope’. Fifty<br />
percent of proceeds, which amounted<br />
<strong>to</strong> more than $35,000, went <strong>to</strong>wards<br />
supporting the Community Care<br />
Sub-Committee’s<br />
community outreach<br />
programmes such as<br />
Groceries on Wheels,<br />
Children’s Christmas<br />
Bash and Chinese<br />
New Year Festive<br />
Gathering for the<br />
Less Privileged.<br />
With <strong>NUSS</strong> on<br />
a mission <strong>to</strong> help<br />
maintain the warm<br />
and inspiring smiles<br />
of some very special<br />
individuals and<br />
groups of lessprivileged<br />
people<br />
in the community,<br />
members bidded on many carpets<br />
on auction offered by Lot<strong>to</strong> Carpets<br />
Gallery, a well-established carpet<br />
trading businees started by the Mir<br />
family since late 1950s.<br />
Many were attending a carpet<br />
auction for their first time and the<br />
auctioneer expertly guided members<br />
through the silent auction segment<br />
held in the lobby. Members were<br />
encouraged <strong>to</strong> take a<br />
look and feel the 30<br />
unique weaves which<br />
hung on the railings<br />
throughout the Kent<br />
Scan your QR<br />
code reader <strong>to</strong><br />
see more pictures<br />
Ridge Guild House lobby<br />
during the silent auction<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re is no better<br />
reward for success<br />
in life, business<br />
or work than<br />
in contributing<br />
<strong>to</strong> charity – it<br />
<strong>to</strong>uches the heart<br />
and fulfils the<br />
spirit in life.”<br />
professor vic<strong>to</strong>r Savage<br />
Winning bidder<br />
segment and <strong>to</strong> write their bids on<br />
bid sheets.<br />
Members were then invited in<strong>to</strong><br />
the Della & Seng Gee Guild Hall<br />
<strong>to</strong> feast on delectable Kashmiri<br />
cuisine as well as <strong>to</strong> <strong>view</strong> the<br />
showcase of some of the Mir<br />
family’s personal collection placed<br />
all around ballroom, <strong>with</strong> one<br />
breathtaking carpet piece dating<br />
back 400 hundred years. Diners<br />
were also treated <strong>to</strong> a mesmerising<br />
performance by a pair of sitar and<br />
tabla master musicians <strong>from</strong> the<br />
Singapore Indian Fine Arts Society<br />
during the dinner.<br />
HigHligHtS<br />
<strong>NUSS</strong> and Lot<strong>to</strong> Carpets Gallery collaborated for a special night of carpet auctioning<br />
<strong>with</strong> half of the evening’s proceeds donated <strong>to</strong> <strong>NUSS</strong> Community Care’s worthy causes.<br />
<strong>The</strong> live auction segment<br />
highlighted 50 exquisite carpets<br />
shown piece-by-piece on centrestage<br />
<strong>with</strong> each piece’s background and<br />
origins expounded on through the<br />
evening. Paddles were raised during<br />
the live auction in a bid for carpets<br />
of members’ choices, sometimes<br />
<strong>with</strong> a little friendly competition<br />
<strong>from</strong> other avid bidders.<br />
Professor Vic<strong>to</strong>r Savage, one of the<br />
pleased winning bidder for his prized<br />
carpet remarked, “I made a silent bid<br />
during the open auction. I needed a<br />
long carpet for my hallway so, the<br />
carpet served both personal practical<br />
and charitable reasons. <strong>The</strong>re is no<br />
better reward for success in life,<br />
business or work than in contributing<br />
<strong>to</strong> charity – it <strong>to</strong>uches the heart and<br />
fulfils the spirit in life.”<br />
JAN-MAR 2013 THE GRADUATE 19