Strings for Kindness…our story.
Strings for Kindness (SFK) is a ground-up movement of the Singapore Kindness Movement and National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre. It is an ensemble of young string players who love to bring kindness to people, through music.
SFK was originally created to foster empathy and graciousness amongst the young ones during rehearsals. Such that, when the string players begin to perform in public, the kind-heartedness that they have experienced, can be passed forward during public performances, not only to their friends, but to the community as well. The young ones begin to Give Through Music.
With the COVID19 pandemic, our plans may have been slightly stalled, but we continue to do whatever we can, as the world needs more kindness than ever before.
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Below is a storyline of what SFK has done to bring kindness to the community since we began in May 2017.
SFK has appeared in the Channel NewsAsia, Channel 8 programmes & at the VerveArts Festival, to illustrate what we do for the community.
SFK has performed at various venues like the Victoria Concert Hall, Capitol Theatre, National Museum of Singapore, Ngee Ann City, Singapore Recreation Club, Marina Square, Our Tampines Hub, Singapore Sports Hub, Sentosa, YMCA, Toa Payoh SAFRA, and at a number of community centres – where the young ones demonstrated kindness, for the community to pass forward kindness to others.
We’ve also performed for our Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Heng Swee Keat at the SG100 Foundation Gala Dinner. That was a real treat for the string players!
SFK has also performed at a number of live events. Some of the events include Light to Night Festival 2022, PAssion Arts Festival, RoadSense Carnival, YMCA Flag Day, National Kindness Award Ceremony, Singapore Kindness Carnival, Kindness Day SG, “Kampung Spirit”, “Grandparents’ Day”, Tayo Irvine Hendrix (daughter of Jimi Hendrix) Children’s Book Launch, Christmas Celebration & Party, SG100 Foundation Gala Dinner, Venetian Party and UCares Anniversary.
Virtually, we have performed for SKM’s “Overcome As One” event at the Our Tampines Hub to encourage even more people to show care and appreciate our frontlines and others in 2020. We have also performed at the inaugural Youth Music Day conference, National University of Singapore Giving new award-winning logo launch.
In 2022, we performed virtually at the Music Cities Convention in Canada.
Kindness Day SG by the Singapore Kindness Movement (20 May 2023)
Strings For Kindness brings kindness to the community on Kindness Day SG @ Paya Lebar Quarter (PLQ) Mall.
View music presentation here.
Service Gold Award (23 November 2022)
Strings For Kindness was blessed to have had the opportunity to perform at the 28th National Kindness Awards – Service Gold 2022 Ceremony.
We performed music from The Violin Travels.
The award ceremony recognised service excellence in the hospitality industry today.
All winners were presented the awards by our Guest of Honour, Minister of State for Culture, Community and Youth and Minister of State for Trade and Industry, Low Yen Ling.
Be Kind, Be Gracious, #BeGreaterSG
View pictures here.
Watch Performance here.
LinkedIn video here
Kindness Day SG (20 May 2022)
Music Cities Convention in Alberta, Canada (10 February 2022)
Empowering the youth and promoting mental health with music.
Eileen will be sharing about her music ecosystem of Giving through Music – from Music Sparkles SG to empower kids; Strings for Kindness to bring kindness to the community as a teen; 3am Music Collective to collaborate and create your own original works as a youth; The Violin Travels to explore new ideas, to uplift our spirits to bring joy, happiness and love to the people around the world; and to Silver Everbright to give empowerment, engagement & involvement for healthy ageing to seniors.
Strings for Kindness & #TheViolinTravels performs Everything Is Possible.
Speakers information here.
Schedule Information here.
Watch Presentation & Performance here.
Light to Night Festival (14 January 2022)
Let #TheViolinTravels bring you around the world, on an exploration tour through music. Together with Chap Chee on the percussion and Mabel Lim on the piano, we will guide you to re-discover yourselves, spark new ideas, and empower and uplift the spirits of children, youth and adults. We will also be joined by violinists, Alyssa Wong, Lauren Ngiam and Valerie Kuan from the Strings For Kindness. Music can be found as NFTs on VaultV https://www.vaultv.com
About the Event
View pictures here.
Watch performance here.
Victoria Concert Hall social media links: Facebook (rehearsal) , Facebook (promo) , Facebook (event) , Instagram
Strings for Kindness Christmas Medley Virtual Performance (17 December 2021)
Christmas Medley Virtual Performance.
Watch performance here. (to be updated)
National University of Singapore Giving New Logo Launch (16 December 2021)
Strings for Kindness performs a flash mob music medley to launch the new logo of NUS Giving.
View pictures here.
Verve Arts Festival (December 2021)
This festival is organised by the Ngee Ann Poly students, specifically Year 2 Arts Business Management.
One of their programmes is called, Artbytes. ARTBYTES is Verve’s very own educational video series targetted towards primary and lower secondary school students!
The founder been interviewed (via Zoom) by the team – topic on how she has used sports to apply in music-making and teaching.
She also spoke about her music ecosystem of Giving through Music – from Music Sparkles SG to empower kids; Strings for Kindness to bring kindness to the community as a teen; 3am Music Collective to collaborate and create your own original works as a youth; and to The Violin Travels to explore new ideas, to uplift our spirits to bring joy, happiness and love to the people around the world.
Verve Arts Festival website here.
Interview here.
Youth Music Day (2nd December 2021)
All children should have a happy childhood, filled with love, security and beautiful experiences. A supportive environment helps buffer children from the effects of stress so that they can develop important life skills such as communication, love and empathy–the building blocks of resilience. Kids become youths, their life skills continue to be grow where they show kindness to the community and pick up positive challenges naturally. As educators, we help guide to spark their curiosity to empower them while they are still young. How do we build resilience in our kids? How can we empower our youths? How can we ignite the spark in their young minds? Join us to find out more. There will be a performance by the Strings For Kindness.
Youth Harmony Website here.
Strings for Kindness Christmas Medley Virtual Performance (December 2020)
Christmas Medley Virtual Performance.
Watch performance here.
#StayHome Virtual Concert (May 2020)
A virtual concert by the young ones for the community during the COVID19 circuit breaker 2020.
Watch performance here.
Together, we can Be Greater @ Our Tampines Hub (7 March 2021)
As part of the effort to encourage even more people to show care and appreciating to our front-liners and others, Strings for Kindness and many other ground up movements, will be coming together at Our Tampines Hub, 7 March 2021, Saturday.
Let’s continue to come together to overcome this situation of the COVID-19 as a nation.
Together, we can Be Greater.
Together, we can Overcome As One.
View videos of encouragement by the young ones, for our front-liners, here.
Channel NewsAsia “Show Me The City” (December 2019)
Strings for Kindness in Channel NewsAsia’s programme, “Show Me The City”.
Watch CNA interview (@6:11) here.
Christmas Party @ Bishan North Zone 4 RC (7 December 2019)
“A meaningful christmas event for the kids to be part of, playing music for the community,” shared one of the parents after the kids strings ensemble performance.
Thankful and blessed that all parents and kids understand why Strings For Kindness exist, that we give through music.
Strings For Kindness, is a ground up movement of the Singapore Kindness Movement, a kids strings ensemble that brings kindness to the community. Hopefully more people will know about how the kids themselves are giving through music.
Thank you to Bishan North Zone 4 RC for having us!
View pictures here.
Watch performance here.
Terrace Piccini Venetian Party (2 November 2019)
Violin performance at the Singapore Recreation Club.
View pictures here.
PAssion Arts Festival @ Our Tampines Hub (21 July 2019)
Strings For Kindness, presented a wonderful performance at the PAssion Arts Festival – they gave their gift of music on stage for the community.
The performance was a success because of the journey of music-making together. Thank you to all string players and parents.
View pictures here.
Watch performance here.
SG100 Foundation Gala Dinner – Celebrate Bicentennial Lest We Forget (22 March 2019)
“Strings For Kindness” performed at the SG100 Foundation Gala Dinner – Celebrate Bicentennial Lest We Forget.
It was truly great fun for the kids, a memorable experience and we got to take a group photo with our Finance Minister Mr Heng Swee Keat.
View pictures here.
Watch here.
Marin Square, Synwin Music – Tayo Irvine Hendrix Children’s Book Launch (8 April 2018)
Tayo was at Synwin Music (Marina Square) to launch her Children’s Book Series The Naughty Cello. The first in the series is the HUMMINGLAND™. The book is about using musical instruments to represent diversity of people. Young violinists of Strings For Kindess performed at the launch–sharing Peace, Love and Joy–with everyone in the audience.
View pictures here.
Channel NewsAsia Interview (15 January 2018)
Strings for Kindness filming for CNA interview.
Watch interview here.
Sentosa – Kampung Spirit (2 July 2017)
Strings for Kindness performs at Sentosa.
“Kampung Spirit” – a new initiative by Sentosa, organised by the Sentosa Development Corporation, in collaboration with the Singapore Kindness Movement.
View Pictures here.
Singapore Sports Hub – Kindness Day SG Celebration Dinner (20 May 2017)
#KindnessDaySg celebration dinner at the #SingaporeSportsHub.
View Pictures here.
Whampoa Community Centre – UCares Anniversary (6 May 2017)
Strings for Kindness performs and celebrates UCares Anniversary, in conjunction with the Singapore Kindness Month
View Pictures here.
