Minggu, 18 Oktober 2015

GAMARVANI 2015 : GEMILANG CINTA NEGERI





Last month, my school held an amazing event. It was Gamarvani. Gamarvani is a culture fesatival which held as annual event by 3 Senior High School Bandung. This event designed to make teenagers in Bandung know and love our culture. That’s why many West Java’s culture can be found in this festival, such as wayang golek performed by Giri Harja, pencak silat, angklung performed by KPA 3, and many more.



So what is Gamarvani? Gamarvani taken from two Latin words. ‘Gama’ which means ‘a trip’ and ‘parvani’ which means ‘going to moon’. So, Gamarvani means ‘a trip to moon’. Why it was named so? Because the theme of this festival is taken from a folklore titled ‘Nyi Anteh’.
I’m going to tell you a little part of the story.

“There were two girls lived in a palace. They were Princess Endahwarni, the daughter of the king and the queen, and Anteh, the daughter of the lady-in-waiting. Although Anteh wasn’t her sister, Endahwarni loved Anteh like her little sister.
One day, Princess Endahwarni would get married with a prince named Anantakusumah. A week before the wedding, Prine Anantakusuma came to talk about the wedding ceremony. While he passed the garden to the palace, he saw a beautiful girl. He thought the girl was Princess Endahwani but he was wrong. The girl was Anteh. Since that, Prince Anantakusuma fell in love with Anteh, even when he became Endahwarni’s husband.
Princess Endahwarni felt so angry when she knew that her husband fell in love with Anteh. So, she asked Anteh to leave the palace. Anteh felt very sad. She went to her hometown and lived with her uncle.
Years passed and Endahwarni missed Anteh very much. She started looking for Anteh, and found her became a very famous tailor. Anteh was married and have two children. Endahwarni asked Anteh to go back to the palace and worked there as the palace tailor. Anteh agreed, and she lived in the palace with her little family, and her cat named Candramawat.
Anteh was very happy that she could go back to the palace. But she didn’t know that the prince still love her. It was a beautiful evening and the moon was full when Anteh and her cat, Candramawat, were in the garden. Anteh was weaving the dress. Suddenly, the prince come to her and asked her to marry him. Anteh was so surprised and ignoring the prince. But the prince didn’t want to let her go. Anteh was very scared, and she prayed to God to save her.
Suddenly moonlight covered his body. Slowly the light lifted Anteh and Candramawat to the moon. The prince was very shocked. He was very sorry but it was too late. Anteh was never came back to earth.
People said that we still can see the image of Nyai Anteh and her cat during the moon full.”
That’s a good story, isn’t it? Gamarvani took that folklore as the theme because not everyone in Bandung know this story.
The poster of Gamarvani
Gamarvani held on September 19th 2015, in Bali Field, Bandung. A month before this event held, my seniors recruiting students in grade 10 to be the crew. Almost a half of grade-10-students take that chance. We’re very excited to participate and help our seniors to succeed this event. We divided into several division according to our interest and capability such as division event, decoration, publication, documentation, public-relations, and many more. Our leader is Kang Ababil Akram, a student in grade 12. I think he really good as our captain!
Hard, easy, tired, happy, sad… We faced it together. Our intention is only to success of this event!
It was a day before Gamarvani and school atmosphere filled with euphoria of Gamarvani. It was our second culture festival after Matswapati on 2014. We had a meeting in Bali Field, at this day, and started decorating the field with glow-in-the-dark-lampion, a tunnel for visitors, a pair of gate, stand for food festival and many more. On 8pm. The field was ready for tomorrow!
September, 19th 2015
 [5am]
The crew held our last briefing. We're ready to work! It was a very busy day. Everyone worked as their own tasks. A lot of work to do, and we must work quickly because the event would officially opened on 10am!
[10am]
 Our field commander, Kang Aditya, ordered us to line up and wait quietly while our headmaster, Mr. Encang, officially opened the event by cutting red tape on the finish of the tunnel. And when it was done, everyone became very happy!
After that, the event was begin.
Visitors began to arrive and the come more and more. Most visitors were come on 5p.m. The Bali Field was so full of people. Many of my Junior High School friends came. And I got many new friends, too.
The climax of this event was when the guest stars, Adera and HiVi!, show on the stage. We're all sang and dance together. The event closed by HiVi!'s last performance on 10pm. We're all felt very tired but it was such a wonderful night! I've never seen better!
SAY 'GA MAR VA NI!'
So, are you guys ready for the next year?

p.s. The aftermovie of Gamarvani can be watched on ->Gamarvani on YouTube