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Christmas And New Year Celebration
2003-12-23
[Balibagus.com]
 Happiness on the Christmas
In Bali, people have different ways to celebrate Christmas. They go to church and pray and then continue visiting their relatives.
The Hindu Balinese and the Moslem usually visit their Christian friends at their home to strengthen their relationship or friendship. Another way of sharing the joy of Christmas is by helping the poor.
People organized by the church voluntarily donate money, clothes and rice to the poor or the orphan house.
|  New Year Party at Garuda Wisnu Kencana
Many activities and entertainment will spoil the people who celebrate their new year in Bali. One of them takes place in Garuda Wisnu Kencana (GWK). Superman Is Dead, a local band, will hit the GWK’s Lotus Pond along with two distinguished bands from Jakarta -- the Potret and the Alv band.
This New Year party entitled Live and Rave Party (peace in Bali) will also have traditional Kecak dance performance involving 100 dancers. According to Desy Setya Haryani, the head of the committee, the party will last for about 10 hours, starting from 8 pm on 31 December to 6 am on 1 January. "We will also present some dances like Juggling Dance, Wet Dance, Fire Dance, Body Painting and Cabaret Carnival", said Haryani in Hard Rock Café Jakarta, Jakarta, on Thursday.
| A number of disc jockeys (DJs) will also come to the stage: DJ Naro (Jakarta), DJ Tablaa (Jakarta), DJ Electronic Groove (Jakarta), DJ Jamma (Australia), DJ Johny (Bali) and some international DJs who reside in Bali. They will definitely create a different atmosphere to this party. Alex Abbad and Nirina are the master of ceremonies.
|  Haryani said that this party would be spectacular. The stage is quite massive, 80 metres times 8 metres; supported by an 80k watts powerful sound system and hundred of thousand watts lighting system.
The committee produced 9,000 tickets although the capacity of Lotus Pond is 12,000 audience. Tickets are categorized into two classes: the VIPs class at a price of Rp. 1,500,000 (USD 170) and the festival class at a price of Rp. 300,000 (USD 35). "There are 1,000 tickets available for the VIPs class and 8,000 tickets for the festival class", said Haryani.
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