{"id":35383,"date":"2013-10-01T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/?p=35383"},"modified":"2021-06-02T13:08:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T05:08:55","slug":"a-royal-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/a-royal-success\/","title":{"rendered":"A Royal Success!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The guests were greeted by a photobooth in the foyer of the Shangri-La Hotel’s Island Ballroom, where they were welcome to pose for coronation pictures fit for a king and queen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the course of the night, W!LD RICE held a silent auction for the King Power Royale \u2013 an exquisite piece unique<\/em> timepiece designed exclusively for us by Hublot. The auction fetched S$43,000 from a generous individual who prefers to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The King Power Royale<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need art,\u201d proclaimed Mr Jean-Claude Biver, CEO of Hublot, who had flown in from Switzerland for the express purpose of attending the Ball. \u201cWe need creativity. We need imagination. Art is nothing else but the expression of love.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mr Jean-Claude Biver, CEO of Hublot, with Ms Susanna Kang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hublot’s timepieces were paired with design maestro Frederick Lee’s haute couture creations in a dazzling runway show, which kicked off the evening’s revelries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hosted by veteran performer Pam Oei, the Royal Command Variety Performance featured exhilarating numbers starring Ivan Heng, Hossan Leong, Matilda d’Silva, and nine-year-old Lauren Yeo, whose performance of O Mio Babbino Caro<\/em> received a standing ovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pam Oei: Dancing Queen!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Guess who Ivan is playing…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hossan brings the French Revolution to Singapore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lauren: a little girl with a big, big voice!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Guests at the Ball enjoyed a sumptuous five-course dinner prepared especially by Colin Buchan, head chef of the Michelin-starred restaurant Pollen, in collaboration with Shangri-La Hotel\u2019s Executive Sous Chef Nicholas Issel, and Pastry Chef Sam Huang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ivan with our Executive Producer Tony Trickett<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEvery year, we hope to out-do ourselves with our annual RICE Ball,\u201d Ivan explains. \u201cWe’re enormously thrilled with the success we’ve had with The (Very) Royal Ball, the proceeds of which will go towards funding our work in the coming year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He adds, \u201cFrankly, it would be impossible for W!LD RICE to do the work we do if we did not enjoy the support of all our generous benefactors. The arts scene in Singapore would be all the poorer without them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The annual W!LD RICE charity gala on 4 October 2013 \u2013 our twelfth \u2013 was a resounding success. Presented by Hublot, The (Very) Royal Ball was a completely sold-out affair. Come re-live the festivities with us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":35384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[246,28],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}