PRESS ROOM
Press Release: October 26, 2009
CICCETSS 2009 crowns 9
Class 2009/10 Culture and Charity Queens and honours 3 new Community Champions
with IVHES Awards.
A
sensational welcome speech, by The Worshipful The Mayor of Redbridge, Councillor
Thomas Chan, Dip HE BA (Hons) FRSA, officially opened the Evening of cultural awareness and
community cohesion promotion at the exquisite London Borough of Redbridge Town
Hall venue on Saturday 24th October 2009. The Mayor's speech, thunderously
applauded by the quality audience of dignitaries and the finest citizens of all
nations, set the scene for the delivery of the Evening's most entertaining
programme which was electrifying from start to finish.
The highlights included the annual friendly contest between national cultural
and charity queens of Commonwealth and other nations for the world's nine most
prestigious ambassadorial title crowns for the promotion of community
Quality of Life improvement, the presentation of International Voluntary
Humanitarian and Environmental Services (IVHES) Awards to nominated community
champions, and exhilarating cultural performances by star solo and group artists
that brought the roof down.
Resounding public praise from the audience included
acclaims of the CICCETSS as "a fantastic show", "absolutely fabulous" and "simply the most
accomplished international cultural and charity show, ever...!", etc. As usual, the CICCETSS
proved to be the world's No. 1 quality of life improvement promotion programme
and a promoter of the most entertaining and productive culture and charity
pageant.
Nine new fabulous international queens and three new celebrated community
champions are the major products of this year's CICCETSS.
The CICCETSS Management wishes to thank The Mayor and Madam Mayor for their
patience while they endured the delayed start of the programme caused by
unexpected staff absence, and for gracing the occasion by their attendance.
The Management also wishes to thank the panel of judges, presenters,
back-stage staff, media partners, musicians, dancers, stage engineers,
technical staff, photographers, choreographers, caterers, venue security
staff, coach and limousine service providers, IVHES Awards recipients, ushers,
and the quality audience, among others, for their contributions to making the
CICCETSS event so successful and enjoyable. The show was a huge
success, maintaining its usual inimitable stylish charm, despite the
recession's conspiracy against contestant attendance figures this year.
The Mayor's Message:
Dear Friends
A warm welcome to you all for
coming to the Commonwealth International
Cultural and Charity Evening
TV-Special Showcase 2009 event.
I am delighted that this year
this Commonwealth event is being held here
in the London Borough of
Redbridge. As the first Chinese Mayor in Britain,
I am proud to be able to
represent all the people of Redbridge.
We have residents of many
nationalities and cultural backgrounds. There
are over 100 languages spoken in
the Borough, so we are already very
diverse in Redbridge. Tonight we
will be even more diverse.
The organisers of this event say
they aim to promote a sense of community
among people from different
countries and cultural heritage. On that basis,
I am pleased to be able to attend
and lend my support.
As well as raising money for
charities, the programme also promises to be
a great family entertainment
giving us a taste of the Commonwealth, in all
its diversity and colourful
cultures. I am sure that you are as pleased as I am
to be in the audience tonight.
I hope you will all join me in
wishing the Commonwealth organisers every
success and in hosting a
successful evening and supporting a necessary and
deserving cause.
With my best wishes
Cllr
Thomas
Chan
Mayor of Redbridge
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The Mayor and Madam Mayor were graceful and very
popular with the audience, all of whom wanted to be photographed with them.
Here are some photos of the attraction:
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SHOW TIME
The Class 2009/10 Cultural and Charity Queens
crowned ambassadors
From left:-
Miss
Commonwealth
Euro-Atlantic
- Veronica Khosa
& Miss
Commonwealth International Runner-Up
Miss
Commonwealth
Asia-Pacific
- Attika Choudhary
Miss
Commonwealth
Africa
- Amaka Oguchi
Mrs
Commonwealth
International
- Alison Jayne Taylor
Miss
Commonwealth
International
- Joanna Peagram
Miss Teen
Commonwealth International
- Elisa Bolli
Culture Queen Of
Friends Of the Commonwealth - Bonnie Cooper
& Miss
Commonwealth International Runner-Up
Queen Of Friends
Of the Commonwealth
- Karina Dempster
Miss
Commonwealth
Caribbean -
Lynne Bennett
THE TRIPLE CROWN
"MISS"
Miss Commonwealth International and Runners-Up
MCI congratulated by MC-Africa and MrsCI
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THE TRIPLE CROWN "MISS TEEN"
Miss
Teen Commonwealth International & Rs-Up
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THE TRIPLE CROWN "MRS."
Mrs. Commonwealth International and Runners-Up
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THE CULTURAL SECTOR CROWN
Miss Commonwealth Africa
MC - Euro-Atlantic MC -
Asia-Pacific
MC - Caribbean
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QUEEN OF FRIENDS OF THE COMMONWEALTH PAGEANT
(Kazakhstan Queen Of Friends Of The Commonwealth)
(Hawaii Queen Of Friends Of The Commonwealth)
Queen Of Friends Of The Commonwealth
Culture Queen Of Friends Of The
Commonwealth
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PAGEANT PROCEEDINGS
Cultural Expression in Costume
Conventionally dressed to
impress - All very exquisite (except the joker - spot the one in jeans ?!)
FINALE ...
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JUDGES
. . . .
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and . . . .
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PRESENTERS
Judges:
Rani Mehmi, Prince/Mrs De-Marthins Ojie JP, Princess Makosa,
Mac Haley - Miss Galaxy, Charles Thompson. Presenters: Cherry Jumbo, Victoria Alexis
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IVHES Awards Presentation to Community
Champions
(Awards presented by Hayley Mac Miss Galaxy)
The prestigious International Voluntary Humanitarian and
Environmental Services (IVHES) Awards scheme, now in its 4th Year, is for the
recognition and global promotion of commendable voluntary endeavour. Every
year, the international community is invited to nominate anyone, living or
late, who, in their opinion, merits the award. The award evening's three most
nominated persons in the Commonwealth cultural sectors of Africa / Caribbean,
Asia-Pacific and Euro-Atlantic were duly recognised and honoured for their
voluntary services to community.
Dr Clarissa
Bell-Gam
Liaqat Ali
JP
Barry Watson
Dr Clarissa Bell-Gam, founder of the Education Helpline
United Kingdom, the London Academy Institute of Education and Remember Africa
Awards, is honoured for voluntary services to community in adult education.
Liaqat Ali is a Justice of the Peace and a local
councillor and former mayor of the London Borough of Waltham Forest. He is
honoured for his voluntary promotion of global peace and unity through the
Global and Peace Organisation of which he is the chair.
Mr
Barry Watson, a retired qualified Permaculture Practitioner, is
honoured for voluntary services to the community, including promotion
of youth horticultural awareness, local biodiversity, derelict land
regeneration, and local food economy in the London Boroughs of
Redbridge and Barking & Dagenham.
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Entertainment
Farah'Onics - Egyptian Belly Dancing - the group
brought the roof down! Recommended for any show.
More images/ performers to follow
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After Party Scenes
More images to come...
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Text Vote Competition
In the run up to the CICCETSS, there was a text vote
competition involving all contestants in the Miss Teen Commonwealth Pageant,
Miss Commonwealth Pageant, Mrs. Commonwealth Pageant and Queen Of Friends Of The
Commonwealth Pageant. The winners were as follows:-
Miss Commonwealth Text
Vote 2009
Mrs. Commonwealth Text Vote
Shirley
Burnett - Miss Commonwealth Guyana
Pam Boon - Mrs. Commonwealth India
Queen Of Friends Of the
Commonwealth Text Vote
Bonnie Cooper - Hawaii Queen Of Friends Of
The Commonwealth
HALF THE STORY. SO FAR...MORE TO FOLLOW......
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Press Release: July 3, 2009
Inner Beauty’s Charitable Pledge
Over
150 beauty queens at the “CICCETSS 2009”, to be held October 24th
2009 in Redbridge, Greater London, pledge to use their titles to raise money
for life, for charities.
The queens are finalists selected to represent their respective
Euro-Atlantic, Asia-Pacific, African and Caribbean nations in a contest for
the title of “Miss Commonwealth International 2009”, taking place within
the Commonwealth International Cultural and Charity Evening TV-Special
Showcase (CICCETSS) 2009 event, at the Redbridge Town Show Hall venue in
London on 24th October 2009.
The CICCETSS, now in its 7th year, is a unique and spectacular
not-for-profit annual international community quality of life improvement promotion programme of
53 Commonwealth Euro-Atlantic,
Asia-Pacific, African, and Caribbean nations, represented by their
respective national Culture and Charity Ambassadors aged 16-60.
It is a fabulous
and popular family night-out and a global entertainer which everyone looks forward to every year.
In accordance with the purpose of the programme, the CICCETSS 2009 will
showcase
1) the formal investiture and empowerment of
the above finalists as authorised national culture and charity ambassadors;
2) the collaboration of the above Commonwealth nations, represented by
their respective cultural and charity ambassadors, in the celebration and
promotion of cultural awareness and exchange, philanthropy, charitable
giving and the other community Quality of Life improvement objectives
referred to below; 3) the contest to select and crown the seven principal
international cultural and charity queens of the Commonwealth as ambassadors
and role models for the global promotion of the above objectives; and 4) the
recognition and promotion of volunteering by the presentation of
commendation certificates and the International Voluntary Humanitarian and
Environmental Services (IVHES) Awards referred to below, to deserving
nominees for commendable voluntary endeavour; etc.
The Miss Commonwealth pageant is held alongside the Miss Teen
Commonwealth, Mrs Commonwealth, Miss Commonwealth Africa, Miss Commonwealth
Asia-Pacific, Miss Commonwealth Caribbean, Miss Commonwealth Euro-Atlantic,
Miss Commonwealth UK and Queen of Friends of the Commonwealth pageants.
The Miss Commonwealth pageants, where charity comes before beauty, aim to be
“a charitable community initiative powered by Inner Beauty”. The queens are
ambassadors and vehicles for the promotion of the pageant’s community
Quality of Life improvement objectives which include increased promotion of
women’s economic and social welfare, eradication of poverty, Commonwealth
unity, cultural awareness and exchange, international volunteering,
philanthropy, education, tourism, children’s welfare, green issues, animal
welfare and fundraising for charitable organisations and humanitarian and
environmental projects across the Commonwealth and the wider international
community. These are in better detail on the pageant’s websites at
www.misscommonwealth.org and
www.ciccetss.org
Most of the delegates are living up to the pageant’s household name of
“Inner Beauty” as they pledge to charity-fundraise for life, and sign up at
www.justgiving.com to raise money
for the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity and other registered
charities, under the pageant’s charity-fundraising programme dubbed “Charity
Eternal”. The CICCETSS will present Charity Eternal Fundraiser
Certificates to all participants in the programme, and crown the highest
fundraiser “Charity Queen”, titled Miss Commonwealth Charity 2009.
The Miss Commonwealth Pageant attracts all age groups (from 16-60 plus) of
charitable inclinations, and is structured to crown 7 principal queens of
the Commonwealth each year, with the major titles of: “Miss Teen
Commonwealth International”, “Miss Commonwealth International” and “Mrs
Commonwealth International”, (comprising the Triple Crown programme); and
“Miss Commonwealth Euro-Atlantic”, “Miss Commonwealth Asia-Pacific”, “Miss
Commonwealth Africa” and “Miss Commonwealth Caribbean” (comprising the
cultural promotion programme).
A Spokeswoman for the pageant explained: “The 7-title structure promotes
increased community participation from three age groups and all four
cultural sectors of the Commonwealth, in the promotion of the pageant’s
community Quality of Life improvement aims and objectives, nationally and
internationally.” This also promotes cultural exchange and re-invigorates
the Commonwealth.
The pageant now has over 700 culture and charity queens around the world,
and the number is growing, annually. This represents a strong charity
fundraising force and influence on community charitableness. These unsung
heroes and community champions include the likes of Jayne Slatter, Miss
Commonwealth England 2004/6 who raised over £800,000, and Amanda Jane
Taylor, the reigning Miss Commonwealth Scotland and Miss Commonwealth
Charity International, whose endless list of charitable works and
charity-fundraising, in excess of £1Million, earned her the invitation, by
the Lord Provost of Aberdeen City and the Lord Provost of Aberdeen Shires,
to be an ambassador for the North-East region. She is to be further honoured
by the pageant by the award of the title of Miss Commonwealth Eternal
at the CICCETSS 2009. There is more about her on her website at
www.amandajayne.co.uk.
This year’s delegates are aiming to equal or exceed and build on the
achievements of the reigning queens and their predecessors who managed to
raise a record sum in excess of £4Million for registered charities around
the world, in the two years to December 2006.
The CICCETSS 2009 programme will include the presentation of commendation
certificates and the International Voluntary Humanitarian and Environmental
Services (IVHES) Awards 2009 to deserving nominees for commendable voluntary
endeavour, to celebrate and promote international volunteering. Proud
previous recipients of the award include the Honourable Dr. Nelson Mandela
of South Africa.
The CICCETSS 2009 presents various sponsorship opportunities together with
commercial benefits and rewards for sponsors. These are outlined on
the website at
http://www.ciccetss.org/support_for_ciccetss_2009.htm.
Participation in the sponsorship opportunities is a
prudent commercial investment in promoting, marketing and branding a
sponsor’s business or products, while rewardingly fulfilling essential
Corporate Social Responsibility obligations as well as helping
invaluably to promote the programme’s good causes.
Green and leafy Redbridge, aptly boasting a maple leaf as its corporate
logo, was chosen as the ideal host venue for the event because the East
London town’s envied cosmopolitan profile is reminiscent of the Commonwealth
cultural diversity celebrated and promoted by the event.
Author: CCS Media
PR
Garamond
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Press Release - January 3, 2009
The contest for the
prestigious Miss
Commonwealth International 2009 title crown is scheduled to take place as a
major item of the CICCETSS 2009 programme on 31 October 2009, at an exquisite
London venue.
The CICCETSS (Commonwealth
International Cultural and Charity Evening TV-Special
Showcase) is an annual event which promotes cultural exchange and
philanthropy and involves participation from Commonwealth African,
Asia-Pacific, Euro-Atlantic and Caribbean nations.
The cultural and charity evening is
a red carpet sensation which will be beamed to an estimated 2.5 billion global
audience and it will showcase the rich cultural diversity of the Commonwealth
and other themes, including the promotion of unity, fundraising for global
giving and cultural awareness, etc.
The beauty pageant, which will
include various supporting activities, will showcase over 100 national
beauty queens representing 53 Commonwealth nations and
others queens from other nations in the rest of the world and specially identified,
in the programme, as Friends of the Commonwealth .
The unique pageant,
which is a multicultural community empowerment platform for women of all ages,
facilitates their effective participation in the promotion of community
Quality of Life improvement. To this end, the pageant is structured to produce
8 queens, as international role models, at each annual international contest, with the respective titles of
"Miss
Commonwealth International", "Miss Teen Commonwealth International", "Mrs
Commonwealth International", "Miss Commonwealth Africa", "Miss Commonwealth
Asia-Pacific", "Miss Commonwealth Euro-Atlantic", "Miss Commonwealth Caribbean"
and "Queen Of Friends Of The Commonwealth".
The queens' respective roles include the general role of helping to promote the
pageant's aims and objectives, including "the promotions of cultural awareness,
unity, family values, good parenthood, education, poverty eradication, tourism
and fundraising for charitable organisations and humanitarian and
environmental projects", etc. The aims and objectives are reflected in the
titles awarded to national finalist contestants in the final selection
processes leading to the international contest.
The proceeds from the show will go
to various charities, including the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's
Charity, Cancer Research UK, NSPCC, WEN, among others.
The CICCETSS event is a fabulous
and popular family night-out and a global entertainer which everyone looks forward to every year.
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