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Transform

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Given Photos (Participant 2: Ex-Event Organiser)

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Given Photos (Participant 1: Uni student)

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Research

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quick note

selection of 2 celebrations from each months

new year children day

flower festival chinese luna new year

national elephant day national muay thai day

Chakri Memorial Day songkran

Coronation Day Royal Ploughing Ceremony

Visakha Bucha Day Phi Ta Khon Ghost Festival

Khao Phansa Candle Festival

Asahna Bucha Day (Full moon) Mother’s Day

Gin Jae Festival Thai National Flag Day

Awk Phansa (End of ‘Buddhist Lent’) Sat Thai Festival

Loy Krathong Yi Peng Lantern Festival

Father’s Day Christmas Day 

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Project Description

Keywords: Celebration, festival, reconnection (friends and cultural background), culture, Thai, Calendar, simplified, prompt, Buddhism, religion, history, archive, records, past, experiences

“CelebRush: Thai Edition” is a simplified version of the existing events in Thailand that I have experienced. Those event require preparation and event time that may last a day and can stretch up to 21 days. When there is an upcoming event, there would be some people that dislike it or who wanted to take part in it, but could not; therefore the project is aiming to shorten those events down to at most 2 hours and try to stay as true to the real event as close as possible. Some doesn’t have spare time to celebrate or would like to try those event, they could use this project as their celebration calendar.

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Reason & History of celebration

New Year’s Day Thailand use both Western year and traditional Thai year, which is 43 years ahead of its Western equivalent

Children’s Day This day is use to recognise the development that children have made and will make to the future of the country. These days it's all about children having fun and parents being grateful for the part they play in bonding families and enriching lives.

Teachers’ Day Thailand hold a belief that teachers are some of society's most valuable contributors to shape the children, who will be the future of the country. Thai people believe teachers deserve to be recognized and appreciated for their dedication

Chinese Lunar New Year 11-14% of Thailand's population are considered ethnic Chinese

Valentine

Makha Bucha Day ”to mark a significant gathering where Lord Buddha led his teaching upon 1,250 of his first disciples” is an explanation from pattaya.holidayinn.com https://shorturl.at/bpyGZ

National Thai Elephant Day  promotes awareness about protecting and conserving the Thai elephant population and its habitats.

National Muay Thai Day The  fighting style is thought to have been used by soldiers and also by locals protecting their lands. Long before it was a sport, Muay Thai was an important survival tool.

Chakri Day This day is for citizens to honor the royal family and celebrate their contributions to the country

Thai New Year Songkran was the official New Year until 1888, when it was switched to a fixed date of 1 April. Then in 1940, this date was shifted to 1 January. The traditional Thai New Year Songkran was transformed into a national holiday.

Labour Day  This holiday has roots in the labour union movement and in the struggle for workers rights internationally

Coronation Day The day is use to demonstrates the stability and unity of the people as the Nation

Bung Ban Fai Rocket Festival Fertility rituals which were held to celebrate the coming of the monsoon season, which rain for the first few month 

Visakha Bucha Day  marking the birth, enlightenment and death of the Lord Buddha

Phi Ta Khon Ghost Festival   This day is believe that dead would come back to life

Khao Phansa  (Start of ‘Buddhist Lent’) Mark the start of the three-month period during the rainy season when monks are required to remain in a particular place such as a monastery or temple grounds. There, they will meditate, pray, study, and teach other young monks.

Asahna Bucha Day traditionally a popular day for young Thai men to enter the monkhood

Mother’s Day Commemorate the birthday of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit.

Por Tor Hungry Ghost Festival To pay respect to the dead.

Vegetarian Festival Those who participate would turn vegan for nine days. The local Chinese community believe that abstinence from meat and other negative stimulants will lead to good health and peace of mind.

Thai National Flag Day To commemorate the day the tricolor flag was issued as the current national flag by King Rama VI Fun fact: Thai flag used to be white elephant face the left with red background, but the flag is often place in the wrong direction, so the King Rama VI notice the flaw in the flag change it to tri color representing: national, religion and king as seen today

King Bhumibol Adulyadej Memorial Day King Bhumibol Adulyadej or Rama IX is a beloved king in Thailand and was praised for his handwork to improve the quality of life for every citizen in Thailand. He would personally travel to the rural or country side area to see the quality of peoples’ live in those area.

Awk Phansa (End of ‘Buddhist Lent’)

Chulalongkorn Day Celebrates the life and work of King Chulalongkorn, also known as Rama V, who ruled Thailand for 42 years

Sat Thai Festival Honoring spirits of the season and dead relatives. Rites and ceremonies vary among different communities. The ceremony is sometimes referred to by locals as “sending off grandparents into the next life”, and is an activity that boosts community unity. Context: Thailand are mostly Buddhism, which believe that everything would be rebirth as one form or another such as animal could be rebirth as a human.

Loy Krathong Paid respects to the water spirits 

Yi Peng Lantern Festival   a way to release negative energy and wish for good luck and good fortune in the coming year.

Father’s Day Commemorate the birthday of King Rama IX. 

Constitution Day commemorates Thailand's adoption of a constitutional monarchy in 1932

Christmas Day Over 90% of the Thai population are Buddhist. Buddhism is tolerant of all other religions, including Christianity, and this religious tolerance is part of the reason why a major Christian festival such as Christmas can also be enjoyed by Buddhists in Thailand.

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The calendar design (14/5/2023)

The calendar design was started from blank piece of canvas and evolve through a “conversation” method inspired by Nicholas Blechman. The “conversation” is a process that multiple authors exchanged drawings or photos using their smart phones. The only rule was that the conversation be non-verbal. https://www.nicholasblechman.com/conversation-1

(This is a recreation, not the real photo. There are problems with recorded footage) The rules: Only numbers and shape try not to use shape tools (free hand if possible) if you cant come up with idea you can pass if both side pass the conversation end

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Prompt Breakdown

Write goals to achieve (Global New Year)

Go to bed or wake up early (Global New Year)

Let the intrusive thoughts win (Children Day)

Doodles (Children Day)

Introduce your hobby (Children Day)

Learn a new skill (Teacher/Children Day)

Teach someone (Teacher Day)

Read a book (Teacher/Children Day)

Photograph your favorited flower (Flower Festival)

home cooked meal (Chinese New Year)

Brew and drink a cup of tea (Makha Bucha /Asahna Bucha Day)

follow the five precepts (Makha Bucha/Asahna Bucha Day)

Meditate (Makha Bucha/Asahna Bucha Day)

Take a photo with any animal (National Thai Elephant Day)

play a game of sport (National Muay Thai Day)

Take a cold shower (Thai New Year)

Double the time spend on one of your assignment (Labour Day)

Organize a party with friends (Rocket Festival)

Write a letter to yourself (Phi Ta Khon Ghost Festival)

Destroy the letter by any mean (Phi Ta Khon Ghost Festival)

No mobile device (leave it at home) ( Khao Phansa )

Brew and drink a cup of tea (Candle Festival)

Spend time with family (Mother/Father Day)

Substitute meat for a day (no meat) (Gin Jae Festival)

Select 1 Thai song (could be your favorited) (Thai Flag Day)

Nightlife (Loy Krathong)

Night walk (Loy Krathong/Lantern Festival)

Make 2 cups of Hot Cocoa (Christmas Day)

Compare yourself to the goals (Global New Year)

Clean your room (Global New Year)

Go to a cafe (Global New Year)

Some prompt were chosen more than the others. Some of the less popular one would get revisit and reconsider.

Some of them are

Write goals to achieve

Read a book

follow the five precepts

No mobile device

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Prompt (participant)

Write goals to achieve by the end of the project

Go to bed or wake up early

Let the intrusive thoughts win

Doodles

Introduce your hobby

Learn a new skill

Teach someone

Read a book/story (>1500 words)

Photograph your favorited flower

home cooked meal

Brew and drink a cup of tea

Take a photo with any animal

play a game of sport

Take a cold shower

Double the time spend on one of your assignment

Organize a party with friends

Write a letter to yourself

Destroy the letter by any mean (if event 14 is chosen)

follow the five precepts

Meditate

No mobile device (leave it at home)

Brew and drink a cup of tea

Spend time with family

Substitute meat for a day (no meat)

Select 1 Thai song (could be your favorited)

Nightlife

Night walk

Make 2 cups of Hot Cocoa [for yourself and another person]

Compare yourself to the goals that you write on New Year (If event 1 is chosen)

Clean your room

Go to a cafe

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Prompt

Each event could be adjust and modify for participants to participate whether they are from Thailand and Buddhism religious or not. The action/way of celebration would stay true or at least inspired by the real event.

January ๑ New Year’s Day - Write goals to achieve by the end of the project or go to bed/wake up early Children’s Day - Let the intrusive thoughts win or doodle Teachers’ Day - Learn a new skill

February ๒ Flower Festival - Photograph your favorited flower Chinese Lunar New Year - home cooked meal

March ๓ Makha Bucha Day (Full moon) - Brew and drink a cup of tea National Thai Elephant Day - take a photo with any animal National Muay Thai Day - play a game of sport

April ๔ Songkran Festival (Thai New Year) - Take a cold shower

May ๕ Bung Ban Fai Rocket Festival - Organize a party with friends

June ๖ Visakha Bucha Day (Full moon) - Brew and drink a cup of tea Phi Ta Khon Ghost Festival - Write a letter to yourself and destroy it by any mean

July ๗ Khao Phansa (Start of ‘Buddhist Lent’) -  follow the five precepts Candle Festival - Meditate

August ๘ Asahna Bucha Day (Full moon) - Brew and drink a cup of tea Mother’s Day - Spend time with family

September ๙ Gin Jae Festival ( vegetarian)- Substitute meat for a day Thai National Flag Day - Select 1 Thai song (could be your favorited)

October ๑๐ Awk Phansa (End of ‘Buddhist Lent’) - follow the five precepts Halloween - Kenopsia photo

November  ๑๑ Loy Krathong - nightlife Yi Peng Lantern Festival (light festival) - night walk

December ๑๒ Father’s Day - Spend time with family Christmas Day -  Make 2 cups of Hot Cocoa [for yourself and another person] New Year Eve - Compare yourself to the goals that you write on New Year or clean your room

There are about 25 events on this list. These events are spread throughout the year. However, these events can be compressed down to 1 month and they still fall under the definition of calendar. The participant would have to follow a daily given prompt from the calendar and they would be 5 chances to skip certain event. ****Participant says 1 month is too long of a project to do everyday, so its reduced down to 2 weeks (14 events)

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Cultural context

I’m from Thailand and and there are couple of forgotten or not widely known events. Here are some of the event that I remember participating.

Clarification:

New Years as in 2023

Global New Year  is 31 Dec to 1 Jan

Chinese New Year is 10 to 25 Feb (17 to 19 Feb)

Thai New Year is 9 to16 April

Yes, we celebrate 3 New Year in the span of 1 year Thailand’s religious are mostly Buddhism (~96%), but we still celebrate event from other religious Most of the event are celebrate by either spending time with family/friends or going to the temple. Some event may not happen on the same day or month every year.

January New Year’s Day Children’s Day Teachers’ Day Chinese Lunar New Year

February Valentine

March Makha Bucha Day National Thai Elephant Day National Muay Thai Day

April Chakri Day Thai New Year

May Labour Day Coronation Day Bung Ban Fai Rocket Festival

June Visakha Bucha Day Phi Ta Khon Ghost Festival

July Khao Phansa (Start of ‘Buddhist Lent’)

August Asahna Bucha Day Khao Phansa Day Mother’s Day Por Tor Hungry Ghost Festival

September Vegetarian Festival Thai National Flag Day

October King Bhumibol Adulyadej Memorial Day Awk Phansa (End of ‘Buddhist Lent’) Chulalongkorn Day

November Loy Krathong Yi Peng Lantern Festival

December Father’s Day Constitution Day Christmas Day New Year Eve

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Step Back

Most of the event on the calendar from the first iteration are from western and are well-known around the world. The calendar could be more personalize such as reflective of my cultural background, someone else calendar or someone else’s past calendar.

Calendar is define as a system for organizing and measuring of time, which can be use to divide a year into smaller section such as months and days. It can be use for tracking important dates and events, such as holidays and personal appointments. Modern calendars are typically based on the Gregorian calendar, which is a solar calendar that consists of 365 days in a year (or 366 days in case of a leap year) and is divided into 12 months.

Date format

DD/MM/YY is used in UK MM/DD/YY is used in USA YY/MM/DD is used in Japan

Example: 1st March 2023 UK - 01/03/2023 US - 03/01/2023 JP - 2023/03/01

Type of calendar

-no image found Korean is in  4356

Hijri or Islamic calendar is currently in year 1444 AH

French Revolutionary Calendar

Japanese calendar is based on year of the reign of the Emperor (No, I cannot read the calendar above). As in 2023, Japanese year is Reiwa 5. https://www.ewc.co.jp/en/information/569/

Chinese year is currently in year of rabbit (4720 or 4660). Each year is associated with one of the 12 zodiac animals, which rotate in a 12-year cycle.

Buddhists in many countries, including Thailand, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka. The year is counted from the Buddha's death, which is 543 year ahead of Anno Domini. As in 2023, it’s 2567 (Thailand is 2566). https://www.wikiwand.com/en/thai_calendar

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An Invitation to Collaboration (outdated)

The Legacy Footprint of the Past Password: identity ***This idea is just a concept and not yet been finalize***

If you are interested in getting involved in the project, we welcome your participation. To join, simply click on the link above, which will take you to the page. While signing in is optional, it is preferred as it will allow me to keep track of updates on project developments and give credit to the right person. Once you have joined, you will be able to edit the shared project Excel document and contribute your ideas and feedback to help improve the project. To participate you will need to choose and research the selected date historical event, the cell is pasting in the information link, additionally, you can display text.

The "Legacy footprint of the past" is a project that uses a calendar format to highlight significant events, people, and cultural milestones from the past. Each day of the year would be dedicated to a particular event or figure from history, accompanied by relevant information, video, and images. Each cell is for only 1 historical event, if you have another idea for that same day you can use the “comment” function to suggest a new event. The collaborators are chosen randomly.

If there are any problem or question either with the project or anything else you can message me on Discord Server (Sirus#4719) Instagram (@peachsisky) Gmail (peach.lorth@gmail.com)

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Calendar Format

The Chinese wall calendar is a unique and traditional way of tracking time that has the potential to display a extensive amount of information. However, the production process for this type of calendar presents some challenges. Since each day has its own page, the calendar would require at least 366 pages to cover an entire year, including one page for the cover and additional pages for reference. Binding all of these pages together could be complicated and time-consuming as well. Despite these challenges, the Chinese wall calendar is a valuable format for displaying a lot of information on each page. With careful planning and design, each page could feature not only the date, and name of the event from the history but also additional information of the history, image, online resource, and similar event.

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Project

Change the project name from “The Calendar” to “Legacy Footprint”

The "Legacy footprint" is a project that uses a calendar format to highlight significant events, people, and cultural milestones from the past. Each day of the year would be dedicated to a particular event or figure from history, accompanied by relevant information, video, and images.

The project has the potential to collaborate with historians, researchers, and cultural experts to identify and verify the content for each day of the year. Alternatively the project can be done collaborate with friends, where they would be involve in identify the event and the information would get verify by the project manager.

The calendar would be the primary medium for the project, with each day featuring a unique design and layout to showcase the content for that day.

The target audience for the calendar would be people who are interested in history, culture, and learning about significant events from the past.

The goal is to provide a daily reminder of significant events and people from history, to promote awareness and understanding of the past. To showcase the diversity and richness of human history, by featuring events and figures from different cultures and periods. To encourage people to explore and learn more about history, by providing resources and links to related information.

The project could be produced annually, with each edition featuring a new set of events and figures from history. The content for each day would be managed by the project team, based on research. The calendar could be distributed through online communities and universities (similar to the debate magazine) and could be available in both print and digital formats.

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Calendar Design

https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/1372165741/2023-riso-calendar

https://plainmagazine.com/unique-calendars-to-begin-the-new-year-in-style/

https://design-milk.com/2014-modern-calendars/?media_id=167812