On February 17th 2016 over 5000 students, teachers and visitors from all over the lower mainland attended the Vancouver Giants game. Each year for the past 4 years children have come to the Pacific Coliseum to support anti bullying with a “pink day dance”. This year there was over 38 schools joining in the event, it was filmed and is posted on YouTube.
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Each year the amount of attendees increases. This is because more people are learning to accept people and want to spread the message. We do the dance not just because it’s fun but it also shows that we are all equal, we all wear the same shirt and do the same dance. When we do the same dance it shows that we can all do things the same as everyone else, no one person is greater or lesser than another. Wearing the same shirt expresses this same message just for a longer time, also we wear it in support of pink shirt day. Last of all, we go to the game to spread awareness. This is why we do the pink day dance.
By: Rakiia Lolieva, Cameron Lee, Rachelle Chen, Tina Noroozi & Jayden Thouli
On February 17th, over 5000 kids gathered together to participate in a flash mob dance to celebrate acceptance. All the kids were wearing pink shirts and they danced to a song called “You’re a Superstar” in the Pacific Coliseum at the PNE. The dance was to promote anti-bullying. The dance happened in the middle of the 2nd period of a WHL game between the Vancouver Giants and the Victoria Royals. The participants were students from 39 schools in the Lower Mainland.
The children gathered that day for many reasons. Some people came because they wanted to watch the awesome hockey game, like Brad who said, “I wanted to go there because of the hockey game.” Most people came for this magical word, acceptance. Still we have not answered this question: WHY? Many people don’t want to go to school because of bullies. So we stand guard to stop these stingy, unwanted, cold-hearted bullies. The bullies are the reason why over 5000 students went to the Pacific Coliseum. Why did we dance? Why did we spend so much time and effort to learn the dance? It’s to show how much we care about anti-bullying. It’s to show we can teach over 5000 children this dance. It’s our effort. It’s our determination. It’s anti-bullying. We had to work hard to learn this dance, over 3 months of dancing at school almost every single day. Though we were really bad at this dance at first, and it was only a dream at the start, we worked very hard and managed to make this dance into a reality. Every Monday we did a dance and we managed to give up a whole lot of our gym time to teach this masterpiece. This is how hard we worked to present this dance, to stop bullying, and to let everyone be accepted.
By: Sarah, Michelle, Troy, David, Giovanni, Brad
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Over 6000 people showed up for the February 17th, 2016, Giants game against the Royals, at 12:00PM. 39 schools came, and the one and only Dan Caro was featured. The Giants played at the Pacific Coliseum.
The reason why 39 schools came was to support accepting everyone as equals. They also came to support anti-bullying and raise awareness. It all started when a Grade 9 boy got bullied at school for wearing a pink shirt. After David Shepherd and Travis Price found out about this they helped create a campaign about anti-bullying. That is the main another reason why people came to wear pink and support anyone who’s getting bullied. The dance was really interesting, as was seeing everyone in pink and people filming. Of course, the food was really expensive. Overall the hockey game, the dance and the food were good.
Written By: Brandon, Jerry L, Nick and Melissa.
Pink day flash mob is an annual event that happens on the third Wednesday of February. The flash mob takes place at the Pacific Coliseum. This year 39 schools participated in this event and Chaffey-Burke was one of the schools. Everyone that participated wore pink t-shirts and danced to the song ‘You’re A Superstar’. In the middle of the hockey game, the song came on and the players got off the rink so the dance leaders could dance on the bright red carpet. When it was time to dance, we took off our coats to reveal our bright pink shirts.
This event exists because in 2007 a ninth grade boy got bullied because he wore a pink shirt to school. David Shepherd and Travis Price of Berwick, Nova Scotia, found out what had happened to that poor boy. They went out and bought 50 pink t-shirts and distributed them to people. The story about the poor boy spread and soon Nova Scotia Premier Rodney MacDonald noticed and he made the 2nd Thursday of September ‘Stand up Against Bullying-Day’. Now we go and dance at the Pacific Coliseum at a Giants Game every year to stand up against bullying.
Written by: Jethro, Ryffa, Andrea, Keyel, Camille, Jessica