The light-up, which stretches for 3.1km, will take place nightly at 6.30pm until Jan 1.
This year marks the 41st edition of the light-up, and is themed around traditional Christmas lights set in a firefly garden.
Families and friends took photos in front of glittering arches and a 14m-tall Christmas tree at the Ngee Ann City Civic Plaza, the tallest on the shopping street this year.This year’s festivities are expected to draw between four and five million visitors, on a par with pre-pandemic levels, Orchard Road Business Association chairman Mark Shaw said on Oct 23 at a media conference.
More than 30 local personalities like badminton player Loh Kean Yew, father-daughter pair Fandi Ahmad and Iman Fandi, and composer Dick Lee painted personalised Sharity figurines to raise funds for communities in need. In 2023, Community Chest’s funding helped special education schools serve more than 7,700 students with special needs. Seven new Sped schools have been established since 2022 to boost the capacity to meet the growing demand and needs for quality special education.
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