The moon was shining particularly bright on 18th of May, a night that for some of the students will be written in their memoir, the night of 2024’s Artomic : Retroverse. Artomic is an annual event held by the current 11th graders on each respective years with the help of tent. It is one of-if not, the biggest event of the year. At its core, Artomic is a night of performing arts – an opportunity event for the students to showcase their talent in music and arts to the public. This event is a public event and is attended by hundreds to thousands of external mass. Every year, the current 11th and 10th graders will choose a popular artist or popstar to be a guest star performing on their night, and this year, the 2024’s Artomic committee chose the rising indie/pop/rock group-star that has just finished their North America tour, “Reality Club”.
The night started as early as 1 pm as the gates to enter the venue opened. The attendees are able to enjoy the various selection of festive-foods sold at the bazaar right beside the performance area. The event was opened by a series of opening speeches, and then was quickly followed by performances of Artomic’s band and dance competition known as “Retrostage” finalists. The finalists jeweled the stage with their outstanding and unique performances, each group delivered their own concept and brought colors to the stage, making it their own personal dance floor. This performances was then followed by the winner announcement, rewarding, and the closing of “Retrostage”.
The next part of the night’s rundown is adorned by loads of talents and future artist – performances by none other than the Pembangunan Jaya Students ranging from kindergarten to senior high. The students performed various forms of arts – but dominated by musical arts. This year, the highschool unit chose to showcase their talent in ensemble music in the form of band, as they performs the classic yearning/heartbreak Indonesian pop song “Januari” & “Separuh Nafas” that made you sing your heart out even for days after the event.
Then after a few moments of break, we arrived at the main event of the evening : an hour of concert and sing-along with “Reality Club”. Tears of joy and screams of excitement were heard as the group strums their first chord of the night to their hit “Arrowhead Man”. Vibrant colors of lights such as reds and blues were blinding as Reality Club performed the first half of their setlist for the night. The first half of the concert started with their songs that are leaning more towards pop rock/grunge genre, leaving an extremely exciting atmosphere in the crowd. The peak moment of the group’s concert reached when the melancholy melody of “Alexandra” started to play. As the deep blue lighting approached the stage, the crowd started to chant in unison the famous line “you’re a goddess, your my rockstar” leaving a shivering air full of warm melancholy. This warm lovely atmosphere continued also with their other hit “Anything You Want”, as more tears of joy and singings are heard more vibrantly amongst the crowd. The group’s setlist for the evening ended with a triumph-festive finish performing “Is It The Answer?” and “2112”, successfully making the crowd turned into waves of jumps and dances.
After a few minutes of leaving the Retroverse’s stage, Reality Club’s performance was quickly followed by a leap of genre with DJ Tripleks’s performance and jumps in the crowd that has turned Retroverse’s venue into a dance floor, making a euphoric ending to the night.
At around 10 pm, it was finally time to call it a night and the event was wrapped-up. As each one of the attendees left the venue, it also swiftly left a feeling of pride with a hint of sadness for the Artomic Retroverse’s commitee as the event that they have put in countless of sweats and tears has come to an end. But regardless, the students are in bunch of joy as their slogan “Party Under The Moonlight” has finally been done exactly as they envisioned it to be.
Editor in Chief : Syakira Azzah K. S.
Journalist : Syakira Azzah K. S.
Editor & Translator : Syakira Azzah K. S.
Photo : Jasmine ‘25
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