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CCA Previews ‘26: Raffles Rock 
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By Elsa Lim (Chairperson), Sarah Tan (Vice-Chairperson) 

The lights dim. 

The audience falls silent. Anticipating breaths echo throughout the room. 

Backstage, your hands shake and your heart pounds; anxiety, adrenaline, and excitement thrumming through your veins all at once. Your bandmates surround you, the looks on their faces mirroring yours. With clammy palms, you share a final high five, a final group cheer, a final whispered ‘good luck, we got this!’ 

Cloaked in shadow and smoke, cheers and screams accompanying your every step, you take the stage. Fingers finding keys, hands clenching drumsticks, you are swallowed by the applause. For this moment, the stage is yours.  

This is Raffles Rock. 

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CCA Previews ’26: Raffles Jazz
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By Raffles Jazz EXCO ’26

Adapted from CCA Previews ‘25 

Before we get into the swing of things, what is Jazz? 

A Wikipedia search finds you looking through its defining characteristics: swung rhythms, complex chords, and improvisation, among others.

Dig a little deeper, and you’ll see interviews with famous jazz musicians such as pianist Duke Ellington who would anti-climatically say “It’s all music”, saxophonist Stan Getz who puts it nicely: “like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other’s ideas”, or even Jazz legend Brice Tan, who famously quipped: “Jazz.. is easy”. 

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CCA Previews’ 26: Chinese Literary Drama and Cultural Society
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By Cao Runfang (Chairperson), Wang Yixuan (Vice-Chairperson)

Have you ever wanted to be part of an original play? Or hummed a tune and wished you could turn it into a song?

Well, join CLDCS and we’ll make sure that your wish is granted!

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CCA Previews ’26: Raffles Chorale 
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By Raffles Chorale EXCO ‘26 

“There is no such beauty as where you belong.” 

If you’ve heard this line echoing through stairwells or seen it on the back of our jackets, that’s us: Raffles Chorale. This lyric comes from our legacy song The Road Home by Stephen Paulus, and honestly, it sums us up pretty well.

As a performing arts CCA, beauty, above all, is the ideal we strive to achieve. Chorale derives that beauty not just from working towards musical excellence in our performances, but—at the risk of sounding extremely clichéd—especially from the family that we have built.  

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CCA Previews ’26: Raffles Players 
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By Raffles Players EXCO’26

Photos courtesy of Raffles Arts and Photography Society

Adapted from CCA Previews ’25 

Let us guess.  

You’re here because you saw the name, and thought it was all about the game. Once again, we are not those kinds of players.  

Or, you’re the kind of person who belts musicals in the shower, who shamelessly thinks that you’re the main character.

Perhaps you’ve been itching to get your hands on some power tools, to make a colourful mess while working on the creation of our backdrops. Maybe you’re angling to get your hands on our robust, recently-renovated Lights and Sounds system? Or maybe you’re just looking for a respite from the mundanity of everyday school life. 

Regardless, read on, because Raffles Players may be just the place for you! 

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