Express yourself by participating in our talent contest designed by the kids, for the kids while contributing to a great cause of education for the underprivileged kids in India and the US.
There are three categories - Music, Dance and Visual Arts (Drawing, Painting and Digital Art).
Grade levels Categories
- Category 1 - Grades 1-4
- Category 2 - Grades 5-8
- Category 3 - Grades 9-12
Key Dates
- Early Bird Registration
- March 15th - March 31st
- Contest Submissions
- March 15th through May 15th
- Contest Ends
- May 15th
- Results announced
- June 5th
Registration
Submission Rules
Visual Arts
- The submission should be an original painting/drawing or digital art saved as a jpg or a png file
- The submission should address the theme and the prompt of the contest
- No plagiarizing will be tolerated and participants that plagiarize will be promptly disqualified from the contest
- Participants may not submit work they have already written submitted anywhere else
- Multiple entries across the three categories can be submitted as long as registration is paid for each entry
Music
- The submission should be an original piece of vocal or instrumental music that addresses the theme & prompt of the contest
- The music piece should be recorded as a video file and the duration should be 2-3 minutes
- Participants may not submit work they have already written submitted anywhere else
- Multiple entries across three categories can be submitted as long as registration is paid for each entry
Dance
- The submission should be an original piece of dance (any dance form) music that addresses the theme & prompt of the contest
- The dance piece should be recorded as a video file and the duration should be 2-3 minutes
- Participants may not submit work they have already written submitted anywhere else
- Multiple entries across three categories can be submitted as long as registration is paid for each entry
Submission
Judges
Shehzil Malik (Visual Arts)
Shehzil Malik is a designer and illustrator with a focus on human rights, feminism and South Asian identity. She is a Fulbright scholar with an MFA in Visual Communication Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology and is part of the International Development Innovation Network (IDIN). She was a contributing artist and panelist at the Oslo Freedom Forum 2019 and has previously worked as an art director at Ogilvy & Mather, Lahore. Her clients include Penguin USA, Oxfam, New York Times, GIZ, and Google. Website. Instagram.
Gwendlyn Domingo (Visual Arts)
I love to create and leverage my versatile abilities across different dimensions of art. Creating is a passion which I see no end to. I enjoy every art medium that I can get my hands on. Having said that, painting in oils is the one that I spend most of creative days with.
I believe that art needs to engage the audience and through my paintings I look to to recreate moods and emotions. I enjoy integrating details that would otherwise go unnoticed. I love painting from photographs of people and wildlife and have lately been doing a lot of still life that I enjoy setting up. I paint with oils and acrylic, and work with polymer clay and pyrography as well.
Being a self-taught artist has been an exciting journey for me. The process of learning is never ending so I constantly try to improve myself. I always emphasize that it is never too late to pursue your passion and this, I state, through my personal experience. Receiving the Emerging Artist Gold Award 2019, by the Fine Art Commission, Cupertino has fueled the passion within me even more. I have participated in various juried shows and have received many awards locally. I have even been on the panel of Judges for since years now for the Reflections Art Program by the PTA at Sam H Lawson Middle School in Cupertino.
I also teach young kids art, and this gives me an opportunity to share my knowledge and experience with them.
Ambi Subramaniam (Music)
Hailed as "the new king of Indian classical violin" (The Times of India) and “India’s Itzhak Pearlmann” (Ozy Magazine), Ambi Subramaniam has been trained from his father and guru Dr. L. Subramaniam since the age of three, and gave his first performance at the age of seven. Since then, he has performed in many prestigious venues across the world. He has received the Ritz Icon of the Year Award, the Rotary Youth Award, two GiMAs (Global Indian Music Award for Best Fusion Album and Best Carnatic Instrumental Album) and Big Indian Music Award (for Best Carnatic Album). Ambi regularly plays duet violin concerts with Dr. L. Subramaniam in addition to solo concerts. He has performed at the prestigious Dussehra Festival at the Mysore Palace, the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, the Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival, the Jay Pritzker Pavillion in Chicago, the Royal Festival Hall in London, the Maximum India Festival at Kennedy, the Royal Opera House, Muscat, and at the Centenary Celebration of the Banglaore Gayana Samaj.
Smt. Supraja Sridharan (Music)
Smt. Supraja Sridharan is a sangeetha katha Carnatic vocalist who has performed for various prestigious musical organizations in India and North America. She is a disciple of Sangeetha Kala Acharya Smt. Neela Ramgopal for Carnatic music and Smt. Vishaka Hari for Harikatha. Academically, she holds degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Toronto. She heads the Nuclear Risk Management Team at CANDU Energy Inc,. (an SNC Lavalin Group Company) in Mississauga, Canada.
Kunjal Patel (Dance)
Kunjal has been dancing for as long as she can remember. She grew up learning and practicing Bharatnatyam, Garba, Raas, and Yoga. She has participated in and led various competitive dance teams and has choreographed, performed, and taught numerous pieces of varying styles of dance (Bhangra, Bollywood Fusion, Filmy Dance, Hip Hop, Kathak, etc.). To her, dance is a form of meditation and is a beautiful way to freely express emotion and release tons of endorphins. She currently teaches private Bharatnatyam classes as well as BollyX dance fitness, Indian folk, and Yoga classes.
Jasneet Anand (Dance)
Jasneet Anand, Former Executive Director of Vibha Bay Area, a zealous long-term volunteer working as an Engineering Program Manager and pursuing a multitude of hobbies on the side.
Between working and spending time with family, she teaches Bollywood fitness classes at various gyms in the Bay Area.
Prizes
The first prize winner will receive a medal and certificate and there will be 2 honorable mentions in each age group
