Voices for the Planet Festival Pre-Festival Challenge (Competition) Deadline: World Biodiversity Day 22nd May 2021 - LumiVoce

Voices for the Planet Festival
                 Pre-Festival Challenge (Competition)
               Deadline: World Biodiversity Day 22nd May
                                 2021
Welcome students, teachers, parents and schools to the LumiVoce.org Voices for
the Planet Challenge!

Voices for the Planet Challenge is an environmental arts program for children and
young adults. Supporting materials, such as wildlife stories, wildlife illustrations,
musical stems, video files are provided for the participants to use in their individual
art projects. These materials are easily scaled up or down to meet with the
participants’ grade levels, abilities, ambition and creative spirit. Parents and
teachers are also provided with support materials to help guide the participants.
Along the way, the participants learn about biodiversity and the local environment.
Empathy is also taught. All the participants are awarded for their works, and a few
are chosen to receive excellence awards by professional judges. The core values of
the program are creativity, fun, environmental awareness, empathy and caring.

Voices for the Planet Challenge 2021 is themed with top five endangered aquatic
animals in Hong Kong, including Hong Kong’s Chinese white dolphin, green turtle,
Hong Kong grouper, black-faced spoonbill, and shark, as well as a special feature
about the most trafficked mammal - pangolin. And include all endangered marine
wildlife in Southern China. (Besides the new theme for 2021, we will continue to offer
Lumivoce’s core themes and challenges).

We welcome global participating schools and participants to choose their own top
five local endangered species to focus on in their locality.

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We welcome you in taking part in this challenge so that you can add your voice to
ours, in helping to protect endangered animals and our environment and SAVE OUR
LIVING WORLD.

             Five Art Forms with 8 Challenges
Five Art Forms:

Music             Photography          Writing       Illustration          Video

Eight Challenges:

Challenge 1: Create a Poster of an Endangered Animal
Challenge 2: Draw Illustrations for the LumiVoce Wildlife Story passages
Challenge 3: Write a Story for the LumiVoce Wildlife Story Illustrations
Challenge 4: Write an Original Story About an Endangered Animal
Challenge 5: Create a Music Video of an Endangered Animal
Challenge 6: Recreate Wildlife Videos Incorporating LumiVoce Music Videos
Challenge 7: Take a Photograph Featuring an Endangered Animal
Challenge 8: Sing a Song About Wildlife, Nature or Sustainability

                            Challenge Goals

This challenge developed by the LumiVoce Charity engages the young to use their
creativity to inspire people to protect the environment and our magnificent wildlife. It
raises awareness and give a voice to wildlife and nature.

This challenge inspires the young to use their creative skills to express their ideas
and to help others become aware of the challenges the natural world faces today.

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Children love music. Children love stories. Children love drawing. Children
                                     love to create.

In combining all these elements, we hope children and young adults’ projects will
help to bring awareness to the issues that our planet faces today and connect with
their hearts and minds. We will inspire young people to feel compassion towards our
natural world so we can learn to live in harmony with it. Afterall, we protect what
we love.

                     What LumiVoce Would Provide

   •   Voices for the Planet Challenge information package with instructional guide
       to each challenge module.
   •   LumiVoce materials and additional guides for teachers/parents:
           o All materials will be hosted on a webpage for easy access
                 ▪    Music stems and tracks
                 ▪    Published stories
                 ▪    Music videos
                 ▪    Nature & Me learning worksheets
                 ▪    My wildlife story worksheets
                 ▪    My wildlife illustration worksheets
                 ▪    Links to suggested public domain materials and information
                      about wildlife and ecosystems, and website for simple editing
                      tools and stock library.
           o Additional instructional “how to” videos for each challenge area. “How
              to” videos on utilize Lumivoce materials and guides.
           o Lumivoce and supporting organizations will conduct online school
              assembly if requested by schools

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o Templates for E-certificate of participation, E-certificate of excellence,
             E-winner’s certificate will be provided
         o Winners and selected finalists will be nominated to showcase their
             work at the inaugural HK Wild Arts Festival (“HKWAF). TBA.

                         GENRAL PROCESS

  The Challenges:
  Participants are encouraged to choose one or more challenge areas in which to
  create their work(s). (For each challenge area, specialized guides and
  instructions have been developed. See: Challenges 1-8 in appendix)

  Briefly, the challenge areas are as follows:
         o Design a poster of an endangered animal
         o Draw illustrations to a wildlife story provided by LumiVoce
         o Write story text to accompany wildlife illustrations provided
         o Write (and illustrate) an original wildlife story
         o Create a wildlife and biodiversity music video
         o Recreate wildlife videos incorporating LumiVoce music videos tracks
         o Photograph an endangered animal
         o Sing a song about an endangered animal or biodiversity

Reminders to teachers and parents:

  •   Read the instructions for the chosen challenge with the participant/the class
  •   Support the participant/class to begin their research
  •   Help the participant/class to plan their story, illustration, music, photography,
      and video
  •   Let them create and enjoy the process!

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•   Schools/classes nominate your finalists to Lumivoce. Upload the finalists
      work unto a cloud drive and share the link.
  •   Make sure each work has the participant’s name, grade level, and school
      clearly shown on the work.

Primary schools: recommendations based on grade level

  • Year 1-2: Design a Poster or Draw Illustrations
  • Year 3-4: Create a story around the illustrations
  • Year 5-6: Write your own story or create a music video
  • Year 4-6: Do presentations to the entire class: Please select an endangered
  animal to present.

Secondary schools: can choose freely among the categories

College students can choose freely among the categories

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