Talent Share – call for participation
Talent Share, www.team1talentshare.blogspot.com a blog initiative, started on 6th October 2008, to promote creative activities is slowly moving towards its 10th Year of virtual presence.
The objective of Talent Share is to promote performing and non-performing talent of all type. The motto explains itself clearly “A Talent or Knowledge within you has to be SHARED”. Otherwise, it will die along with you.
Initial focus was young children and encourage them to draw, paint, write poems, short stories etc. and share them to me through email and then polish them and post them online, giving each individual participant a dedicated web page link.
As silent or as aloud, through Team 1 blogs, various initiatives were made all these years and I am proud to say that till this date, we have witnessed creative contributions from 57 talented artists of different age. It is also a very happy moment to inform you that 18 schools from various parts of the world including UAE and reaching as far as Doha, Kuwait, and various parts of India participated with interest in showcasing their creativity through www.team1alentshare.blogspot.com. All these activities flourished when the usage of web was just beginning, especially Facebook as a connecting social media. Now things have changed with FB, WhatsApp and other social media group active and online interaction opportunities.
It was not the case during those days and not easy too. In order to create interest and sustain the participation, periodically all the participating children were complemented with gifts and certificates. I would like to say a special word of thanks to Ms. Seema Shetty of NMC group for gifts offered and Charu and team of 89.1 Radio 4 FM for their support of free publicity during the first online competition ever held during 2008. It was sheer guts by them to support a totally unknown concept by an unknown personality venturing with the motto “A talent or knowledge within you is to be shared”.
Yes, I believe in what I say, and www.team1talentshare.blogspot.com is an example of it. True. What is the benefit of knowledge or a talent if it remains within us? Imagine how it spread from one person to another to many, if it is shared. The beauty, the enjoyment and the thrill of sharing, it has to be enjoyed. Like a child who keeps the chocolate in his pocket without sharing it with his friends on a hot sunny day, your knowledge or talent, hidden and kept aside for your own enjoyment will melt down finally without benefiting you even.
This is a serious and sincere effort and so far being undertaken solely and I take this opportunity to invite more participation from arts and crafts teachers and those who are interested to volunteer in sharing their valuable talent to come forward and be a part of Talent Share activities. All those who are interested to promote creative talent of children to the forefront through Talent Share blog and social media group and its activities to undertake the following responsible roles are welcome to contact me:
– To promote its activities
– Encourage the participants
– Give guidance and communicate with the participants
– Participate in admin roles.
God bless all those creative talents who contributed silently and please pray for their continued interest in participating and promoting creativity which has no special forms in this world of excellence.
You are welcome to add members to this group. Look forward to your support. Share this initiative with those interested. Ask them to join and participate.
I humbly dedicate this initiative to #YearOfGiving.
Sincere regards,
Ramesh Menon
Talentshare2016@gmail.com
Click here to join the group: Talent Share group on FB
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