Shine is a national campaign, celebrating every talent young people have to offer and culminating in a week long festival of events from July 12th – 16th. From interior design to body-popping, sports to community work, everyone has a talent and Shine wants to help young people discover, showcase and celebrate theirs, no matter what it may be.
Past years have seen schools and youth organisations showcase their members’ skills and help make events such as Lording It (150 young people taking over the floor of the House of Lords) great successes. Plans are currently underway to help make 2010 an even bigger success and more details will be released soon.
Each registered school and organisation is given their own page on the dedicated Shine website - shineweek.co.uk - on which to showcase their members talents. And this year we’re working on a new way to showcase the talent of each individual.
Shine is asking young people to upload photos, videos, documents etc of their talent to the online showcase as we build a census of the different skills young people have to offer. These will be added to the Talent Flicker to be taken offline and onto the streets later in the year in the lead-up to Shine Week. We’re keeping the details under-wraps for the time being, but we will say that we want young people to be part of something BIG! Own your talent and help us to help you spread the word.
Details of regional events and the Shine Week (July 12th-16th) programme will be released in due course, so for the latest information sign up at www.shineweek.co.uk.
