Competition to design interfaith calendar for 2010

6 April 2009

Following the success of Young Creative Souls in 2009, Hampshire schoolchildren invited to submit their ideas and images for a competition to design a unique and creative interfaith calendar for 2010.  the challenge has been set up by the ‘Hampshire Interfaith Network’.

The aim is to encourage young people throughout Hampshire to produce a poem, drawing, painting, photograph, picture or a mixture of these to represent a significant religious event for a given month of the calendar year; either as a group or individually.

The concept is for a young person to work with someone older with at least a generational gap, and to encourage inter-generational relationships between young people and older people. For the month of December for example, entries could be made up of elements to do with relatives spending Christmas or Hanukah together, perhaps entries for April could relate to Vaisakhi or Ridvan.

The closing date for entries is Friday 17 July 2009, when 12 winners will be selected by the judging panel, comprising of young people, senior members of Hampshire County Council’s Children’s Services, and Co-Chair of the Hampshire Interfaith Network and Deputy Leader of the County Council, Councillor Roy Perry.

The competition has been launched on the eve of the Hampshire’s third annual Interfaith Lecture to be held in Winchester on Tuesday 7 April.

Internationally respected writer, journalist and long standing contributor to BBC Radio 4’s ‘Thought for the Day’ programme Rabbi Lionel Blue will be the guest speaker at the Winchester Tower Arts Centre where he will deliver an address to highlight issues of diversity and equality and the importance of community within Hampshire’s faith groups.