Fine Arts Festival — A Full Canvas of Music, Dance, Art and Performance

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Luke Justin

School Arts Festival

Starter Templates · General

Fine-arts festival with five age groups and 31 items spanning drawing, painting, craft, music and performance.

A bigger canvas than a standard school arts day – five age bands and items spanning drawing, painting, craft, music and performance, for a school or club that wants its arts programme to feel like a genuine festival rather than a single-afternoon event.

Fine Arts Festival is eTalenter’s own starter template for a bigger, more visual-arts-heavy festival than School Arts Festival’s compact 17-item programme – its own Evidence block explicitly disclaims it as NOT modelled on any one named event, product defaults chosen to be a sensible starting point rather than the published rules of a real organisation. It bundles 31 competition items, the largest of eTalenter’s generic starter templates – 22 off-stage items judged from a finished entry (Story Writing, Versification, Handwriting, Essay Writing, Pencil Drawing, Poster Designing, Calligraphy, Oil Painting, Cartoon, Water Painting, Spot Magazine, Catch Word Writing, Fabric Painting, Sudoku, Paper Craft, Glass Painting, Embroidery, Colouring, Memory Test, Language Game, Math Game, Pamphlet Magazine) and 9 on-stage/spoken items (Recitation, Extempore, Light Music, Mappilappattu, Urdu Gazal, Elocution, Reading, Story Telling, Action Song Single).

The template ships with five age categories – Kiddies (roughly 5-6), LP (7-9), UP (9-12), HS (12-16) and a shared COMMON band (5-16) used for only a handful of items rather than every one – and spreads its 100 item-to-group assignment rows unevenly across them: LP carries the most (40 rows), then HS (26), UP (20), Kiddies (10) and COMMON (4). Four of the 31 items – Extempore, Light Music, Urdu Gazal and Action Song Single – ship in this template with no age-band assignment at all, the same blank-slate pattern already noted on several of their own individual competition pages, left for the installing coordinator to configure before the event.

Nearly every assigned item runs Individual, split into separate Boys’/Girls’ competitions rather than a single mixed-gender round – every one of the 100 assignment rows in this template is Male or Female, none marked “Both”. Only two items, Spot Magazine and Pamphlet Magazine, run as Team events, both at the shared COMMON band. Scoring is marks out of 100 in effectively the whole template. Time limits follow the item type: the written and art items mostly sit at a single 45-minute sitting (63 of the 100 rows), a few detailed craft items run a full hour, and the on-stage/spoken items are timed much shorter, around 5 minutes. Most items run twice per age band, once in English and once in Malayalam; Handwriting and Recitation at the LP band go further, each offered in four separate language mediums – English, Malayalam, Hindi and Arabic.

Because it carries no external rules document and is not modelled on a single real event, a coordinator is expected to edit the installed template before opening registration: trim the 31-item list to a manageable programme, fill in the four items that ship with no age-band assignment, and correct the placeholder time and warning-bell figures a few rows still carry. That editability – rather than faithfully reproducing one real festival – is the point of a starter template: it gets a full, multi-discipline arts festival running the same day it is installed.

Where this event is run

This is eTalenter’s own generic starter template, offered as a ready-made starting point for a school or club that wants a bigger, more visual-arts-heavy festival than School Arts Festival’s compact programme – it is not tied to a particular school, country, or real-world named festival, and no such event in eTalenter’s own dataset is recorded as having installed it unmodified. As a format, a large multi-discipline arts festival spanning writing, drawing, painting, craft and a handful of on-stage performance items side by side is a familiar and long-standing fixture of bigger school and college arts days generally, which is the pattern this template is built to fit rather than any single institution’s programme.

  • Available wherever eTalenter’s fine-arts-festival template is installed – no specific country or region is built into it
  • The large, visual-arts-led festival format it reflects is common at bigger school and college arts days generally, not confined to any one region

Key facts

  • 31 competition items across 5 age categories (Kiddies, LP, UP, HS, plus a shared COMMON band) – the largest of eTalenter’s generic starter templates
  • 22 off-stage items (writing, drawing, painting, craft and quick brain-game items) and 9 on-stage/spoken items (Recitation, Extempore, Light Music, Mappilappattu, Urdu Gazal, Elocution, Reading, Story Telling, Action Song Single)
  • Nearly every item runs Individual, split into separate Boys’/Girls’ competitions – only Spot Magazine and Pamphlet Magazine run as Team events, both at the shared COMMON band
  • Marked out of 100 in effectively every assigned row; most items run twice per age band (English and Malayalam), with Handwriting and Recitation at the LP band offered in four language mediums
  • 4 of the 31 items – Extempore, Light Music, Urdu Gazal and Action Song Single – ship with no age-band assignment in this template, left for the installing coordinator to configure
  • Ships with starting Grade (A/B/C) and Rank (First/Second/Third) scales, both meant to be reviewed before the event, not used as-is
Age groups
5
Competition items
31
Competitions
100
Grade bands
3
Rank awards
3

Age groups

Every candidate is placed into one of these groups by age, and competitions are run per group.

  • COMMON — ages 5 to 16
  • Kiddies — ages 5 to 6
  • LP — ages 7 to 9
  • UP — ages 9 to 12
  • HS — ages 12 to 16

Competition items

The events themselves — each with the category it belongs to and how judges score it.

Competitions by group

The full schedule matrix, sectioned by age group then category — which item runs for whom, and for how long.

Item Group Type Gender Max score Time limit
Versification HS Individual Male 100 45m 10s
Versification HS Individual Male 100 45m 10s
Essay Writing HS Individual Male 100 45m 10s
Essay Writing HS Individual Male 100 60m 10s
Story Writing HS Individual Male 100 45m 10s
Story Writing HS Individual Male 100 45m 10s
Pencil Drawing HS Individual Male 100 45m 10s
Poster Designing HS Individual Male 100 45m 10s
Calligraphy HS Individual Male 100 45m 10s
Oil Painting HS Individual Male 100 45m 10s
Cartoon HS Individual Male 100 45m 10s
Water Painting HS Individual Male 100 45m 10s
Spot Magazine COMMON Team Male 100 45m 10s
Versification HS Individual Female 100 45m 10s
Versification HS Individual Female 100 45m 10s
Essay Writing HS Individual Female 100 45m 10s
Essay Writing HS Individual Female 100 60m 10s
Story Writing HS Individual Female 100 45m 10s
Story Writing HS Individual Female 100 45m 10s
Pencil Drawing HS Individual Female 100 45m 10s
Poster Designing HS Individual Female 100 45m 10s
Calligraphy HS Individual Female 100 45m 10s
Oil Painting HS Individual Female 100 45m 10s
Cartoon HS Individual Female 100 45m 10s
Water Painting HS Individual Female 100 45m 10s
Spot Magazine COMMON Team Female 100 45m 10s
Catch Word Writing HS Individual Female 100 45m 10s
Fabric Painting HS Individual Female 100 45m 10s
Versification UP Individual Male 100 45m 10s
Versification UP Individual Male 100 45m 10s
Essay Writing UP Individual Male 100 60m 10s
Essay Writing UP Individual Male 100 45m 10s
Pencil Drawing UP Individual Male 100 45m 10s
Water Painting UP Individual Male 100 45m 10s
Sudoku UP Individual Male 100 45m 10s
Paper Craft UP Individual Male 100 45m 10s
Glass Painting UP Individual Male 100 45m 10s
Pamphlet Magazine COMMON Team Male 100 10m 10s
Versification UP Individual Female 100 45m 10s
Versification UP Individual Female 100 45m 10s
Essay Writing UP Individual Female 100 60m 10s
Essay Writing UP Individual Female 100 45m 10s
Pencil Drawing UP Individual Female 100 45m 10s
Water Painting UP Individual Female 100 45m 10s
Sudoku UP Individual Female 100 45m 10s
Paper Craft UP Individual Female 100 45m 10s
Glass Painting UP Individual Female 100 45m 10s
Embroidery UP Individual Female 100 45m 10s
Pamphlet Magazine COMMON Team Female 100 10m 10s
Handwriting LP Individual Male 100 5m 10s
Handwriting LP Individual Male 100 60m 10s
Handwriting LP Individual Male 100 45m 10s
Handwriting LP Individual Male 100 45m 10s
Pencil Drawing LP Individual Male 100 45m 10s
Colouring LP Individual Male 100 45m 10s
Memory Test LP Individual Male 100 45m 10s
Language Game LP Individual Male 100 45m 10s
Math Game LP Individual Male 100 45m 10s
Handwriting LP Individual Female 100 5m 10s
Handwriting LP Individual Female 100 5m 10s
Handwriting LP Individual Female 100 45m 10s
Handwriting LP Individual Female 100 45m 10s
Pencil Drawing LP Individual Female 100 45m 10s
Colouring LP Individual Female 100 45m 10s
Memory Test LP Individual Female 100 45m 10s
Language Game LP Individual Female 100 45m 10s
Math Game LP Individual Female 100 45m 10s
Handwriting Kiddies Individual Male 100 10m 10s
Handwriting Kiddies Individual Male 100 10m 10s
Pencil Drawing Kiddies Individual Male 100 45m 10s
Colouring Kiddies Individual Male 100 45m 10s
Memory Test Kiddies Individual Male 100 45m 10s
Handwriting Kiddies Individual Female 100 10m 10s
Handwriting Kiddies Individual Female 100 10m 10s
Pencil Drawing Kiddies Individual Female 100 45m 10s
Colouring Kiddies Individual Female 100 45m 10s
Memory Test Kiddies Individual Female 100 45m 10s
Recitation LP Individual Male 100 5m 10s
Recitation LP Individual Female 100 5m 10s
Recitation LP Individual Male 100 5m 10s
Recitation LP Individual Female 100 5m 10s
Recitation LP Individual Male 100 5m 10s
Recitation LP Individual Female 100 5m 10s
Recitation LP Individual Male 10 10m 10s
Recitation LP Individual Female 10 10m 10s
Mappilappattu LP Individual Male 100 5m 10s
Mappilappattu LP Individual Female 100 5m 10s
Elocution LP Individual Male 100 5m 10s
Elocution LP Individual Female 100 5m 10s
Elocution LP Individual Male 100 5m 10s
Elocution LP Individual Female 100 5m 10s
Reading LP Individual Male 100 5m 10s
Reading LP Individual Female 100 5m 10s
Reading LP Individual Male 100 5m 10s
Reading LP Individual Female 100 5m 10s
Story Telling LP Individual Male 100 5m 10s
Story Telling LP Individual Female 100 5m 10s
Story Telling LP Individual Male 100 5m 10s
Story Telling LP Individual Female 100 5m 10s
Recitation UP Individual Male 100 5m 10s

Frequently asked questions

Can I change this template after installing it?

Yes — installing it creates a fully configured, live event, not a locked package. Every age group, competition item, rule and scoring setting can be edited afterwards to match exactly what your event actually needs.

Do I need technical knowledge to set this up?

No. Installing a template does the setup work for you; you only need to review the details (dates, unit or house names) and open registration.

Want the fuller picture first? See our guide to school arts fest software.

Install this template in eTalenter

Everything above is installed as a live, editable event in one step — age groups, items, rules and scoring. Preview it below, then start your own.

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