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General-purpose youth arts festival with seven age categories and 38 stage and off-stage items, ready to edit into your own event.
A general-purpose template for a youth wing, club or association running its own cultural festival – seven age bands and a wide item list, ready to edit down (or up) into whatever your group actually runs each year.
Youth Festival is eTalenter’s own broadest generic starter template (per its own Evidence block, not modelled on any single named event) – a catalogue of 38 items built for a youth wing, club or association running a general-purpose cultural festival rather than a single-school arts day. Its items fall into five practical clusters: off-stage art and craft (Pencil Coloring, Pencil Drawing, Water Coloring, Collage), off-stage and on-stage literary work (Essay Writing, Story Writing, Versification [Poetry Writing], Storytelling, Poetry Recitation, Elocution, Kathaprasangam), vocal and instrumental music (Carnatic Music, Western Music, Mappilapattu, Nadanpattu, Light Music, Film Song, Group Song, plus seven solo instruments – Violin (Eastern and Western), Keyboard/Piano, Veena, Flute, Mridhangam, Thabala and Guitar), classical and general dance (Bharatanatyam, Kuchipudi, Mohiniyattam, Cinematic Dance, Folk Dance, plus the team items Group Dance, Semi Classical Group Dance, Folk Group Dance and Cinematic Group Dance), and stage ‘action’ items (Fancy Dress, Mono Act, Mimicry).
The template defines seven age bands – Cat-A (4-8) and Cat-B (9-16) alongside a separate five-band Cat-I through Cat-V run (roughly 4-18) – but only the five Cat-I-Cat-V bands actually carry any item assignment in the installed data; Cat-A and Cat-B are defined but unused, a genuine gap worth naming rather than smoothing over. Assignment data itself only reaches the first 22 items in the template’s own list – the off-stage art and writing items, the on-stage literary items, and the vocal/instrumental music items through Flute – each pre-set with an age band, gender, language, fee and time limit. The remaining 16 items – every dance item, three of the ten solo instruments (Mridhangam, Thabala, Guitar) and the three stage ‘action’ items (Fancy Dress, Mono Act, Mimicry) – ship as catalogue entries only, with no band, gender, language, fee or time pre-set, left entirely to the installing coordinator to configure.
33 of the 38 items run Individual; the remaining 5 – Group Dance, Semi Classical Group Dance, Folk Group Dance, Cinematic Group Dance and Group Song – are Team items by their own title and description rather than by any configured assignment row, since none of the five carries assignment data in this template. Where the template does set real timing, most of the 22 configured items still ship the same flat placeholder signature already flagged across eTalenter’s other generic templates (a 10-minute slot with a 10-minute warning bell, scored out of 10) – but three items carry genuinely different, non-placeholder figures: Storytelling’s youngest band and Elocution across its four older bands are each configured twice, separately in English and Malayalam, with a real 5-minute limit and a mark out of 100, and Western Music across its four older bands carries a real 7-minute limit, also marked out of 100.
On top of the per-item score, the template pre-loads a starting Grade scale (A/B/C, awarded at 8/7/6 and above with 10/7/5 bonus points) and a starting Rank scale (First/Second/Third, worth 10/7/5 bonus points) for overall standings – both product defaults meant to be reviewed and adjusted, not fixed rules. As with eTalenter’s other generic starter templates, the point of installing it is editability – trimming the catalogue down (or building the 16 unconfigured items up) to match the group’s own festival – rather than reproducing any one real event’s programme.
Where this event is run
This is eTalenter’s own generic starter template, offered as a ready-made starting point for a youth wing, club or association setting up a broad cultural festival – it is not tied to a particular organisation, country or real-world named event, and no such event in eTalenter’s own dataset is recorded as having installed it unmodified. As a format, a general-purpose youth arts festival spanning writing, music, dance and stage items across several age bands is a familiar shape for youth-wing and club cultural programmes generally, which is the pattern this template is built to fit rather than any single group’s programme.
- Available wherever eTalenter’s youth-festival template is installed – no specific country or region is built into it
- The broad, multi-discipline youth festival format it reflects is common to youth wings, clubs and associations generally, not confined to any one region
Key facts
- 38 competition items spanning off-stage art & writing, on-stage literary work, vocal/instrumental music, classical & general dance, and stage ‘action’ categories
- Ships with 7 defined age bands, but only 5 of them (Cat-I-Cat-V, roughly ages 4-18) carry any item assignment in the installed data
- 33 items run Individual; 5 (Group Dance, Semi Classical Group Dance, Folk Group Dance, Cinematic Group Dance, Group Song) are Team items by name, with no configured assignment data of their own
- Only the first 22 items in the template’s own order carry pre-set age band/gender/language/time/fee data – the remaining 16 (every dance item bar none, Mridhangam/Thabala/Guitar, Fancy Dress/Mono Act/Mimicry) ship unconfigured
- Most configured rows carry a flat placeholder time/score signature; Storytelling, Elocution (English and Malayalam) and Western Music carry genuinely distinct, real-looking 5-7 minute/out-of-100 figures
- Ships with starting Grade (A/B/C, 10/7/5 bonus points) and Rank (First/Second/Third, 10/7/5 bonus points) scales, both meant to be reviewed before the event, not used as-is
- A generic eTalenter starter template, not modelled on any single named youth festival
- Age groups
- 1
- Competition items
- 25
- Competitions
- 25
- Grade bands
- 0
- Rank awards
- 6
Age groups
Every candidate is placed into one of these groups by age, and competitions are run per group.
Students
Candidates aged 17 to 25 compete in this group
Competition items
The events themselves — each with the category it belongs to and how judges score it.
Light Music
Classical Vocal Solo
Western Vocal Solo
Group Song (Indian)
Group Song (Western)
Classical Instrumental (Percussion)
Classical Instrumental (Non-Percussion)
Western Instrumental Solo
Classical Dance
Folk Dance
Skit
Mime
Mimicry
Mono Act
One Act Play
Elocution
Debate
Quiz
Cartooning
Clay Modelling
Collage
Poster Making
Rangoli
On the Spot Painting
Show all 25 items
Competitions by group
The full schedule matrix, sectioned by age group then category — which item runs for whom, and for how long.
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Students | |||||
| Music | |||||
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
| Light Music | Individual | — | — | 100 | 5 min |
| Classical Vocal Solo | Individual | — | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Western Vocal Solo | Individual | — | — | 100 | 6 min |
| Group Song (Indian) | Team | — | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Group Song (Western) | Team | — | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Classical Instrumental (Percussion) | Individual | — | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Classical Instrumental (Non-Percussion) | Individual | — | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Western Instrumental Solo | Individual | — | — | 100 | 7 min |
| Classical Dance | |||||
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
| Classical Dance | Individual | — | — | 100 | 15 min |
| Dance | |||||
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
| Folk Dance | Team | — | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Action | |||||
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
| Skit | Team | — | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Mime | Team | — | — | 100 | 5 min |
| Mimicry | Individual | — | — | 100 | 5 min |
| Mono Act | Individual | — | — | 100 | 5 min |
| One Act Play | Team | — | — | 100 | 30 min |
| Literary | |||||
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
| Elocution | Individual | — | — | 100 | 5 min |
| Debate | Team | — | — | 100 | — |
| Quiz | Team | — | — | 100 | — |
| Art | |||||
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
| Cartooning | Individual | — | — | 100 | 120 min |
| Clay Modelling | Individual | — | — | 100 | 180 min |
| Collage | Individual | — | — | 100 | 150 min |
| Poster Making | Individual | — | — | 100 | 150 min |
| Rangoli | Individual | — | — | 100 | 150 min |
| On the Spot Painting | Individual | — | — | 100 | 120 min |
| Spot Photography | Individual | — | — | 100 | 150 min |
Grades and ranks
How scores turn into grade bands, and how many points each placing is worth.
| Rank | For | Points |
|---|---|---|
| First | Individual | 5 |
| Second | Individual | 3 |
| Third | Individual | 1 |
| First | Team | 10 |
| Second | Team | 6 |
| Third | Team | 2 |
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 eTalenter’s competition management platform.
Install this template in eTalenter
Everything above is installed as a live, editable event in one step — age groups, items, rules and scoring. Start your own below.
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