Voices for the Planet Challenge 2024
Theme: Magic Wings
Competition: Feb 14 - May 22, 2024
we protect
what we love
Educating and inspiring the young through music and the arts are at the core of our strategy for making an impact. Our Voices for the Planet (V4TP) education programs inspire young people to love and protect wildlife and biodiversity by creating their own wildlife artworks in different art forms including drawing, writing, photography, videography, and music (vocal & instrumental).
2024 timeline
our 2024 judges
how does
the challenge work
Voices for the Planet is an annual online wildlife art competition developed by LumiVoce to engage students from kindergarten, primary, and secondary schools so they can learn about biodiversity and develop compassion and love for wildlife and nature through the arts.
We provide artistic workshops and biodiversity talks, and step-by-step guidelines for different challenges that children, educators, and parents to utilize. Students can choose to participate in drawing, writing, photography, videography, and music (vocal & instrumental) with different themes each year to highlight an important ecosystem or animal group.
- Learning
- Biodiversity
- Art
how to participate?
5 art forms & challenges
Choose from 1 or more challenges below (individual guideline included)
videograph
music
vocal or
instrument
special category
articles of winged animals
Were birds in the Pittsburgh area impacted by the solar eclipse?
New flying reptile species was one of largest ever flying animals
How forest fragmentation affects birds depends on their wings
By fluttering its wings, this bird uses body language to tell its mate ‘after you’
‘Rare’ winged creature — with ‘magical red’ body — discovered as new species in China
Human-driven extinction of bird species twice as high as thought, study says
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voices for the planet
participating schools
Since 2020, we’ve worked with 128 schools and education institutes from Hong Kong, Mainland China, the United Kingdom, and Australia
supporting organizations
A Plastic Ocean Foundation (APO) is a charitable organization registered in Hong Kong, dedicated to creating a wave of change to stop plastic pollution and to be part of the solution through science, education, and policy advocacy. APO is a group of dedicated scientists, educators, social entrepreneurs, scholars, and journalists who are concerned about the fragile state of our ocean and are working together with other NGOs and the community to change attitudes towards plastic in one generation.
Chatteris Educational Foundation was established in 1990 as a registered non-profit charitable organization. Join Chatteris on its mission to enhance the English proficiency of young people, empowering them for success and promoting cultural understanding.
Located in the heart of Hong Kong, the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has a well-earned reputation as an innovative hub for research and professional education and for addressing global issues and empowering positive change.
Encompass HK is a social enterprise that offers training and consultancy services to educate and support organizations to be more diversified and inclusive, including meeting global standards e.g. sustainable development goals (SDGs). Encompass HK serves the community by supporting different social causes and NGOs financially as well as through a collaborative model while delivering our SDG programs.
Hong Kong Shark Foundation (HKSF) is a registered charity dedicated exclusively to shark conservation. We aim to raise awareness about shark conservation, particularly the unsustainable practice of shark finning, and to reduce consumption of shark products in Hong Kong.
Lingnan University (LU) is a liberal arts university in Hong Kong with the longest established tradition among the local institutions of higher education. The University’s history dates back to 1888. LU is a global leader in quality education. It ranks first for “International Faculty”, “Inbound Exchange Students” and “Outbound Exchange Students” in QS Asia University Rankings 2021; ranks third for “Quality Education” in THE University Impact Rankings 2021, and ranks 33rd for “International Faculty” in QS World University Rankings 2022.
Bringing education equity requires long term and sustainable solutions from all sectors. Teach for Hong Kong‘s program aims to bring systemic changes over the long run while in the short run directly impacting underprivileged students.
The Zubin Foundation is a registered charity in Hong Kong dedicated to improve the lives of Hong Kong’s ethnic minorities by reducing suffering and providing opportunities.