Monday, February 10, 2014

2014 BGCA National Conference Talent Search

Want to perform at the 2014 National Boys & Girls Club Conference??
Every year, the National Boys & Girls Club organization holds a huge conference with motivational speakers, workshops and networking opportunities for management staff and executive leaders from the 4000+ Boys and Girls Clubs currently in operation.  One of the highlights of this conference happens at the closing ceremony: talented Boys & Girls Club members, chosen from hundreds of submissions, perform in the grand ballroom in front of 1000+ club staff, administration, and special guests.
For the past four years, members of the Boys & Girls Club of Souhegan Valley have been chosen to be part of this elite group of performers.  This year, we are pleased to open the search for talent to our whole membership.  We are looking for any kind of talent – dancers, rock bands, singers, comedians, jugglers, baton twirlers, ventriloquists – could be anything with up to 6 members in the group– to represent the depth of our club’s talent pool!

Submission guidelines:
·         Must be a current 2013-2014 club member
·         If selected, must be available from April 29th – May 4th to travel to San Francisco.
·         Must submit a video of you performing your talent – could be a YouTube link, a DVD, or a video saved to a memory stick.
·         All talent submissions must be received by FEBRUARY 20th for consideration.
o   A completed application (http://www.svbgc.org/resources/site1/General/Forms/2014TalentSearchApplication.pdf ) must be received with each submission
o   Enter as many times as you wish – if you have many talents, show them all off in separate videos!
o   Submissions can be dropped off at the Boys and Girls Club to the attention of Kevin Salemi or email your submissions to ksalemi@svbgc.org

·         The management staff at the BGCSV will review all submissions and choose those we feel will best represent our club at the national conference. 
·         If selected, you will be contacted to come to the club and record your performance again with some lighting enhancements, etc. to try and maximize your potential of being chosen by the National selection committee.
·         A DVD of all submissions from the BGCSV will be created and sent to the National selection committee by the March 7th deadline.  Then we all wait!
·         Around the beginning of April, those acts chosen to perform will be notified

If you have any questions, please contact Robin at rlacroix@svbgc.org