Recognition Centre
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RECOGNITION CENTRE We believe that recognition develops better mental health! Our program establishes a combination system of award dinners and display of sports art to acknowledge the spirit of our local champions. The sports art connection on display throughout the year for everyone to see along with the posted photos and editorials of the best our area has to offer in each sport promotes the “Wall of Fame” concept. By design, this program to honors our families, churches, schools and many other organizations in Memphis, Tennessee, while at the same time enabling them to raise needed funds. Our objective is to present a continuous flow of “sports art” in our facility throughout the year to enable those contributing to this project, the recognition they deserve while at the same time providing a perpetual means of viewing sports art all in one place. The plan is to request, collect and display sports art on the walls of your facility throughout the year, starting in April of 2010. Our staff will review and accept art from the participants and place the pictures on display by category of these sports on appropriately labeled walls of our facility: baseball, basketball, equestrian activities, football, golf, gymnastics, martial arts, racket ball, cycling &running, soccer, tennis, and swimming. In doing so, we are proudly stimulating the enjoyment these sports bring to people. Each month we will have a dinner ceremony to honor the recipient of that sport being the “best of the year” which will then become the center piece of work on display for our “Wall of Fame”. The area will be organized by sport and enable the public to see photos of and articles about “Memphis Champions” from that category. The art pieces will be organized by sport too and they will be for sale throughout the year with the stipulation that they remain on display, marked “sold” until the following April when we will have one big art sale to liquidate all the pieces to make way for the next years’ work. Every month the proceeds received from this promotion will be shared by the professional staff artists (50%), the facility (25%), the specific picture artist (15%) submitting the piece and the residual of 10% is distributed to RSI for the development of the program. Our hope is to then develop a coffee table book from these selected works of art for each sport alongside the sports person for that category for that year. The photos with editorials about the most famous athletes from Memphis of the various sports involved throughout our city’s history will remain on display indefinitely in . . .”The Book of Champions” we hope to produce from this project.
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