21° Olense Kartoenale 

Annual Cartoon Contest – Rules and  regulation 2009

1. Participation:

All contestants will be admitted with no distinction made regarding nationality or age.

There are two categories:

· Youth category up to 15 years inclusive;

· Adult category: 16 years and older.

2. Theme:

The theme is „Archeology” and special prize to the best cartoon with theme” poverty &human rights”.

3. Entries:

· Original cartoons in black and white or colour, may bear no captions.

· Dimensions including any passe-partout 21 x 30 cm.

· Works sent rolled and works larger than DIN A4 will not be returned.

· Number of entries per contestant: maximum five.

4. Property rights:

Prize-winning works will become the property of the organizer or the major sponsors.

All works selected may be used by the organizers to promote the contest and the

village of Olen.

5. Catalogue/Cartoon book

Selected works will be considered for inclusion in a catalogue. The authors of these

works will receive a free copy of the catalogue during the prize ceremony or it will be

send afterwards by mail.

6. Return mail

Return of the cartoons happens only on explicit request of the participant. In that case
      the return of the works will take place at organizers’ cost approximately six months

after the ‘deadline’.

The organizers will endeavour to handle the return forwardings with the utmost carebut cannot

be held responsible for loss or damages.

 

7. Deadline

The deadline is 3/10/2009

 The entry form and the cartoon(s) must be send to:

      Olense Kartoenale
      Gemeentehuis
      Dorp 1
      B-2250 Olen
      Belgium

 

8. Prizes

For the adult category:                   For the youth category:

1st prize: 1000 euro                      1st prize: 200 euro

2nd prize: 300 euro                        2nd prize: 175 euro

3rd prize: 200 euro                        3rd prize: 150 euro

4th prize: 150 euro                        4th prize: 100 euro

5th prize: 125 euro

Only for Belgian participants:

Prize of the province of Antwerp: week-end (youth and adult category)

9. Prize Ceremony and Exhibition

The prize ceremony will take place at Friday 13th of November 2009 at approximately

20.00 h in the council room of the town hall of Olen, Dorp 1, 2250 Olen. Every

participating artist will be welcome on that occasion.

A selection of the cartoons will also be exhibited at the same address an can be visited:

· Sunday 15th of November 2009

· All working days from Monday 16th of November 2009 till 22/1/2010

10th Caratinga International Humor Salon-2009

REGULATIONS

1.DATE:
Inscriptions: May 05 th to September 10th
Works selection: September 19th
Opening: September 21st
Exibition: Until September 30th
Place: Ziraldo Art and Culture House

2. CATEGORIES:
Free Theme
“Charge” : Graphic joke about nowadays journalistic theme
Cartoon: Graphic joke with universal and atemporal themes
Caricature: recognizable graphic distortions of personalities

THEMATIC CARICATURE: Agnaldo Timóteo (ACQUISITIVE) singer and Edil from S.Paulo city.
All the works inscribed in this category, independently to be selected or not, will be acquisitives for the Cultural Station Association of Caratinga.

3. TECHINIQUES:
Dimension: 30 cm X 40 cm

Number of works: Each competitor will be able to participate with to three works for each category, that has not won at no other gallery or salon.
The works must be unpublished and original. It won’t be accepted photocopies or computer reproductions.

4.AWARDNESS:
It will be awarded a total of R$20 thousand Reais in prizes, divided as follows:

A)Three Prizes for 1st Place on the value of R$3,000,00 for each category;
B)Three Prizes for 2nd Place on the value of R$ 2,000,00 for each category;
C)Three Prizes for 3rd Place on the value of R$ 1,000,00 for each category;
D)A prize for the 1st Place “Popular Vote” on the value of R$1,000,00 among the categories;
E)A 1st Place prize to “Thematic Category” on the value of R$2,000,00.

The prizes in cash will be paid by Caratinga City Hall .

(*) All the finalists mentioned above will receive the “Pererê Trophy”, besides the prizes in cash; all of them offered by Caratinga City Council.
It will be awarded by the Judging Commission five Certificates of Honorable Indication in all categories.

5. JUDMENT:

There will be a jury for selection and another one for awardness, made up by specialized people on the area.

The awardness jury keeps itself the right of not designating prizes to the categories which don’t achieve a sufficient level, transferring them to other categories or creating a special prize of the Salon.
If the awardness jury confirms any kind of irregularity, fraud or plagiarism in one of the inscribed works, it will be able to cancel the award , offering the same one to the following artist from classification list. Awarded works will be spread on the Salon’s site after its opening and they will be contested in the period of one week after salon’s opening with reasonable proves on any irregularity done without jury’s knowledge. Another prizes and indications will be set according to Organizer Commission.
All of them ACQUISITIVE.

6. INSCRIPTIONS:
(It will be observed the last day of posting)

The works must be sent to the following addres:

10º Salão Internacional do Humor de Caratinga
Rua Geraldo Alves Pinto , 238 – Centro
Cep: 35.300 -049
Caratinga – Minas Gerais – Brasil


IMPORTANT: On the back of each work it must be mentioned the following information:
Category: Full name of the author
Full address with Zip Code, telephone number, CIC, Identity Card, bank data, e-mail or the candidate can paste a copy of inscription available on the site, with all data filled in.

ATTENTTION/ RETURN:
The works will be returned until the end of one year after the event on September 30th, 2009; only to the artists that has sent a stamped special envelope joined together with the works. Those which were sent without envelope will be automatically given to the itinerant and permanent heap exhibition of the salon.
When inscribing, the author transfers automatically, authorial rights of his works when awarded acquisitivetely, according to the Law Nb. 9610, February,1998 (Authorial Rights Law), therefore, universal and definitely in all use modalities and gratuitous, the rights of the author, guaranteed by the mentioned law; referring to the awarded work in the International Humor Salon of Caratinga and now integrant part of National

Cultural Heap and Research and Graphic Humor Spread from Caratinga Cultural Association Station ; that reserves itself the rights to use them the way it judges better.
Simply the inscription implies automatically that you agree with the terms of this regulation.

Second International Exhibition of Graphic Humor – Lima 2009

Theme: “THE FOREST”

1 – Theme: Everything revolves around the looting and destruction of natural forests around the planet and what it means for humanity. We are destroying the natural reserves in the world.

2 – You can send up to two works from his personal archives or have been published or awarded. Can be developed in any technique and should be sent only by mail, in no case shall there be original.

3 – The work must have a resolution of at least 300 dpi and a minimum size of A-4 (30 x 21 cm.)

4 – Along with the work should submit their personal data (name, address, telephone number) is a short biography, a photograph or caricature, and mailing address.

5 – The works will be sent to the e-mail: salonhumorperu@salonhumorperu.com

6 – The work should be submitted between 1 June 2009 and July 30, 2009.

7 – The reception of the works will be undertaken by the organizers of the II International Exhibition of Graphic Humor – Lima 2009.

8 – The works received will form the exhibition will open on 3 September 2009.

9 – The artists will receive a copy of the book-publishing catalog with the papers sent to the Hall. In addition, works will be posted on the page: www.salonhumorperu.com

10 – The artists we are allowed to have their pictures can be used on posters, pin, press releases and printed material for the dissemination of the event.

11 – The artists accepted all the conditions set out in the terms of call for the II International Exhibition of Graphic Humor – Lima 2009.

XVI Annual International Graphic Humor Contest – University of Alcala 2009

The General Foundation of the University of Alcala announces the XVI International Exhibition of Graphic Humour University of Alcala with the title Universal Education (2nd goal of Millennium), and the following conditions of entry:

1.       Participation is open to professional Graphic Humour and Cartoon artists who publish or have published in national or international media.

2.       In order to participate in the Exhibition, every artist must send a piece on the theme Universal Education (2nd goal of Millennium). It can be a vignette, a comic strip or a caricature. Together with the piece, the artist will properly fill out and send the form that can be found attached to these conditions (also available in www.humor.fgua.es/XVImuestra). The organization reserves the right to invite any author/s it considers appropriate.

3.       All art pieces must be original, they will be signed and dated, and can be made using any technique and medium. When using a computer to make the piece, the artist will have to prove that that is his/her habitual work technique, he/she must sign the work and show the number of copy and the total number of copies made (e.g. 2/4, if it is copy 2 out of a total of 4). The maximum format will be 297 x 420 mm. (A3 – 11,7 x 16,5 inches).

4.       All pieces will be sent properly wrapped (it is recommended to protect them with flat cardboard). The organization won’t take responsibility on any possible damage occurred during transportation. All shipping charges will be at the participant’s expense.

5.       All art pieces will be sent before Aug. 31, 2009 to the following address:

Fundacion General de la Universidad de Alcala
XVI Muestra Internacional de Humor Grafico.
C/ Imagen, 1-3. 28801 Alcala de Henares. Madrid. Spain

It is essential to comply with the noted date for the adequate planning of the catalogue and design of the exhibition.

6.       A selection of the pieces submitted (carried out by the Selection Commission) will be exhibited in the XVI International Exhibition of Graphic Humour of the University of Alcala and in other exhibitions that may be celebrated.

7.       All pieces submitted will be kept at the Graphic Humour Archives of the General Foundation of the University of Alcala (excepting specific indication to the contrary, for which the artist must write on the reverse of the piece “Devolucion”), and will be used for its spaces, travelling exhibitions and publications.

8.       The submission of the piece means that the author authorises the General Foundation of the University of Alcala to reproduce it and exhibit it, as long as the name of the artist is displayed and the objective is the media coverage of the Exhibition and the rest of activities of the Foundation within the field of Graphic Humour and/or of this call (edition of catalogues, posters, leaflets, media coverage, web page, etc.), and in any case it generates any type of obligation on the author’s part.

9.       The organisation will communicate through the Exhibition web page or through a letter the list of participants with submitted piece and the list of selected pieces. Those people whose piece is selected will be able to attend the opening and all other parallel activities, for which they will be informed of the accommodation and maintenance conditions.

10.   At the end of the exhibition in Alcala, those people with selected pieces will receive a copy of the publication, which will be edited to mark the celebration of the Exhibition.

11.   The organisation reserves the right to not exhibit those pieces considered to infringe individual or collective rights.

12.   The participation on this Exhibition means the acceptance of these conditions.