Terms of 10th International Art Contest “In My Homeland”

Green Cross Belarus is announcing the 10^th International Art Contest “In My Homeland”:

GOALS:

• Attraction of attention of wide public to home land and safety of people working and living there
• Search, support and promotion of young talented artists, demonstrating their work to a wide audience.
• Preservation and development of national and regional art education traditions. Actualization of teacher’s work in the artistic educational process.
• Development of a fund of children and youth artistic works from different countries and regions for analytical, methodological work and exhibition activities.

TOPICS:

“In My Homeland” is a traditionally free topic of the Contest. Other optional topics suggested:

• Winter motives
• We play, we dance, we sing!
• “In the garden, whether in the kitchen garden”: A garden, a kitchen garden, dacha, a plot near a house, a flower bed is a place of which you or your family members take care.
• Journey: A tour, a hike on foot with rucksack or by any other form of transport from a scooter to a plane. Any other incredible journey you can imagine.
• My family: An heirloom, the pride of my family, a big family and a small family, family troubles and holidays.
• Stories, fairy tales and fables of Lev Tolstoy: One hundred years they were very popular. Let’s read them over today!
• "The Lay of the Warfare Waged by Igor, Son of Svyatoslav, Grandson of Oleg"

CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION:

1/ The age of participants FROM 5 TO 18 YEARS inclusive.

2/ The work presented to the Contest must be CREATIVE AND UNASSISTED, prepared in the year of the Contest it shall participate in.

3/ On the back side of each work there should be a filled in APPLICATION FORM (the pattern is provided below).

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4/ All the works sent to the Contest are not reviewed and NOT RETURNED to the authors. The organizers of the Contest reserve the right to reproduce the works in order to promote and develop the Contest, to use them in methodological and humanitarian activities without consent of the author and without paying author’s royalty.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:

The works are accepted from OCTOBER 1 until DECEMBER 31, 2014 to the following postal address:

Contest “In My Homeland”
Green Cross Belarus
222 201 Smolevichi, Belarus

We urge all the participants to use REGULAR MAIL or EXPRESS SERVICE EMS. Do not indicate the price (value) of the shipment on the parcel.

RESULTS OF THE CONTEST:

The jury will revise the works in February 2015 and define the Laureates and Diploma winners of the Contest. The works of the laureates will enter the final exposition and will be exhibited in the digital gallery at the Contest web-site: www.children-art.org.

10^th INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF ART AND GRAPHICS “IN MY HOMELAND” is opening in April 2015 in Minsk.

ORGANIZERS:

Green Cross Belarus
Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus
Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus

CONTACT INFORMATION:

(+375 17) 327 79 54, (+375 17) 76 56 441
(+375 29) 627 79 23, (+375 29) 667 57 80

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www.children-art.org

WE ARE INVITING YOU TO PARTICIPATE IN OUR CONTEST!