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UN FAO KING BHUMIBOL WORLD SOIL DAY AWARD: THE CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

Application Deadline: 1 September, 2024

LOCATION: United Nations

The 6th GSP Plenary Assembly endorsed the establishment of the annual  King Bhumibol World Soil Day Award (WSDA), as a recognition tool for individuals and/or institutions that have made an effort to organize successful celebrations in the framework of the World Soil Day campaign of the previous year.

The objective of the WSDA is to encourage organizers of WSD events at all levels to facilitate challenging and outstanding celebrations around the globe.

ELIGIBILITY:

The Award may be granted to individuals, institutions, NGOs, academia, colleges and universities, private companies or any other entities;

A wide range of WSD events can be considered for the award. The event has to follow the WSD theme of the year and has to take place between 1 – 15 Dec.

BENEFIT:

The award consists of a medal, a USD 15 000 cheque, as well as a trip to Thailand (if feasible) to receive the prize. 

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BILLBOARD ART COMPETITION ART MOVES

Application Deadline: 24 July 2024, 0:00 CET 

LOCATION: Poland

Artists are invited to prepare an artwork in response to this year’s competition theme: To become dependent or independent? To swim with or against the tide? The competition is a part of the 17th Festival of Art on Billboards Art Moves.

ELIGIBILITY:

The purpose of the Competition is to propagate and popularize billboard art and to encourage artists to create art engaged in the reality.

The Competition is open and all artists interested in billboard art are invited to take part, however, the Competition is particularly addressed to young artists, who are usually most eager to face new themes and untypical ways of art presentation. There is no entry fee.

The artists taking part in the Competition are invited to prepare an artwork (maximum three pieces), technique is up to you. The work is intended to be a creative response to this year’s Competition theme: To become dependent or independent? To swim with or against the tide?

Incorporation of the Competition theme in the work is not required and will not have any impact on the evaluation of the work by the jury. If some other slogan or phrase is used in the work, it should be expressed in either Polish or English language.

The format of the competition work should be 498 cm x 243 cm (196 inches x 95.7 inches) in a horizontal layout, 100 dpi, cmyk, tiff. In order to take part in the Competition, the artist has to send a completed entry form and attach a preview of the submitted work in the following format: 30 cm x 14,6 cm (11,8 inches x 5,7 inches) in a horizontal layout, 72 dpi, jpg. Each jpg file should be named with the artist’s first and last name. If more works are submitted, use numbers 1 to 3 in addition to the first and last name e.g. adam_smith_1, adam_smith_2, adam_smith_3.

BENEFIT:

From all the entries, the jury will select 6 most interesting works which will be printed and displayed on billboards in the city space during the Art Moves Festival in September 2024 in Torun, Poland. The best selected work will receive the Main Award in the amount of PLN 4000 (about EUR 918,00, USD 981,20). The winner will be obliged to pay a lump-sum tax on the award value.

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