Tuesday, June 01, 2021
The International Call for Works for Humoralia 2021 begins | Spain
The Coordinadora d’ONGD i altres Moviments Solidaris de Lleida and Humoràlia organitze the Graphic Humor Show “SOS Climate. Without planet there’s no future”.
The aim of the exhibition is to raise awarenes about climate change as a main threat for human rights, and the urge to reduce Co2 emissions and avoid the rise of global temperature more than 1,5º, following the Paris Agreement, before it’s too late.
Recognising environmental rights as fundamental is essential to stop the habitat destruction, overexploitation and pollution that generates biodiversity loss, extreme climate and pandemies, threatening the future life.
Graphic art is a visual journalistic genre of denunciation and civic commitment that aims to contribute to reflection, in this case about the need to act for climate justice.
Bases
1. Any professional artist or amateur can take part in the exhibition.
2. The topic of the exhibit is the Climate emergency, the threat that represents to human rights and to life, and its main cause:
the unsustainability of the capitalist production system, based on the exploitation of non renewable and finite resourses, that produces inequality, poverty, loss of biodiversity and pollution, with the sole objective of unlimited growth and concentration of wealth in a few hands.
3. The Deadline for sending the works finishes on June 25th, 2021.
4. The works may be carried out in any technique, with Din A4 format (210 mm x 297 mm) or proportional.
5. Participants may send a maximum of 3 works, in black and white or in colour, if it is possible without text. In case of including a text, this must be in Catalan, Spanish, English or French.
6. Works have to be sent by e-mail to: odm@coordinadora-ongd-lleida.cat
ِAt 300 dpi in JPG o JPEG format
7. In the same e-mail, include a document containing the following information: Title of the work, name and surname(s), pseudonym, postal address, telephone (with the corresponding international prefix), e-mail, social networks (instagram, twitter, facebook or artist’s website), a brief CV and a photography or caricature of the author. The organization undertakes to confirm receipt of the work via e-mail.
8. Due to the character of the Exhibition, the selected works will be not rewarded with any economical amount. Evertheless, the organization undertakes to send by post mail 2 copies of the printed catalogs to the authors of the selected works.
9. An on-line catalog with the selected works will be edited and published on the website of the Coordinadora www.coordinadora-ongd-lleida.ca
10. A jury made up of qualified specialists in Solidarity and Graphic Humour will make a selection of 50 works among the presented ones.
11. The jury’s decision will be unappealable.
12. The selected drawings will be part of an itinerant exhibition of Humoràlia and The Coordinator of No-Governmental Development Organisations and others Solidarity Movements of Lleida.
13. The works, being digital, will not be returned.
14. The author’s participation in the contest implies permission for the work to join the works presented and take part in the publication in an exhibition and a virtual gallery.
The only aim of that use is to raise awareness between the populations about the need to act for climate justice.
The use of the work will have no lucrative purpose. In all media where the work is published, the author’s name will always be indicated.
15. Taking part in the Exhibition implies accepting the entire terms and conditions.
The Jury will solve any doubt that can arise.
