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As part of our CreativeChange project, we co-organized the Youth Arts Contest with TIG Global Gallery, and in partnership with the UN Millennium Campaign:
Arts and Millennium Development Goals: "Vision 2015: Your Future"
The contest, Vision 2015: Your Future, was launched on April 1st and completed on May 31st, 2005. Selected submissions are currently being displayed online and at the Traveling Arts Exhibits. The winners received certificates of achievement and contribution, informative documents on MDGs from the United Nations' Millennium Campaign, promo pack from TIG, hand-made bracelets created by Art4Development.Net volunteers, and publication in art'ishake and CreativeChange Worldwide book.
Call for Participation: The contest closed May 31! Please check the exhibition site for the winners and other selected artworks.
Imagine a world where poverty is halved, boys and girls everywhere go to school, gender disparities are eliminated, child mortality is reduced, and maternal health is improved. Imagine HIV/AIDS is halted and its spreading reversed, environmental resources are preserved and sustainable development becomes an everyday practice. All this achieved by the world's countries together, working unanimously for a better future. Is this just a daydream? No, this is the future envisioned by the member states of the United Nations at the Millennium Summit in 2000, where the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were born.
How can art attain the MDGs? How do you interpret development issues? How
can we overcome the challenges of underdevelopment? What is your vision
for the world in 2015? What will your country be like if the MDGs are realized?
What are your hopes for your city and community? What are your personal
dreams? What are your fears?
These are just some of the questions that you can address in your art. Today’s development challenges are all ours. It's your future, your vision to question and answer in an image that can be about the world or about yourself - your hopes, your fears, anxieties, challenges, goals, and of course, your dreams.
Vision 2015: Your Future
The Arts Contest aims to further the creation and practice of any type and style of Arts in promoting the ideals of these goals, educating, inspiring, and encouraging citizens around the world in their efforts to hold key decision-makers / authorities accountable for the promises they made at the Millennium Summit. The objective is also to learn young artists' perspectives/interpretation of these vital issues, how they envision the world, their world in 2015! Artists are encouraged to emphasize their hopes, fears, anxieties, challenges, goals, and dreams in their artworks.
Who can participate:
You must be under the age of 30!
Your Artwork:
Your artwork must be original and created within the past two (2) years. It should try to help put development challenges and goals whether it is HIV/AIDS, poverty, education, or sustainable development on local and global agenda; and direct audiences including general public and funding/policy decision-makers to think, inspire, and act!
ALL media can be submitted electronically (online) via the Global Gallery Website in either jpeg or gif format or flash with files in maximum 600 x 800 pixels, such as photography, cartoon, mixed-media artwork, and more. Other artwork medium/ formats (like 3 minute digimusic, 1 minute video) may be submitted to the contact details provided below. Writings (poetry, short essays) can be submitted as well; though please note they are not part of the contest but are eligible for the exhibition and publication.
What to do:
Visit Global Gallery, register yourself with TIG, and follow the instructions on the submit form. You may also email the jpeg image of your artwork [in maximum 600 x 800 pixels] along with your name, contact information, and your artwork details [size and medium].
Submission Deadlines:
The Arts Contest will commence on 01April 2005 and will close on 31 May 2005. Any entries which are received outside the period shall be refused regardless of the reason for delay.
Prizes:
(a) Certificates provided
by United Nation's Millennium Campaign, Global Gallery and Art4Development.Net.
(b) TIG promo pack
(c) Online Arts Exhibition hosted by Global Gallery and Art4Development.Net
(d) Inclusion in the intended (e)-publication on 'Arts and MDGs' and the
traveling exhibition organized by Global Gallery and Art4Development.Net
Contact Details:
For all enquiries, comments, feedback or further information please contact
TIG Global Gallery:
Email: info@takingitglobal.org
Postal: 19 Duncan Street, Suite 505, Toronto, Ontario M5H 3H1, Canada
or
Art4Development.Net
CreativeChange Youth Arts Contest Associate:
Email: info@art4development.net
Postal:PO Box 5892, Bethesda, MD 20824 USA
Youth
Arts Contest Submission Details (Terms and Conditions)
