First International Cartoon Competition - Danube River, Rousse, Bulgaria 2024

First International Cartoon Competition - Danube River, Rousse, Bulgaria, EU - 2024
Contest theme: "WATER-RIVER-PEOPLE"
- The major navigable rivers of the world have been the most used routes for people for millennia, a source of water and sustenance for them, agriculture, hygiene and other domestic needs. Water is the source of life. The river is its provider. People are its users. Nowadays, the river is still a way for transport, industrial, sports and tourism, it is still a place for fishing and recreation. But people look at the river in a different way.
- On the one hand, it provides irrigation for agricultural crops, cools nuclear power plant reactors, carries away spent and filtered wastewater from industry and domestic use, provides bulk materials for construction, diverts water from smaller rivers during floods, to incentivize boat manufacturers and more. Large vessels and barges, harbor facilities and their repairs, bridges and ferries, and last but not least, it inspires the riverside poets, writers, artists and musicians, we would not or wouldto mentioned "courtship" to enter also into the intimate relations of the sexes "There by the river".
- On the other hand, people already take care of the riverbeds and their catchment areas, from the source to the mouth. Starting from international conventions and agreements, the laws of each country, through the normative documents of the relevant ministries and agencies, the constant care of mayors and municipal councils, and reaching non-governmental organizations, environmental protection associations, local clubs and student organizations that are a guarantor of environmental and water protection. The river next to us – Danube 490th kilometer from the mouth of the Black Sea.
- Every single word of the above can and should be revised, disassembled, defragmented, "jumped" and assembled anew, according to the visions of the author-caricaturist, brought out graphically to humor and satire, to message or entertainment, to meaning or cheerful nonsense, to a simple line or a picturesque canvas, but necessarily in the triangle of the triad: "WATER-RIVER-PEOPLE" and with gratitude to nature.
- It has been celebrated since June 29, 1994, when 13 countries and the European Commission signed the international Convention for the Protection of the Danube River. For the first time, Danube Day was celebrated in Ruse in 2004.
Deadline: June 10, 2024

Awards:
1st Prize: €300
2nd Prize: €200
3rd Prize: €100
3 nominations – Honoris Mansion – 50 € each
Possible awards to companies and organizations.
Certificate of participation for all finalists participating in the exhibition.
E-Catalog for all finalists approved by the committee.
The E-Catalog will be published on social media.

Regulation:
Each participant can submit up to 2 cartoons made with any technique plus digital, scanned with jpg. 300 dpi. A4, up to 3 Mb per cartoon.Signature on the obverse in the lower right corner of the work.
Entry form - mandatory in Word format in English.You can download the form from the websites – inter. contests.
Receipt of works: 01.05.2024 – 10.06.2024 year.
Two e-mail addresses for sending the works – walex.toon@gmail.com plus zbankova@abv.bg.
The works that received awards in other competitions participate in the exhibition, but do not receive awards.
Only award-winning artists will mail the original work or signed print to an address they will receive upon presentation of a bank account.

Rights:
Selected participants give permission to the organizer to use their drawings for the catalog, exhibitions and for the promotion of the event. The awarded proposals will become the property of the organizers - sponsors and the municipality of Ruse, ME “Ruse art”, Bulgaria, EU. Official opening of the exhibition: 29.062024, EU, Bulgaria, Ruse, Revenue building and the square in the city center.Good luck to all participants.

More info from:
Walex walex.toon@gmail.com
Municipality of Rousse, ME “Ruse art”, Union of Bulgarian Artists - Cartoon section.