1- Any professional or amateur artist can participate in this contest.
3- The participants can send a maximum of 3 works to compete, as long as they have not been previously awarded in another contest.
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The works (only in comic strips) can be made with any pictorial
technique, with unique format of A-4 size (210 mm X 297 mm) or
proportional.
5- Works can be without words or, in case of having them, they must be in Catalan, Spanish or English.
6- Only works sent to the email info@ilertravel.es
will be accepted. You can send up to 3 images to that email which must
have the format indicated in point 4. We will not accept any work sent
by regular mail.
7- The deadline for works admission ends on April 12, 2024.
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The email sent must include, besides the work, the name and surname,
address, telephone, short curriculum vitae and photograph or/and an
author’s caricature.
9-
The winning work will receive a single prize of 1,016 euros (amount on
which the corresponding tax deduction will be applied); and a trip to
Lleida for two people and, if so expressed by the winner, two nights of
accommodation in the city to attend the award ceremony that will take
place on May 24, 2024, coinciding with the opening of the XLII Aplec del
Caragol. It is recommended not to modify the dates of the trip since
the expenses that any change of the agreed dates will be borne by the
winner.
10- The decision of the jury will be not appealable.
11- The Jury will be composed by people representing the Fecoll, IlerTravel and Humoràlia.
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The decision of the Jury will be notified to the winner during the last
two weeks of April or the first two weeks of May 2024 by electronic
mail and it will be published later to websites, Facebook and social
media by Humoràlia and Fecoll (www.aplec.or).
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The author of the winning work will have to give the original work in
hand on the award ceremony, or by certified mail properly protected, to
the organization of the contest (if the author cannot come to receive
the award in person). In case the work is made, totally or partially, by
digital tools, a copy signed by hand by the author. must be sent. The
address of the Federació de Colles de l’Aplec del Caragol is:
C/Obradors, 2. 25002 Lleida.
14-
The selected works - with a maximum of 50 chosen by the jury, they will
be exhibited in the Fecoll’s head office or, if necessary, in other
facilities.
15- The electronic version of the works can be visited on a virtual gallery that will be published afterwards on the websites of Humoràlia and Fecoll.
16-
The organization reserves the right to spread and reproduce the winning
work and the others selected, only during the promotion of the Aplec
and this same contest in future calls, without express permission of the
author or authors, and without this representing any obligation to the
artist.
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Participation in the contest implies full acceptance and no reservation
of these bases. Any doubt that may arise will be solved by the Jury.