REGULATION of the 41st edition Golden apple, April 1-3, 2025
The organizer of the current edition of the Festival is: House of Culture of the Bistrita Trade Unions, with the support of: Citz Hall Bistriţa (Local Council), Bistrita Palace of Culture, National Association of Culture Houses of Trade Unions in Romania, the Union of Epigrammatists from Romania, Pomicole Bistrita resort, Association of Humorists from Bistriţa and Women’s League Association of Bistriţa-Năsăud County.
"Marul de Aur" International Festival of Satire and Humor takes place from April 1 to April 3, 2025, and includes the following competition sections:
I. The Satirical Graphic Section:
"Marul de Aur" International Satirical Graphics Competition, Bistriţa, 2025, 41th edition, is addressed to all cartoonists from around the world.
The contest is structured in two subsections:
1. Humorous drawing with the theme: "TIK-TOK WAR / ELECTIONS".
2. Portrait with the theme: "MARX'S SHADOW IN MOSCOW".
- A maximum of 3 works can be submitted, The drawings will be accompanied by a CV, in Romanian or English, which will contain: name and surname, address, contact phone number, e-mail, country of origin, copy of ID card /Passport and an IBAN account. Attendance at the competition with papers in both subsections is mandatory for participants.
- The works will be sent, in JPG format (300dpi) by e-mail to: ccsbistrita@yahoo.com; (telephone/fax: 0040 263 233 345; 0040 745 970 250).
- The deadline for submitting works is March 3, 2025, participants will receive confirmation of their entry into the competition.
- The works selected for awards will be included in the "Marul de Aur" Satirical Graphics Salon - 2025.
- The works entered in the competition will be evaluated by an international jury made up of outstanding personalities in the field.
Note:
- Works from all sections sent after March 3 will not be admitted to the competition.
- The prizes of the three competition sections consist of money, diplomas and trophies.
- The right to award and rank the prizes in the competition sections, as well as their redistribution, belongs exclusively to the jury.
- The works sent for the contest are not returned to the contestants, they remain for the archive of the festival.
- The organizers will be able to subsequently publish/post the participants' works in the festival Catalogue, website or other materials related to the festival, without asking the participants' consent.
- Works or texts of an obscene character are not admitted to the competition, in any of the sections.
- After the judging, the winners of the Satirical Graphics and Literary Creation contests will be announced in due time to participate in the Award Ceremony and Laureates' Gala - 2025.
- For the Humor Interpretation Competition, the jury will watch the programs on DVDs, and the selected groups and individual performers will be invited to the Awards Ceremony and the HUMOR GALA.
- All correspondence regarding the Festival is sent to this address:
CASA DE CULTURĂ A SINDICATELOR BISTRIŢA Alexandru Odobescu Street, no. 3, code 420043, Bistriţa, ROMANIA
Additional information at:
Phone/fax: 0040 263 233 345, 0040 745 970 250;
Email: ccsbistrita@yahoo.com
