1- The competition is open to all amateur and professional artists from all over the world.
2- The subject of the competition has been determined as "Environment".
Along with the population growth, the industrialization that people have developed in order to meet their needs faster has also brought about waste problems. Applications such as industrial wastes that are left to nature without being separated and the endless destruction of soils with the savage methods used in mining threaten natural habitats.
Our country and therefore Sinop also receives its share(!) of environmental destruction to a great extent. After the threat of the nuclear power plant that started to be built in Sinop, the area of 220 thousand football fields in our Boyabat district was allocated as a “Copper Mine Exploration Area”, which paved the way for the massacre of tens of thousands of trees, the extinction of endemic plants, the pollution of waters and the endangering of people’s health… Only those who knew Kemal, who lived in Sinop between 1925 and 2004, who was the last representative of the cynic philosophy in Sinop after Diogenes, who was described by some as crazy because he walked around naked in modern environments almost like Tarzan due to his protest stance (Tarzan), could imagine what Kemal would do if he saw the environment he fought for throughout his life being massacred in Boyabat.
Like Tarzan Kemal, who has spent his life trying to make known for years that environmental pollution poses a danger not only to humans but also to all living things, and that uncontrolled environmental pollution can cause irreversible and endless harm, the sensitive Sinoplu citizen will also resist harmful practices in Boyabat or anywhere in the world together with the warming environmentalists.
Our expectation from the contestants is; to draw people's attention to the environmental ban that makes the natural environment livable and prevents sustainable life, and to contribute to the environment with beautiful products.
We would like to thank all the artists in the world who will support our struggle for a "Livable Environment" by participating in the contest.
3- The technique is free for the works that will participate in the competition. Artificial intelligence products will not be accepted to the competition. The works must not have received an award in any competition before.
4- A digital certificate will be sent to all participating artists.
5- Participants can send as many works as they want. However, a cartoonist will not be given more than one award.
6- The cartoons to be sent must be at most A3 (29.7 cm x 42 cm) in size, 300 dpi resolution and in jpg format.
8- All artists must send their names, postal addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, short biographies and a photograph along with the works.
9- The exhibition and award ceremony of the competition will be held in Sinop on June 5, World Environment Day. The awards of those who cannot attend the ceremony will be sent to their addresses.
10- Awards:
🏆 Grand Prize: 15,000 TL/Plaque.
🏅 4 Success Awards: 2,500 TL/Plaque.
🎖 Special Awards to be Given by Various Institutions: Plaque.
11- Whether or not the cartoons participating in the competition win an award, they can be used by the institutions organizing the competition in non-commercial publications such as Exhibitions, Posters, Books, Albums, e-Albums, Calendars, Brochures, etc. They can be published on the internet. Apart from this, all rights of the works belong to the artists.
12- The results of the competition will be announced on June 1st.
13- Cartoonists participating in the competition are deemed to have accepted the above conditions.
14- The competition is organized by Sinop Municipality and Sinop Writers, Poets and Artists Association.
