11th International Caratinga Cartoon Contest-Brazil 2011

REGULATIONS

1.DATE:
Inscriptions: 31 de September
Works selection: 1º October
Opening: 10 de October
Exhibition: 30 de 0ctober de 2011
Place: Ziraldo Art and Culture House

2. CATEGORIES:
Free Theme
“Charge” : Graphic joke about nowadays journalistic theme
Cartoon: Graphic joke with universal and atemporal themes
Caricature: recognizable graphic distortions of personalities

THEMATIC CARICATURE:
Míriam Leitão (ACQUISITIVE)
Jounarlist, writer and economist.
All the works inscribed in this category, independently to
 be selected or not, will be acquisitive for the Cultural
Station Association of Caratinga.

3. TECHNIQUES:
Dimension: 30 cm X 40 cm

Number of works: Each competitor will be able to participate with to two works for each category, that has not won at no other gallery or salon.
The works must be unpublished and original. The graphical technique is free. Digital copies, signed by author and indicated that it is print number 01

4.AWARDNESS:
It will be awarded a total of R$20 thousand Reais in prizes, divided as follows:

A) Three Prizes for 1st Place on the value of R$3,000,00 for each category;
B) Three Prizes for 2nd Place on the value of R$ 2,000,00 for each category;
C) Three Prizes for 3rd Place on the value of R$ 1,000,00 for each category;
D) A 1st Place prize to “Thematic Category” on the value of R$2,000,00.

The prizes in cash will be paid by Caratinga City Hall .

(*) All the finalists mentioned above will receive
the “Pererê Trophy”, besides the prizes in cash; all of them offered by Caratinga City Council.
It will be awarded by the Judging Commission five Certificates of Honorable Indication in all categories.

5. JUDMENT:

There will be a jury for selection and another one for
awareness, made up by specialized people on the area.


The awareness jury keeps itself the right of not designating prizes
"to the categories which don’t achieve a sufficient level,
transferring them to other categories or creating a special prize
 of the Salon.
If the awardness jury confirms any kind of irregularity,
fraud or plagiarism in one of the inscribed works,
it will be able to cancel the award , offering the same
one to the following artist from classification list.
Awarded works will be spread on the Salon’s site
 after its opening and they will be contested in
the period of one week after salon’s opening with
 reasonable proves on any irregularity done
without jury’s knowledge. Another prizes and indications
will be set according to Organizer Commission.
All of them ACQUISITIVE.

6. INSCRIPTIONS:
(It will be observed the last day of posting)

The works must be sent to the following addres:

11º Salão Internacional do Humor de Caratinga
Casa Ziraldo de Cultura
Av. Benedito Valadares, 15 - Centro
Cep: 35.300 -035
Caratinga –Minas Gerais - Brasil


IMPORTANT: On the back of each work it must be mentioned the following information:
Category: Full name of the author
Full address with Zip Code, telephone number, CIC, Identity Card, bank data, e-mail or the candidate can paste a copy of inscription available on the site, with all data filled in.

ATTENTTION/ RETURN:
The works will be returned until the end of five months
after the event on april 10th, 2012; only to the artists
 that has sent a stamped special envelope joined together
with the works. Those which were sent without envelope will be automatically given to the itinerant and permanent heap
exhibition of the salon.
When inscribing, the author transfers automatically,
authorial rights of his works when awarded acquisitivetely,
 according to the Law Nb. 9610, February,1998
(Authorial Rights Law), therefore, universal and definitely in all use modalities and gratuitous, the rights of the author,
guaranteed by the mentioned law; referring to
the awarded work in the International Humor Salon of
Caratinga and now integrant part of National

Cultural Heap and Research and Graphic Humor Spread from
 Caratinga Cultural Association Station ; that reserves
 itself the rights to use them the way it judges better.
Simply the inscription implies automatically that you
agree with the terms of this regulation.