37th International Humour Exhibition of PIRACICABA  BRAZIL

REGULATION

1 - DATES
The 37th International Humor Exhibition of Piracicaba 2010 will be held in accordance with the following schedule: Applications: until August 3rd, 2010. Art Selection: August 07th and 08th, 2010. Awards: August 21st and 22nd, 2010. Opening: August 28th, 2010

2 - PARTICIPATION
The theme is free.
Professional and amateur artists, Brazilians and foreigners can apply unpublished artworks that were not awarded until the closing date for entries (August 3rd, 2010). Artworks done in any technique will be accepted. Digital works, signed by author and indicated that it is a print number 01 and sculptures with humoristic content will also be accepted.

3 - CATEGORIES
Cartoon (graphic humor with universal and atemporal themes), Charge (graphic humor about nowadays journalistic themes), Caricature (graphic humor that express a physical traits and/or character from a well-known personality),
Comic Strips (sequential graphic art, with a plot that closes in a standard format, usually published in columns of newspapers) and Vanguard (only via electronic submissions addressing the theme "Environment" in JPEG format and 300 DPI, maximum of 02 artworks by each artist, attached to a single time. The artworks can be sent to the following address:
premiomeioambiente@salaodehumor.piracicaba.sp.gov.br
Maximum measures allowed: paper - 42 x 30 centimeters (A3) (16,54 x 11,81 inches), sculptures - 42 centimeters or 16,54 inches (height) x 30
centimeters or 11,81 inches (depth) x 30 centimeters or 11,81 inches (width).

4 - AWARD
Five (5) awards will be granted, a total of R$ 25.000,00 (twenty-five thousand reais), purchasing of Piracicaba City Hall, divided as follows:
a) Five (05) prizes of 1st place, on the value of R $ 4.000,00 (four thousand reais) each, divided among the categories.
b) One (01) prize of $ 5.000,00 (five thousand reais) called GRAND PRIZE OF INTERNATIONAL HUMOR EXHIBITION OF PIRACICABA for one of
five winners in each of categories.
c) For the winner of Grand Prize of International Humor of Piracicaba and for the first place winners of each category will be awarded trophies by cartoonist Zelio Alves Pinto.

It will be awarded a prize of R $ 3.131,11 (three thousand one hundred thirty-one reais and eleven cents), exclusively for the caricature category, purchasing value from the City Council of Piracicaba.

There will be a Selection Jury and an Award Jury composed by people with acknowledgeable talent in the area. The awards will be acquisitive Municipality to Piracicaba city. If the award jury confirms any kind of irregularity, fraud or plagiarism in one or more of the inscribed artworks, it will be able to cancel the award. The result of the award will be spread on until a week after the Exhibition's opening, with reasonable proves on any irregularity done without jury's knowledge.
Note: The Award Jury keeps itself the right of not designating prizes to the categories which don’t achieve a sufficient level, transferring them to other categories.
Another prizes and indications will be set in accordance with Organizer Commission.

5 - INSCRIPTIONS
The artworks must be sent to the following address:
 37th INTERNATIONAL HUMOR EXHIBITION OF PIRACICABA at Secretaria de Ação Cultural -
Avenida Maurice Allain, 454 - CEP 123405-123 - Piracicaba - SP Brazil, accompanied by the registration form.
For the vanguard category, next to the
artworks sent electronically, the artist entered must attach the following information: name, artistic name, full address, telephone number, e-mail, Identify Card (ID), CPF and bank data.

6 - ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The artists selected transfer automatically authorial rights of his artworks for reproductions and publications in any media, without restriction, aiming to
promote the event. The return of the artworks after the closing of the exhibition is to be formally requested in the registration form. Otherwise the artworks will ultimately belong to the collection of the Centro Nacional de Documentação, Pesquisa e Divulgação do Humor Gráfico de Piracicaba, which will exercise the right of property, as its interest.

The organization of the 37th International Exhibition Humor of Piracicaba is not responsible for possible damages that may happen when the arts are sent or returned.

Besides the completed Registration Form legibly, the reverse of each artwork should bring the following information: registration category, author's name, artistic name, full address, telephone number, e-mail, CPF and Identify Registration (ID) and bank data. Send also a résumé and a photo to cataloging on the database and search of CEDHU.

The authors transfer automatically Authorial Rights of his artworks when awarded acquisitivetely (include mention), in accordance with the Law n° 9610, February 19st, 1988 (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 artworks in the International Humor Exhibition of Piracicaba and now integrant part of Municipal Public Property for the purposes of entitlements, in accordance with the Municipal Law n° 2249, 1976, partially amended by the Municipal Law n° 2486, 1982 and consolidated by the Municipal Law n° 5194, 2002.