Global Creative Contest
The Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GYCA), a program of TakingItGlobal, is organizing a creative contest for young people (15 to 29 years old) all over the world. The contest is focused on youth perspectives of HIV and AIDS and how this is communicated through creative expression. August 2010 – August 2011 was designated by the UN General Assembly as the International Year of Youth, a time when issues related to young people will be highlighted and prioritized, particularly in the context of the Millennium Development Goals. This key event provides an opportunity to explore themes with youth and capitalize on this focus on young people to bring creative youth voices to the forefront.
GYCA wants to take advantage of this opportunity to highlight issues related to sexual and reproductive health and rights and how they relate to adolescents and young people.
Contest participants can choose to express:
Why comprehensive sexuality education is important for HIV prevention (CSE)
How stigma and discrimination affects young people living with HIV (S&D)
What sexual and reproductive health means to you (SRHR)
The creative works will be featured on the GYCA website, and may be used in campaigns and documents during the International Year of Youth and beyond, always giving credit to the artists. Winners will be announced on March 1 and a special GYCA newsletter will be distributed showcasing the top-rated submissions.
Rules
• The contest welcomes a variety of mediums. Contributors are encouraged to send digital versions of video, photographs, paintings, sculptures, multi-media works, and more.
• Submissions must be related to one of the themes and the artist must specify the theme when submitting artwork.
• Each participant can submit up to 3 pieces of work.
• By submitting artwork to the contest, participants agree to allow GYCA and its partners the non-exclusive right to use the work for non-profit promotional activities. Participants are free to set the copyright of their work to the creative commons license they prefer for external useage. GYCA will ensure that images/art/videos etc. will not be used for any profitable activity.
• The creative work submitted should be no older than 1 year old and the author must certify that s/he is the creator of the work(s).
• A review panel of HIV activists, organizations, and artists will select finalists. This review panel will select the top 5 submissions in each of the 3 categories. These finalists will be posted online for voting by the community to determine the winner in each category.
• There will be a special page on GYCA’s website showcasing the pictures and art where people will be able to vote for their favorite submission.
Prizes
The submissions with the most votes in each category will win a basket of prizes, including a digital camera, and other art-related items. The 2nd and 3rd place in each category will also win a prize of lesser value.
More information here.
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