The call for the 29th Youth Visual Arts Festival was published

According to Fars report, quoting from the Communications and Media Unit of the 29th Youth Visual Arts Festival, the call for the 29th Iranian Youth Visual Arts Festival in 11 fields of visual communication (posters), illustration, calligraphy (Nastelig), pottery and ceramics, photography, caricature. (cartoon), sculpture, drawing, painting, painting (Iranian painting, flowers and birds, gilding) and new arts (video art, arrangement, environmental art) were published by the secretariat of this artistic event.

The text of the invitation is as follows:

“Visual Arts Center of the Vice-Chancellor of Art Affairs of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance with the participation of the General Department of Culture and Islamic Guidance of Tehran Province, the Institute for the Development of Contemporary Visual Arts and the cooperation of the Departments of General Culture and Islamic Guidance of the provinces in order to compete in the field of artistic creations, professional development of students and with With the aim of identifying and introducing young people, according to the merit component and artistic connection of young artists from all over the country, with the presence of professors with academic experience and artists, the 29th Iranian Youth Visual Arts Festival will be held in Shahid Bahnar Cultural and Sports Camp in September this year.

This artistic event, which is held after the end of spring and in the summer season, is a reminder of the growth of saplings, which at the beginning of each year, with spring buds and blossoms in their hands, emerge from the cold soil of winter and reach the roaring rivers, plains in the sunlight. Farakh is looking at the wide, high mountains and the bright turquoise sky of this land so that with his savings from the spring rain and taking advantage of the loving body of this vast land, he will embark on a solid path for the summer of his life.

This year, from another point of view, in the middle of Mosfa garden and orchard, flowing springs and old trees in the foothills of Shemiran, we are next to the young artists of Iranzami to bring spring blossoms once again in the summer in the company of experienced masters and in sync with conscientious Iranian gardeners.

We invite the youth of Iran aged 15 to 24 to experience new ways of interaction, viewing and artistic creation by making their way to this cultural festival and having an impressive presence in it this summer.

Arts fields of the festival:

1. Video communication (poster)
2 . Illustration
3. calligraphy
4. pottery and ceramics
5. Photography
6. caricature
7. Sculpting
8. Designing
9. Painting
10. Painting (Iranian painting, flowers and birds, gilding)
11. New arts: (video art, layout, environmental art)

Stages of the festival:

The 29th Iranian Youth Visual Arts Festival will be held for the third time in Tehran, in full compliance with the health protocols of the Corona Prevention Headquarters and taking into account the health of all dear artists and professors, with the presence of participants and as follows:
The first stage
1-1. Registration of volunteers on the festival website: www.yafestival.ir
1-2. Selection of students after reviewing the file of works received on the site, with the aim of introducing them to the professors and attending the workshop
second stage
2-1. Holding five-day training workshops in September
2-2. Evaluating the created works and checking the performance of the students and ranking them at the end of the workshop in Tehran
third level
3-1. The educational program and artistic interaction between the students who have reached the final stage in each field with the professors of this course will continue in person or in virtual space until the end of December 1401.
2-3. Holding a group exhibition of the best works of students at the end of December 1401

Registration conditions:

Only those born between April 1st, 2017 and March 29th, 2016 will be eligible to participate in the festival.

At the registration stage, it is necessary for all applicants to upload the picture of their national card or the first page of their birth certificate along with their national code on the festival website.

Each applicant can only participate in one of the fields of the festival and must upload a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 10 of their best works on the site by the deadline.

The size range of each sent file can be at least 1 and at most 6 megabytes.

In the first stage, it is free to choose the topic, size, technique and year of creation of the work to register and upload the works on the festival website.

Workshop regulations:

1. Accepted candidates must bring their original national ID card or birth certificate to attend the festival
2 . The headquarters of the festival will take action to equip the workshops and provide some of the equipment needed by the students admitted to the course. It is the responsibility of the admitted students to provide specialized equipment for the production of artwork. Carrying a laptop is necessary for students of graphics, illustration and caricature fields, if they create their work with a computer.
3. The festival headquarters will deposit an amount for the preparation of some of the equipment needed for the workshop for the final accepted festival.
4. After accepting and inviting the students to the second stage, the festival headquarters will transfer the amount of 5 million Rials to their account as a grant at the appointed time.
5. According to the regulations of the festival and by maintaining the intellectual and spiritual ownership of the created works that belong to the students and artists of this period, according to Article 5 of the Law on the Protection of the Rights of Authors and Writers, the material ownership of all the final works is transferred to The exhibition belongs to the Contemporary Visual Arts Development Institute, and after the end of the festival, the artists must hand it over to the festival secretariat and receive a receipt.
6. Decisions about unforeseen cases will be the responsibility of the festival secretary.
7. The festival staff expects the behavior of all participants to be in line with the standards and current laws of the country and the accepted ones to follow the festival regulations strictly.

Encouragement and celebration:

1. With the aim of encouraging and appreciating the efforts of the artists, each of the people who made it to the third stage will be awarded a plaque and an amount of 10 million Rials as an incentive.
2. Certificate of participation will be given to all the participants of the festival.
3. Those admitted to the festival will benefit from the benefits of membership in the “Contemporary Visual Arts Development Institute” and introduction and membership in the “Art Credit Fund” from September 1401.

Elements of the festival:

Chairman of the Policy Council: Abdolreza Sohrabi
Members of the council: Sediqah Ahmadi Basiri, Farzad Adibi, Seyyed Nizamuddin Emami Far, Kazem Chalipa, Mohammad Khorasanizadeh, Mohammad Reza Dost Mohammadi, Mohammad Mahdi Rahimian, Abdul Rahim Siahkarzadeh, Ali Ashraf Todunabadi.
Artistic Director: Mohammad Mehdi Rahimian
Executive Secretary: Abdul Rahim Siahkarzadeh
Workshop professors and judges will be announced later.

Festival schedule:

Announcement of call and start of registration: Tuesday, July 28, 1401
The deadline for registration on the site: Wednesday, August 19 (up to 14:00)
Judging works and selecting students: 20 to 24 August
Announcement of accepted names: 25 August
Admission of students: September 6
Opening of the festival: September 6
Beginning and end of face-to-face workshops: September 7-9
Interaction phase of students with professors: 10 September to 10 December
Exhibition of works of the festival: end of Azar 1401

Address and contact numbers of the festival secretariat:
No. 17, Sadougi St., above Keshavarz Blvd., North Kargar St., Tehran
Phone: 66946911-66946911 »

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