CALENDAR ART COMPETITION
“Celebrating our Seaside Heritage: Past & Present”
This year Blackpool Civic Trust is holding an art competition open to any artists, schools, colleges and youth groups with an aim to producing a calendar for 2021. We have booked Exhibition space at Stanley Park Visitor centre during June 2020, where the shortlisted artworks will go on display and the final 13 winners will each receive their artwork framed as their prize. ENTRIES TO BE IN NO LATER THAN 30th April 2020
THE COMPETITION
· The aim is to show aspects of our wonderful seaside heritage from humble beginnings in the early 1800s to the boom years of the 1950s and 60s to the regeneration ongoing today. From Fleetwood to Lytham St Annes and all the glorious seaside in between; from seaside postcards and theatre bills, artistes and attractions, buildings and tram shelters, the piers and sideshows, Town Hall and Raikes hall. Do a little digging into what has made Blackpool the town it is today and think how you can portray it in a picture which will look good in a calendar.
Last years Winners..
· All work to be completed in 2-D of any medium e.g., paint, pencil, pastel, digital photograph of artwork or digital original, no larger than A3 and to depict either a month of the year or an idea for a front cover.
· There are 3 categories; Child, Amateur and Professional
· We are looking to include works from infants, juniors, high schools, colleges, art societies, mental health groups, people with learning difficulties, artists and youth groups. Each organisation can then make their own selections from the entries to put forward to the competition and these will go on display at the Solaris, where the winners will be chosen and announced in the first week of July.
· We hope you would like to enter our competition and we will be happy to come and visit your organisation and speak to the participants · For an entry form, please e-mail gillhoward@talktalk.net
or write to Mrs Gill Howard at 45, Poulton Old Rd, Blackpool FY3 7LB, Tel 01253 301264/07970850348 Best wishes, Gill Howard, Blackpool Civic Trust
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