The 33th Piracicaba Int'l Exhibition of Comedy

Dates
The 33 th Piracicaba International Exhibition of Comedy will be carried out according to the following schedule: Enrollments until August 5 th , 2006
Opening and Awards in August 26 th , 2006

Participation
All professional and amateur cartoonists will be allowed to submit unpublished and not awarded at any other contest until the opening date ( 8/26/2006 ) material of comedy. Every author will be allowed to submit one or two works per category. Works performed at any technique, will be accepted, except the elaborated ones for computer.

Categories
Cartoon, political cartoon, caricature and strip: Free subject, at the A3 – 297 X 420 mm format with no frames and attached to cardboard in order to protect it. In the category Strips, one trough four paged comedy-themed boards will be accepted.

Categories definitions
Cartoon: Graphic joke written in universal and timeless themes Political cartoon: Graphic representation of a journalistic subject of nowadays Caricature: Graphic deformation of a recogizable famous person Strips: Graphic art, sequencially made, of which the story is written in a standard format that’s usually published in newspapers

The awarding
Eight prizes adding R$ 25,000.00 will be given, divided into:
a) Four 1st place prizes of R$ 4,000.00 each, distributed to the five categories;
b) Four 2nd place prizes of R$ 2,250.00 each, distributed to the political cartoon, cartoon, caricature and strips categories.

The awarding jury has got the right of not awarding those categories which don't reach an enough level, replacing the works to another category or create special prize for the event. There will be a selection jury and an awarding jury compsed of people especialized for this area. The prizes will be acquisitive for Piracicaba 's City Hall.

In case of the awarding jury noticing any kind of fraud or plagianism at one or more enrolled works, it'll be possible the calling off of the given prize. The awarded works will be announced at the event's website right after the inauguration of it and they'll be possibly denied at until one week after the event's opening, trough approppriate evidences of any irregularity made without the knowlwdge of the jury.

Other prizes and mentions will be possibly instituted, according to Organization Committee.

Enrollments
The works must be sent to the following adress:
Salao Internacional de Humor de Piracicaba
Secretaria de Açao Cultural
Avenida Maurice Allain, 454 – CEP 123.405-123
Piracicaba – Sao Paulo – Brasil
Fax/phone: 55 (19) 3403-2620 / 3403-2621 / 3403-2622 / 3403-2623

Until August 5th, 2006 (posting date).

They’ll be sent back until one year after the end of the event, October 16th, 2006. If the artist wants to get his work before that, must take it at Centro Nacional de Humor in Piracicaba.

In addition to the enrollment record, there must be the following information in the back of each work:

Category which the author enrolled for, full name of the author, artistic name, complete adress, phone number, e-mail, ID number bank data. They may also send (not mandatorily, though), summarized résumé and photo for tallying up in the researching database of the event.

Employees linked to event’s organization won’t be allowed to participate in the contest.

In the of his application, the author automatically accepts the transfer of the Author’s Copyright Cession of his(her) acquisitively prized work(s), according to Law n. 9.610 of February 19th 1998 (Law of Author’s Copyright) integrally, universally, and definitely, in all the forms of utilization and freely, the author’s copyright, covered by the law 9.610 of February 19th 1998, concerning the prize-winning work(s) at the International Humor Exhibit of Piracicaba, which starts to integrate the City Public Patrimony for all rights purposes, according to the City Law n. 2249, year 1976, partially modified by the City Law n. 2486, year 1982 and consolidated by City Law n. 5194, year 2002.

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