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International poster competition against acts of violence towards women
received from Philippe Chat
Please see www.lagaleru.org for more information and downloadable entry forms.


Graphisme dans la rue - City of Fontenay-sous-Bois (FR)

"Graphisme dans la rue" (Outdoor graphic design) is a generic term referring to the graphic works/posters that have been made in Fontenay-sous-Bois for twenty years.
This is a campaign to combat and prevent acts of violence against women. The poster contest is exclusively for professional graphic designers.

Acts of violence against women are :
- Wife-beating
- Rape and sexual assaults
- Sexual maiming
- Forced marriage
- Moral harassment.

The selected posters will be on display during the awareness campaign for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on November 25th, 2010.

Competition regulation
The posters must be format 40 cm x 60 cm, portrait. They must be digital print or other prints (silkscreen, lithography, offset, original painting or drawing...), in color or black and white on paper.
The text could be in the language of the graphic designer’s country (a French translation of the text must accompany your work). We suggest you also send a written commentary to explain your. The posters can be the work of a single artist or a group.

Entry deadline : Entries must be sent before 15th May 2010.
Send your mailing address, email address and phone number.
Download entry form at www.lagaleru.org
Shipping costs must be paid by the artist.

Posters not selected will be available for pick-up by the artists at our premises until the end of October 2010.
Selected posters remain the property of the City of Fontenay-sous-Bois.
The organizers reserve the right to use any information provided by the artist and well as the right (free of charge, but non-exclusive) to photographically reproduce the posters for the purpose of promoting the event and for any work or catalogue published for the occasion and within the framework of the event.
The author agrees to give Fontenay-en-Scènes (association - organizers of Graphisme dans la rue ) for free of charge the non-exclusive right to reproduce the posters and artist/author’s ork, in the media, as well as over the internet, throughout the period rela- ting to the event.
The author is free to reproduce the poster of which he/she is the author in any manner or material.
The organizers reserve the right to cancel the competition should it be necessary due to circumstances outside their control.

Exhibition
An initial selection for the show will be made in November 2010.
All selected images will be shown on-line at the website www.lagaleru.org
Selected posters will be published in a catalogue.

Prize
A second selection by a jury composed of professional graphic designers will award 3 equal prizes : the winners will have their images edited in silkscreen, format 80 cm x 120 cm and posted on billboards throughout the city of Fontenay-sous-Bois.
Each winner will receive the sum of 1000 euros and 20 examples of their silkscreened image.
You will find a retrospective of “Graphisme dans la rue” on the website www.lagaleru.org

The event “Graphisme dans la rue”, in collaboration with the delegation for women's rights to equality, is organized by Fontenay-en-Scènes and receives funding from the DRAC Ile-de-France

philippe.chat@lagaleru.org / www.lagaleru.org
00 33 01 53 99 23 68

graphisme dans la rue / Philippe Chat
Fontenay-en-Scènes
166 boulevard Gallieni
94120 Fontenay-sous-Bois, France




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