The contest “Stop Censorship! Citizens for free countries”
The International Contest “Stop Censorship! Citizens for free countries” will be held the fourth time this year and will last from April 22 until May 30, 2016.
The Contest joins activism and different kinds of creative practices. Traditionally the Contest accepts works related to freedom of speech protection, access to public information, fighting censorship and works on a special topic. This year the special topic of the Contest became “Corruption is…”.
Implementation of urgent reforms in Ukraine as in many other young democracies is delayed. The main reason of this delay is corruption. Freedom of speech, critical thinking, joint civil actions directed on controlling the government can change the situation. Analysis of a problem and open dialogue are the first steps to be made to change the situation.
The works are accepted in 5 categories: image, text, poem, slogan and multimedia.
The Contest is very democratic. Everyone regardless age, citizenship and education can participate.
The works can be submitted in 4 languages: Ukrainian, the Crimean Tatar language, English and Russian.
The winners will be selected by 3 juries – expert jury, internet users jury and special jury.
The members of experts jury are:
- Alim Aliyev, Co-founder of “Crimea SOS”, Media consultant;
- Mykola Goncharov, Designer;
- Alisa Lozhkina, Editor in chief of Art Ukraine magazine;
- Natalia Synepupova, Designer at School of Visual Communications;
- Natalie Sokolenko, Journalist at Hromadske radio;
- Anastasia Stanko, Journalist at Hromadske.tv;
- Vladislav Troitsky, Director, producer and founder of GOGOLFEST.
The special jury consists of representative of anticorruption organizations and investigative journalists:
- Dmytro Gnap, Journalist, “Slidstvo.info” program;
- Oleksiy Khmara, Executive director of Transparency International Ukaine;
- Tetyana Pecklun, Member of a Board of Anticorruption Action Center;
- Natalie Sedletska, Journalist, “Schemes” TV program.
Organizers will hold public discussion and workshops on art activism. After the jury selects the winners their works will be exhibited in Kyiv and regions of Ukraine.
Facebook page of the Contest
Oraganizers: CentreUA
Contacts:
Anton Ivanov
050 494 58 30
cenzuri.stop@gmail.com
Partners: “Center for Combating Corruption”, “Ukrainian Crisis Media Center”, “Center for Visual Culture”, “School of Visual Communication”, “MediaHub”, “Institute of Mass Information”, “Big Idea”, “Art Management”, “Congress activist culture”, “Transparency International Ukraine”, “Detector media”, “MYMEDIA”, “National Union of journalists of Ukraine”, “Public radio”, “School of journalism UCU”, “Academy of Ukrainian Press”, “Іnformation Center of human rights”, “Docudays UA”, “Platforma”, “Independent media Trade union of Ukraine”, “Varto”.
