Annual Cartoon Contest – Rules and regulation 2015
1. Participation
All contestants will be admitted with no distinction made regarding nationality or age. There are two categories:
Youth category up to 15 years inclusive; 
Adult category: 16 years and older. 
Both professional and non-professional cartoonists are allowed to participate in this contest.
2. Theme
The main theme is ‘Energy, yesterday, today, tomorrow’. Also this year Amnesty International offers a special prize to the best cartoon with theme ‘Right to Asylum for everyone’.
More information about this theme is to be found in annex to this regulation.
3. Entries
Contributions have to be digital works, in black and white or colour. They shouldn’t contain an explanation of the drawing. 
The digital works has to be sent in JPEG format with a minimum of resolution of 300 dpi.
Dimensions including any passe-partout 21 x 30 cm A4). 
Number of entries per contestant: maximum five for each theme. 
You have to record your contact details through the digital) entry form you can find onwww.olen.be search: kartoenale). 
The originals of the rewarded cartoons will be asked and must be sent to Community Olen, Dorp 1, 2250 Olen, Belgium within 2 days after the request of the organization.
4. Property rights

Prize-winning works will become the property of the organizer or theme sponsor. All works selected may be used by the organizers to promote the contest and the village of Olen.
5. Evaluation
The jury consists of artists, cartoonists and laymen. Decisions made by the jury cannot be challenged.
6. Catalogue/Cartoon book
Selected works will be considered for inclusion in a catalogue. The authors of these works will receive a free copy of the catalogue during the prize ceremony or it will be send afterwards by mail.
7. Deadline: 15 September 2015
The deadline is 15 september 2015. The entry form and the cartoons) must be sent at the same time to digital kartoenale@olen.be.
8. Prizes
For the adult category: For the youth category:
1st prize: 1500 euro 1st prize: 200 euro
2nd prize: 500 euro 2nd prize: 175 euro
3rd prize: 400 euro 3rd prize: 150 euro
4th prize: 300 euro 4th prize: 100 euro
5th prize: 200 euro
Prize of the city of Bialogard only for Polish participants): 200 euro
Special prize: ‘Right to Asylum for everyone’: 350 euro
9. Prize Ceremony and Exhibition
The prize ceremony will take place at Friday 13 November 2015 at approximately 20.00 h in the council room of the town hall of Olen, Dorp 1, 2250 Olen. Every participating artist will be welcome on that occasion. Only the winners are personally invited.
A selection of the cartoons will also be exhibited at the same address an can be visited:
*- Sunday 15 November 2015
All working days from Monday November 16, 2015 till the end of December 2015 during the opening hours of the town hall: 
o Monday 09.00 u – 12.00 u13.00 u – 16.00 u17.30 u – 20.00 u
o Tuesday 09.00 u – 12.00 u
o Wednesday 09.00 u – 12.00 u13.00 u – 16.00 u
o Thursday 09.00 u – 12.00 u
o Friday 09.00 u – 12.00 u
“Energy, yesterday, today, tomorrow”
Energy, life itself is energy.
It burns, flows, blows, cooks, glows, vibrates, undulates in an endless evolution on wich life sometimes fluctuates. It is a perpetuum mobile of emergence and extinction in interdependence and necessity.
Man taps energy in countless variations, depending on the insights of science and technology. He distributes energy and uses it as far back as the adventure of the human kind started in the East African Rift.
Today we overshoot the atmosphere, beyond the limits of our solar system and tomorrow maybe, we find the way and the energy to a new dimension or a wormhole through time.
Do you have some energy left for a cartoon?