China National Youth and Children’s Palace Association

China Association for Children’s Plastic Arts

Executive Committee of China International Cartoon and Animation Festival

Notice on
The　Eleventh “Tianyan Cup” China International
Children’s Cartoon Competition

The Eleventh “Tianyan Cup” China International Children’s Cartoon Competition held by China National Youth and Children’s Palace Association, China Association for Children’s Plastic Arts and Executive Committee of China International Cartoon and Animation Festival, undertaken by Hangzhou Youth & Children’s Center, and co-undertaken by Hangzhou Municipal People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and Zhejiang Zoland Animation Co., Ltd. is now launched. The relevant issues of the replacement_competition are as follows:

I. Purpose:

To encourage children and the youth to dig out their creative inspiration and to use cartoon to describe the various kinds of things in the real world so that their creative thoughts can be cultivated and their aesthetic quality can be improved. In the meanwhile, through the replacement_competition, it is hoped that the cartoon culture can be promoted among children and youth and the cultural replacement_communication of all nations and countries can be boosted. 

II. Overview:

The “Tianyan Cup” Cartoon Competition has been successfully held for 11 times since 2006. Now it has bereplacement_come a brand activity of CICAF which has most participants and highest internationalization level as well as one of the international teenager’s cultural activities which have much influence in China. What’s more, it is a big platform for the cultural exchange and replacement_communication among children and the youth of China and other countries who love paining arts. Up to now, there are participants replacement_coming from five continents and 48 countries and regions participating in the replacement_competition with a total participants of more than 250,000; and 10 series of more than 40,000 copies of award-winning works have been published. Every year, the replacement_competition picks theme from a variety of themes including Chinese zodiac culture, thinking of future freely, humane care, environmental protection, etc. and encourages original creation. The replacement_competition also invites several experts both home and abroad including Han Meilin, Zhu Deyong, Huang Yulang and Cai Zhizhong, Phil Ye (US), Pang Bangye (South Korea) etc. to be the judges of the replacement_competition.

 In recent two years, three overseas sub-divisions have been set up in Malaysia, Japan and Canada with the help of the hosts and undertakers while international exhibition have been held one after another. Over 740 award-winning works have been selected to present at the 20 international itinerant exhibitions in countries including Malaysia, Germany, Japan, Russia, Canada, Singapore, Hungary and regions including Taiwan, which have laid good foundation for further expansion of Chinese culture in the world.

III. Steps: 

1. In early October 2015, launch the replacement_competition and issue Notice and Contribution Invitation through China National Youth and Children’s Palace Association, China Association for Children’s Plastic Arts, and Executive Committee of China International Cartoon and Animation Festival, as well as newspaper, magazines, and interreplacement_net. 

2. From November 2015 to April 2016, replacement_organize the relevant replacement_competition activities to promote the replacement_competition concept. 

3. Deadline for contribution is March 1, 2016. 

4. From March to April 2016, initial evaluation and final evaluation of works will be conducted. Excellent works will be exhibited and awarded and printed out as collection afterwards. (Issues related to award will be further noticed in early April). 

5. In early May 2016, perform awarding and exhibition during the time when the China International Cartoon and Animation Festival is held. 

6. By the end of June 2016, certificate and collection of works for the replacement_competition will be mailed. 

7. From June 2016 to the end of 2016, the domestic and international itinerant exhibitions of the awarded works will be held. 

V. Attentions

1. The replacement_competition will not charge for entry fees in any form.

2. Organizing prize will be awarded based on quantity and award-winning conditions of contribution.  

3. Refer to Appendix 1 for Contribution Invitation of the Competition and Appendix 2 for Registration Table of the Participating Works and Appendix 3 for Statistical Table of Group Participation. 

Notice on The Eleventh “Tianyan Cup” China International Children’s Cartoon Competition.doc

Appendix Two Registration Table of the Participating Works in the eleventh “Tianyan Cup” China International Children’s Cartoon Competition.doc

Appendix Three Statistics Table of Group Participation in the eleventh “Tianyan Cup” China International Children’s Cartoon           Competition.doc

China National Youth and Children’s Palace Association
China Association for Children’s Plastic Arts
Executive Committee of China International Cartoon and Animation Festival
Hangzhou Youth & Children’s Center
October 25, 2015

Notice on the Eleventh “Tianyan Cup” China International Children’s Cartoon Competition

I. Competition Name: The Eleventh “Tianyan Cup” China International Children’s Cartoon Competition

II. Host 

China National Youth and Children’s Palace Association

China Association for Children’s Plastic Arts 

Organizing Committee of China International Cartoon and Animation Festival 

III. Undertaker: 

Hangzhou Youth and Children’s Centre

IV. Co-undertaker:

Hangzhou Municipal People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries

Zhejiang Zoland Animation Co., Ltd.

V. Undertaker of International Sub-division

Southeast Asia Cultural Arts & Education Exchange Association (Malaysia Sub-division)

Canada Golden Stone International Education Group (North America Sub-division)

Japan Fukui International Communication Association (Japanese Sub-division)

VI. Co-undertakers

Humorist replacement_comics 

Burst Joy in School magazine

Global Children Arts Brand KiddyColor

VII. Participants and Scope  

Any youth or child under 18 (children and the youth who are born after March 1, 1998) has the right to participate in the replacement_competition. Individuals or groups are welreplacement_comed (no limit on the amount of group contributions).

VIII. Themes (choose one)

1. Legend of Monkey 

2. Animation of Public Security  

3. Sports and Health

4. Burst Joy in School (shall be represented with replacement_comic of four panel or above)

IX. Rules 

1. Participants are divided into the Youth Group (middle school students and high school students) and Children Group (Primary School Students and Smaller Children). 

2. Participating works shall be original freehand sketching, instead of modification, reproduction or copy from others. In case of violation, the participation qualification of such works will be cancelled. 

3. Each participant is allowed to contribute 1 piece of works.

X. Requirements 

1. Original works with healthy, positive and innovative content should be sent. The patterns of manifestation are not limited. Paper of single, four panel replacement_comic, cartoon strips, cartoon books or other innovative cartoon can all be contributed, both white & black or multi-color. The single cartoon should be between 20×30cm and 55×40cm. No framing is needed. Cartoon books should be no more than 16 pages with a size between 15×20cm and 30×40cm, and should be bound together in book form. 

2. Each work will be stuck on the bottom right corner a Registration Table of the Participating Works which includes nationality, nation, name, gender, date of birth and group to attend, name of school (or replacement_organizations not from the school), address, post code, telephone number, tutor, title and brief introduction to works, etc to be filled out by the author . Visit the official website of China International Cartoon and Animation Festival replacement_http://replacement_www.cicaf.co and the website of Hangzhou Youth and Children’s Center replacement_http://replacement_www.hzqsn.replacement_com to download the forms of Registration Table of the Participating Works and Statistics Table of Group Participation.

XI. Awards:

1. Top Grade Prize will be awarded to 10 contestants (RMB 1,000 each).

2. Gold Prize, Silver Prize, Bronze Prize and Merit Prize will be awarded for 1%, 1.5%, 2.5% and 5% participants of total contribution works respectively.  

3. Excellent Organizer Award for the team who has delivered more than 200 pieces of works or the team with the maximum awarded works. 

4. Excellent Tutor Prize for tutors of Grade Prize Winners and Gold Prize Winners and main principal teachers of the replacement_organization winning the Organization Prize.

5. Excellent works winning prizes will be included in the Collection. Contestant winning the Bronze award or above will be awarded with a certificate and one Collection.

6. Prize winning participants will have the priority to sign with Humorist replacement_comics and Burst Joy in School magazine to be their specially-invited contributor. The prize winning works of the replacement_competition will also be released in the magazines successively. 

XII. Works Exhibition

Prize-winning works will be displayed in various exhibitions. In the second half of 2016, International exhibition of “Tianyan Cup” China International Children’s Cartoon Competition will be held successively in Canada, South Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Russia, Germany, Hungary etc. Name of all prize winners will be announced on the websites of China International Cartoon and Animation Festival and Hangzhou Youth and Children’s Center. 

XIII. Deadline 

March 1, 2016 (according to the date of stamp)

XIV. Agreement

No work will be returned back. The authors agree to transfer the publishing right, exhibition right and property right of the works to the Host. All the participants are deemed to agree with the rules above. 

XV. Special Invitation 

The replacement_competition in 2016 will continue to hold exhibitions for awarded works all round the world. And the international sub-division replacement_competition zones will be set up again. Any unit who has the ability and is willing to hold the exhibition can apply to the replacement_organizing replacement_committee. 

XVI. Works shall be Mailed to  

Tianyan Cup Cartoon Competition Office, Art Department of Hangzhou Youth and Children’s Center (No. 22, Zhaoqingsili Street, Xihu District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province，China) 

Cartoon Competition Addressee: Wang Zhan  Mobile: 13336036997   Post Code: 310007    

Office Telephone: 0086-0571-85821035 (except for Monday and Tuesday) 

QQ Group: 291068777