2nd FICDATA "Advocacy Art Exhibition"
You can participate!
As part of activities
marking the 10th anniversary celebration of
the Beautiful Feet International (BFI)
ministry, the FRANCODUS INT’L
COMMUNICATIONS (FIC) in association with
Christian Comic Art Society –
Africa Outreach (CCAS –
AFRIK), are organizing a group Christian Art exhibition
tagged:
“OPEN HEAVENS (the God factor in Nigeria’s
Quest for National Re-engineering).
The exhibition
is an effort to support the BFI vision.
Professional
Artists anywhere in the world, who have got our stuff
and can make an artistic comments on the way forward for
Nigeria to realize her VISION 2020, can freely
participate in the exhibition with related works they
intend to sell during the event which opens at the
National Museum Hall on the 8th to 12th
December, 2008.
PARTICIPATION CONDITIONS:
1. Collect a FICDATA
participation form for just N2,000 only, carefully
complete and return the form on time to secure your
space in the FICDATA exhibition brochure. Because spaces
are limited, only forms duly completed and returned on
or before the 15th of November, 2008, will be
accepted for participation in the 2nd FICDATA
exhibition. Forms can be collected from:
Mr. Owolabi
Obuezzar (Curator, National Museum, Kings Square
Benin City,
or from
Mr. F.U. Odupute (Head,
Cartoon/Arts Section, the Nigerian
Observer Newspapers,
24 Airport Road, Benin City. +2348023680030);
Or by sending an email to: beautifulfeetinter@hotmail.com,
or
fic_55@yahoo.com.
2.
Participants may submit a maximum of 5
good works in any medium (drawing, painting, sculpture,
ceramics, textile, graphics, cartoons/comics, metal
designs, etc) provided the works have clear Christian
themes. Only good works intended to be sold at
reasonably cheap rates by authors can be exhibited.
Also, because the exhibition is for the support of the
BFI evangelistic efforts during their 10th
Anniversary, all exhibitors whose works are sold shall
give 30% of the money as commission to the organizers as
support for the BFI work. This is clearly spelt out in
the membership/participation form.
3.
All exhibitors shall be liable for the
originality and moral implications of works they
exhibit. Plagiarism and lewdness are highly forbidden.
The organizers shall not be liable for any form of
duplicity; and all rights to works exhibited remain
those of the authors thereof, albeit the organizers
shall have the right to document exhibited works and
subsequently publish them in our not-for-profit
promotional or reference materials, with or without
notice to author, after the event.
4.
Works submitted in person MUST be
submitted framed and very presentable to prospective
buyers. Works submitted via email MUST be in JPEG and
have a minimum resolution of 300dpi; A4 sized only,
while works submitted by post MUST be well packaged and
very presentable, and by registered mail only. All
correspondence addressed to: 2ND FICDATA ADVOCACY ART
EXHIBITION,
PO. BOX 14922, BENIN CITY, EDO STATE,
NIGERIA.
5.
All works must be submitted directly by
the authors to the exhibition curator/organizers on or
before
the 25th of November, 2008. Authors must
retrieve their unsold works in person at the end of the
exhibition. No transaction in proximity is allowed
before, during and after the exhibition. The organizers
will not be held responsible for unsold works not
collected by their owners after 15th of
December, 2008. Posted works can only be sent back to
the authors if they pay for the postage ahead of time.
Emailed works WILL NOT be returned.
6.
A colourful brochure for the exhibition
shall be produced, and sold during and after the
exhibition. Every exhibitor shall have a FREE copy each.
Participants’/exhibitors’ information etc, in the
brochure will be as provided by the participant in the
form.
Publicity:
The No. 1 aim of this exhibition is to educate,
enlighten and appeal to the consciences of the NIGERIAN
people. The second aim is to make some money for the
exhibitors and also for the BFI ministry. Thus, all
participants must engage in massive awareness
creation/publicity for the event via, word of mouth,
reminders, etc, especially those around Benin City.
Participants can also support the organizers to put the
news on their networks via their web blogs, etc.
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