SONDAR: Cross-Border School Competition „Painting with the Colours of the Earth”

The kick-off of the competition will take place on Thursday, February 23, 2012. The deadline for submission of finished pieces of art is April 20, 2012.

For thousands of years, man has painted „with the Colours of the Earth", that is with colour pigments which are directly extracted from soil.

Within the framework of the Lower Austrian soil protection campaign „Our soil - we stand upon it", colour pigments have been produced from domestic soils, packed into a pleasant PAINT BOX made of wood by the EMMAUS St. Poelten social project, and distributed to schools.

"Painting with the Colours of the Earth" has up to now earned the enthusiasm of more than 25,000 school girls and boys as well as educators.

Painting and designing with soil colours and natural materials is now being continued with subsidy by the European Union within the framework oft he SONDAR SK-AT and SONDAR HU-AT projects. A total of 100 educational institutions in Slovakia, Hungary, and Lower Austria are invited to deal in practice with painting and designing with soil colours under technical supervision, and to participate in a creative competition from February 23 to April 20, 2012.

The best paintings will be part of an international exposition and serve as ambassadors for a responsible treatment of soil!

The first 100 educational institutions registered from the project areas have the opportunity to participate in the competition.

The period of application has ended!

Lower Austria: all of Lower Austria, focus on districts MI, GF, BL, SW, MD

SK: Region of Bratislava, Trnava

HU: Regions of Györ-Moson-Sopron, Vas, Zala

The competition shall be performed in 2 categories, and it is open to school girls and boys from the 3^rd to the 13^th form.

1^st category: 3^rd to 8^th form

2^nd category: 9^th to 13^th form

Topic:

"Create a joint piece of art with accompanying text"

Materials: What is required is to create a piece of art using natural materials „with the Colours of the Earth" on a canvas or a natural painting board (bark, wood board etc.). Exclusively use natural binding agents (for instance egg tempera, soda casein glue etc.).

For further information about the competition, please refer to:

• Application form
• Conditions of participation
• Notice

In case of further enquiries, please contact Mr. Klemens Rybaczek, Eng.

Contact person:

Klemens Rybaczek, Eng.

klemens.rybaczek@biene-netzwerk.at

tel.: +43 (0)664 5389377

fax: +43 (0)2274 21370