Call for designs of large-scale opening ceremonial activity, logo, mascot and theme song for 7th China Arts Festival
Updated: 2002-10-16

The China Arts Festival is an important national cultural and art pageant for ordinary people throughout the country. Approved by the Chinese government, the festival was initiated in the autumn of 1987. As a high-level comprehensive art activity, the China Arts Festival plays an important role in enriching people's cultural life and promoting sustainable development of culture and art.

To ensure the success of the 7th China Arts Festival, we are collecting designs of large-scale art activity, logo, mascot and theme song for 7th China Arts Festival.

1. Basic rules of the 7th China Arts Festival

Theme: To develop advance culture, and to inspire national spirit
Tenet: A pageant of arts, and a festival of the people

2. Requirements:

1) Giving prominence to the theme of "To develop advance culture, and to inspire national spirit", reflecting the time spirit and local features.

2) The logo should be based on the festival logo and the characters of China Arts Festival. It should reflect the local culture and a pageant of various arts at the same time. Originality of the design should be easy to understand, and the designs should not be complicate, but vision-attractive. The standard color and characters of this festival should be embodied in the logo.

3) The mascot for the 7th China Arts Festival should be adopted from local customs and cultures of Zhejiang. There are no confines on the forms except that it should be lively and lovely. The mascot should be prepared in two forms -- 2-D design for presswork, ads and posters, and 3-D design for souvenirs and other propagandistic materials in public.
　
4) The theme song should reflect the national features and local cultures of Zhejiang area. No confines on styles and forms.

5) All candidate works should be original and haven't ever been published.

3. Soliciting measures:

1) The manuscript for the design of the large-scale opening ceremonial activity should be complete and in detail. Detailed implementing plan and budget for expenditure should also be included. The large-scale art activity at the opening ceremony should be controlled in 2 hours.

2) Colored standard design, black-and-white design, proportion of the design, and descriptions of the original meanings are required for each candidate work. The designs should be made or printed on A4 paper, while computer designs should be recorded on CDs with remarks of the software in use.

3) Operns and sample cassettes of the candidate theme songs are required, with a time limit of 5 minutes.
　　
4) Each candidate work should be prepared in 3 copies.

Please mail your works to the Office of Zhejiang Preparing Committee for the 7th China Arts Festival, on it with notes of "Applicant Works for the 7th China Arts Festival" and detailed introduction of the author.

Address: Office of Zhejiang Preparing Committee for the 7th China Arts Festival, No. 11 Shuguang Road of Hangzhou City
Postcode: 310007
Tel: 0571 -- 87960833 87976709
Mail: 7yj@zjwh.gov.cn

3) The deadline for soliciting blue prints of the large-scale art activity at the opening ceremony is January 15, 2003.
The deadline for soliciting designs of the logo and the mascot is December 25, 2002.
The deadline for soliciting theme songs is March 31, 2003.

4. Awarding

Experts will evaluate all the candidate blue prints of the large-scale art activity at the opening ceremony. The logo and mascot will be chosen through a popular vote together with expert evaluation. The works that are chosen will be announced on the Website of the 7th China Arts Festival, as well as on newspapers such as China Culture News and Zhejiang Daily in the May of 2004.

The copyrights of the chosen works belong to Zhejiang Preparing Committee for the 7th China Arts Festival. Participating works will not be returned no matter chosen or not.

5. Right for final explanation lies with the Office of Zhejiang Preparing Committee for the 7th China Arts Festival.

Office of Zhejiang Preparing Committee for the 7th China Arts Festival
Sept 9, 2002