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CC 25 Arts Festival Postcard Competition

WHAT IS IT?
Size A6 = 148mm x 105mm = 4” x 6”
Finished work must be the size stated and should be no more than 25mm (or 1”) thick and can be portrait or landscape format.
Original artwork in any media other than photographic or digital, and can be submitted on any surface.
If you choose to frame your work the frame should be included as part of the finished piece, and measure no more than the specified size of 4” x 6”.
If your completed work is on a soft or pliable background, like fabric or tissue paper, please attach it to a piece of firm card before submitting. Don’t forget to check the size rules.
You can include up to 3 Post Card artworks per entry fee.
Every entry must have your name, category (child student,adult), email address and contact phone number on the back.
WHO IS IT FOR ?
Everyone is welcome to enter: young, old, experts, beginners, newbies, landscape/portrait artists, cartoonists, inventors, graphic designers, lino-cutters, calligraphers, pyrographers, ceramics decorators, embroiderers and more.
WHEN IS IT?
The festival is open to the public on Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th July 2025
WHERE IS IT?
The main Festival hub is at The Assembly Hall, The School Rooms, Lowergate, Clitheroe.
HOW CAN I ENTER?
Please click the link below to pre-register and pay for your entry.
Categories:
Adult £10 entry fee pay online
Student (age 13-18) Free
Child (up to age 12) Free (There will also be a postcard drawing activity area for children at the festival.)

MORE INFO.

Please tick the box when you enter to say that you agree to the use of your art work for promotion of the CC Arts Festival.
You can also enter on the Festival weekend. Blank postcards and registration will be available at the Assembly Rooms festival hub.
Submissions – advance entries can be delivered from Monday 14th to Friday 18th July to The School Rooms. Entries created during the festival period should be handed in at the Festival Hub, School Rooms, Lowergate by 1pm on Sunday 20th July. You still need to register online.
Winners will receive 1 year complimentary CC membership and an Art lesson (or cash prize) and runners up will receive 1 year complimentary CC membership. There may be additional prizes in special categories awarded by our sponsors eg/ most original, best industrial, people’s choice.
Thank you very much for being part of the 2025 festival. Please could you help us raise funds by donating your work for us to sell? Each work would be sold for £25,  and the artist would receive a 1 year free membership to Clitheroe Contemporary.  All proceeds will go to CCAF fund.  This would not only help us raise funds to keep the festival going as an annual event, but it also means that people can buy a piece of affordable art.
If you don’t want your work to be sold then please write Not for Sale on the back of your entry. You must collect this work by Monday 24th August (from Platform?) If your work is not collected by the deadline, it will become available for sale and proceeds will go to CCAF.
There will be an exhibition after the festival  (to be announced)and some works may go on permanent display (or be made into a book) and be reproduced as post cards for sale.
STUCK FOR IDEAS?
Suggested themes/prompts – Art in Industry, in the style of Lowry (eg/ urban scene, portrait), people, our surroundings, machinery, animals, still life, our history, and surface pattern.