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RAIN OF LOVE

In such a poetic way was entitled one of 236 works sent to the drawing competition The Children of the Baltic. Twenty five cities from eight countries (Estonia, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Sweden and Russia) participated in the competition.

The competition final took place on 28 January 1999 in the Theatre Hall of the former Students Club in Gdansk. Twenty one people agreed to act as the jury members, among them the representatives of the diplomatic corps residing in Tri-City (Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark), the municipal authorities of Gdansk, Sopot and Gdynia, international culture organisations (Russian Centre of Culture and Science, Danish Culture Institute) and renown artists. The jury faced a very difficult task of choosing 8 finalists and 2 distinctions.

The results are as follows:

  1. Tomasz Linda (12 years), Gdansk, Poland

  2. Mohanned Ali (11 years), Malmö, Sweden

  3. Neringa Kekyte (9 years), Siauliai, Lithuania

  4. Yulia Shishova (12 years), Sillamäe, Estonia

  5. Katrina Olonkina (13 years), Ventspils, Latvia

  6. Yulia Abrazoumova (9 years), Kaliningrad, Russia

  7. Kiira Korpi (10 lat), Tampere, Finland

  8. Anne Sonntag (12 lat) Rostock, Germany

In addition, the jury decided to distinguish two works from Estonia and Lithuania since these two countries sent the biggest number of works. The awarded participants are:

  • Anna Ilushenko (12 years), Sillamäe, Estonia

  • Agne Brazauskaite (12 years), Kaunas, Lithuania.

The competition raised much interest in the mass media and the results were immediately announced on several radio stations, in local newspapers and on regional TV. On the following day, regional TV interviewed the winner of the competition.

The works we obtained are the beginning of new projects such as exhibitions in the cities around the Baltic, virtual art gallery on the UBC internet home page and publications of posters, calendars, post cards, etc.

In the very near future we are going to honour all children participating in the competition by opening a Virtual Gallery at the UBC www site to show the works diversity, maturity of execution and the profound involvement on the children's and teachers' or instructors' part. By means of such a gallery we would like to thank all the children for their participation in the competition. The competition was a source of unforgettable impressions and experience while all works were like one great rain of love, rich imagination and particularly the rain of great talent of the Children of the Baltic Sea.

Further informtaion:

Ms Ewa Depka
Project Co-ordinator
City of Gdynia
Phone:
+48 58 620 83 12
Fax:
+48 58 620 09 17
e-mail:
umgdyfor@miasto.gdynia.pl
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