VII International Drawing Contest
"Chess and the positive environmental principles in your natural setting"
This year there is a brief addition to the theme, The Fable of the Hummingbird: “Your small action helps the world to be happy”. This beautiful parable teaches us the importance of teamwork. It shows us that with a little collaboration from each one we can do great things. Never despise the help of someone who offers you, because together they will achieve great things.
Chess, culture, equality, fraternity, education and global connection, these are the pillars of the EXPOCHESS International Drawing Contest embodied with paper, pencil and paints in the drawings of this magnificent project by the CHILDREN OF THE WORLD.
This contest brings together more than twenty countries from the five continents, dozens of schools, associations, clubs, collaborators, federations... achieving the participation of thousands of boys and girls with their respective drawings. This is how a unique and global network of art is created without barriers with the imagination and art of our future.
“The current environmental crisis sets out challenges to all the inhabitants of the planet. Increasingly and in a fast way, worldwide globalization is having an impact on the social reality of the countries and on the environmental health. Mankind has been set itself up as the king of the creation; therefore, we tend to forget that we are part of the same creation and the same nature. ... continue reading.
List of winners:
Winners of 6 to 9 years category::
Winners of 10 to 14 years category::
Winners of over 14 years category::
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Unique World Art Network
This contest brings together more than twenty countries from the five continents, dozens of schools, associations, clubs, collaborators, federations... achieving the participation of thousands of boys and girls with their respective drawings. This is how a unique and worldwide art network without barriers is created with the imagination and art of our future.
Children from 6 to 14 years old (two age ranges, from 6 to 9 and from 10 to 14 years old) and people over 14 years of age participate; divided into three categories. In this edition we launch a new theme: "Chess and the positive environmental principles in your natural setting"; with free techniques and in A3 format.
The material medium that provides this opportunity for meeting and cooperation between different peoples of the planet, is provided by the new technologies that make doors and windows in the global village, specifically, the contest is “2.0”, since it fuses new technologies with traditional ones; A section will be opened on the event's website where you can see both the 24 works selected by each country and category and all the participants (from each country) creating an immense and very rich art network with touches of different cultures.
Previous edition
The sixth edition of the Drawing Contest was special, it had the same theme as this year 2022 and was convened at the University of La Punta de San Luís in Argentina, together with the start of a series of International Online Tournaments led by the ULP and its great team. We achieved the participation of more than 10 countries with hundreds of drawings and Online events to give visibility to the participants and the drawings. At the closing, in addition to a ULP-EXPOCHESS Final Tournament, a face-to-face Chess Promotion event at the Gran Hotel Lakua in Vitoria Gasteiz, the international jury of the contest spoke about the contest and gave their point of view, we connected with our collaborators from Peru and Argentina in video calls and we project videos of the winners. Here you can see the video of the closing: "Chess and Natural Environment".
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