The- SALT & PEPPER –MAGAZINE Festival - Romania 2025

“Salt & Pepper” magazine organizes the “Salt & Pepper” Festival, which this year pays tribute to LOVE.

Love is the noblest feeling of affection and admiration that people can show towards their fellow beings, other beings or towards something. It is said that we love our husband, wife, child, neighbor, country, culture, we love animals, plants, what we do, what we feel and what we understand and… we love ourselves. Love breaks linguistic, social, age and cultural barriers, brings peers closer to each other, often defeats other feelings and actions that do not conform to common sense, morals and ethics and can overcome time and space.

Love is a dance of energies, between feeling and manifestation, specific to each one.

It represents a sublimation of the human essence which, at the level of society, requires introspection and assumption and, from the point of view of the creator of beauty, expression through cultural acts that emulate a high spirituality accompanied by deep joy.

Love, above all, must bring joy to man and the space in which he lives, even if it is different for each individual, manifesting itself differently through different meanings, symbols and actions in different societies and cultures.

Plastic works (painting, graphics, sculpture, collage, caricature/satirical graphics, etc.), literary works (poetry, prose, essay) and journalistic works that address the theme of “LOVE” under any of its aspects and effects, sent individually by the authors themselves, are expected.

An online exhibition of the artworks will take place in the virtual pages of the “Salt & Pepper” magazine and a series of text articles will be posted during the two months.

The event will be announced and publicized through social media and on the Facebook page.

REGULATIONS

1. Theme: love

We are expecting meaningful and cleaver works at a high artistic level

2. Participants

Only individual participants, over 18 years old, regardless of their gender, nationality or country of residence.

The works must be the author’s propriety and must be sent only by the author himself.

3. Art works

May be done in black & white or in colour Each participant may submit Max. 2 (two) works on each theme

Good quality images of signed works

by e-mail: JPG, JPEG format, Max. 800 KB/work & 300dpi resolution No captions and texts are accepted (text means one or more letters / digits / any characters or signs)

The participating works must not be previously published or awarded

No works with “adult content” or regarding real individuals or organisations will be accepted, regardless of their artistic quality; organizers own the right do not admit in the Salon works that may attempt against individual and/or collective rights – anyway all responsibility for any possible attempt against individual and/or collective rights is only on the authors –

4. Technique: It’s free of choice; in 2 (two) dimensions but no photographic art; no printed or photocopies or coloured copies

5. Deadline of receiving works: 31/3/2025

6. Participation

Will be accepted only ONE e-mail per participant, containing all works,

ENTRY FORM (word) and the personal photo/cartoon self portrait – Max. 250KB, Max. 300dpi, JPG, JPEG format,

The completed ENTRY FORM is mandatory

7. Awards

Prizes will be available per each theme. The prizes consist in exposure on the Salon’s website of:

name and surname, personal photo/cartoon, works, technique, dimensions, price/work as follows:

1st prize: 10 (ten) works including the awarded work

2nd prize: 5 (five) works including the awarded work

3rd prize: 3 (three) works including the awarded work

Nominated: 1 (one) work, the selected one in the first 10 ranked works after the prized works

“Salt & Pepper” Magazine

Bucharest, Romania

http://saltandpepperm.blogspot.com

e-mail: salt.pepper.s1@gmail.com

The first ranked 10 (ten) works on each theme will be exposed on the web-site.

The Diplomas and the poster of the edition will be send by e-mail to all accepted participants

The works will be exposed if these respond to all criteria and conditions mentioned in this document.

The Jury is entitled do not award one or more prizes according to their art’s criteria.

The jury decision cannot be appealed.

8. Winners

Participants whose works are selected to be awarded will be notified by e-mail

Into Max. 15 days after announcing prizewinners, they must send by e-mail their works according to all the above.

mentioned conditions.

The author which don’t respect rules will be replaced by the next selected author and will not be awarded.

9. Jury

An international jury; the jury’s panel will be announced

10. Submission addresses

The International Salt & Pepper Satirical Art Salon, 2025

By e-mail: salt.pepper.s1@gmail.com

11. Other specifications

The album of the Salon will be edited in electronic format, if possible.

The works will not be returned.

The “Salt & Pepper” Magazine and The International “Salt & Pepper” Satirical Art Salon reserve the right to archive,

exhibit and publish themselves or by authorization, the received works in mass-media specifying the author’s name

and country, without limitation and any compensation to the authors.

The Salon and Magazine do not sell anything and does not involve and is not responsible

in any business transactions between authors and their beneficiaries.

Participation into International Salt & Pepper Satirical Art Salon means the acceptance of all of the above regulations.

“Have enough salt and pepper in your life to be healthful, happy and full of humor!”

The International “Salt & Pepper” Satirical Art Salon

http://1stsaltandpeppersalon.weebly.com

salt.pepper.s1@gmail.com