MASK-Prize

THE MASK PRIZE

YOUNG PEOPLE -

THE CREATIVE NATION

THE MASK PRIZE

Media Partners The Star (Africa)

The Informer East Africa (UK)

The MASK Prize is the unique pan-African annual creativity competition with prizes for schools and young people. It hopes to challenge young Africans to reflect on creative and innovative ways of thinking and doing, and to celebrate their creativity while sharing it with other young people at key cultural centres around the world, such as :

Nairobi National Museum (Kenya)

Michael Joseph Art Center (Kenya)

The Saatchi Gallery (UK)

Turner Contemporary (UK)

University for the Creative Arts (UK)

Royal Overseas League (UK)

and the Library of Congress (USA).

Participants submit their creative and innovative artworks online in any media in 5 categories. Up to 30 prizes totalling 300,000 Ksh are awarded at the official Prize-Giving ceremony in Nairobi. More than 4,500 young people has participated. Its exhibitions were seen by up to 450,000 people .

The MASK Prize is a non-for-profit programme pioneered by a UK education charity MASK SCAI (MASK School for Creativity and Innovation) that trains young people in creativity and innovation for employment, enterpreneurship and leadership.

ANNOUNCEMENT:

This year The MASK Prize is pairing up with the Portfolio, a student art competition of Turner Contemporary, the leading UK public contemporary art galleriy. Sharing the same theme - 'Making a change' - winning entries from both competitions will be displayed together at Turner Contemporary in Margate and at the Nairobi National Museum in Nairobi, Kenya.

CELEBRATING CREATIVITY OF YOUNG AFRICANS

Edward Wainaina, 18, Nairobi

SUIBMIT YOUR WORKS NOW

TO WIN THE PRIZES

SUBMIT ANY NUMBER OF WORKS

IN ANY OF THE 5 CATEGORIES BELOW

FOR FREE

BEFORE 1 MARCH 2017

ON THIS THEME:

'MAKING A CHANGE' - THE CHANGES YOU WOULD LIKE TO MAKE TO THE WORLD, YOUR COMMUNITY, OR TO YOU

WHO CAN ENTER:

ANYONE UNDER THE AGE OF 25 YEARS OLD LIVING IN AFRICA,

AND ANY SCHOOL, COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY, WHETHER STATE OR PRIVATE

IN ANY MEDIUM:

PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS, COLLAGES, PRINTS

INSTALLATIONS, SCULPTURES

GRAFFITI ART

DIGITAL/COMPUTER ART

PHOTOGRAPHS, PHOTO-JOURNALISM

SINGING, DANCING, PERFORMING, PLAYING MUSIC INSTRUMENTS

WORKS SHOULD BE ORIGINAL AND UNAIDED

SUBMIT WORKS ONLINE USING THE ENTRY FORM

(CLICK A CATEGORY BELOW TO SUBMIT)

DO NOT POST OR EMAIL YOUR WORKS

YOUNG ARTISTS UNDER 13 Y/O

For visual art - take a photograph of your works first and save it as JPEG file of 400KB-4MB in size. You will need this file when you submit your works.

VIDEO OF MUSIC, DANCE OR PERFORMANCE

For music/dance/performance - upload your videos on Youtube first, and than enter the Youtube URL link when submiting your work. Videos can be of any duration

ARTISTS UNDER 25 Y/O

For visual art - take a photograph of your works first and save it as JPEG file of 400KB-4MB in size. You will need this file when you submit your works.

ENTREPRENEURIAL IDEAS

Entrepreneurial ideas should be EITHER written up (maximum 100 words) OR painted, drawn, collaged, filmed, etc.

SCHOOLS

For visual art - take a photograph of your works first and save it as JPEG file of 400KB-4MB in size. You will need this file when you submit your works.