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ST JUST LE MARTEL…26 years old!
SALON INTERNATIONAL DE LA CARICATURE
DU DESSIN DE PRESSE ET D’HUMOUR
28 SEPTEMBER –
7 OCTOBER 2007
May 28th,
2007
Hello,
In a few
weeks, St Just-le-Martel is celebrating the 26th anniversary of the
SALON INTERNATIONAL DE LA
CARICATURE, DU DESSIN DE PRESSE ET D’HUMOUR.
Architects
are working on the conception of the future CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE LA CARICATURE, DU DESSIN
DE PRESSE et D’HUMOUR : plans and a model of this exceptional equipment will be
presented during the next SALON.
Indeed, 25
years later, owing to the first steps of ignorant but enthusiastic “neophytes”,
owing to their tenacity and to the constant support the profession; also owing
to the financial grants of respectively the State, the Limousin Region, the
Haute Vienne Department and St Just-le-Martel village, this project is about to
materialize.
Naturally,
we will have the opportunity to talk about it with you during the next Salon,
asking for support, advice and suggestions...
In the
meantime, we have carried on with our activities, multiplying exhibitions, in France and abroad, particularly with “Cartooning
for Peace” that took us from New York to Brussels via Geneva and Paris in collaboration
with the United Nations.
But for the
moment, we have to conduct simultaneously all those activities and this new
challenge of preparing the next SALON…
For the
26th time (!) the «SALON INTERNATIONAL de la CARICATURE, du DESSIN
de PRESSE ET d'HUMOUR » is being prepared at St Just-le-Martel...
Thus proving its vitality, the enthusiastic tenacity of the organisers, and the
friendly trust of the whole profession.
St Just
Festival is today the most ancient, without any doubt the most important of all
manifestations dedicated to press and humour cartoons certainly in France and probably in Europe...
The seriousness, the professionalism (at best meaning of the word), the quality
of its associative engagement are unanimously recognized...
For the
26th edition, we obviously need your support and participation, your
presence through drawings of course but also "personally", even if it
should only be for a short visit between 28 September and 7 October.
The 2007
edition is conceived around expression “Hotting up” with all possible
significance:
“Hotting up” in the literal sense of climatic
changes:
(drawings
about the environment, the protection of the planet greenhouse effect,
recycling, energy control, etc…)
“Hotting up”
in the figurative sense of “ burning “ situations:
(tense,
difficult, agitated, urgent situations…Conflicts, keen competitions, in all
international relations…)
“Hotting up»: The presidential
election, French politics since the election…
caricatures
of the candidates…caricatures of the face-to-face SARKOZY/ROYAL.
“Hotting up”
in all human activities:
sport
competitions, music, concerts and Show biz…
The 26th
SALON will obviously open the usual rubrics:
- story
pages, “ Europe, 50 years ago…”
- eisure
pages, drawing-games and riddles…
- hildren
and young public pages .
- butes and
highlights on special works…
It will show highlights,
too, on news about press drawings in other countries, especially Lebanon, Quebec
(400 years old), Switzerland
and their views on France…
It will
present all the cartoons drawn during the year for the United Nations
exhibition
“Cartooning
for peace”.
This exhibition will be
the context of a conference around the role and place of press cartoons in our
so-called “information” society, also in the globe sectors that are torn and
oppressed by conflicts.
You can
either choose one or the other column, or send us drawings (12 to 15, size A4)
about all the themes mentioned above.
It would be
ideal if we could receive them before the end of August.
The works are insured, presented
with great care and of course sent back as quickly as possible after the
manifestation.
As far as
your coming to St Just is concerned, on either
weekend (the last one in September or the first one in October), could you
please let us know in good time of your participation. Since it is “Hotting
up” the earlier, the better...
There
again, your travelling expenses to and fro St Just-le-Martel on French
territory, based on the SNCF rate, and your accommodation are taken care of by
the organisers like last year.
We are
looking forward to hearing from you shortly. Let us insist on how
particularly important your participation is for the actual realisation,
proof of your attachment and support.
Best
wishes,
Most
sincerely,
For the
Salon, The President:
Gérard
VANDENBROUCKE.
P.S. St
Just website (www.st-just.com) is
visited quite regularly
(between
200 000 & 350 000 connexions per month, from all over the world).
We continue
to issue a database about caricatures and press cartoons (Biographies,
bibliographies, educational documents, recent publications etc...)
We can only
expand this site by adding at any time any information that you wish to see
appearing. Just send us the necessary information.
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