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Sixth Intl. Sand Sculpture Festival selects winners
TEHRAN, Aug. 9 (MNA) -- The 6th International Sand Sculpture Festival selected winners during a ceremony held on the Caspian Sea shore, Babolsar on Friday.
Thirty-one sand sculptures were created and showcased during the 4-day event. The artworks were selected from 160 submitted by about 700 artists from six provinces, but without any international participants.
The festival was held in free, regional culture and special sections.
Works were selected by jury members Ahmad Nadalian, Kurosh Golnari and Fatemeh Parinejad.
While the jury did not select a first place winner in the special section, Baqer Vaseq from Ardebil and Mohsen Asrarian from Tehran took second and third place in this section respectively.
In the regional section, the jury also did not select a first place winner. Mahshid Hashemi (Babol) and Yaser Hosseini (Mashhad) shared second place, and third place went to Mohammad-Mehdi Samakush.
Hassan Babaii (Sari) was announced as first place winner in the free section and second was Hassan Molla-Noruzi (Neyshabur). Bahareh Zamani (Neyshabur) and Bijan Ghonchehpur (Karaj) shared the third award.
The ceremony was brought to an end without international participants, Jury member Nadalian said in the news released by Fars News Agency on Sunday.
In his letter, Nadalian had also complained about the statement the jury had prepared for the closing ceremony, “Part of the statement was omitted from the entire text.”
“All during the event, officials from the provincial department of Culture and Islamic Guidance insisted on reading the jury’s statement.
“We prepared the text, first expressing our gratitude to the organizers, but also pointed to several of the event’s shortcomings. The jury was not able to attend the closing ceremony but found out later that part of it was deleted,” the report added.
Following is the omitted part of the text, “A lack of a permanent secretariat during the year and hastiness in holding the program disrupted the process of judging. The jury asks for better programming to help preserve this event. The current exhibit is not suitable for the national participants and needs improvement. Also it would be better for the event to host international guests in the future.”
Sculptures created by artists from ECO member countries went on display at the Guest Section of the festival.
Thirty-one sand sculptures were created and showcased during the 4-day event. The artworks were selected from 160 submitted by about 700 artists from six provinces, but without any international participants.
The festival was held in free, regional culture and special sections.
Works were selected by jury members Ahmad Nadalian, Kurosh Golnari and Fatemeh Parinejad.
While the jury did not select a first place winner in the special section, Baqer Vaseq from Ardebil and Mohsen Asrarian from Tehran took second and third place in this section respectively.
In the regional section, the jury also did not select a first place winner. Mahshid Hashemi (Babol) and Yaser Hosseini (Mashhad) shared second place, and third place went to Mohammad-Mehdi Samakush.
Hassan Babaii (Sari) was announced as first place winner in the free section and second was Hassan Molla-Noruzi (Neyshabur). Bahareh Zamani (Neyshabur) and Bijan Ghonchehpur (Karaj) shared the third award.
The ceremony was brought to an end without international participants, Jury member Nadalian said in the news released by Fars News Agency on Sunday.
In his letter, Nadalian had also complained about the statement the jury had prepared for the closing ceremony, “Part of the statement was omitted from the entire text.”
“All during the event, officials from the provincial department of Culture and Islamic Guidance insisted on reading the jury’s statement.
“We prepared the text, first expressing our gratitude to the organizers, but also pointed to several of the event’s shortcomings. The jury was not able to attend the closing ceremony but found out later that part of it was deleted,” the report added.
Following is the omitted part of the text, “A lack of a permanent secretariat during the year and hastiness in holding the program disrupted the process of judging. The jury asks for better programming to help preserve this event. The current exhibit is not suitable for the national participants and needs improvement. Also it would be better for the event to host international guests in the future.”
Sculptures created by artists from ECO member countries went on display at the Guest Section of the festival.
