Kiosk Poster Contest

Do you have an idea for a kiosk poster ?

We would like to encourage new ideas for posters for our district’s south kiosk by inviting our Hilt, Colestin or Mt. Ashland fire district community residents and/or property owners to contribute their own poster artwork.

The winning poster will be displayed during the year ahead in the time period most suited to its theme, along with an author-credit notice in the kiosk case. (Posters are up for display for two months on average.)

The person who submits the winning poster will also receive a KA500 All-Hazards NOAA Weather Radio (see below).

By holding this contest, we hope to include the talents and artistry of people in our district who may not have participated in the district in other ways, as well as including those who have and do.

And hopefully, we will also get a number of posters that, with their authors’ permission, we’ll be able to use at future points when their themes are most relevant, increasing the diversity of our postings at the kiosk.

Contest Rules:

The start date for accepting poster entries for this contest is March 1st, 2017. The contest will be open for approximately 90 days; the closing date for accepting entries will be May 31st. No entries will be accepted after May 31st.

Participants must be Hilt, Colestin or Mt. Ashland fire district community residents and/or property owners. (If your full-time address is in Nova Scotia, you do not own property here and are visiting a friend for only 3 weeks, your entries will not be eligible to be considered.)

Poster content should be a combination of an image and a corresponding slogan, and may contain a limited amount of additional information. (Remember, posters on the south kiosk are primarily intended to be readable by drivers as they pass by the kiosk.)

The poster theme can be anything from fire prevention, fire season preparation, creating defensible space, wildfire safety, home fire safety, general or seasonal emergency preparedness, and any other fire safety educational theme relevant to our fire district’s essential purpose.

Please note: We are a public agency: poster content must be acceptable for a general audience: no expletives, non-discriminatory, non-political, etc. We reserve the right to reject any entries that do not respect this standard.

Copyright issues: Poster entries must be fully original OR have permission(s) from any sources of borrowed slogans and/or /images unless they are free to use in the public domain. For instance, if a poster includes fire safety information from Firebreak News, that use of that information should be permissible for fire safety educational purposes by its source, Firebreak News. (When in doubt, query the source and ask.) A reference to the source of the information at the bottom of the poster in at least 12-point size print may be required, and is always a good idea. Original entries (not requiring other content copyright acknowledgement) may be signed by the author.

Images should be set up for printing on a canvas or document with dimensions of 22 inches minimum to 24 inches maximum width by 30 inches minimum to 36 inches maximum height. Images should be finalized (flattened) and ready to print in high resolution (300 pixels per inch resolution minimum or an average total pixel dimension size of about 25 to 30 MB minimum in an image program).

Poster entries should be emailed to us as JPG images here through our website c/o the webmaster. Please note, the (usually compressed) email file size should be under 10 MB. (If for any reason your attached files do not go through, email the webmaster with that information and you will be provided an alternate email to send to us through.)

There is no limit to the number of poster submissions from each person that will be accepted. However, please do not send many huge files to us all at once (!). If you have more than a few to send, please stagger the send times so we have time to manage receiving the files and avoid system crashes.

All poster entries will be held securely until the May 31st end date. Our five-member Board of Directors will decide upon the winning poster at its Board meeting in June. (Poster entry images will be provided to them without the names of contestants, to prevent any possible bias in deciding the winner.)

The person who submits the winning poster will also receive a KA500 All-Hazards NOAA Weather Radio (details below). This is a new-in-the-box Kaito Voyager Solar & Crank Weather Alert MultiBand Radio with cell phone/Iphone & MP3/Ipod charger, USB port, LED flashlight, SOS emergency light, and much more. (Does not include an AC adaptor or 3 ‘AA’ batteries.) The winner will be contacted to arrange prize receipt.