As climate change continues to ravage our planet and extreme weather events met untold hardship on people all over the world, Arts Lounge Literary Magazine, through the Green we Left Behind Project continues to create awareness on climate change through Literature and the Arts. We do this by sharing and documenting the stories of how our lives and that of our children are affected by climate change, while suggesting possible ways to mitigate and adapt to our ever-changing world. This time we wish to create awareness by sharing our stories through photographs, paintings and visual artworks.

The Green we Left Behind Photographs/ Visual Arts Storytelling on Climate Change Contest, which is sponsored by the French Embassy in Nigeria and Brittle Paper, is an online contest that will continue to expand awareness and conversations on climate change. Because visual art is widely appreciated and engaged by people of all backgrounds, this project will engage a wide range of audience in climate change conversations and actions. As a result, participants, whose works steer the most reactions and engagements will emerge in the longlist, and possibly as winners. All longlisted entries will be featured in the Green we Left Behind Online Catalogue to be produced at the end of the project.

Prizes

First prize 200,000 naira

Second prize 150,000 naira

Third prize 100,000 naira

Four Honorary Mentions 25,000 naira each

Participation Guidelines

Interested participants should share photographs, or artworks that tell the stories of people or places in Nigeria that are affected by climate change, or extreme weather events.

Only original works of participating artists are accepted. Note, by submitting any work to this project, you claim original rights to the work submitted. participants are advised to mark/engrave their names on their pieces before sharing them online.

Images should be accompanied by a short description of where is being represented, the incident represented, and any other description the artist wishes to add.

Images should be shared on twitter, instagram and facebook with the hashtag, #thegreenweleftbehind

Tag @LoungeArts, @FranceInNigeria, @brittlepaper

Participants whose works are outstanding and have the highest engagements(likes, comments, retweets) will be selected in the long and shortlist.

Submission begins by 7th of October and ends by 31st October, 2022.