Donation campaign: Support creators – defenders of rights and civil activism

Hello! If you're reading these lines, you have a superpower and you care about civil rights! Get involved in supporting artists – activists who, with their art, want to show why it is important to be civically active.

These are brave and empathetic authors who in 2023 will harness their talent and creative mind for the "Civic Alarm Clock" competition and create socially engaged art telling about the Good and co-Awakening the world with the call: "We are strongest when we help to others".

By donating an amount of your choice HERE, you will contribute to the prize fund of the "Civic Alarm Clock" competition, in which 9 talented artists will be awarded, and you will help us hold the CITIZEN ALARM CLOCK festival in the best possible way – on July 1, 2023 in Thermal power plant-Sofia.

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Our big dream is to raise the sum of BGN 10,000 by April 1, 2023 for the prize fund of gifted authors in the contest "Civic Alarm Clock" vol.6, creating art with a social mission, and for the organization of the rights and art festival CITIZEN ALARM CLOCK vol.3 where they will be rewarded.

An authoritative jury of professionals in their fields will evaluate and select the best and most impactful works of the first 3 places in each of the 3 competition categories: "Photography", "Illustration", "Text".

We believe that with your help, we will succeed!

Why do we do it?

We at the Bulgarian Center for Non-Profit Law (BCNP) 6 years ago launched "Civil Alarm Clock" – a competition for artists who want to raise the topic of civil liberties and the opportunity to associate, speak freely, and protest.

So far, more than 480 talented authors have participated in the competition, who explored and shared their form of empathy for what is happening to our civil rights and freedoms. We received more than 1000 illustrations, comics, photographs, poems, essays, stories, journalistic materials. All these creative works had one main message: "We are free, we have rights and they are important to us!"

In 2022, with the funds from the donation campaign, we honored 12 young and talented authors who received cash prizes for their inspiring works dedicated to the power of being ONE when we are UNITED.

In category "Photography"
First place: Denislav Stoychev – for the photographic series "Center for support of refugees from Ukraine, city of Varna"

Second place: Alexander Karamfilov – for the photographic series "Clean Maritsa"

Third place: Vili Rakadzhieva – for the photograph "A homeless person takes care of a homeless person"

"Audience's Choice" award in the online voting: Milen Milanov – for the photography "The Disappearing"

In the category "Illustration"
First place: Valentin Georgiev – for the series of illustrations "Together"

Second place: Tanya Bozhinova – for the illustration "Together at arm's length"

Third place: Maya Ivanova – for diptych illustrations "The connection between generations"

"Audience's Choice" award in the online voting: Svetlana Popova – for the illustration "VEDNO"

In the "Text" category
First place: Plamena Stoyanova – for the story "On friendly living and the right of association"

Second place: Arso Nistevski – for the interactive fairy tale "Swarm of Sparrows"

Third place: Alexander Arnaudov – for the poems "Activism", "The Angel during a Pandemic", "Borders", "Collective Nightmare", "Planet 1998"

"Audience's Choice" award in the online voting: Genka Bogdanova – for the story "The happiness of having faithful friends

All awarded works in the fifth edition of the "Civic Alarm Clock" competition can be viewed online here: Exhibition "UNITED: The power to be TOGETHER" 2022.

We believe that artists who dare to express their active position about how important it is to stay united and what we can achieve together when we are united around a common cause, deserve appreciation and support!

About Bulgarian Center for Non-Profit Law
Bulgarian Center for Non-Profit Law (BCNP) is a non-governmental organization for public benefit. Our mission is to support people in Bulgaria to associate freely and be civically active. We have been doing this for over 22 years. For us, association and civil organizations are more than a value – they are the engine of civil society.

Therefore, it is particularly important for us that more and more people recognize the civil organizations around them, sympathize with their causes, volunteer and trust in the power of connecting in Good and helping.

Because "we are what we make" not only for ourselves, but also for the communities we live in and with.