7th April 2006

THE 2006 CHRISI BAILEY AWARD: THE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S MEDIA ARTS AWARD

For over 15 years the Chrisi Bailey Award has highlighted and rewarded some of the most extraordinary educational work with children using photography, digital arts, video and animation with the aim of drawing attention to the use of media arts as a creative, visual medium across a range of subjects and settings.

The Award is open to anyone who has been working creatively with children aged 11 years and under with photography, animation, digital art or video over the last 18 months, and each of this year's 3 Award themes (History and Heritage, Identity and Environment) carry with them a prize of £1000 along with a package of creative IT tools. We also organise an Award event to celebrate the children's work and this year the first 20 applications we receive will get a set of art education materials just for applying.

The closing date for this year's Award is Friday May 12th and all of the application information is available - along with a background to the Award and a gallery of previous winners' work - at www.thechrisibaileyaward.org.uk

For enquiries or further information about the Award contact Trevor Horsewood by emailing chrisibaileyaward@googlemail.com or by post at the following address:

Trevor Horsewood (The Chrisi Bailey Award)
Unit 2, Toynbee Studios
28 Commercial Street
London E1 6AB