The official award-giving ceremony of the IX World Competition for Children’s Drawings was held on November 22 in the town of Kazanlak. The event was hosted by the Art Gallery-Kazanlak.

The ceremony and the exposition of winners’ drawings were attended by a large part of the participants, their art teachers and parents, the Ambassador of India to Bulgaria H.E. Sanjay Rana as well as representatives of the local administration.

This year, the committee awarded two special prizes, 11 gold prizes, 16 silver prizes, 21 bronze prizes, and 80 honorable mention awards. Phonphansa Gangjumpa from Thailand is the Special Prize LITTLE ZOGRAFF FOUNDATION winner. The second special prize in the name of the late artist and co-founder of the foundation PEPA BOYANOVA was presented to Angelina Stoykova.

Gold prizes, as a sign of respect for their contribution to the education of children, were also given to deserving citizens of the town of Kazanlak – the artist Vesa Valova, the head of the folklore ensemble “Arsenal” Hristo Stoyanov, the director of the Art Gallery Dr. Plamen Petrov and the physicist Teodosiy Teodosiev.

For 10 years we have been following our mission to support the creative potential of children and to give talented young artists from Bulgaria and abroad a chance to express themselves. We believe that providing a supportive and stimulating environment for the development of artistic flairs in children is key to the development of their talent from an early age, as well as to their good professional realization later in life.

Since its inception, the Foundation’s team has been actively working to establish fine arts as a fundamental tool for cultivating important skills in children and stimulating their development.

Over the years, the foundation has built a wide network of partners, which includes local and national institutions, Bulgarian and foreign cultural and educational institutions, foreign cultural institutes in Bulgaria, artists and artistic collectives, partners from the private sector.