CREATIVE VIDEO & ARTS CONTEST
RALI NH and the Capital Area Public Health Network are seeking local artists to express the importance of safely using, storing, and disposing prescription medications and the healthy habits that help you take care of your brain and body. By focusing on what healthy habits you engage in to take care of your brain and body, this can encourage your peers to do the same.
Finalists in each age group and category will receive cash prizes and winning entries will have their work publicly promoted in April to encourage participation in the DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day.
For this art PSA it is vital that peer messaging and safe language are used. This means targeting people your age, so something that feels powerful and impactful for you and your viewers. Please be as creative as you would like while falling within the safety parameters listed below.
Safe Language & Safe Imagery:
Safe language and safe imagery help defeat stigma against substance use disorders and reduce the descrimination experienced by people with substance use disorders and their loved ones. The language and imagery below could be hurtful, triggering and damaging to people with substance use disorder and their loved ones. It is vital that each entry does not include the following:
- harmful language
- graphic imagery
- inappropriate language
- drug or alcohol use
- commercial or branded products
- material that is hateful, tortuous, defamatory, slanderous, libelous, or otherwise unlawful
- material that promotes, bigotry, racism, hatred, or harm against any group or individual, or promotes discrimination based on race, ethnicity, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
If any of these items are found within a submission that submission will immediately be disqualified.
Contest Submission:
All participants must fill out this consent form to participate in the contest. Once a consent form has been submitted participants may email their entries to CAPHN.RXPSA@gmail.com using the subject line “CAPHN RX PSA [Title of Art] [Youth or Adult]”. Participant under the age of 18 at the time of submission must have a parent or legal guardian sign their consent form.
Video/Audio
- Videos or songs must be at least 15 seconds and up to 1 minute in length.
- Films must be submitted to CAPHN.RXPSA@gmail.com as an MP4 file.
- Please have a title.
- Share a description of your video in the submission email.
- Please format image file name to include your last name and the title of your video; for example - SmithRxSafety.jpg .
- One submission per artisit.
2-D Artwork
- Scanning works as .jpg or .png is the way to submit 2-D art.
- If you are unable to scan your piece, please upload a digital full-color photograph of your orginal work in high resultion format.
- Please have a title for your work.
- Share a description of your work in the submission email to CAPHN.RXPSA@gmail.com.
- Please format the image file name to include your last name and the title of your artwork; for example - SmithRx.jpg .
- One submission per artist.
Writing
- Must be a story, essay, or poem based on the contest theme and no longer than 300 words.
- Must be typed.
- Please title your work.
- Use references if necessary.
- Please submit as a pdf to CAPHN.RXPSA@gmail.com .
- One submission per writer.
Photography
- Photos cannot show a person's face without their signed consent form attached to submission.
- There can be no depictions of nudity or violence or substance use.
- Please include a title and have a description of your work in the submission email.
- Please submit your work in a high-resolution format in an email to CAPHN.RXPSA@gmail.com .
- One submission per artist.
Prizes
4 winners will be selected in each age category; youth ages 12-18 and adults 19 +. An announcement for cash prizes and scholarship amounts to follow.
