The Culture Council is organising the 5th Street Decoration Competition in the Historic Centre as part of the 9th edition of Art al Carrer 2025. This year the theme of the competition is ‘The Awakening of Spring’.
The contest is aimed at local associations and organisations and aims to encourage local participation in an artistic activity that will decorate emblematic spaces in the Old Town for the enjoyment of citizens and visitors alike.
All associations and organisations registered in Calpe may participate and each one will be assigned a street or space to decorate by lottery. Each association will provide the materials needed to create their artwork. To ensure that all participants are on an equal footing, the spaces set aside for the art exhibition will be similar in shape, although they will be adapted to the nature of the streets. All the exhibition sites for the artwork will be in the historic centre of Calpe.
Once the space has been allocated by lottery, each association will present a draft of the project. The choice of materials is free as long as they are removable at the end of the exhibition and do not cause damage to the façades, balconies or other elements and do not generate noise that is a nuisance to the neighbourhood.
The prizes amount to a total of €6000, €3000 for the first prize winner, €2000 for the second and €1000 for the third, and will be awarded according to the artistic value of the work, its originality, the technique used, the association's capacity to produce an artistic creation, the use of recycled materials that show a commitment to the environment, adaptability to the assigned space, resistance to the elements, the use of materials that do not create noise pollution for the neighbourhood.