Mugla Metropolitan Municipality 1st International Caricature Competition 2020, Turkey

MUGLA METROPOLITAN MUNICIPALITY

The 1st INTERNATIONAL CARICATURE COMPETITION CONTRACT

SUBJECT: MIGRATION
Application Conditions:
1) The competition has been organized for national and international for competitors who is amateur or professional throughout world.
2) The caricatures including out of public decency, containing offence and politics, undesirable and harmful declarations cannot attend the competition.
3) The relatives of jury cannot attend the competition.
4) Drawing style is optional. If the caricature is wanted to be sent as printed out, it must contain the sign (wet signature) of artist.
5) Caricature size must be at least A4 (21 x 29.7 cm) and uttermost A3 (29.7 x 42 cm) and it mustn’t be glued on any surface.
6) Caricatures that will be sent must haven’t been get any award. Any caricature that is subjected to replica, similar or comprint will not be received for consideration.
7) Caricatures that ranked as a result of the competitioun will be exhibited on the official website of Muğla metropolitan Municipality between the 3rd and 10th of June. Carricatures that are found to be similar will be disqualified from the competition. In case of such a determination, the reserved works will be rewarded. Participant will be responsible for all possible discussions, stolen and similar claims.
8) Short autobiography of the artists must be added to their caricatures.
9) Participants can send 3 (three) caricatures maximum.
10) Participants must write their names, surnames, addresses, cell-phone number and country name at the back of the caricature.
11) Any participants under the age 18 must add their identification copy to their caricatures.
12) The deadline for the delivery of the works is 18th May 2020. “Muğla Büyükşehir Belediyesi 1. Uluslararası Karikatür Yarışması”, name and surname of the artist and the work must be sent to the Muğla Büyükşehir Belediyesi Müştakbey Mahallesi Belediye Sokak no:6 Menteşe/Muğla till 18th May 2020.
13) Any participants under the age of 18 one of his/her parents’ accommodation and transportation fee will be paid. (The expenses of the guests who came with competitors will be their own.) The transportation and accommodation expenses of the competitors, who won the honourable mention and special prizes, will not be covered. Accommodation and transportation expenses of our award-winning participants under 18 and a parent will be covered.
14) The prize winners reward will be transferred to their IBAN which will be given before the competition. Beneficiary must have completed the papers in full and sign it. If the beneficiary doesn’t inform his/her IBAN number, the prize is going to be lapsed within a year. In case of lapse, participants cannot have any rights on prize, copyright.
15) Any caricatures sent to the competition won’t be sent back. The ranked or unranked caricatures may be used or shared by Mugla Metropolitan Municipality for cultural purposes. Among the sent caricatures, an album will be organized by Mugla Metropolitan Municipality with the help of Jury members. These albums will only be sent to the participants who are ranked in the competition and published in the album.
16) The right of publication of the works awarded as prize, honourable mention or works that will be exhibit at the end of the competition will belong to Mugla Metropolitan Municipality according to Law of Intellectual Property Rights numbered 5846, 21st title, 22nd, 23rd title, 24th title and 25th title. According to these rights Mugla Metropolitan Municipality can use these works in Turkish or all other languages, all kind of publishing contents by indicating the artist’s name for indefinitely. Muğla Metropolitan Municipality doesn’t allow using of the works for any other purposes under any circumstances. No payment will be done for the works that will be exhibited or chosen for album. All participants who have submitted their work for the competition are deemed to have accepted the conditions above.
REWARDS:
First Prize: 7.500 TL
Second Prize: 5.000 TL
Third Prize: 3.500 TL
Honorable Mention (3): 1. 500 TL
Under the age of 18 (10-18) : 750 TL
Turan Özdemir Special Prize: 1.000 TL
JURY:
Gürbüz DOĞAN EKŞİOĞLU (Ass. Doc. Yeditepe University Lecturer – Caricaturist)
Savaş ÜNLÜ (Humourist)
Şevket YALAZ (Caricaturist)
Abdül Kadir USLU (Caricaturist)
Mehmet SELÇUK (Caricaturist, General Coordinator)
Sait MUNZUR (Caricaturist)
Rudy GHEYSENS (President of Belgium Caricaturist Association – Caricaturist)
An Authorized person from Muğla Metropolitan Municipality
TIME SCHEDULE
1. The deadline is until the end of working hours on Monday, 18 May 2020
2. The jury evaluation meeting will be held on Saturday, 30 May 2020
3. The results of the competition will be announced on Tuesday, 15 June 2020
4. The award ceremony will be held on a date determined by Muğla Metropolitan Municipality. Carricatures that the jury deems worth exhibiting will be exhibited on the date, time and place is going to be decided by Muğla Metropolitan Municipality.
COMMUNICATION
Competition Coordinator: Ahsen GÜNAY
Phone: 0 537 983 61 03
Operator: 444 48 01 Interior: 1142
Address: Muğla Büyükşehir Belediyesi
Müştakbey Mahallesi Belediye Sokak No:6 Menteşe/Muğla
E-Mail: ahsengunay@mugla.bel.tr; cihanbulut@mugla.bel.tr
Web. www.mugla.bel.tr
Application form of Muğla Municipality Carricature Competition here (PDF).

The 44th Italian Lies championship graphics section contest dedicated to Lie 2020, Italy

The Italian Championship of Lies was born in 1966. The reasons that led to the creation of this competition are to be found in the traditions of our little village over the Pistoia’s mountains, on the Italian Apennines, when in last century people used to meet in front of a fireplace to tell stories that mixed reality and fictious. The Italian Lie Academy, in occasion of the 44th Italian Lies championship, declares the graphics section contest dedicated to Lie.

This year theme is:

Fables and Lies

Traditional fairy tales-tales-tales revised in a liar tone.

1. The competition is structured in a single section.
2. Participation is free. Deadline for cartoon submission is Wednesday, 1st July 2020. Each participant can send up to 2 cartoons.
3. The entry form below (also in PDF on source: labugia) must be completed in all its parts and sent along with the presentation of the works that take part in the competition.
4. The paper must be sent by postal mail to: Accademia della Bugia - Pro Loco Alta valle del Reno, via della chiesa, 27 - 51100 Le Piastre PT, Italy. Otherwise you can use our electronic mail address: accademiabugia@gmail.com
5. The comics can be written in italian or in english, but we advice that you can make a cartoon simply draw, without any text.
6. Italian Lie Academy will award the top three as follows: 1st place: "Gold Bugiardino". 2nd: "Silver Bugiardino". 3rd: "Bronze Bugiardino". The Bugiardino is the symbol made in resin of the Championship and is the bell tower of the village with a long nose, like the Pinocchio’s one.
It will be awarded with the "International Bugiardino" the best cartoon coming from abroad or drawn by a foreign national.
7. All the winning cartoons will be published on the website of the Italian championship of Lies (www.labugia.it).
8. The authors waive any fee related to copyright.
9. Prizes will be delivered during the 44th Italian Championship of Lies that will take place in Le Piastre on the 1st and 2nd August 2020.
10. The works will be judged by a jury headed by the italian cartoonist Marco Fusi.

Catalog of the 11th Salão Medplan de Humor 2019, Brazil

Received yesterday the color catalog of the 11th Salão Medplan de Humor 2019, Brazil + the 2020 calendar showing the awarded works in the event. The book is 20.8x30.7 cm in size and arrived a bit damaged in the post which is no surprise nowadays! It has 80 pages and contains the awarded + selected cartoons of  the 11th Salon with theme Narcissism.
The awarded + selected works in the Caricature section are also included in the catalog in 18 pages, each with 3 portraits on average. There are the awarded + selected works in the Comic Strip section in 6 pages. Yet not finished: in the following 5 pages are the awarded + selected works by young cartoonists that took part in the 2nd Salãozinho Medplan de Humor 2019. Totally are 216 cartoons/caricatures covered in this great catalog.
It is noted that they received 1.445 artworks from 41 countries mostly via internet I suppose. While this helps more artists to participate, it might have some negative consequences: The files of some cartoons are of less weight so that they are not clear enough on the printed page. This is obvious in the Honorable Mention winning charge in the event: the contour lines are all blurred. Some other works in the catalog also lost some effect due to this technical matter. This makes one contemplate on why some organizations still insist on accepting only original works, or some offer the prizes only if the originals are sent to the organization after the prizes are awarded to the electronically sent in works.
Engin Selçuk, Menekşe Çam, and Oğuz Gürel are the cartoonists from Turkey whose works are published in the catalog.
Possibly because this event was announced through some emphasis on taking a selfie, there are a lot of works depicting the act. And that is the reality of these days of course. But the theme was Narcissism which has never needed a cell phone to manifest itself. The 1st Prize winning charge by Rafael Corrêa shows one of such instances and deserves the front cover page as well (Top).
Thank you to the organizers, esp. Welington Teixeira de Araújo Júnior, for sending me this super collection of international humor.

The 4th International School Cartoon Festival, Tondela 2021, Portugal

This report by Ricardo Ferreira.

Winners in the 3rd International School Cartoon Festival, Tondela 2020, Portugal

Theme: Food

This report by Ricardo Ferreira.

International Cartoon Festival Competition & Exhibition, Malaysia 2020

INTERNATIONAL CARTOON FESTIVAL

COMPETITION & EXHIBITION

MALAYSIA 2020

The organizer of the competition is the Rossem Cartoon House (BKR), Malaysia Cartoon & Comic House (RKKM), Perbadanan Muzium Negeri Kelantan.
Eligible Participants:
• Opened to all artists from all over the world above 18 years of age.
Theme:
Save Our Heritage
Technical Criteria:
• All artworks to be prepared at 300 dpi.
• Size A3 (297mmx420mm) in JPEG format.
• Entries: Max. 3 cartoons.
• Submitted works can be in color or black and white, in any style or technique.
• Submitted works must not violate copyright laws.
• By virtue of submitting an entry, the entrant certifies the work as his own and permit the organizers to have full right to reproduce all or a part of the entered material free of charge for publication and/or display in media related to the exhibition.
Submission:
• Send your cartoons and your CV (Name - Address - Phone number - Email address) via the following e-mail address:
rossemkartun@gmail.com 
• Deadline: 23 May 2020
• Exhibition: 01 June 2020
• All participants whose works will be exhibited will receive a digital catalogue and a digital certificate of participation.
Prizes and awards
First prize : RM 2,000.00
Second prize : RM 1,500.00
Thirt prize: RM 1,000.00
Five special mentions
The Coordinator of the Gathering: Rossem
Facebook : Balai Kartun Rossem https://www.facebook.com/kartunrossem/ .
(Updated: 02 February 2020 17:30).

20th World Press Freedom International Editorial Cartoon Competition 2020, Canada

20th World Press Freedom International Editorial Cartoon Competition

(Theme and Regulations)

1. The theme for the 20th International Editorial Cartoon Competition is:
Pulling the plug on social media
After a storm over the publication of a cartoon deemed anti-Semitic, the New York Times stopped publishing editorial cartoons in their international publication.
In August, India stripped Kashmir of its constitutional autonomy and isolated it from the world by cutting it off from the Internet.
Thirty years after the fact, the Chinese are still kept in the dark about the Tiananmen Square massacres.
Iran can claim, without risk of contradiction, that its response to the attack on General Soleimani killed 80 American soldiers.
Increasingly, we see that the powers in place do not suffer contradiction.
2. Three prizes will be awarded: a first prize of $1500 plus a Certificate from Canadian UNESCO, a second prize of $750 and a third prize of $500. All sums are in Canadian dollars. Ten additional cartoons will receive an ‘Award of Excellence.’ Regrettably no financial remuneration accompanies the Awards of Excellence.
3. Only one cartoon will be accepted from each cartoonist. It may be either in colour or black and white and must not have won an award.
4. The size of the cartoon should not exceed A4; 21 by 29.2 cm; or 8.5 by 11 inches. Cartoons should be in jpeg format at 300 dpi.
5. The name, address, telephone number and a short biography of the cartoonist must be included in the submission.
6. The Canadian Committee for World Press Freedom shall have the right to use any of the cartoons entered for promotion of the Editorial Cartoon Competition.
7. The winners of the Cartoon Competition will be announced at the World Press Freedom Day luncheon to be held at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa on Tuesday May 5, 2020 and will be advised by e-mail. The winner’s names and their cartoons will be posted on the CCWFP web site.
8. The winning cartoons will be published in a program distributed at the luncheon.
The deadline for reception of cartoons is midnight (Eastern Daylight Saving Time), Friday, March 27, 2020.
Send submission by e-mail to: info@ccwpf-cclpm.ca .
Source: bado-badosblog .

The 1st International Coast to Comix Contest 2020, Italy

COAST TO COMIX REGULATION - TEMA

1 - THEME
LA proloco di Appignano organizes the contest (INTERNATIONAL) COAST TO COMIX! for humorous and satirical cartoons of costume on the theme:
“WALKING - total green travel, walking holidays.
With a particular eye to the Coast to Coast route from the Adriatic Sea to the Tyrrhenian Sea PORTONOVO - ORBETELLO "
2 - PARTICIPATION
The competition is open to designers from all over the world / Italy, without any territorial limit and will be divided into two categories, as follows:
Italy
Abroad
3 - TECHNIQUES
You can send up to five unpublished works, made with any technique, in color or in black and white, in the maximum A4 format (21x29.7 cm).
4 - DEADLINES AND DEADLINES
The works must be received no later than midnight on 10/05/2020 (EXTENDED:) 30 JUNE 2020
- at coastocomix@gmail.com in .jpg, .tiff or .pdf format at a resolution of 300 dpi, together with the participation form (different for adults and minors, in the latter case a parent will send us the module). NB: the individual files must not exceed 5 MB in weight
5 - JURY
Jury President Valentina Lo Surdo, RAI journalist, collaborates with Lonley Planet and avid walker
Riccardo Messi - artist
Isabella Manfrini - designer and walker
Riccardo Chitarrari - artist
Gianfranco Borgani - creator of paths
6 - AWARDS
1st Italian Prize € 100 recognition plaque, typical products: artistic crockery, legumes
the winner will be hosted with a companion on the evening of Saturday 27/06/2020 at a local facility
2nd Italian Prize recognition plaque, typical products: artistic crockery, legumes
3rd Italian Prize identification plate, typical products: legumes
1st Foreign Prize € 100 recognition plate
2nd Foreign Prize recognition plate
3rd Foreign Prize recognition plate
1st Prize "Public Vote" for the work most voted by the public
recognition plaque, typical products: artistic crockery, legumes.
The Jury reserves the right to report further works, which will not receive prizes and to exclude from the tender notice any works deemed unsuitable for the proposed theme or not ethically correct.
During the exhibits of the works there will be the possibility for visitors to indicate their favorite work to compete for the assignment of the "1st Prize voted by the Public".
By participating in the competition, the authors assign the non-exclusive right to publish the works on any medium for promotional purposes without having anything to claim as copyright.
Participants will be distributed online the "Coast-to-comix CATALOG" with the collection of the best participating works of the two categories.
The selected works will also be exhibited as a kilometric sign of the Coast to Coast trekking route.
7 - EXHIBITION
INAUGURATION: the Works will be exhibited on the occasion of the Award Ceremony in Appignano and along the streets of the town where it will take place with a walk during the day of 28/06/2020
On this date, important cartoonists from all over Italy will intervene in the town, who will create and give the public autographed caricatures and cartoons, as well as selfies for the dissemination of the initiative on social networks (instagram, facebook, etc.)
8 - AWARD CEREMONY
In one of the areas set up for the exhibition, the final award ceremony will be held on 27/06/2020 from 15:00 to 16:00 with the coveted presence of all participants.
Follow Coast to Comix up
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/coastocomix/
WEB www.coastocomix.com

Entry page

Name: ………………………………………………………………………..

Surname:…………………………………………………………………...

Alias:………………………………………………………………………….

Address:……………………………………………………………………

Mobile phone: ……………………………………………………………………

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The 7th International Cartoon Gathering - Egypt 2020

The 7th INTERNATIONAL CARTOON GATHERING - EGYPT 2020

(To be held in 12th July 2020)

The Ministry of Culture in Egypt, in cooperation with Egyptian Caricature Association organizes the 7th International Cartoon Gathering.
Eligible Participants:
• Opened to all artists from all over the world above 18 years of age.
Theme:
1- Music.
2- Caricature: Egyptian singer (Umm Kulthum).
Technical Criteria:
· All artworks to be prepared at 300 dpi.
· Size A3 (297mmx420mm) in JPEG format.
· Entries: Max. 3 cartoons.
· Submitted works can be in color or black and white, in any style or technique.
· Submitted works must not violate copyright laws.
· By virtue of submitting an entry, the entrant certifies the work as his own and permit the organizers to have full right to reproduce all or a part of the entered material free of charge for publication and/or display in media related to the exhibition.
Submission:
• Send your cartoons and your CV (Name - Address - Phone number - Email address) via the following e-mail address: egyptcartoon2020@gmail.com
• Deadline: 15th April 2020
• Opening Ceremony: 12th July 2020
• All participants whose works will be exhibited will receive a digital catalogue and a digital certificate of participation.
For more details please visit: https://www.facebook.com/egyptcartoon
Or contact us at: egyptcartoon2020@gmail.com
The President of the Gathering: Gomaa Farahat
The Coordinator of the Gathering: Fawzy Morsy.

The 7th Biennial of Humor "Luis d'Oliveira Guimarães", Penela 2020, Portugal

VII BIENAL de HUMOR “LUÍS D’OLIVEIRA GUIMARÃES” – ESPINHAL/PENELA 2020 Portugal

One Organization: Penela City Council / Junta de Freguesia do Espinhal / Oliveira Guimarães House Museum
With the support of Luiz d´Oliveira Guimarães Foundation
A Production: Humorgrafe - Artistic Director: Osvaldo Macedo de Sousa (humorgrafe.oms@gmail.com)
The Biennial where humor needs no color, just a smile, philosophical intelligence and a simple, direct color - black and white and its nuances.
1 - Theme: Laugh with and at Health (Human and systems)
a) Health is something that worries us daily, and although we say that we are looking good, we rarely complain about it, but about other ailments, such as empty pockets to pay the doctor, IDP (age) social colds … Health is something more complicated than in the times of our grandmothers' little ones. Today it is a game of balances, not just physical, energetic or spiritual, as a field of economic battles in the pharmaceutical universe, of confrontations between said conventional medicines with traditional or alternative medicines, as if life had a healthy and unhealthy alternation. We cannot forget that side of alchemy / magic that has accompanied the evolution of humanity and reflecting the color, diversity, life of each culture and each people. Since the dawn of humanity, man has been looking for ways in nature (physical and chemical) to maintain the healthy balance of being. Shamans, druids, healers, physicists, herbalists, pharmacists, doctors… yes, we live in an era of the global village, but at this moment it is more important to demonstrate the diversity, the identity of each people, each culture that makes humor with the generalist banality of the universe. We would like your drawings to also show a little of your culture, your diversity in health and medicine.
To speak of health is to speak of man or humanity? Are the symptoms of illness the same or disparate? Can there be a healthy humanity with sick beings or healthy men in a sick society? Are governments really willing to have a good National Health Service policy or is this counterproductive for pharmaceutical lobbyists, who end up controlling their health to their liking? And what about the sick doctor relationship (which the Order of Doctors asks to be considered an Intangible Heritage of Humanity) that is being submerged by technologies and by the economist dehumanization of medicine?
So many serious issues looking for laughing satires… We all know that laughing is already an alternative drug, a placebo that eradicates multiple diseases of humanity, but to what extent it has therapeutic strength to keep us awake against usurpations, games, unhealthy corruptions of society?
b) As a subgroup, as part of the portrait-charge / caricature, we will honor António Arnaut (Penela 18/1/1936 - Coimbra 21/5/2018) the “father” of the National Health Service, created in 1978 when he held the position of Minister of Social Affairs (II Constitutional Government).
2 - Open to the participation of all graphic artists with humor, professionals or amateurs.
3 - Deadline: May 31st, 2020. They should be sent to humorgrafe.oms@gmail.com, humorgrafe@hotmail.com or humorgrafe_oms@yahoo.com (If they do not receive confirmation of receipt, resend SFF).
4 - Each artist can send, via e-mail in digital format (300 dpis A4 size) up to 4 monochrome works (one color with all its shades - 2, 3 or 4 color drawings are not accepted - open to all techniques and styles such as caricature, cartoon, humorous drawing, comic strip, comic strip (story on a single board) ... these should be accompanied with information of name, date of birth, address and e-mail.
5 - The works will be judged by a jury composed of: representatives of the Penela City Council; representative of the Espinhal Parish Council; representative of the Oliveira Guimarães family; by the Artistic Director of the Biennial; one sponsor representative, one local media representative and one to two guest artists, with the following Awards being granted:
1st Prize of the VII BHLOG 2020 (€ 2,000)
2nd Prize of the VII BHLOG 2020 (€ 1,500)
3rd Prize of the VII BHLOG 2020 (€ 1,000)
VII BHLOG 2020 Caricature Award (€ 1,200)
The Jury, at its discretion, may award “Special Awards” (António Oliveira Guimarães, Leonor Oliveira Guimarães, Municipality of Penela, Junta de Freguesia do Espinhal and Humorgrafe), as an honorary title, with the right to a trophy.
6 - The Jury grants the right to make a selection of the best works to exhibit in the available space and catalog edition (which will be sent to all artists with reproduced work).
7 - The Organization will inform all artists by e.mail if they have been selected for the exhibition and catalog, and which artists have been awarded. The works awarded with remuneration are automatically acquired by the Organization. The originals of the winning entries must be delivered to the Organization (the original in computer-made works is a high quality A4 hand-signed, 1/1 numbered print), because without this delivery, the prize money will not be unlocked.
8 - Reproduction rights are the property of the Organization as soon as it is for the promotion of this organization and are punctually discussed with the authors in the case of other uses.
9 - For further information contact the Artistic Director: Osvaldo Macedo de Sousa (humorgrafe.oms@gmail.com) or VII Humor Biennial Luís d'Oliveira Guimarães, Culture Sector, Penela City Hall, 3230-253 Penela - Portugal.
10 - The VII Humor Biennial Luís Oliveira Oliveira Guimarães - Espinhal / Penela 2020, opens on September 5 at the Espinhal Cultural Center, but may also be exhibited in other places to be designated.
Entry Form and more on humorgrafe.

The 3rd Yılmaz Güney International Cartoon Contest 2020, Turkey

THE 3rd YILMAZ GUNEY INTERNATIONAL CARTOON CONTEST

1 - The contest is open to artists from all over the world, professional or amateur.
2 - The theme of the contest is “Cinema and Immigrants”.
3 - The work submitted must not have received an award at another contest. The works will be judged for their progressive, realistic and critical aspects which are important qualities of Yilmaz Guney’s cinema and are integral to the nature of the art of cartoon.
4 - Participants may submit any number of cartoons they wish. But a participant cannot receive more than one prize.
5 - The drawing sent should not be any larger than a sheet of A3 paper (29,7 cm x 42 cm). They must be in jpg format, with 300 dpi resolution.
6 - Works must be submitted until April 15, 2020 via e-mail to the address ygksfkarikatur@gmail.com 
7 - When sending the work, the artists must send a word document containing their names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses along with a short resume and a photo of themselves.
8 - Works which have received awards and/or were seen worthy of display will be brought together and published as an album. Those artists whose drawings are in the album will receive a copy.
9 - The award ceremony will take place on June 14, 2020, the last evening of the festival. The awards of those who cannot attend the ceremony will be sent to their home addresses.
10 - As a result of the evaluation; “Yılmaz Güney Honor Award” will be given to 3 cartoonists, “Yılmaz Güney Culture and Art Festival Special Award” to 1 cartoonist, and “Jury Special Award” to 1 cartoonist. In addition, "Yılmaz Güney Freedom Award" will be given to 2 cartoonists from prisons. The awards include “Specially Designed Figurine, Yılmaz Güney Books Set and Original Yılmaz Güney Movie Posters” published by Yılmaz Güney Foundation.
11 - The jury will be comprised of the following artists: Elena Ospina (Colombia), Erhan Yaşar Babalık (Turkey), İsmail Kızıl Doğan (Belgium), Mihai Ignat (Romania), Altan Ozeskici (Turkey), and Askin Ayrancioglu (Turkey).
12 - The works which have been submitted to the contest will stay in the archives of the organization organizing the festival. The organization will have the right to use these works in its publications, posters, brochures, calendars etc. The artist will receive a copy of the publication whenever his/her work is used.
13 - All artists participating in the contest are assumed to have read and agreed with the terms stated above.
*For information on the “Yılmaz Güney Festival of Culture and Art” visit: www.yilmazguneyksf.org
* We sincerely thank those artists who will enrich the festival with their works and we wish them success…
More on https://yilmazguneyksf.org/.