Community members are invited to paint or draw artwork exploring the question: What does love our bodies, love ourselves mean to you? The Provincial Eating Disorders Awareness (PEDAW) campaign and the Vancouver Graffiti Management Team are hosting a province-wide mural contest and North Shore amateur artists are encouraged to enter, according to a press release.
The winner will have their art painted on a container mural in Vancouver by a professional lead artist, receive an invitation to paint with the artist, have their artwork displayed at the 2014 Eating Disorders Association of Canada Conference in Vancouver, and receive free admission to the association's pre-conference, Oct. 5. Second and third place winners will have their artwork displayed at the conference as well as receive free admission to the preconference.
The submission deadline is June 30 and images, a maximum of three per person, must be submitted via email to [email protected].
Winners will be announced July 7. For more information on the contest, or PEDAW, a province-wide effort to raise awareness around prevention and early intervention of eating disorders as well as media literacy, resiliency, building healthy body image and self-esteem, led by Jessie's Legacy Eating Disorders Prevention Program at Family Services of the North Shore in collaboration with a number of other organizations, including the Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre and Looking Glass Foundation, visit bit.ly/pedawmuralcontest.
