Author: Lilia Valieva

BE OPEN Art launches the first regional competition of 2025 to support emerging artists of South Asia

Lilia Valieva

BE OPEN Art continues to run BE OPEN Regional Art, the regional competition for emerging artists aimed to support those whose art best represents their regional, cultural and ethnic identities, for the third year now.

The first stage of the third year of the programme run will cover the countries of South Asia: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka. The stage will traditionally last three months, and the regional winner for South Asia will be announced and awarded 500 euro in early April.

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BE OPEN Art congratulates the winners of the Regional Art Competition in Southern Africa

Lilia Valieva

BE OPEN Art is ready to announce the results of the last stage of BE OPEN Regional Art in 2024 which covered the countries of Southern Africa: Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

BE OPEN Regional Art is a region-based competition for emerging artists, aimed to support those whose art best represents their regional, cultural and ethnic identities. Throughout 2023 and 2024, BE OPEN expert community have been selecting artists to feature them in the BE OPEN Art gallery, offer greater visibility and encourage the public to vote and thus select the monthly and the regional winners. The winner of each regional stage receives a money grant from the foundation.

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BE OPEN at COP29 in Baku: presentation of the sustainability-focused competition programme

Lilia Valieva

At COP29, BE OPEN hosted a session dedicated to our competition programme in support of the UN SGDs. We shared our experience of fostering and awarding the best design ideas from young people around the world. At the session, BE OPEN celebrated and gave stage to 6 of the winners of Design Your Climate Action, the most recent of our sustainability-focused competitions. We hope this session becomes an inspiration for our winners’ peers all over the world to get involved in sustainable causes.

BE OPEN Launches BE OPEN Cultural Tapestry Open Call to celebrate the richness of diversity and cultural identities

Lilia Valieva

BE OPEN is launching its next global open call across social media. With open calls, by asking the participants to share their vision with pictures and photographs, BE OPEN aims to support creativity as a universal approach, and build bonds between people around the globe.

BE OPEN believes that the ability for creative interpretation is not confined within the art and design industry. The series of online challenges reach out to those creative minds around the globe, who keep their eyes open, see inspiration in everyday life, and are able to transform it with their own unique vision. 

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BE OPEN presented its sustainability initiatives and celebrated the latest competition winners during COP29 in Baku

Lilia Valieva

On November 16, BE OPEN hosted a session during COP29 to talk about the multi-year competition programme in support of the UN SGDs and celebrate the winners of the most recent Design Your Climate Action competition.

At the Extreme Hangout Zone of COP29, the foundation shared the motivation behind its  student competition programme that focuses on one goal every year, and has so far covered SDG12: Responsible Consumption and Production, SDG11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, SDG2: Zero Hunger, SDG7: Affordable and Clean Energy and SDG13: Climate Action. The programme aims to encourage creation of innovative solutions by younger creatives, for a more prosperous and sustainable future.

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BE OPEN congratulates the winner of #BEOPENCombinations open call that celebrates everyday creativity and artistic vision

Lilia Valieva

BE OPEN announces the winner of #BEOPENCombinations, a recently finalised creative open call across social media. With open calls, by asking the participants to share their vision with pictures and photographs, BE OPEN aims to support creativity as a universal approach, and build bonds between people around the globe.

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BE OPEN launches DESIGNING FUTURES 2050: international competition for young creatives focused on the United Nations Sustainable Development Programme

Lilia Valieva

Designing Futures 2050 is the 6th international competition held by philanthropic educational initiative BE OPEN and partners. It is open to students, graduates and young professionals. The competition aims to encourage creation of innovative solutions by younger creatives, for a more prosperous and sustainable future, and the focus of the competition is the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Programme.

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BE OPEN Art congratulates the winners of the Regional Art Competition in Central America

Lilia Valieva

BE OPEN Art continues with a competition for emerging artists, aimed to support those whose art best represents their regional, cultural and ethnic identities – BE OPEN Regional Art.

Throughout 2024, BE OPEN expert community continues selecting artists to feature them in the BE OPEN Art gallery and offer greater visibility. The third stage of the second year of the programme run covered the countries of Central America: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.

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