The Contest Winner will be announced here at 8pm, April 2

So we’re on a mission to find an artist who hasn’t succumbed to a dreary, bored, humorless existence of drab expression.

The Prize is $1001 pesos in cash.

The Rules are simple:

• Entries must detail some facet of life in Puerto Vallarta. There are no restrictions on content but if it’s X-rated, it better be REALLY funny, or at least funny enough to for me to risk my reputation or standing in the community by publishing it.
• Entries must be delivered (either digitally or in person) to the PVScene before Friday, March 28, 2008, at 5 pm.
• Entries may be in any medium (drawing, painting, video, photo, flash, .gif…) that can be visually displayed on the PVScene website.
• No limit on the number of entries per person.
• The PVScene retains all rights to the winning entry and assumes no rights to non-winning entries (losers lose nothing….).
• The winner will be announced on April 1, 2008. The $1001 Pesos will be awarded on Saturday evening, April 5, at Casa Isabel or by PayPal (in US or Canadian $) if winner is not in PV).
• In the event that no winner is chosen, the $1001 peso prize money will be donated to a local registered charity.

The judges will be a distinguished panel of local artists and cerveza afficienados.

Entries may be emailed to: contest (at) pvscene.com
(If it can’t be emailed, it won’t work)

07/03/2008.-The Tourism Department of Puerto Vallarta and TV Canal Once, through its children’s entertainment program, “Once Niños,” selected the winner of the art competition “The Colours of Puerto Vallarta,” which was a great success with more than eight hundred thousand drawings entered from all states of the Mexican Republic.

The winning design was selected on February 28 and was created by Itzel Ameyalli Cancino Huerta, nine years of age, who will soon be traveling with her parents and her younger sister to the beaches of Puerto Vallarta with all expenses paid for: air transportation, lodging, food, tours, visits, and transfers. In addition they’ll enjoy a tour to view the humpback whales.

Their trip will take place from 07 March to March 11 this year and will be broadcast on “Once Niños” in coming days, where Itzel, her family and drivers, Max and Mary, will be the stars, showing the audience of “Once Niños” the beauty and attractions of Puerto Vallarta and experience with the sighting of the whale Jorobada.

All participants’ drawings are in Puerto Vallarta to be displayed at the Presidencia. The exhibition will be opened on March 7 by Itzel and City Officials so that the children, tourists and residents of Puerto Vallarta can enjoy the creativity of the Mexican children.