The Ayuntamiento de Girona has announced the opening of the first public competition to select the poster for the Festes de Primavera, an unprecedented initiative in the city. The call is aimed at professional visual artists and graphic designers, of legal age, who may participate individually or collectively.
Open Call and Requirements to Participate
The deadline for submitting proposals will begin on Monday, March 2, 2026, at 800 hours and will end on Friday, March 13, 2026, at 1200 hours. Creations may only be submitted electronically through a generic application in the Seu electrònica municipal. Once the entry registration number has been obtained, the files must be sent to the address [email protected] using a file transfer service and specifying that number.
The poster must be inspired by the figure of Tarlà and in the symbolic, festive, and cultural universe that surrounds it. The winning work will be used as the official image of the Festes de Primavera and in all public dissemination elements of the event.
Criteria for valuation and economic endowment
The jury will take into account the intrinsic artistic value, originality, the incorporation of innovative aspects, the adaptability and compatibility of the project with the material to be edited, as well as the coherence between the work and the theme of the poster. The selected proposal will receive an economic endowment of 1,000 euros.
The complete rules of the contest will be available from Monday on the municipal website. Participants must submit a single original and unpublished work and the submitted files may not contain any data that allows identifying the author.
El Tarlà and the Spring Festivals in Girona
The Festes de Primavera de la Rambla y Argenteria are celebrated around the day of Sant Jordi. During the month of April, the figure of the Tarlà is installed in l'Argenteria street, where family activities and popular culture proposals are developed to welcome spring in Girona.
"With this contest we take a step forward to open the Festes de Primavera even more to all citizens. We want the poster to be a reflection of Girona's cultural vitality, especially of our popular culture, and to reinforce the role of the Festes de Primavera as one of the most emblematic cultural events of the city" - Quim Ayats Bartrina, deputy mayor and councilor for Culture of the City Council of Girona