The EcoSanta Vision
www.ecosanta.comThe EcoSanta Competitions offer a unique opportunity for people to engage creatively with promoting, popularising and publicising ecological consciousness. To take environmental concern into the areas of celebration, humour and broad-spectrum imaginative projects casts the future in a positive light much needed today.
Also, EcoSanta's mission - asking children, worldwide, to help him fill his empty sack with rubbish the rest of the year as a Gift to the Earth - gives Santa Claus the biggest role he has ever played in the hearts and minds of young children. Transformed from a once-a-year chimney-top apparition to a daily presence in young lives. Turning a commercial icon into a top-flight environmental champion. An old mythology birthing into the now reality of the 2020's.
Also, EcoSanta's mission - asking children, worldwide, to help him fill his empty sack with rubbish the rest of the year as a Gift to the Earth - gives Santa Claus the biggest role he has ever played in the hearts and minds of young children. Transformed from a once-a-year chimney-top apparition to a daily presence in young lives. Turning a commercial icon into a top-flight environmental champion. An old mythology birthing into the now reality of the 2020's.
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The results of our EcoSanta Short Story Competition 2020 have been posted on our website https://www.ecosanta.co.uk on the short story competition page.
The EcoSanta Short Story Competition 2022
We are now open for entries. Closing date is 30th November 2022 with results announced in January 2023. First prize of £100 to the winning entry. Short stories (maximum length 1,000 words) on EcoSanta impacting ANY environmental issue, including climate chaos and ecological crisis. Remember it is for young children though! Please send entries by email to [email protected] Copyright remains with the author, but Ecologisers (SCO48663) reserves the right to publish and promote entries to forward Ecologisers and EcoSanta related projects.
We are now open for entries. Closing date is 30th November 2022 with results announced in January 2023. First prize of £100 to the winning entry. Short stories (maximum length 1,000 words) on EcoSanta impacting ANY environmental issue, including climate chaos and ecological crisis. Remember it is for young children though! Please send entries by email to [email protected] Copyright remains with the author, but Ecologisers (SCO48663) reserves the right to publish and promote entries to forward Ecologisers and EcoSanta related projects.
RESULTS OF ECOSANTA DESIGN OUTFIT COMPETITION 2020
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The winner of the 2020 competition is Sophie Fretwell, pictured above left Her winning design is featured above right.
Sophie commented on being told of her win 'the idea of re-branding Santa, as an ecological figure, really appealed to me and I enjoyed every minute of designing an eco-themed outfit for him. Christmas is always a time of excess and waste and I think it's important to really think about the sustainability of the gifts we give each other. I wanted to design a Santa with a clear connection to nature, so I went with a woodsman vibe; a man who understands that nature itself is a gift.'
Sophie is a Theatre Designer and Illustrator, based in Dorset, with a First Class Degree in Costume and Performance Design and a Masters in Animation. She has a passion for staying in the county and working with local communities, creating socially engaged artistic activity.
Judge's comments.
Sophie Fretwell's design shows the potential of EcoSanta's character development in this mainstream ecological shift.
This winning EcoSanta image speaks of a guy toughened by life, the real world, yet resilient in his resolve and commitment to give his all.
Behind this EcoSanta image is the saint, the sage, the streetwise guy, the Green Man, a woodsman working with nature, an animal lover, the penniless pauper, the hunter-explorer on the frontier of alien lands and a vestige of dear old Santa.
Ecologisers plan to run the Design an EcoSanta Outfit competition, along with others, annually, to encourage children and young people to engage with an EcoSanta who is in the best position to shift a fully commercialised icon into an ecological hero.
As the big-hearted giver of presents to millions of children in the western world, mythologically speaking, it is in-character that EcoSanta would want to embrace the Earth's ecosystem. You see a lot of ocean, - or the pond if you prefer - from a sky-sleigh.
As cultural thinking becomes more integrated, it is less and less possible to pretend you don't know what is going on in the real world. Real heroes don't play those games and EcoSanta certainly doesn't. His presence is very welcome.
Runners-up in this year's competition were Christina Mackenzie, Annie MacDonald, both pupils at Leverhulme Memorial School, Leverburgh, Isle of Harris, and Daniel MacAlpine, a pupil at Lochs Primary School, Isle of Lewis.
Sophie commented on being told of her win 'the idea of re-branding Santa, as an ecological figure, really appealed to me and I enjoyed every minute of designing an eco-themed outfit for him. Christmas is always a time of excess and waste and I think it's important to really think about the sustainability of the gifts we give each other. I wanted to design a Santa with a clear connection to nature, so I went with a woodsman vibe; a man who understands that nature itself is a gift.'
Sophie is a Theatre Designer and Illustrator, based in Dorset, with a First Class Degree in Costume and Performance Design and a Masters in Animation. She has a passion for staying in the county and working with local communities, creating socially engaged artistic activity.
Judge's comments.
Sophie Fretwell's design shows the potential of EcoSanta's character development in this mainstream ecological shift.
This winning EcoSanta image speaks of a guy toughened by life, the real world, yet resilient in his resolve and commitment to give his all.
Behind this EcoSanta image is the saint, the sage, the streetwise guy, the Green Man, a woodsman working with nature, an animal lover, the penniless pauper, the hunter-explorer on the frontier of alien lands and a vestige of dear old Santa.
Ecologisers plan to run the Design an EcoSanta Outfit competition, along with others, annually, to encourage children and young people to engage with an EcoSanta who is in the best position to shift a fully commercialised icon into an ecological hero.
As the big-hearted giver of presents to millions of children in the western world, mythologically speaking, it is in-character that EcoSanta would want to embrace the Earth's ecosystem. You see a lot of ocean, - or the pond if you prefer - from a sky-sleigh.
As cultural thinking becomes more integrated, it is less and less possible to pretend you don't know what is going on in the real world. Real heroes don't play those games and EcoSanta certainly doesn't. His presence is very welcome.
Runners-up in this year's competition were Christina Mackenzie, Annie MacDonald, both pupils at Leverhulme Memorial School, Leverburgh, Isle of Harris, and Daniel MacAlpine, a pupil at Lochs Primary School, Isle of Lewis.
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