22nd “Augusto Massari” International Musical Thematic Philately Prize - Organizzazione
22nd INTERNATIONAL THEMATIC PHILATELY PRIZE “AUGUSTO MASSARI”
Article 1
The 22nd
“Augusto Massari” International Musical Thematic Philately Prize will be
awarded in Vasto - Italy on the occasion of the National Philatelic
Exhibition VASTOPHIL 2023, scheduled from 15 to 17 September 2023.
Article 2
The “Augusto Massari”
Award is organised by the Vasto Philatelic Circle according to the
regulation issued by the CIFT (Italian Center for Thematic Philately)
and has the patronage of the Italian Federation of Philatelic Societies
(FSFI), represented by the Commissioner appointed by FSFI, who is the
President of the Vasto Philatelic Circle, organiser of the 22nd
“Augusto Massari” Prize.
Article 3
The “Augusto Massari”
Prize is an exhibition organised according to the article 4.7 of the
FSFI Regulation for Exhibitions and Juries, in the format: Exhibition in
mixed form - formula “Un quadro più” (see Appendix), and it includes the
following classes:
a) Open philately
b) Thematic philately
c) Philatelic
literature
d) Maximaphily
in the following
sections
a) Competition
b) One frame
c) Out of competitition
Applications for
exhibits in the class of philatelic literature can be entered only in
section competition.
Article 4
The application, drawn up on the appropriate form prepared by the
organisation which will be available on the website of the Federation of
Italian Philatelic Societies (expo.fsfi.it) and on the website of the
C.I.F.T. (www.cift.club)
from 1st March 2023, must be sent by 10th July
2023 to the following e-mail address:
presidentevastophil@virgilio.it.
Otherwise the exhibitor himself/herself can enter the application on the
website
http://expo.fsfi.it/index.php?CodiceExpo=PremioMassari22&Ambito=USER&Lingua=IT.
Article 5
Each exhibitor must
be a member of a philatelic club or a thematic group adhering to the
Federation of the country of origin and must be the exclusive owner of
the exhibit.
Article 6
The commission for
the examination of application forms is composed of members of the
Organising Committee: it will decide on the admission of the exhibits.
Exhibits of 16 A4
sheets participate in the "One frame class”.
The commission will
communicate its decisions by 20th July 2023.
Exhibitors, whose
application will have been accepted, will receive a confirmation email
and will have to send the PDF file of the entire collection to the
organising committee at the following email address:
presidentevastophil@virgilio.it (using in the case of large files
https://wetransfer.com/; https://www.swisstransfer.com/it-it or
alternative channels) by 20th August 2023. Sheets will have
to be scanned without the protective plastic envelope.
Article 7
The participation is
free.
Article 8
Exhibits will have to
be mounted on sheets (classic A4 format or another format according to
the FIP canons). It is mandatory to insert the sheets in transparent
protective envelopes of the same size.
Article 9
The exhibits must be
sent by parcel post or by courier by 10th September 2023 to
the address of the secretary of the Organising Committee:
ENRICA D'ANNUNZIO
Via Madonna dell'Asilo,
60
66054 VASTO (Chieti)
– ITALY
The exhibits
delivered by hand must be available to the Organising Committee no later
than noon on Thursday 14th September 2023.
Article 10
The Organising
Committee will adopt all the most appropriate security measures aimed at
safeguarding the exhibits that it will be entrusted: however, it
declines all responsibility in the event of theft, loss, damage, or
other eventualities that the items for the exhibition could suffer
during the transport and the exhibition. All material risks (theft,
fire, damage of any kind) therefore will be borne by exhibitors.
Insurance for the
period between shipment and return to the exhibitor's address is
strongly recommended.
Article 11
The exhibits will be
mounted on 14th September 2023 by the Organising Committee.
No exhibit may be
modified or withdrawn even partially before the closure of the
exhibition (1 PM on 17th September 2023). The dismounting
will be carried out by the Organising Committee after the close of the
exhibition. The exhibits will be returned by the same means with which
they were sent to the Committee, at the Committee's expense.
Article 12
The jury will be
appointed by the O.C., in agreement with the Secretary General of the
Massari Prize, in accordance with the general regulation of the Prize.
The exhibits will be
evaluated according to the Regulations (SREV) of the FIP for the classes
under consideration.
Article 13
The prizes to be
awarded consist of:
- The Augusto Massari
Prize offered by the CIFT to the best exhibit.
- Large gold medal,
gold medal, large vermeil, vermeil, large silver, silver, silver bronze,
bronze, and participation diploma.
- Prizes offered by
public authorities and others.
Article 14
The exhibits
belonging to jury members and/or apprentice jurors will be shown out of
competition.
Article 15
The Organising
Committee reserves the right to make any changes it deems useful to
these regulations. This decision is final.
Article 16
The submission of the
application form implies acceptance of these Regulations.
Article 17
For any controversy
that may arise, the Court of Vasto (Chieti) is competent.
APPENDIX
Attachment - Extract
from the "Regulations for mixed exhibition "Un quadro più"
which can be downloaded at the following link:
http://www.fsfi.it/federazione/Regolamentoesposizioniegiurie2023.pdf
The competition
exhibition in mixed form "Un quadro più" requires that the first frame
(12 A4 sheets) of each exhibit is shown in frames, while the entire
exhibit is shown as a pdf file on the expo.fsfi.it website and can also
be accessed at the venue of the event through PCs with large screens set
up for this purpose.
In addition to what
is required for the other exhibitions in mixed form, the organization of
the event will also have to provide at the venue of the event no less
than three workstations (computer and large screen) to view the pdf
files of the entire collections. All the general rules for the
organization and evaluation of the collections of exhibitions in mixed
form apply, with the following specificities:
1. Exhibitors must
send, within the terms, methods and with the characteristics that will
be specified in the letter of acceptance, the complete and definitive
scan of the exhibit in a single file in pdf format, together with the
presentation form, the model of which will be attached to the acceptance
letter.
2. Exhibitors must
also send the first 12 original sheets of the exhibit (i.e., the first
frame) to the organizing committee by the scheduled date. If an
exhibitor does not send the first 12 sheets of the exhibit, or if he
does not send the sheets corresponding to the first frame, the exhibit
will not be evaluated, and no refund will be taken into consideration,
unless the failure to send the first 12 sheets is not due to proven
causes of force majeure.
3. A fixed
registration fee for each collection may be requested from philatelists
as a partial contribution to organizational expenses.
4. The evaluation of
the exhibits will be carried out based on the pdf files that will be
published in the portal dedicated to the event that will be set up on
the FSFI website (expo.fsfi.it), as well as the first 12 sheets shown in
the frames.
5. If the "one frame"
section is included, the exhibits must be shown entirely in the frames
at the venue of the event.
6. The jury may ask
the exhibitors, through the Commissioner, to examine items that are
shown in the frames following the first one, or live, if the exhibitor
will be present at the exhibition venue, or electronically, using one of
the platforms in use for videoconferences in the days preceding the
exhibition, for those who cannot attend. The exhibit will therefore not
be necessary to be entirely present at the venue of the event. Should
the exhibitor refuse to comply with the Jury's request, the exhibit will
be excluded from the event and the collector will be sanctioned with a
ban on exhibiting for two years. The same penalty is considered if the
jury verifies the presence of one or more identical postal documents in
different participations entered in the same event.
Download the file of 'Regulation of the 22nd Massari Prize' in PDF format.
22nd “Augusto Massari” International Musical Thematic Philately Prize - Organizzazione
GENERAL REGULATION OF THE MASSARI PRIZE
Preface
In order to keep
alive the memory of Severino MASSARI, signatory of the Golden Roll of
Italian Philately and member of the Italian Center of Thematic Philately
(CIFT), who passed away in 1988 and was the creator of the International
Music Philately Award dedicated to his father AUGUSTO MASSARI, composer
and conductor, the CIFT MUSICA Group has decided to continue promoting
this initiative, the organization of which will be entrusted to an
Italian or foreign society that will request it, committing to comply
with this regulation.
ORGANIZATION
Art. 1 - The event
must be organized directly and/or with the support of others, by a
company or club member of the National Philatelic Federation of its own
country which in turn is a member of the International Philately
Federation (FIP). The organising society must carry out every action
aimed at giving the maximum prominence to the Prize and to the
Philatelic Exhibition which should obtain the support and, possibly the
auspices or the patronage of the National Federation of the country
where the event takes place. To be eligible to host the Award, it is
essential that at least 1,800 album sheets, equal to 30 collections of
60 sheets each, be made available to the participating collections.
Art. 2 - The task of
establishing the calendar of events is devolved to the Secretary General
of the Award in the person of the Head of the "Music" Group of the
Italian Center for Thematic Philately. He maintains contact with the
National Thematic Associations and coordinates and supervises the
organization of the event. In order to carry out his duties, he will be
called to be a member of the Organizing Committee and must be on the
exhibition venue during the event. He will therefore be responsible for
the economic treatment to be paid by the organizers to the members of
the Jury (reimbursement of travel and accommodation expenses).
Art. 3 – The
organising society must issue the SPECIAL REGULATION approximately one
year before the date of the event. It must include: Date and place of
the exhibition - Number of available frames and their size – back and
forth shipping methods of the exhibits - Insurance and security service
- etc. If possible, the frames will be made available to the
participants free of charge.
JUDGMENT
Art. 4 - The Jury
will be nominated by the organisers. It will be composed of at least
five (5) members, possibly of international level, registered in their
respective federal roll. Two (2) will be from the organizing nation, two
(2) from other countries and one (1) who will be designated by the
Secretary General of the Prize, of Italian nationality, representing the
country promoting the A. Massari Prize. It is appropriate that at least
one of the jurors has specific competence in music. The members of the
jury are entitled to the economic treatment usually applied to the
juries of national or international exhibitions according to the methods
that will be communicated at the time of appointment. "Observers" or
"apprentice jurors" without the right to vote may be admitted to the
work of the jury upon nomination by the organisers or by the thematic
associations of the countries they belong to. The Jury’s evaluation is
final. After the proclamation of the "palmarés", one or more jurors will
be available to clarify the evaluations with the exhibitors.
Art. 5 - The exhibits
are judged according to the special regulation for the evaluation of FIP
thematic exhibits.
Art. 6 – According to
the jury’s evaluation, the best exhibit will be awarded the Augusto
MASSARI Prize.
PARTICIPATION
Art 7 - The
participants must be the owners of the exhibits. Entries by philatelic
dealers are not permitted. All collections that contain items deemed
harmful according to the code of ethics issued by the FIP will be
excluded from the judgment.
Art. 8 - The exhibit
which is awarded the Augusto MASSARI Prize may be invited to participate
out of competition in the two following editions of the Prize. After
this period, it will be readmitted to the competition class. During this
period the collector can still exhibit other collections in competition.
Each collector can exhibit only one collection in competition.
PRIZES
Art 9 - The exhibits
will be awarded the classification medal and the relative diploma.
Individual exhibitors will be given the form containing the score. The
classification prizes must be made available to the Jury by the
organisers. They may be the same for everyone, but the level of medal
achieved must be indicated on the diploma.
(Large Gold - Gold – Large
Vermeil - Vermeil – Large Silver - Silver - Silver Bronze - Bronze -
Diploma).
PATRONAGE
Art. 10 - The Italian
Center for Thematic Philately will grant its patronage to the event if
the organising society complies with the Regulations and makes available
the Augusto Massari Prize, consisting of a silver plate with a medal of
Gold, with the engraving of the relevant wordings: C.I.ET. - AUGUSTO
MASSARI International Prize for Musical Philately - Place and dates of
the event.
LITERATURE SECTOR
Art. 11 - The
organisers may set up a special section of "MUSIC PHILATELIC LITERATURE"
also at international level. The works presented will be judged
according to the FIP Regulations for the evaluation of philatelic
literature participations, by the same Jury of the Augusto MASSARI Prize
or by other jurors designated for this purpose by the organisers. These
participants, too, will be awarded the diploma with the medal level
achieved.
The Secretary General
of the Prize, Head of the CIFT Music Group referred to in Article 2, is
currently:
Valeriano Genovese
Via Siora Andriana del
Vescovo, 7/B
31100 TREVISO - Italy
Mobile +393476948137
E-mail:
valerianogenovese101@gmail.com
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