POSTER
&
LITERARY
VIDEO
COMPETITION
The Annual Poster and Literary Competition provides an opportunity for students in the four Education classifications of Primary, Junior, Intermediate and Senior to demonstrate their understanding of Remembrance. It is also open to students who are Home Schooled.
Students in the Primary, Grades 1 – 3 can do so through their Art in the form of the Black and White or the Colour Poster category.
Starting in Grade 4, with the addition of both Poetry and Essay Writing categories, the Junior, Intermediate and Senior students can use both their Artistic and their Literary talents.
Starting in Grade 7, with the addition of the Video category, the Intermediate and Senior students can use their creative talents to produce a video submission between 30 seconds to two minutes in length. (**NOTE** The Video category has it’s own submission & deadline criteria which is detailed by clicking the Video Contest Guide button below.)
Students may enter in any or all the available categories, in which they are eligible, but may submit only once in each.
For Poster and Literary submissions only, the following applies:
For the first level of competition, our Branch establishes a jury comprised of Legion members as well as people from the community at large who have special qualifications and talents in both the Artistic as well as the Literary Fields.
1st place winners at the local Branch (14 in total) are sent for further judging against the winners from the other 18 Branches in our District. Beyond that, the winners advance to compete against the winners from the other 8 Legion Districts in the Alberta/Northwest Territories Command. Finally, those winners are sent for judging against the winners from the other 9 Commands in Canada.
The winners in the Senior Classification at the National level (including the Video category), along with their Parents, are invited to Ottawa where they lay the Wreath at the National Remembrance Day Service on behalf of all the youth of Canada.
Winning entries are published in an annual booklet and the Posters are normally displayed in the Memorial Chamber in the Peace Tower for one year.
The process for Poster & Literary categories is organised as follows:
- Mid- to late-September; information, materials, and registration forms are delivered to the Schools in our Area of Responsibility
- IMMEDIATELY after Remembrance Day; entries are picked up from the schools.
- End of November; Branch Judging is completed.
- Mid December: before Christmas, District Judging is completed.
- Mid- to late January, Command Judging is completed.
- May, all 1st., 2nd., and 3rd place Winners at the branch, and those who were successful in further competition are invited, with their parents or guardians, to attend our Awards Night. It is here that we recognise them with Certificates and Monetary Rewards of increasing amounts for their endeavours.
Some things to note:
- All entries MUST be accompanied by the OFFICIAL REGISTRATION FORM which must be completed in every detail, including the signature of the parent or guardian. IT MUST BE GLUED TO THE BACK OF THE ENTRY.
- The form MUST be glued to the back of the entry to ensure the anonymity of the student so that the judges know neither the student nor the school attended.
Official Registration Forms and Guides
Below are a few examples of Posters submitted in previous years
To see these and others, as well as the presentation photos from prior Awards Nights, click on the associated years below: