Freedom Wall

Help Us Build A Wall To Break Down Barriers!

Send us cartoons about fundamental freedoms – we’ll print them giant-size and paste them on a public wall

The right to a free press, the right to vote, the right to strike, the right to education, the right to health, the right to free expression – these and other freedoms are increasingly under threat around the world.

To celebrate and vindicate such basic freedoms, we will be enlarging cartoons to giant size and pasting them on a prominent wall in Galway.

We’re looking for cartoons about essential rights and freedoms from two groups:

1. Professional cartoonists from around the world.

2. Children and schools around Iereland.

Please email your entries to:

info@galwaycartoonfestival.ie

Or post them to:

The Galway Cartoon Festival

38 Cuan na Coille

Fort Lorenzo

Salthill

Galway

H91 F8E8

Please get yours to us as soon as possible!

About Freedom Walls

It began as the shared dream of some European NGOs – Europeans Without Borders, Cartooning for Peace, Reporters Without Borders – but soon resonated with young volunteers, many from underprivileged neighbourhoods outside Paris, who were inspired to create a wall of cartoons celebrating the vital role of a free press.

Following their example, we will cover walls in cartoons to raise awareness of important freedoms. Contributors draw on paper or send us images, we print these enlarged and paste them up on two walls – one for professional cartoonists from many countries, the other for local and visiting children.