The SASA Annual General Meeting will commence the evening’s programme at 7pm.
 
Some of our Council members are stepping down this year, so we invite any interested members to consider making themselves available to join the Council. If you are interested, please approach a Council member in order to be considered for nomination on the evening.
 
The Annual SASA Drawing Competition will follow the AGM. Please note that the rules have necessarily had to be improved since last year, in order to avoid confusion and to emphasise the spirit of the competition, that is, the emphasis upon the technique of drawing. The theme for this competition is “Flotsam & Jetsam”, and participating artists should be inspired by this theme, although the phrase may be interpreted in any way you choose.

• All works should be new, recent works that are appropriate to the theme.

• There will only be one category for entries, with prizes awarded to the top three chosen works.
        
• Only members present on the evening are eligible to vote.
       
• All fully paid-up members present on the evening are allowed to submit one entry. 
       
• Please ensure that your work is suitably mounted, or, if presented in a sketchbook, please provide bulldog clips to open the book to the appropriate page and a firm support in order to prop up the page for viewing.
       
• The competition is a monochrome (Single-colour) drawing competition. Therefore, only drawing techniques are permitted, using one drawing medium in any one colour. For  example, charcoal on paper or support (an unpainted surface). Other drawing media may be used, such as either pencil, graphite, conté or pen.
      
• No work containing brushwork or solvents will be allowed. (For example, watercolours or pastel diluted with turpentine are not permitted.)
       
• Printmaking is ineligible in this competition, although the preparatory sketches on which it is based are welcome.
       
• Please observe the spirit of the competition and abide by the above guidelines
      
• Please remember when working from source material (such as photographs), that these must be your own, or those to which you own the copyright by express written permission. Images from magazines, newspapers and other artists’ work are automatically protected by intellectual property law and are subject to copyright protection. Please take note of this now, so as not to be disappointed on the evening.