The City announces the competition for the 2027 Carnival poster

The Ministry of Education, Culture, and Youth of the Autonomous City of Ceuta has approved the rules and the competition for the selection of the promotional poster for the 2027 Carnival Festivities, which will take place from January 23 to February 14, 2027. The decision is formalized in the Decree of Minister Pilar Orozco Valverde, dated November 3, 2026, and is published in the Official Gazette of the City of Ceuta (BOCCE) No. 6,668, of November 10, 2026, as provision 749.

The framework of the call

The decree announces the start of the approval of the rules, which are published as an attached document under the title “Rules of the competition for the selection of the official poster for the Ceuta Carnival 2027”. The organizing entity is the Most Excellent City Council of Ceuta, through the Festivities Department, and the file includes a budget allocation report with operation number 12026000048528.

The regulation is supported by article 25.2 m) of Law 7/1985, regulating the Bases of the Local Regime, the Statute of Autonomy of Ceuta, and the Government Regulations and services of the Administration of the Autonomous City of Ceuta. The text also recalls that prizes from competitions and contests are excluded from the general subsidy regime.

The agreement exhausts the administrative route: an optional appeal for reversal may be filed within one month, or a direct challenge may be brought before the Contentious-Administrative Court of Ceuta within two months.

Who can participate and with what work

Natural or legal persons with the capacity to act and who are over 18 years of age before the start of the registration period may apply, with a maximum of two works per artist and a single proposal per authorship. The technical conditions are:

• Free theme, inspired by the Ceuta Carnival and conceived as a tourist attraction for the city.
• Vertical format of 50 x 70 centimeters, full-bleed mounted on 1 centimeter foam board or 0.5 millimeter thick PVC, without glass or frame.
• Four-color process reproduction; therefore, gold, silver, and phosphorescent inks are excluded.
• Three-dimensional works and those created using artificial intelligence are excluded.
• Mandatory lettering: “CARNAVAL DE CEUTA, from January 23 to February 14, 2027” and “Ciudad Autónoma de Ceuta” with the city coat of arms.
• Anonymous submission under a motto, with the contestant’s identification only inside the envelope.

Prize, jury, and deadlines

There is a single prize: 1,200 euros, subject to the corresponding legal withholdings, which will be divided equally if the work has multiple authors. Payment requires proof of being up to date with the Tax Agency, Social Security, and the City Tax Services, and the winner must attend the poster presentation ceremony.

The jury will be presided over by the Councilor for Education, Culture, and Youth or their delegate, with between three and five members—artists and designers of recognized prestige, media representatives, and graphic artists—and the Chief Official of the City or a Festivities official serving as secretary. Their decision shall be final and they may declare the contest void.

The deadlines are as follows:

• Start of the admission period: upon the publication of the call in the BOCCE.
• End of the period: December 21, 2026, at 12:00 p.m.
• Withdrawal of non-winning works: thirty calendar days from the day following the decision.

Impact for the city

Carnival is one of the festive events with the greatest tourist projection on the Ceuta calendar, and the winning poster becomes the official image of a celebration that will extend for more than three weeks. The rules reserve for the Autonomous City of Ceuta the exclusive ownership of the winning work and all reproduction and dissemination rights, while the authors retain the moral rights to their creations. The call arrives with a submission period of less than six weeks, therefore interested artists must adjust their work to the calendar set by the Festivities Office.

Source: Official Gazette of the City of Ceuta (BOCCE), No. 6,668, of November 10, 2026, General Provisions, page 3811 (official reference: provision 749).