Helth and Art (HEART)
10th International Festival of Paintings for Pediatric Patients (IFPPP)
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
November 2024
Organized by Health and Art (HEART) Group
The Health and Art (HEART) group, is behind all this. The HEART is a charity group with only one goal: "to maintain and improve the mental health of sick kids, all over the world". HEART relies on nothing but fundraising ceremonies, charity events, and local support to be able to organize the IFPPP and a variety of other successful events to "Bringing Smile to A Beating Heart". Besides the IFPPP, HEART is busy throughout the year with the Football Mini World Cup, Book and Toys Sharing Campaigns, and Charity Exhibitions…
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This year, we are taking the 10th IFPPP to the beautiful city of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The host proudly exhibits the top 40 best paintings along with more than 40 cities worldwide, while the 12 young winners of the IFPPP will be invited to attend the Awarding Ceremony on November 8th.
Last year, the 9th IFPPP festival in Armenia was held with 250 selected artworks, from a total of more than 500 excellent paintings, in hallways, corridors, and along the walls of galleries, hospitals and medical centers of 40 cities, from Los Angeles, the USA to Minsk, Belarus, Barcelona, Spain, Baku, Azerbaijan, Hong Kong, Konya, Turkey, Iran, etc.
https://usern.tums.ac.ir/News/New?title=IFPPP7%20Awarding%20Ceremony
Winners of previous festivals
1st IFPPP: Tehran, Iran
Group A: up to 6 years old: 1st Ranks: Eivinas Venckus, 6 years old, Lithuania; Mohammad Aryan Ghazvinian, 5 years old, Iran; 2nd Rank: Yazdan Ghaemi, 5 years old, Iran; 3rd Ranks: Baran Zareian, 5 years old, Iran; Maryam Alieyva, 4 years old, Azerbaijan
Group B: 7-10 years old: 1st Rank: Maks LenartCernelc, 9 years old, Slovenia; 2nd Rank: David Alexandru, 10 years old, Romania; 3rd Rank: Amir Mohammad Bahmadi, 10 years old, Iran
Group C: 11-14 years old: 1st Rank: Paulina Schulz, 13 years old, Germany; 2nd Rank: Elin Serkisian, 12 years old, Iran; 3rd Rank: Alba Begara Valera, 12 years old, Spain
Group D: 15-18 years old: 1st Rank: Zahra Farasmane, 16 years old, Iran; 2nd Rank: Neha Ray, 16 years old, India; 3rd Rank: Mariam Ali Dbouk, 15 years old, Lebanon
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2nd IFPPP: Budapest, Hungary
Group A: up to 6 years old: 1st Rank: Elina Elyasi, 6 years old, Iran; 2nd Rank: Kononov Timur, 6 years old, Belarus; 3rd Rank: Fotios Michail, 5 years old, Greece
Group B: 7-10 years old: 1st Rank: Viara Pencheva, 7 years old, Bulgaria; Prutha Vipulbhai Vadodariya, 9 years old, India; 2nd Rank: Ayshan Bagheralmosavi, 7 years old, Iran; 3rd Rank: Paul Jules Butler, 8 years old, Germany
Group C: 11-14 years old: 1st Rank: Tarifeh Mahmoodkaki, 14 years old, Iran; 2nd Rank: Bianca Gegea, 14 years old, Romania; 3rd Rank: Helen Xie, 11 years old, Hong Kong, China
Group D: 15-18 years old: 1st Rank: Fatemeh Taati, 17 years old, Iran; 2nd Rank: Laura Lentovits, 15 years old, Hungary; 3rd Rank: Nidhi Shirol, 17 years old, India
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3rd IFPPP: Kharkiv, Ukraine
Group A: up to 6 years old: 1st Rank: Yulianna Nasinnyk, 6 years old, Ukraine; 2nd Rank: Yaroslav Zaharov, 4 years old, Russia; 3rd Ranks: Arnika Rezaei, 5 years old, Iran; Reza Ghahremani, 6 years old, Iran
Group B: 7-10 years old: 1st Rank: Rastin Azimi, 7 years old, Iran; 2nd Rank: Danaq Boycheva, 7 years old, Bulgaria; 3rd Rank: Abdul Aziz Al Hemaidi, 10 years old, Qatar
Group C: 11-14 years old: 1st Rank: Samira Khalili, 14 years old, Iran; 2nd Rank: Shivang Kanakray Upadhyay, 11 years old, India; 3rd Rank: Ümmügülsüm Topcu, 12 years old, Turkey
Group D: 15-18 years old: 1st Rank: Simona Grabauskienė, 17 years old, Lithuania; 2nd Rank: Alina Sferle, 17 years old, Romania; 3rd Rank: Hanieh Iranmanesh, 15 years old, Iran
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4th IFPPP: Reggio Calabria, Italy
Group A: up to 6 years old: 1st Rank: Atrin Afshari Tavana, 5 years old, Iran; 2nd Rank: Irina Maria, 4 years old, Romania; 3rd Rank: Nicolas Suzin, 6 years old, Brazil
Group B: 7-10 years old: 1st Rank: Anahita Afshari Tavana, 9 years old, Iran; 2nd Rank: Sohini Roy, 9 years old, India; 3rd Ranks: Asal Ghashangzadeh, 10 years old, Iran; and Benedetta Medici, 10 years old, Italy
Group C: 11-14 years old: 1st Rank: Iustina Iamandi, 12 years old, Romania; 2nd Rank: Faezeh Ghasemi Nejad, 13 years old, Iran; 3rd Ranks: Neel Bhaveshbhai Rajyaguru, 12 years old, India; and Vittoria Habibi Minelli, 13 years old, Italy
Group D: 15-18 years old: 1st Rank: Annabelle Armstrong, 18 years old, South Africa; 2nd Ranks: Mohammad Saedi, 18 years old, Iran; and Talah Khalid AbuDayeh, 17 years old, Palestine; 3rd Rank: Nastaran Teimouri, 16 years old, Iran
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5th IFPPP: Budapest, Hungary
Group A: up to 6 years old: 1st Ranks: Tannaz Sadat Tabatabaei, 6 years old, Iran; and Kavya D Patel, 6 years old, India; 2nd Rank: Adriana Manolescu, 5 years old, Romania; 3rd Rank: Leticia Bravo Alonso, 5 years old, Venezuela
Group B: 7-10 years old: 1st Rank: Rahminiyan Rengganis Putri Marzuki, 10 years old, Indonesia; 2nd Ranks: Raha Behbahani, 7 years old, Iran; and Moksha Shah, 8 years old, India; 3rd Rank: Alyssa Panchal, 9 years old, Australia
Group C: 11-14 years old: 1st Rank: Ela Yildan, 12 years old, Turkey; 2nd Ranks: Mark Antonij Zumer, 14 years old, Slovenia; and Ilia Cheraghi, 11 years old, Iran; 3rd Ranks: Margherita Pierni, 14 years old, Italy; and Batool Marzooq Saeed Ahmed Ali AlBunni, 14 years old, Bahrain
Group D: 15-18 years old: 1st Ranks: Hanna Peresztegi, 15 years old, Hungary; and Anja Cepelnik, 17 years old, Slovenia; 2nd Ranks: Jayni Patel, 15 years old, India; and Tadas Gudauskas, 15 years old, Lithuania; 3rd Ranks: Guste Jurkute, 18 years old, Lithuania; and Reham Nabil Ali Shehada, 17 years old, Palestine; and Tamara Estefania Palma Arvizu, 16 years old, Mexico
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6th IFPPP: Tehran, Iran
Group A: up to 6 years old: 1st Rank: Nika Tayebi, 5 years old, Ahvaz, Iran; 2nd Rank: Ruthvirajsinh Chauhan, 5 years old, Ahmedabad, India; 3rd Rank: Mobina Sadat Hosseini, 6 years old, Tehran, Iran; and AmirTaha Shahabiveis, 5 years old, Ahvaz, Iran
Group B: 7-10 years old: 1st Rank: Ronika Ahmadi, 7 years old, Ahvaz, Iran; 2nd Rank: Petya Dimitrova, 9 years old, Ruse, Bulgaria; 3rd Rank: Anahid Amoozesh, 8 years old, Ahvaz, Iran
Group C: 11-14 years old: 1st Rank: Isabella Perez Carrasco, 13 years old, Lima, Peru; 2nd Rank: Zeinab BenEnayeh, 11 years old, Ahvaz, Iran; 3rd Rank: Monish Japadia, 11 years old, Ahmedabad, India
Group D: 15-18 years old: 1st Rank: Sofia Ananieva, 16 years old, Kharkiv, Ukraine; 2nd Rank: Melika Ahmadi, 17 years old, Karaj, Iran; 3rd Rank: Anisha Nawar, 17 years old, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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7th IFPPP: Istanbul, Turkey
Group A: up to 6 years old: 1st Rank: Arvin Fooladvand, 5 years old, Iran; 2nd Rank: Zlata Yakovleva, 5 years old, Russia; 3rd Rank: Alekzander Yankov, 6 years old, Bulgaria
Group B: 7-10 years old: 1st Rank: Liliana Balogh Borbala, 9 years old, Hungary; 2nd Rank: Arshida Asadi Hajivand, 8 years old, Iran; 3rd Rank: Liliya Yankova, 10 years old, Bulgaria
Group C: 11-14 years old: 1st Rank: Nirvana Roostaei, 11 years old, Iran; 2nd Rank: Anahita Afshari Tavana, 12 years old, Iran; 3rd Rank: Aanya Soni, 13 years old, India
Group D: 15-18 years old: 1st Rank: Labadeva Zlata, 15 years old, Russia; 2nd Rank: Lavin Hassanzadeh Oskouei, 15 years old, Iran; 3rd Rank: Yekta Esmaeili, 15 years old, Iran
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8th IFPPP: Muscat, Oman
Group A: up to 6 years old: 1st Rank: Selda Arami, 6 years old, Iran; 2nd Rank: Eleonora Petrova, 5 years old, Bulgaria; 3rd Rank: Nika Vaziri, 6 years old, Iran
Group B: 7-10 years old: 1st Rank: Venus Mahaki, 7 years old, Iran; 2nd Rank: Aleksa Dimitrova, 10 years old, Iran; 3rd Rank: Amirhossein Tafahi, 9 years old, Iran
Group C: 11-14 years old: 1st Rank: Petya Dimitrova, 11 years old, Bulgaria; 2nd Rank: Reyhaneh Ali Panahi, 13 years old, Iran; 3rd Rank: Parham Kheiri, 12 years old, Iran
Group D: 15-18 years old: 1st Rank: Sofiya Marchenko, 15 years old, Russia; 2nd Rank: Sarina Rabi Hamedani, 15 years old, Iran; 3rd Rank: Khush Shah, 15 years old, India
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9th IFPPP: Yerevan, Armenia
Group A: up to 6 years old: 1st Rank: Ghazaryan Ashkhen, 6 years old, Armenia; 2nd Rank:Seyed Kaniar Hosseini, 5 years old, Iran; 3rd Rank: Gergana Rosenova, 6 years old, Bulgaria
Group B: 7-10 years old: 1st Rank: Melis Ada Uyanik, 9 years old,Turkey; 2nd Rank: Marija Cvetkovaite, 7 years old, Lithuania and Sahar Akbari, 9 years old, Iran; 3rd Rank: Margaryan Artyom, 8 years old, Armenia and Fatemeh Masoumi, 10 years old, Iran
Group C: 11-14 years old: 1st Rank: Goda Biraite, 13 years old, Lithuania and Fatemeh Mirzaei, 12 years old, Iran; 2nd Rank: Rahminiyan Rengganis, 14 years old, Indonesia; 3rd Rank: Viara Pencheva, 14 years old, Bulgaria
Group D: 15-18 years old: 1st Rank: Ava Safaverdi, 15 years old, Iran; 2nd Rank: Harshinee Shah , 16 years old, India; 3rd Rank: Asena Arifova, 18 years old, Bulgaria
Now, we would like to invite all children and adolescents with the age of fewer than 18 years old, who were admitted to a hospital during their life, to this festival.
Instructions: Painting (Drawing) on an A4 page (297 mm × 210 mm)
Theme: Health
Required information: Name and Family name, Age (Date of Birth), City (Country), Tel (e-mail), Postal address, Disease name, Hospital name
Deadline for submission: June 9th, 2024
1- The original painting should be mailed to: Prof. Nima Rezaei, Children’s Medical Center Hospital, Gharib St, Keshavarz Blvd, Tehran 14194, IRAN
2- The scan copy of the painting (with a resolution of more than 300 dpi) should be e-mailed to: [email protected]
Two hundred selected paintings (drawings) will be printed in the booklet of the Festival.
The best 12 selected individuals will be our special guests at the Festival. Their awards will be formally presented at the Festival. At that time, they will be invited to come to the podium and be introduced to the audience.
Welcome Message
We are pleased to inform you that we are planning to organize the 10thInternational Festival of Paintings for Pediatric Patients (IFPPP) in November 2024, in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. We cordially invite all children and adolescents (<18 years old), who were admitted to a hospital during their life, to submit their paintings (drawings) to this festival.
The 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th Festival in Tehran (Iran), Budapest (Hungary), Kharkiv (Ukraine), Reggio Calabria (Italy), Budapest (Hungary), Tehran (Iran), Istanbul (Turkey),Muscat (Oman) and Yerevan(Armenia) were all amazing, where more than 1000 paintings from more than 30 countries were submitted each year; and we hope to receive more than a thousand paintings this year as well. The top 200 selected artworks would be published in the booklet of the festival.
We are eagerly looking forward to receiving your paintings soon.
Best regards,
Nima Rezaei
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Nima Rezaei, MD, PhD
President of 10th IFPPP
Founder of the Health and Art (HEART) Group
Founding President of Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN)
http://usern.tums.ac.ir/User/CV/rezaei_nima
We do not know the little winners of the 10th IFPPP this year, but we hope to be able to share their smile, when they receive their prize in Bulgaria and see their artworks exhibited in the IFPPP festivals all over the world. Please support this initiative and help us Bring Smiles to a Beating Heart.