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'Fly your dreams' - design a flag for the future

Fancy designing your own flag to showcase your dreams for the future?

The city council is inviting young people aged five to 17 years to enter a unique competition to design the flags of the future, with the winning designs being featured on flagpoles in front of the Civic Offices as part of the official Olympic Flag handover ceremony on 24 August. The designs will then be flown on flagpoles across the city throughout September.

Ben Wright from the city council's events team said: "We're asking children and young people to design a flag which represents their dreams and aspirations for the future. This could be about themselves, where they live or how they would like the world to be. The winning designs will be showcased around the city in August and September."

Entry rules

• Applicants must be aged between 5 and 17 years and live in Portsmouth
• The flags will be printed in the colours of the Olympic flag. Therefore, young people should only use blue, black, red, yellow and green in their pictures. 
• Pictures should show your dreams for the future - for example, what you would like to be, or how you would like to see the place you live or your ideal world.
• Please print clearly on the back of the picture the name, age and contact details of the artist

Entries should to be sent to:

Events Team
Portsmouth City Council
1st Floor
Civic Offices
Portsmouth
PO1 2AD

by Friday 1 August, 2008

The winning entries will be announced by 15 August 2008

All the winners will be invited to an event in Guildhall Square on 24 August to mark the Closing Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics and the official handover of the Olympic Flag from China to the UK. The winning flags will be suspended from the flagpoles as part of the city council's own flag ceremony.

Date : 24 July 2008