The National Arts Festival and Business and Arts South Africa (BASA) are calling for entries to the South African Arts Journalism Awards. The awards will be presented for the first time in 2013.
Festival CEO Tony Lankester says: “The awards will recognise journalistic practice across all media platforms - print, online and broadcast.” He added that the arts sector “needs robust, healthy, insightful and articulate commentary and criticism from the media to keep it moving forward”.
The awards will identify excellence, expertise and creativity. In doing so, they will promote the practice of arts and cultural journalism, strengthen its national profile and celebrate its importance, range, diversity, fluidity and vitality.
Gold and Silver awards will be made in the following categories:
- Reviewing
Reviews of theatre, music, visual/plastic arts, dance, literature, film, comedy or any other arts and culture phenomenon.
- Features
These may include interviews and profiles, behind-the-scenes stories, arts-related investigative journalism or other forms of arts and culture reportage in any medium.
- Opinion pieces
Comment, analysis and provocation – in any medium – relating to specific artistic disciplines, the arts sector more broadly or arts-related policy and business stories.
Professor Chris Thurman has been invited by the organisers to convene an independent panel of judges who, apart from the above categories, may also choose to nominate recipients for the following awards:
- Best New Voice
- Special Contribution to Arts Journalism
- Best New Media Exponent
- Arts Photography
- Special Merit Award
Winners will be announced during the course of this year’s National Arts Festival and a range of cash prizes will be awarded. Additionally, one journalist will be awarded the opportunity to travel to the vibrant Amsterdam Fringe in September, from where they will report on South African productions being presented at that Festival as part of the World Fringe Alliance showcase.
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