Call for nominations: Arts and Culture Trust Awards 2020

The ACT awards are held annually in recognition and celebration of excellence in South African arts, culture and creativity. The awards honour contributions in music, arts advocacy, dance, literature, theatre and visual arts.

Nomination process

ACT invites its stakeholders and interested members of the public to nominate individuals for consideration in both categories from 17 October to 11 November. Nominations will be considered by the ACT board of trustees before winners in the two segments and various categories are announced at the 2020 ACT Awards ceremony in February 2020.

ACT Lifetime Achievement Awards

• Nominations for the ACT Lifetime Achievement Awards are done here.

ImpAct Award for Young Professionals

• Nominations for the ImpAct Award for Young Professionals are done here.

Nomination criteria

Lifetime Achievement Awards

• The individual has to be alive and aged 60 years or older.
• The individual has to be a South African citizen residing in South Africa.
• The individual made one, multiple or a series of outstanding and significant contributions to advance, promote and/or improve music, arts advocacy, dance, literature, theatre and visual arts in South Africa.
• The individual should have led or inspired the advancement of music, arts advocacy, dance, literature, theatre and visual arts in South Africa

ImpACT Award for Young Professionals

• The individual has to be aged 35 years or younger.
• The individual has to be a South African citizen residing in South Africa.
• The individual should have made a notable impact in the arts, culture and creative sector during the first five years of their professional career.

“The ACT Awards are divided into two major segments: the ACT Lifetime Achievement Awards and ImpACT Award for Young Professionals,” ACT said. “The ACT Lifetime Achievement Awards honour living arts professionals aged over 60 whose extraordinary careers in the arts and lifelong achievements have contributed significantly to the enrichment of cultural life in South Africa.

“The ImpACT Award for Young Professionals recognises artists aged no older than 35 who are in the early stages of careers that show promise of making meaningful contributions to the sector in the future.”

The ACT awards are one of ACT’s flagship programmes and have since 1998 recognised and honoured outstanding achievements and contributions to the sector.

View original call here.