Bucks Culture is excited to present the first ever Bucks Spark Awards created to showcase and celebrate arts, heritage and cultural achievements delivered by fantastic, hard-working organisations and voluntary groups within the county. Submissions for work taking place in the last year were invited across three categories and we are now able to share the inspiring shortlist.
The categories and shortlist for this first year of Bucks Spark Awards are:
Best cultural event:
- UK Astronomy’s Planetarium at Stowe
- Unbound Theatre’s Buckinghamshire Shakespeare Festival
- Visual Images Group’s Bucks Art Weeks
Best cultural exhibition:
- Amersham Museum’s Marie-Louise in Amersham exhibition
- Fractured Land Collective’s Fractured Land exhibition
- Marlow Museum’s Writers of Marlow exhibition
- National Paralympic Heritage Trust’s The Story of the Games display
- South Asian Artists’ Community’s Kaleidoscope exhibition
Best cultural collaboration:
- Buckinghamshire Council’s Local Heritage List
- Bucks Youth Dance Company and Wycombe Youth Action’s Express Yourself project
- Chiltern Music Therapy and English Sinfonia’s Safe in Sound project
- Decreate and Hughenden’s Easter Family Art Trail
- National Paralympic Heritage Trust’s Global Virtual Museum
- Milton’s Cottage and Vache Baroque’s Visionaries: a multi-sensory experience
- Wycombe Museum and Chalk, Cherries and Chair’s Chiltern Chairs Festival.
All of the submissions we received were of an extremely high quality and judging has been very hard. Our judging panel consists of:
- Professor Sri-Kartini Leet, Head of School of Art and Performing Arts at Buckinghamshire New University
- Daniel Williams, County and Diocesan Archivist at Buckinghamshire Archives
- Pablo Colella, Director and Lead Consultant at Disconnected Bodies
- Julius Weinberg, Co-Chair at Buckinghamshire Culture.
Pablo Colella said: “I was blown away by the calibre of the submissions for Bucks Spark Awards this year, I am so impressed by the range of events and activities that are taking place in the county. I feel really lucky to have been selected as the community panel member for the Awards judging.”
The winners and runners-up will be announced at Bucks Culture’s Conference on 7th November, with awards presented by award winning author Claire Fuller and Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire, Lady Howe.
We are so excited to share these cultural moments and achievements with partners, colleagues and friends in the sector. We aim to build a supportive creative community to celebrate these successes and the value that the cultural sector brings to our county and its residents.
You can book tickets for the Conference and/or the Bucks Spark Awards here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-collaboration-conference-bucks-spark-awards-tickets-1006666405317?aff=oddtdtcreator
The Categories
Best Exhibition Award
This award recognises excellence in exhibitions or displays related to an aspect of Buckinghamshire’s culture. It could include a new permanent exhibition, temporary exhibition, or display delivered to October 23-September 24. It could be an online exhibition, or a physical exhibition. The entry needs to demonstrate effective use of resources and success with the chosen audience. Click to download the Application Form for Best Exhibition Award.
Best Event Award
This award recognises excellence in a one-off event that has promoted Buckinghamshire’s culture. The event could have taken place digitally, within its own site, or at another location during October 23-September 24. The entry needs to demonstrate effective use of resources and success with the chosen audience. Click to download the Application Form for Best Event Award.
Best Collaboration Award
We are stronger when we work together. This award recognizes the best project, event or activity that has been delivered collaboratively (by at least two entities, this might be organisations, charities, community groups etc) to promote Buckinghamshire’s culture during October 23-September 24. The work should demonstrate how participants as well as the organizations involved have benefited from the collaborative work and what it delivered. Click to download the Application Form for Best Collaboration Award.
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