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Guyana Cultural Association calls for award nominations

Jun 27, 2010 News

This year the Guyana Cultural association is attempting to honour a new cross section of Guyanese Society during its annual award exercise.
Organisers of the event which forms a part of the Guyana Folk Festival celebrations, have said that this year they are trying to acknowledge, “ … individuals from villages and village communities who enrich Guyanese Society.”
The push to recognise such individuals falls under the Association’s theme for this year, “Diversity in Our Villages, Harmony in Our Culture.”
Accordingly, the Association is issuing a call for nominations in three categories, Individual, Group/Organisation and Business Entity.
Under the Individual category, awards will be presented to adults and as of this year young people aged up to 25 for their work in initiating and advancing community efforts.
The awards for groups/organisations will look at their efforts to foster community work. Business Entities will be considered for their work in enabling cultural developments and presentations. Information on submitting award nominations can be found at www.guyfolkfest.org/awards_nominations.htm.
The Guyana Cultural Association (GCA) is a New York-based, non-profit organisation that has organised the Annual Guyana Folk Festival for the last nine years. The event offers patrons numerous cultural pieces centered on the theme for that year over a period of weeks during the summer months.
The event culminates in the Family Day which is held on the Sunday before Labour Day in New York. According to Claire Goring, Cultural Director of the Association, the event has for the last three years seen an attendance in excess of 6000 people.
During the celebrations, one of the preliminary events is the Awards Ceremony which will be held on the 1st of September this year.
The nominees in all categories must either be Guyanese or of direct Guyanese lineage through one or both parents. They may live anywhere in the world but their contributions must be in Guyana.
Youth Award Nominees should display academic and extracurricular achievements that “position the nominee above the average in his or her area of scholastic and cultural activities”.
All nominations will be examined by the awarding committee to see if they meet a number of selection criteria. Nominees will be considered for their originality in terms of the expression, product or innovation that they offer.
The scope and impact of the nominee’s offering will also be considered by the selection committee to see the extent to which the nominee’s work or product has been spread. How well the idea has been integrated into the fabric of society and any changes wrought are also to be considered along with the pioneering spirit of the nominees and the possible challenges that the nominee would have had to face to bringing their vision into reality.
There are several awards outside of these such as the GCA Lifetime Achievement Award which is solely reserved for Guyanese Nationals while the GCA Exemplary Award and category awards are offered to any individual or entity.
According to organising members, Mssrs. Ronald Lammy and Edgar Henry, the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport has agreed to be a local collection point for nominations which will be closed on July 16, 2010.
They said that the Committee and Association are trying to find and honour the work of those people from the lesser known and harder to reach areas of the country; people whose work can be considered to be an exemplary model and has impacted Guyanese culture in some way.
The Association is particularly interested in honouring village groups that are respected in their local communities but are largely unknown to the Guyanese Public at home and abroad.

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