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The Annual Business Day BASA Awards, supported by Anglo American feature 12 categories in the following mediums:


- Visual Arts;
- Dance;
- Theatre;
- Physical Performance;
- Music;
- Architecture;
- Fashion;
- Design; and
- All forms of creativity are recognised.

Nominations are now open in the following categories:

     
  • Innovation Award - This Award recognises the most innovative and progressive partnership in all mediums of creativity; one that served all partners’ purposes effectively over the past 12 months, and highlighted creativity and originality in the process.
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  • First Time Sponsor Award - This Award is for a business supporting the arts for the first time, regardless of size, budget, or whether it is CSI or marketing.
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  • Increasing Access to the Arts Award - This Award celebrates a partnership that has encouraged specific audience engagement with the arts or has made a significant contribution to brand, market and audience development, while still promoting the business through above-the-line media or a partnership that has made a significant contribution to regeneration or sustainable growth, through a CSI budget.
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  • International Sponsorship Award - Awarded to a global-level partnership that builds brand reputation and audience for both the business and arts organisations across international borders through an event or marketing project showcasing SA to the rest of the world, and/or bringing international arts projects to South Africa.
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  • Sustainable Partnership Award - A company which has significantly developed and expanded its commitment to an arts project over three years or longer. The value to the arts project, the broader community and the business, must be apparent.
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  • Media Sponsorship Award - For consistent and innovative support given by electronic, print, broadcast and web based media.
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  • Single Strategic Project Award - For an outstanding single sponsorship, with best use of a project, which is an integral part of the sponsor’s overall brand and marketing programme.
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  • Small Business Award - For vital support given to the arts by a small company with one to 200 hundred full-time employees and an annual turnover of no more than R10 million.
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  • Sponsorship In Kind Award - For a company giving non-financial support to the arts.
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  • Youth Development Award - For projects, which involve young artists and/or young audiences; an educational and development element should be implicit in the sponsorship.
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  • Arts and Environment Award - For business support of arts and culture projects which contribute towards the sustainability of the environment.
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  • Mentor of the Year Award - Recognises the long-term contribution of a volunteer business mentor to arts organisations through the Mentorship Programme, and only mentors from the BASA Mentorship Programme are eligible for this Award.


Categories to be awarded by the chairman and the judging panel:

     
  • Diplomacy in the Arts - Given in recognition of Foreign Missions which contribute to the development and preservation of the arts in South Africa as well as the continued prioritisation of cultural diplomacy between South Africa and the international community.
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  • Art Champion Award - An Award given to an individual for outstanding achievement in the encouragement of business support for the arts.
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  • Chairman’s Premier Award - This Award is made at the discretion of the Chairman of Business and Arts South Africa and recognises sustained and extraordinary commitment to the arts in South Africa.

 

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