Deadline: 30 June 2017
Business and Arts South Africa is seeking nominations for its BASA Awards that is jointly sponsored by Hollard & Business Day. It is the only awards ceremony that acknowledges business support of and partnerships in the arts in South Africa.
The BASA Awards recognise and encourage excellence and innovation in the field of business support for the arts. Imaginative, innovative, and cost-effective partnerships between business and the arts are highlighted, demonstrating the potential for synergy, the window of mutual opportunity, and the far reaching benefits for business, for the arts, and for all South Africans.
All award categories encompass all creative mediums and a wide spectrum of partnerships, from small and in-kind, to large-scale or long-term. The awards are judged by an independent panel of judges and the results are audited by Grant Thornton. A specially commissioned work of art is given to the winning sponsor in each Award category.
Awards Categories
The 19th Annual BASA Awards partnered by Hollard and Business Day – feature 11 categories in the following mediums:
- Visual Arts
- Physical Performance
- Fashion
- Dance
- Music
- Design
- Theatre
- Architecture
- All forms of creativity
Types of Awards
Nominations will be accepted 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 between January and December 2016, and highlighted creativity and originality in the process.
- First Time Sponsor Award – This Award is for a business supporting the arts for the first time, regardless of size, budget, whether it is CSI, marketing, HR, BBE or other.
- 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 marketing and CSI budget or other.
- Beyond Borders Partnership 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 Africa and the rest of the world, and/or bringing international arts projects to South Africa.
- Long Term 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.
- Media Sponsorship Award – For consistent and innovative support given by electronic, print, broadcast and web based media.
- Strategic Project Award – For outstanding initiative, with best use of a project, which is an integral part of the business’ strategy.
- Small Business Award – For vital support given to the arts by a small company with up to 200 hundred full-time employees and an annual turnover of no more than R10 million.
- Sponsorship In Kind Award – For a company giving a quantifiable non-monetary support to the arts.
- Development Award – For projects with an implicit educational and development element.
- Cultural Tourism Award, supported by Nedbank – For business support of arts and culture projects which contribute towards the growth of communities and jobs, and support the opportunities provided by local tourism.
Eligibility Criteria
- The BASA Awards are open to all companies sponsoring arts events, projects or organisations in South Africa and/or Africa, and all companies sponsoring South African and/or African arts events overseas across borders.
- There is no entry fee.
- Mediums include visual arts, dance, theatre, physical performance, music, architecture, fashion, design and all forms of creativity appropriate to the understanding of the arts.
- The nomination can be completed by the sponsoring business and/or the recipient arts organisation, but must be approved by both the business and arts partner.
- A sponsorship programme or project mat not be nominated or entered in more than two categories.
- Supporting material, high-res images, videos and logos will be required. This is both to assist the judges as well as for publicity purposes. Entries will not be considered complete without at least two high resolution images.
- Business and Arts South Africa may use the information and images (excluding confidential financial information) submitted in the nomination for publicity purposes.
How to Apply
- Nominations must be submitted online via given website.
- No hardcopy nominations will be processed.
Eligible Country: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Cote d’Ivorie, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
For more information, please visit BASA Awards.