Deadline: 7-Oct-24
The Stop TB Partnership is launching the call for nominations for the STP Community Award 2024 under the theme “Ending TB Stigma through Art”.
While art forms have played a central role in conveying messages for centuries, for the first time ever the Stop TB Partnership is looking to utilize the potential of diverse and dynamic artistic forms to capture a message to End TB stigma.
Over the last five years, the Stop TB Partnership has conferred this annual prize for excellence in advancing an equitable, rights-based, stigma-free and gender-sensitive TB response. The prize is specifically aimed at the efforts of grassroots, advocacy and engagement initiatives from TB high-burden countries. Stop TB Partnership is pleased to again partner with Humana People to People Foundation for the 2024 award.
Themes
- This year the theme of the award is “Ending TB Stigma through Art” and therefore submissions for the 2024 award must be:
- Visual Arts: paintings, sculptures, drawings, photography, film, cartoon, installations and other visual art forms
- Literary Arts: short story, play, or poem
- Performing Arts: original musical compositions, songs or theatrical performances (e.g. spoken word, dance etc.)
- Social Media Art: Reels, brief innovative videos for different social media platforms
- Submissions may choose to engage and/or cross traditional and modern platforms and artistic mediums.
Eligibility Criteria
- Nominations must be done only by a TB community, civil society, or TB survivor network/organization in TB, MDR-TB or TB/HIV high-burden countries. An artist must partner with a civil society, or community organization to be able to submit his art piece.
- One organization can submit only one piece of art
- The piece of art can be an individual piece of art or a collective artwork.
- The nominated submission must be:
- newly created for the purpose of this award
- reflecting the theme of ending TB-related stigma
For more information, visit Stop TB Partnership.