Creative Edinburgh Awards nominations open

Nominations are now open for the 2015 Creative Edinburgh Awards, honouring the best of the city's creative talent.

Feature by News Team | 15 Sep 2015

Entries are now open for the awards, which are in their fourth year and open to creatives from across the city. The awards include categories for best student contribution to Edinburgh’s creative scene, and best commercial contribution, as well as an award for best collaboration and a prize for best creative start-up for projects within their first three years of operation.

The Creativity Award returns to honour a one-off creative venture within the city, while the Social Award will be given for work which makes a contribution to a group or interest within the city. Creative Edinburgh's City Award is for city-specific work or for “an outstanding creative contribution or activity that has promoted Edinburgh nationally or indeed, internationally” or utilised Edinburgh-specific ideas or locations.

The Independent Award will be awarded for an outstanding contribution from a professional individual business, sole trader or freelancer, and the Leadership Award will be given to "an outstanding individual for their leadership and contribution to their sector, or the creative industries as a whole".

The winners of the 2015 Creative Edinburgh Awards, for which The Skinny is media partner, will be announced at the group's fourth birthday party at multi-arts venue The Biscuit Factory on 12 November. Creative Edinburgh's Janine Matheson said: “Our members are at the heart of everything that we do at Creative Edinburgh. This year, we will invest all profits from ticket sales towards creating new opportunities for our network.”

Last year's Creative Edinburgh award-winners included Tommy Perman and Rob St. John, winners of the Collaboration prize for their Water of Life project, food and drink experience team Jelly & Gin and The Science Ceilidh project – which featured a live ceilidh band made up of entirely of research scientists.

Entries for the 2015 Creative Edinburgh Awards close at noon on 23 October; nominations can be made here. The Creative Edinburgh Awards and 4th Birthday Party takes place at The Biscuit Factory on Thursday 12 November; tickets are on sale now.

http://creative-edinburgh.com