Creative Edinburgh Awards: The 2021 Shortlist
Check out the shortlist for this year's Creative Edinburgh Awards, celebrating creative practitioners from across the city
They're back! The Creative Edinburgh Awards return for 2021 with another discipline-hopping, genre-busting celebration of some of the city's most exciting cultural projects and people. This year's shortlist has a bit of everything, and there's a fitting focus on community-minded projects among the nominees.
Community radio station EHFM are up for this year's City Award; riso printing social enterprise Out of the Blueprint are nominated for the Social Award alongside The Leith Collective (a retail space giving the chance for grassroots artists to sell their work) and Lyrical Life. LGBTQ+ community network Somewhere are on the shortlist for the Startup Award, and artist Pilar Garcia de Leaniz is nominated in two categories for her 100 Local Businesses Edinburgh project, illustrating the people behind creative businesses across the capital – scroll down to read the list in full.
Ahead of the awards themselves, there's a virtual birthday party on Thursday 4 November to celebrate ten years of Creative Edinburgh. This year's Awards will be given out in a ceremony at the recently-reopened Fruitmarket on Thursday 18 November, which you can follow along on a live stream from 7pm. Tickets for both available events are available now via Eventbrite.
Creative Edinburgh Awards 2021 Shortlist
The Creativity Award
Sponsored by The School of Arts & Creative Industries, Edinburgh Napier University
Sex Education Xplorers (S.E.X.) – Mamoru Iriguchi
Farewell North – Kyle Banks
100 Local Businesses Edinburgh – Pilar Garcia de Leaniz
The Startup Award
Sponsored by CodeBase and Creative Bridge
Somewhere EDI CIC
Blunt Knife Co.
The Edinburgh Pottery Studio
The Independent Award
Sarah Kwan
Bill Addison
Ornella Joaquim
The Social Award
Out of the Blueprint
The Leith Collective
Lyrical Life
The City Award
EHFM
ReDrawing Edinburgh
Leith Theatre
The Commercial Award
100 Local Businesses Edinburgh – Pilar Garcia de Leaniz
Ice Cream At The Interval – Stuart Smith-Gordon
Scotland’s Stories – Graeme Johncock
New Signs for Animation – Jonathan Mortimer & Team
The Student Award
Sponsored by Edinburgh College Faculty of Creative Industries
Whatever Next?
Michael Gately
Maxime Rommes & Sarah Harvie
Bol Ke Lab
The Collaboration Award
Sponsored by Creative Informatics
The Others
INTER – Edinburgh Napier University & SGN
Flourish Project
Arts in Tongues
The Leadership Award
Sara Thomson
Sarah Calmus
Chris Davey