Creative Edinburgh Awards: The 2022 Winners

The Creative Edinburgh Awards returned tonight at Summerhall, celebrating the best of the city's creative scene in the first in-person running of the Awards since 2019 with an awards ceremony and ceilidh. 

Figurenotes – a music software project which teaches music through colour and shape – received the Collaboration Award, while the Innovation Award went to Neon8, the multimedia and virtual reality production company. Move To Feel, Ailsa Lochhead’s project ​​that uses the silent disco headset to host mindful movement practice, won the Freelance Award, and creative collective/arts magazine Little living room received this year's Creative Startup Award.

The Community Award went to Art Buds in Muirhouse for their free programme of outdoor creative learning for early years and school-age children in North Edinburgh. Push the Boat Out – Edinburgh’s new poetry and spoken word festival – received the Edinburgh City Award, and the Inclusion Award went to AMPLIFI, the series of gigs at The Queen’s Hall showcasing Black and POC Scottish musicians, programmed by Halina Rifai and Arusa Qureshi.

The Student Award went to poet and artist Tanatsei Gambura, while the Leadership Award was awarded to Ally Zlatar. Alice Mary Cooper and Co.'s The Bush carbon light theatre tour won this year's Sustainability Award. For more details on all of this year's nominees, scroll on or click here for our piece on the Creative Edinburgh Awards 2022 shortlist.

Creative Edinburgh Awards 2022: Winners and nominees

(shortlisted nominees in alphabetical order, winners in bold)

The Community Award
Art Buds in Muirhouse
The Aye Festival by Spit it out
BE United
The Community Wellbeing Collective

The Edinburgh City Award
Edinburgh Festival Carnival
Edinburgh International Festival & Leith Academy High School
Push the Boat Out

The Collaboration Award
The Earthing Project
Figurenotes
Theiya Arts Dance Collective
Tinderbox Collective and Pianodrome @ Old Royal High School - Fringe 2022

The Innovation Award
Continuum Industries Ltd
Neon8 (Neoneight Ltd)
The Portobello Beach Campfire by Unco Equipment

The Freelance Award
Camila Ospina Gaitan with the project exhibition Thorn in the flesh
Kolbrun Bjort Sigfusdottir
Move To Feel

The Inclusion Award
AMPLIFI at The Queen’s Hall
The Aye Festival by Spit it out
Liminal Studios
Queer Folks' Tales

The Student Award
Ally Zlatar - The Starving Artist
Levi J. Richards
Nathaniel Cartier and Fraser Macdonald (The Edinburgh Collective)
Tanatsei Gambura

The Leadership Award
Ally Zlatar
Claire Carpenter
Persephone Nichol-Bose

The Creative Startup Award
Little living room
Move To Feel
Quindrie Press
Stories Untold Productions

The Sustainable Creativity Award
Alice Mary Cooper and Co.'s 'The Bush' carbon light theatre tour
Art Buds Collective
by Jen Byrne
Earthing Project