The Peace Trust Award is open to all Adelaide Fringe Festival artists who promote human rights, social justice and environmental sustainability through their work.
The Peace Trust has been a long supporter of working for peace through the arts by providing seed funding and arts grants for projects. By being part of the Adelaide Fringe Awards, The Peace Trust is able to support artists whose work aligns with the objectives of The Peace Trust and at the same time furthers their commitment to experimentation, excellence and innovation in the arts. The award winner will receive a statuette and $2000 to support their work.
The winner of the 2011 inaugural Peace Trust Award was ‘Trapped’ by No Strings Attached Theatre of Disabled. Trapped had previously been nominated for the 2006 Fringe Critics’ Innovation and Excellence Award. Developed by No Strings Attached over a number of years, the story concerns two men held in detention, one because he is an asylum seeker, a situation sadly all too familiar. The other isolated in society as a result of a disability, is detained as he has few options for accommodation, a situation not uncommon but one that is less visible to the wider community. (READ MORE…)
The winner for 2012 is Seven Kilometres North-East a work developed and performed at the Adelaide College of the Arts main theatre during the Fringe Festival by actor Kym Vercoe from the Sydney based theatre group version 1.0.
The work is not only a passionate and engaging piece of theatre but deals with the very difficult subject of the war in Bosnia in a way that informs and doesn’t alienate the audience. It is Kym Vercoe’s personal story of visiting Bosnia and falling in love with the culture, the landscape and the people. (READ MORE…)
APPLICATIONS FOR THE 2012 ADELAIDE FRINGE AWARDS WILL BE OPEN IN LATE 2012