The Journal Culture Awards 2007

Sep 25 2007 By The Journal

The closing date for this year's Journal Culture Awards has now passed, leaving our panel of judges with the difficult task of deciding upon 2 runners-up and 1 overall winner for each of the following award categories:

:: Best Event Durham

Shortlisted: Illuminate, Durham Literature Festival, The Art Garden

:: Best Event Northumberland

Shortlisted: Picture House at Belsay Hall, Berwick upon Tweed Film & Media Arts Festival 2007, Northumberland Lights

:: Best Event Sunderland

Shortlisted: The City Sings 2007, Snow Domes Exhibition, Relaunch of Monkwearmouth Station Museum

:: Best Event Tees Valley

Shortlisted: mima Opening Event, Proms in the Park, Stockton Riverside Fringe Festival

:: Best Event Tyneside

Shortlisted: Launch, The Late Shows, EAT! Newcastle Gateshead

:: Arts Council Award

Shortlisted: The Couple Sculpture, The Clown Doctors Programme, The Novocastrian Philosophers' Club

:: Performance of the Year

Shortlisted: Tonic, Pitmen Painters, Tatter Coats

:: Newcomer of the Year

Shortlisted: Katie Doherty, Paul Knox, Nikita Asher

:: Artist of the Year

Shortlisted: Julian Germain, Liv Lorent, Emma Holliday

:: Renaissance North East Museums Award

Shortlisted: Punk 76!, Sunderland to Saigon, Tudor Lives Workshops 

:: Best Arts and Business Partnership

Shortlisted: Blackett Hart & Pratt with Darlington Civic Theatre for the Centenary Celebrations, Newcastle Building Society with Seven Stories Centre for Children's Books for Voyages, Connecting Through Culture @ Tyne & Wear Museums 

:: Culture Club Event of the Year

Shortlisted: Art in the Garden @ Crook Hall, Hiroyuki Suzuki @ Northern Print, The Novocatrian Philosopher's Club

Judging will take place late January 2008 with the shortlists posted here by February 1, 2008. 

The awards evening takes place at Northern Stage Newcastle on Monday March 31, 2008. 

For more information telephone Julie Moorhouse on 0191 201 6119 or email julie.moorhouse@ncjmedia.co.uk.