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“The aim of awarding the Culture Excellence Award is to recognize the Latvian state for outstanding international achievements in culture, which have made a significant contribution to popularizing Latvia’s cultural values, promoting Latvia’s prestige in the world and enhancing Latvia’s cultural value,” Nauris Puntulis, stressing that working in a pandemic and gaining international recognition has been a particular challenge. The Minister also reminds that each of the three winners will also receive a financial award – 7,000 euros after taxes.
Continuing the tradition of entrusting the organization of this event to one of the art colleges every year, the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music has established the Ceremony of Excellence in Culture ceremony this year. The director of the award ceremony is Ināra Sluckka, the main cameraman is Aleksandrs Grebņevs. The winning video episode of each winner is full of heartfelt surprises, nice encounters and emotional upliftment. Each of the award winners in their field is a brilliant reporter of Latvian culture in the world and a source of inspiration for both close and distant art lovers and interested people.
The award of the Ministry of Culture has gained popularity in a short time, but it, like the cultural sector as a whole, has been affected by the pandemic: Covid-19 had to choose from 13 , literature and book publishing, the museum industry and cultural heritage, theater.
Candidates’ applications for the award were nominated by the institutions under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture, sectoral advisory councils, non-governmental organizations and local governments. The submitted applications were evaluated by the Latvian National Council of Culture in accordance with the regulations of the award, and approved by the Minister of Culture Nauris Puntulis.
The Award for Excellence in Culture is available if the award has been obtained in international and professionally prestigious competitions, festivals and other professional evaluation events in the field of culture; if the performance of Latvian artists or collectives, such as concerts, guest performances, exhibitions and other events, has gained wide resonance abroad, promoted Latvia’s prestige in the world and awareness of cultural values in Latvian society, and if the performance has attracted wide international attention and resonated in the world, Cooperation and interaction between Latvian and foreign cultural spaces.
The Ministry of Culture Award – the Culture Excellence Award – was established in 2014.
So far, the honorable award has been given to: Aleksandrs Antoninsenko, Jānis Nords, Žanas Lipke Memorial, Signe Baumane, Iveta Apkalna, Andris Freibergs, Turaida Museum Reserve, Rasa and Raitis Šmiti, Andris Nelsons, design office H2E, Gidons Krēmers and chamberlain , Latvian National Museum of Art, Rolands Kalniņš and Nora Ikstena, Imants Lancmanis, Elīna Garanča and Anna Laudere, Marina Rebeka, Gundega Laiviņa, as well as the platform “Latvian Literature”.
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