LCR Culture & Creativity Awards 2021
Liverpool City Region is a thriving place for culture and creativity and we want to celebrate this.
2021 Awards
Our independent judging panel made up of members of the Liverpool Cultural Partnership together with invited representatives from the Creative and Cultural sector selected the finalists in this year’s Liverpool City Region Culture and Creativity Awards from your 730 entries!
Below is the winners of the 2021 Liverpool City Region Culture & Creativity Awards. Huge congratulations to our finalists and winners.
Part of the Metro Mayor’s Percent for Culture initiative, these awards recognise the value and huge contribution that the cultural and creative sector bring to the Liverpool City Region making it one of the most vibrant and exciting places to live, work, study in, visit or do business in.
The Award Categories
The winners in each category are:
The People’s Choice - For Outstanding Contribution
This award is to celebrate an outstanding contribution to culture and creativity, which has made a significant difference to the quality of life at either local, Borough or City Region level.
The People’s Choice Award is decided by the public, chosen from a shortlist of individuals or organisations that have made an outstanding contribution and shown commitment to culture over a sustained period.
2021 Winner
The Reader
Artist of the Year
This award is to celebrate an artist whose work has stood out and contributed to the cultural and creative reputation of the LCR. This could be for a piece of work or a number of arts, cultural or creative projects that collectively have been consistently outstanding.
2021 Winner
Ashleigh Nugent
Arts Organisation of the Year
This award is to celebrate an arts organisation whose work has stood out and contributed to the cultural and creative reputation of the LCR. This could be for a piece of work or a number of arts, cultural or creative projects that collectively have been consistently outstanding.
2021 Winner
The Unity Theatre
Student Inspiration Award
This award is to celebrate the impact of a student under the age of 22 who displays an innovative and inspiring approach to art, culture and/or creativity.
2021 Winner
Khan Odita
Impact Award – Health & Wellbeing
This award is to celebrate the power and value of culture and creativity to achieve positive outcomes in health and wellbeing.
2021 Winner
Dead Pigeon Gallery and Damien John Kelly House – Vitality Homes
Impact Award – Environmental Sustainability
This award is to celebrate the power and value of culture and creativity to achieve positive outcomes in environmental sustainability.
2021 Winner
Metal Culture
Impact Award – Improving Education & Learning
This award is to celebrate the power and value of culture and creativity to achieve positive outcomes in education and learning.
2021 Winner
Heart of Glass with Andy Field, Beckie Darlington and schoolchildren from St Helens
Impact Award – Improving Community Cohesion
This award is to celebrate the power and value of culture and creativity to achieve positive outcomes in community cohesion.
2021 Winner
Pagoda Arts
Impact Award – International Reach
This award is to celebrate the power and value of culture and creativity at an international level.
2021 Winner
Dr Vicki Doyle
Impact Award – Future World of Work
This award is to celebrate the value of culture and creativity to stimulate adaptability across all age ranges for the future world of work.
2021 Winner
Merseyside Community Training
Impact Award – Sustainable Business in Arts
This award is to celebrate businesses that are sustainable and make a significant contribution to economic growth within the arts, culture and creativity sector.
2021 Winner
dot-art
Covid-19 Creative Response (individual)
This award is to recognise an individual who has used culture and creativity to make a significant impact on people’s lives during the Covid-19 pandemic and the periods of lockdown. This could include adapting to different ways of working to creatively reach and engage others e.g. zoom choirs, online arts and cultural activities, sending out activity packs; and / or operating in a completely different way e.g. making PPE, providing local scrub Hubs, providing / supporting food distribution schemes.
2021 Winner
Bill Elms – Liverpool Theatre Festival
Covid-19 Creative Response (organisation)
This award is to recognise an organisation which has used culture and creativity to make a significant impact on people’s lives during the Covid-19 pandemic and the periods of lockdown. This could include adapting to different ways of working to creatively reach and engage others e.g. zoom choirs, online arts and cultural activities, sending out activity packs; and / or operating in a completely different way e.g. making PPE, providing local scrub Hubs, providing / supporting food distribution schemes.
2021 Winner
Human Libraries
Borough of Culture ‘Star of the Year’
This award is to celebrate a shining star from the Liverpool City Region’s 2021 Borough of Culture, Halton.
This category is open to anyone from Halton who has been part of their Borough of Culture programme.
2021 Winner
Louise Nulty
Judges Inspiration Award
The Judges Inspiration Award – significant contribution to Culture, is an award decided by the judging panel and awarded on the night.
2021 Winners
Bea Freeman
Eric Lynch
