Golden Mills, or the Kuyavia-Pomerania Cultural Animation Awards

Applications for individuals and companies for the third edition of the Golden Mills – Kuyavia-Pomerania Cultural Animation Awards are now open.

a) Animator of Culture – Agnieszka Dabrowska Award.

Award of the Marshal of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship.

This category is open to submissions of male and female animators, working both inside and outside cultural institutions, who influence local communities with their actions in culture, bringing about social change.

(b) The hope of cultural animation

Award under the patronage of the Chairwoman of the Regional Assembly of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship.

This category is open to submissions of male and female animators up to the age of 35, working both inside and outside cultural institutions, who introduce new and original approaches to cultural animation.

(c) Team

In this category, a minimum of 3-person teams working in cultural institutions, NGOs, informal teams that jointly create cultural activities (excluding artistic teams) can be submitted.

d) Manager culture

Award of the Marshal of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship.

This category is open to applicants who manage cultural institutions or non-governmental organizations, i.e. director(s), deputy director(s), president(s).

e) Patron of culture

Private entities supporting cultural activities, such as private companies, partnerships, corporations, can be submitted in this category.

The award consists of:
(a) the Golden Mill statuette
(b) a financial award (excluding the Cultural Patron category).

The purpose of the award is to recognize people who create or support cultural activities on a daily basis, working in cultural institutions, acting in NGOs or informal groups.

We want to notice people who integrate local communities, inspire residents to their own creativity, stimulate creativity, include people excluded from social life, etc. – in a word, they make something change around them thanks to culture.

The award can only be given to individuals, teams and companies operating in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian region.

How to apply for the award?

The submission can be made by any person – a co-worker, a resident, a participant in cultural activities, a local official, or even the subject himself.

To do so, fill out the application form available online until June 16

Before completing the form, please read the rules and regulations and the detailed description of the categories:

Chapter

The results of the competition will be decided by a 4-member Chapter composed of people representing cultural circles from across the province:

Aneta Jędrzejewska – Deputy Marshal of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship

Honorata Zielińska-Szuster – director of the Municipal Cultural Center in Dobrczu

Dominik Cieślikiewicz – president of the Charger Foundation

Łukasz Wudarski – director of the Provincial Center for Culture Animation

The course of the competition:

1. Accepting applications via online forms: up to and including June 16
2. Selection of nominees in each category: up to and including June 30
3. Selection of male and female winners and presentation of awards at the Golden Mills Gala: October 22 at 7:00 pm during the 3rd Kuyavian-Pomeranian Congress of Culture

Do you have a question or need support with your submission?
Write to woak@woak.pl or call +48 695 385 110 and we will try to help.

The awards in the Animator/Animator of the Year and Manager/Manager of Culture categories are prizes of the Marshal of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Piotr Całbecki.

The award in the category Hope of Cultural Animation was under the Honorary Patronage of the Chairwoman of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Regional Assembly, Elżbieta Piniewska.