Virtual National Arts Fest announces 2020 Standard Bank Ovation Award winnersThe 2020 Virtual National Arts Festival reached its conclusion with the announcement of the winners of this year's Standard Bank Ovation Awards. Livestreamed to Facebook, the Standard 2020 Ovation Awards ceremony was attended by fans and followers of the arts as the 45 winners of the Standard Bank Ovation award were honoured and overall winners of the Bronze, Silver and Gold were announced. In celebration of the winners, 2020 Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz Sisonke Xonti and 2013 Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz Shane Cooper performed during the show. A panel of adjudicators spent countless hours reviewing work to find those productions that fully embraced performance for digital audiences and told stories that resonated with our current times and hopes for the future. They awarded 45 productions with the Standard Bank Ovation recognition, a badge that is placed on the show page as a marker to audiences, but ten shows, in particular, stood out and were awarded Gold, Silver and Bronze awards as follows The Standard Bank Ovation winners for 2020:EOAH a Noah and Edgar Domination The Art of experimental acapella - Then, Now and Always girl. Nowhere People Next! Jazz in the Theatre featuring: Chadleigh Gowar Ouma Lilly & Haar Klong Bonjour Monsieur Brel Butlers and Billionaires: Till death do us part Diamonds and Strings For Rhino in Tandem with Roddy Fox and Harry Owen Fragmented Scribbles From Makhanda to Kofifi Jazz in the Theatre featuring: Muneeb Hermans A Star is Born The rise and fall of Judy Garland Certain Songs for Uncertain Times Garry's Retreat Hatchetman: (R)Evolution I Am Because You Are Inyange Speaks Journey Beyond The Joy of Classical Music Mnquma Amagents Corps/Body I Grandi Tenori in Concert Jakob Jon Shaban Live Magic of Lata Mangeshkar Part One Once Upon A Circus Quantitative Teasing Resillience Sade in Hollandse Kombuise Sanan Sondela The Ballad Of Lucy and Alexander The Hymns Of A Sparrow The King of Broken Things The Tower and The Tree Veranda Panda - Panda Perspectives What Falling Feels Like. Women Hold Up The Sky Zoom Room The Beast in Him National Arts Festival’s Fringe manager, Zikhona Monaheng, closed the event by reminding both artists and audiences that the National Arts Festival would continue to host the vFringe as a legacy of the vNAF2020, creating an ongoing digital home for the arts. She said that artists from all disciplines would be able to use the space without paying registration fees and would take home 90% of their ticket sales. The importance of artists marketing their own work was stressed as a critical way to encourage audiences to browse and view shows. The platform will remain in place as long as the Festival can facilitate it and for as long as there is a need for an online space for artists to present work to audiences online. Artists wishing to submit work can visit nationalartsfestival.co.za Audiences wanting to go and watch shows on-demand, can visit nationalartsfestival.co.za |