Other CIWEM Awards

The CIWEM President's Award
 
Nominations are invited from Branches and Groups for the President’s Award.  The President's Award is presented annually to a CIWEM member in recognition of exceptional service to the work of the Institution. It is awarded by the President at the AGM in September. The winner receives a badge and a framed certificate and the award is reported in E-News and CIWEM Business Briefing.  Each CIWEM Branch and Group may make one nomination per year and the President will chose the award winner from the nominations received or select his own winner.

The 2009 winners were Mike Little, the first posthumous award, and Grahame Newman . Nominations for 2010 should be made to Lorraine Poole at CIWEM by Friday 30th July 2010 (Email: lorraine@ciwem.org; Tel: 0207 831 3110). 

Click here for a link to the nomination form.

Arts and Environment Award
CIWEM has launched an Arts and Environment Award, in association with the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World (CCANW). Each year this initiative will celebrate an artwork, arts project or body of work by a living artist (or group) that is contributing innovatively to the Arts & Environment Network (AEN)’s vision of “putting creativity at the heart of environmental policy and action”. It will recognise innovation and excellence in work by arts practitioners, or environmentalists engaging with arts practices, whether well-established or newly emerging.

The focus is on rewarding identified work, not simply a person.  All forms and modes of arts practice, and geographical locations, may be considered.

There are no formal calls for nominations: instead candidates are short-listed by informal consultations conducted through the AEN. Winners are selected by a panel of judges, and will be announced in the press. Winners will be presented with a certificate and citation at a prestigious event, and their work will be given wide publicity.

This scheme symbolises the growing significance of cross-disciplinary approaches in relating imaginatively to the world around us, and in responding to the environmental and cultural challenges of the age. CIWEM, CCANW and their collaborating partners at the forefront of evolving new thinking on these issues, are committed to highlighting positive examples of effort, talent, leadership and insight for us all.