I’m truly humbled and stunned to have had my sound art piece, “A Walk Through My Cũcũ’s Farm” shortlisted for the Hearsay Prize 2021. The winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony, where there are 13 awards handed out in total: the two Overall Awards, the GanBearla Award (for work in a language other than English), an emerging audio-maker award, and 8 other special categories.
Prizes for the winners includes: Flights to Ireland for the next physical Hearsay Audio Arts Festival, where they participate a weeklong residency in the Ballyhoura Mountain Lodges. Then, previous prize winners have had their audio entries broadcast on radio stations around the world from ABC in Australia, to the BBC, and in some of the worlds finest podcasts. Lastly, the two overall Award winners will also receive PAID commissions to create NEW audio work in collaboration with the HearSay Festival.
More info about the Hearsay Festival from their website:
The HearSay International Audio Arts Festival hosts international award-winning contributors from all disciplines of creative audio; radio features, film sound, sound art, theatre sound, music, audio fiction. Hearsay fosters collaboration & imagination, compelling insights, creative challenges, unique experiences with no name badges. HearSay means passion and free-flowing inspiration rooted in a real sense of community.
Our mission is a simple one: To carve out a unique space to inspire the creative audio community around the world and to enrich the cultural and economic life of our home community in Kilfinane, Co. Limerick, a mountain village in South-West Ireland.
Every two years (excepting those which fall in the middle of a global pandemic), for the four days and nights of the HearSay International Audio Festival, Kilfinane also becomes the home of the worlds finest audio makers (present and future!)
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