{"id":9541,"date":"2025-02-17T14:14:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T14:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/?p=9541"},"modified":"2025-08-29T03:18:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T01:18:16","slug":"shortlisted-nominees-for-premju-ghall-arti-2022-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/shortlisted-nominees-for-premju-ghall-arti-2022-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortlisted nominees for Premju g\u0127all-Arti 2022 announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Now in its 5th edition, il-Premju g\u0127all-Arti is a celebration of the main achievements of the Maltese cultural and creati ve industries.  As highlighted in the National Cultural Policy 2021 this is a high-profile national event awarding excellence in the field of culture and the arts, while encouraging more professionalism and distinction within the sector. <\/em>This aligns with ACM\u2019s first guiding principle as stipulated in its Strategy 2025 which is to champion the advancement of the status of the artists, and cultural and creative practitioners.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nominations were open until noon of the 28th of February 2022, whereby around 350 applications were submitted, out of which 104 nominations were eligible and accepted.  The submitted applications were then processed and evaluated according to the established criteria and questions per each category, by external evaluators and Arts Council Malta representatives. The evaluators were selected on the basis of their professional experience related to the categories and specific art forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The nominations were announced in no particular order, with the winner of each category to be announced on the Premju g\u0127all-Arti night in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The shortlisted nominees are:
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Best project in the community<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

fuse<\/strong> Elyse Tonna, produced by the Valletta Cultural Agency<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il-Po\u017cittivi <\/strong>Written by Simon Bartolo, directed by Toni Attard, produced by Culture Venture in collaboration with Chris Vincent Jung, AMASS University of Malta & MGRM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L-Imbuljuta: A Panto in the Dark<\/strong> Written & Directed by Vikesh Godhwani & Marta Vella. Produced by Spazju Kreattiv in Collaboration with Teatru Malta and Esplora.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best work for young audiences<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alice in Wonderless Land<\/strong> Teatru Malta for \u017bigu\u017cajg<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u0127o\u017c\u017c il-\u0127sejjes <\/strong>Raffaella Zammit & Elyse Tonna from the Gabriel Caruana Foundation, Wen Chin Fu from Instrument Inventors Initiative, Marvin Zammit from Mighty Box & Andrea Pullicino, for \u017bigu\u017bajg<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Secret Garden <\/strong>Valletta Cultural Agency and Lignin Stories<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best artistic programme or season<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toi Toi Season 1st October 2019- 14th March 2020<\/strong> Teatru Manoel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toi Toi Season 1st October 2020-30th September 2021 <\/strong>Teatru Manoel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spazju Kreattiv – September 2020 to August 2021<\/strong> Fondazzjoni Kreattivit\u00e0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Young artist of the year<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anna Calleja, Homebound<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marvic Monreal, Mezzo Soprano<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pearl Calleja<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Production of the year<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Min Hi? <\/strong>Teatru Malta, Ruben Zahra and Trevor \u017bahra<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PRO\u0120ETT XX <\/strong>Pierre Portelli commissioned by Spazju Kreattiv<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They Blew Her Up<\/strong> \u00adCo-produced by Herman Grech and Spazju Kreattiv<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written and directed by Herman Grech<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artist of the year<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Francesca Tranter, Art can set us free<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brodu with albums Blu and Bambinella<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claire Tonna<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best creative enterprise<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Culture Venture<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephanie Borg<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Innovation award<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alice in Wonderless Land<\/strong> Teatru Malta for \u017bigu\u017cajg<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u017bfinMade<\/strong> \u017bfinMalta, in collaboration with Spazju Kreattiv and Valletta Cultural Agency<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zoom<\/strong> Tyrone Grima, Joseph Galea and Keith Chetcuti<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best international achievement<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charles Paul Azzopardi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Nobodies<\/strong> A Chalk Line Theatre production, ‘The Nobodies’ written by Amy Guyler<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Victoria International Arts Festival<\/strong>  Victoria International Arts Festival Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Audience\u2019s choice<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u0126ax-Xju\u0127<\/strong> Teatru Malta, Josette Ciappara and Tony Cassar Darien<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Larin\u0121a Mekkanika<\/strong> Teatru Malta for \u017bigu\u017cajg<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Threaded Fine <\/strong>\u017bfinMalta, in collaboration with Valletta Cultural Agency<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The public can vote for the Audience\u2019s Choice category on www.premju.mt<\/a> until noon of Thursday the 9th<\/sup> of June 2022<\/strong>. Each person will be entitled to one vote on the basis of their ID card number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Premju g\u0127all-Arti 2022 awards night will be held on the 15th<\/sup> of June 2022<\/strong> in the evening, which will also be livestreamed on the Arts Council Malta and Premju g\u0127all-Arti social media platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arts Council Malta has just announced the 29 shortlisted nominees for the Premju g\u0127all-Arti 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-mt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9561,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9541\/revisions\/9561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}