NEWS ALERT - 19 June 2024 | Geneva, Switzerland
GENEVA, Switzerland - The Stop TB Partnership is launching the call for nominations for the STP Community Award 2024 under the theme “Ending TB Stigma through Art”.
While art forms have played a central role in conveying messages for centuries, for the first time ever the Stop TB Partnership is looking to utilize the potential of diverse and dynamic artistic forms to capture a message to End TB stigma.
Over the last five years, the Stop TB Partnership has conferred this annual prize for excellence in advancing an equitable, rights-based, stigma-free and gender-sensitive TB response. The prize is specifically aimed at the efforts of grassroots, advocacy and engagement initiatives from TB high-burden countries. Stop TB Partnership is pleased to again partner with Humana People to People Foundation for the 2024 award.
THEME
This year the theme of the award is “Ending TB Stigma through Art” and therefore submissions for the 2024 award must be:
- Visual Arts: paintings, sculptures, drawings, photography, film, cartoon, installations and other visual art forms
- Literary Arts: short story, play, or poem
- Performing Arts: original musical compositions, songs or theatrical performances (e.g. spoken word, dance etc.)
- Social Media Art: Reels, brief innovative videos for different social media platforms
Submissions may choose to engage and/or cross traditional and modern platforms and artistic mediums.
ELIGIBILITY
- Nominations must be done only by a TB community, civil society, or TB survivor network/organization in TB, MDR-TB or TB/HIV high-burden countries (see the graphic below for the list of countries). An artist must partner with a civil society, or community organization to be able to submit his art piece.
- One organization can submit only one piece of art
- The piece of art can be an individual piece of art or a collective artwork.
- The nominated submission must be:
- newly created for the purpose of this award
- reflecting the theme of ending TB-related stigma
HOW TO SUBMIT
Organizations must submit:
- Evidence of the piece in the following publicly accessible formats (e.g. Google Drive link):
a. Visual Arts: photograph and/or other file type (e.g. JPEG, PNG, PDF)
b. Performing Arts: audio or video file (e.g. mp3, mp4, MOV etc.
c. Literary Arts: publicly accessible file (e.g. PDF)
d. Social media art: link to the post on the relevant platform or video file (ensuring it is publicly visible)
- Explanation and context to the artwork including:
a. Name(s) of the artist(s) and brief background of the artist(s)
b. How was this specific piece of art identified and submitted
c. Explanation and context of “End TB stigma” messaging and piece’s significance and impact in relation to the “End TB Stigma” theme
d. Reflection on the piece’s creativity and innovation
e. Explanation of the technique and craftsmanship
f. How the organization intends to use the award funds
Please complete the nomination form, accessible here, by Midnight 7 October 2024.
Incomplete nominations, or nominations received after this date, will not be considered.
SELECTION PROCESS
All nominations will be reviewed by the selection panel. The scoring will be based on:
- Demonstrated purpose and a focus on TB stigma and Ending TB stigma
- Creativity and innovation in presenting an End TB stigma message
- Technique and craftsmanship in development the nominated submission
- Significance and impact pertaining to Ending TB stigma made by the nominated submission
FINAL DECISION AND THE WINNERS
The winner(s) will be announced in December 2024 during the Stop TB Board meeting in Nigeria.
