Awards

Awards won by Awakenings & its team members

Finalist in the 2010 Prime Super Community Group of the Year Awards
Horsham Rural City Council Young Citizen Australian Day Award 2010 – Sarah McLean
Kleenheat Gas Award Community Event of the Year 2008
Regional Arts Australia Volunteer Awards Youth Volunteer of the Year 2008 – Sarah McLean
Vic Health Awards 2004
Tattersall’s Award for Enterprise and Achievement 2001
VicHealth Health Promoting Arts Encouragement Award 1999

Awakenings Awards

Awakenings recognises the effort, support and commitment of key individuals, groups and organisations who are part of the Awakenings Festival through the presentation of the David Helfgott and the Badger Award.

The David Helfgott Award

This award was created in recognition of Awakenings Patron, David Helfgott. The citation on the award reads “for outstanding contribution to the Awakenings Festival”. The award is not necessarily presented every year, but is to be given to someone the team coordinators recognise as extra special – someone who has elevated Awakenings by their tireless effort in some aspect of our festival.

Previous recipients

2009 Claymore
2008 Anita Maserio
2007 Wimmera 4WD Drive Club

The Badger Award

This award is to encourage Awakenings participants and is made in memory of Badger, a regular Awakenings participant and a very special person who passed away in 2003.
Badger's parents wanted his memory at Awakenings to be maintained and decided to donate $100 to be awarded to a person or a group who fill all the ideals of the 'spirit of Badgerism' - enthusiasm, persistence, joy of performance, patience, determination, love of life and his fellow beings and so on. Badger encouraged participants to strive for what for many of them seemed impossible. He encouraged them to push through that invisible wall that surrounds so many. And he encouraged people to come to Awakenings and show off their talents and their enjoyment of life.