All-new Gabe Reynaud Awards

Friday, March 14, 2014
Change of style to emphasise the “faithful” of faithful creativity.

The Gabe Reynaud Awards have been re-imagined in this the fourth year of the Manifest Creative Arts Festival.

The ceremony, newly tagged as “a celebration of faithful creativity,” moves from the evening to 3.30 in the afternoon on the Saturday of the festival program (March 22).

“We want to make this more community-building and spiritually-focused,” explains festival co-convener Brenton Stacey. “We still plan to celebrate and affirm the faithful creativity of prize winners and the Gabe Reynaud Award recipient but we will do this in a different style.”

The celebration will include reflections, musical performances and sharing in the prize-winning works, as well as the presentation of prizes and the Gabe Reynaud Award, the festival’s most prestigious award, recognising an individual or group’s excellence in faithful creativity.

“The afternoon time-slot makes it less about dressing up and putting on a show and more about sharing in the best of Manifest creativity, affirming each other and acknowledging God as the ultimate source of our creativity,” says Brenton.

The Gabe Reynaud Awards: A celebration of faithful creativity invites anyone interested in the best of faithful creativity to be part of this event. “It’s not restricted to festival pass holders or competition entrants,” adds Brenton. “Like a number of the Manifest events, this is open to anyone and everyone and promises to be a highlight of this year’s festival.”

Gabe Reynaud Awards: A celebration of faithful creativity, Ladies Chapel, Avondale College of Higher Education (Lake Macquarie campus), Saturday, March 22, 3.30 pm. Book signings with Becky De Oliveria and Kylie Stacey and drinks in foyer from 3 pm. Dress: Semi-formal.

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Brenton is Avondale University’s Public Relations and Philanthropy Officer. He brings to the role experience as a communicator in publishing, media relations, public relations, radio and television, mostly within the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific and its entities.