Nominations for the biennial Greater Shepparton Cultural Heritage Awards 2021 opened yesterday, Monday, 16 November 2020.
The 2021 awards will coincide with the Australian Heritage Festival in April and May 2021, and will be delivered by Greater Shepparton City Council, in association with the Greater Shepparton Heritage Advisory Committee.
Awards will be presented for a number of categories. Some of these will relate to buildings and sites including reuse of a heritage place, restoration of a heritage place, and maintenance of a heritage place. Further categories will include interpretive signage, substantial research publication, smaller publication (booklet, software application, etc), and community, multicultural or indigenous event or tourism contribution relating to Greater Shepparton heritage. Nominations will also be accepted under student/youth and 'other' categories.
Greater Shepparton contains a wide variety of places of local, regional and state heritage significance, owing to its rich history dating back more than 50,000 years. The Heritage Advisory Committee sees these as a way of recognising the outstanding contributions to cultural heritage conservation, research, education, promotion, interpretation, training and awareness-raising undertaken by individuals and groups across the municipality. The continued conservation, interpretation and dissemination of the significance of these places for present and future generations is a crucial way of ensuring that the region's tangible and intangible heritage survives.
Cultural heritage can be tangible, including buildings, monuments, landscapes, books and works of art and artefacts, but also intangible, including folklore, traditions, language and knowledge. Places of cultural heritage significance can include 'a site, area, land, landscape, building or other work, group of buildings or other works, and may include components, contents, spaces and views'.
Nominations for the Greater Shepparton Cultural Heritage Awards 2021 will close on Monday, 22 February 2021. A short-list of nominations will be prepared on or before Friday, 26 February 2021.
Nominated work must relate to the five years prior to the closing date on Monday, 22 February 2021. Entries can be nominated in more than one category, with a separate nomination form for each category. The 2021 Cultural Heritage Awards will be awarded at a ceremony on 1 May 2021, presented by Council and the Greater Shepparton Heritage Advisory Committee.
