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Best of 2011 Culture in the North East of Scotland

The Creative Cultures Scotland awards for the best cultural events of 2011 voted by you

During 2011 - We decided to put a pollDaddy Poll online to find out what our visitors thought were the best Cultural Events in 2011. We can now reveal that the winners are:

Best of 2011 CCS Cultural Awards goes to the Willowbank Allstars production of The Hoose

Willowbank All stars "the Hoose" (web)

A clear winner with 42% of the total votes, the Willowbank All stars performance of "the Hoose" was voted "best cultural event of 2011" in our poll. Congratulations to them, and all their members for making it such a winning event. For more information on the Willowbank All stars, please visit the National Trust web site dedicated to the show: http://www.nts.org.uk/conserve/peterhead_learn.php

2nd Best of 2011 CCS Cultural Awards goes to NTS Extreme Best Visiting Event 2011 goes to NTS Extreme

National Theatre Scotland "Extreme" (web)

With 27% of the total votes, and also winning the "best visiting event 2011", the NTS production of "Nothing to see here" wowed the crowds with their interactive live theatre. For details about the National Theatre Scotland's events, please visit : www.nationaltheatrescotland.com

3rd Best of 2011 CCS Cultural Awards goes to NEOS

North East Open Studios (NEOS) (web)

In third place were last years winners, the North East Open Studios. NEOS showcased 286 entrants in the year round directory of artists, makers and galleries (with an estimated 1000 people showing work during the event). For more details on NEOS, please visit their web site: www.northeastopenstudios.co.uk

Extra categories for 2011

For 2011, Creative Cultures Scotland decided to add in extra categories to show more excellent cultural activities going on in the North East of Scotland. The categories & winners are:

Best Festival
2011

Best Festival 2011 goes to COAST

Winner: COAST 2011
by Coast festival

Best Visiting Event 2011

Best Visiting Event 2011 goes to NTS Extreme

Winner: Extreme
By National Theatre Scotland

Best Youth Project 2011

Best Youth Event 2011 goes to AHHS Survival III

Winner: SURVIVAL III
by Aberdeen hip Hop School.

All events mentioned

We'd also like to note that there were many other fantastic events that received votes in the poll, it's great to see such a diverse list. Here's the full list of nominated events from the public: Aberdeen International Youth Festival, Books and Beans Poetry Readings, COAST Festival 2011, Cowdray Hall Lunchtime Concerts, DanceLive 2011, National Theatre of Scotland's EXTREME project, Granite Festival, "The Hoose" by the Willowbank All Stars drama group, Mull youth theatre, North East Open Studios, Opening Up, Orkney Folk Festival, SURVIVAL III street dance show, Teacosy at the Cowdray Hall, Theatre Modo's Leviathan parade, TIPA - This is performance art Festival, Aberdeen Art Centre's "united youth" project.

To see the winners from 2010, please visit: bestof2010

Best of 2012...

We're looking for the best cultural events of 2012. We will be awarding more prizes and accolades through five categories. So please, vote for your favourite(s)...

  • Best Overall Cultural Event (in the North East of Scotland)
  • Best Festival
  • Best Youth Project
  • Best Collaboration
  • Best Visiting event (Exhibition or event on tour)

To nominate your favourites, please click on the link below for the pop up PollDaddy Poll (easy for us to say!)

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We're looking for the best cultural events in the north east of Scotland, as voted by you, the public. There are 5 categories:

  • Best Cultural Event 2012
  • Best Festival
  • Best Youth Project
  • Best Collaboration
  • Best visiting event

Please take the time to tell us what you think is brilliant in 2012 by clicking here.

For the winners of 2011, please visit here.

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