Art audiences and observers/reviewers can send us your heartfelt reviews on a meaningful art event/project happened within February 2022 to January 2023 that you participated in!
1, Overview
a, About Hanoi Grapevine’s Finest 2023
Hanoi Grapevine’s Finest is an annual event that honors contemporary art projects in Vietnam. The event is organised and nominated by Hanoi Grapevine and the general audience. The event aims to honor individuals, organisations, creative art projects & activities as well as artists who are 35 or younger who have made impacts on the community in order to encourage the development of local creative arts, to promote greater communication and to further spread the influence of art and culture in the community.
This year, Hanoi Grapevine’s Finest specially obtains a unique mission to reflect and celebrate art activities that were held during the year of 2022 - 2023.
**Award Categories
+ Finest Projects – The meaning art project of the year selected by Hanoi Grapevine and the audience community
+ Finest Artist – The diligent & dynamic artist of the year aged 35 and below selected by Hanoi Grapevine and the audience community
+ Finest Reviews - The best written reviews of art projects, events & artists selected by Hanoi Grapevine and the audience community
** Recognition Categories
+ Active Organisers - Active independent hubs and organisers in art and creativity
+ New Organisers - New art and creative hubs and organisers
+ Active Producers/Curators - Active and dynamic producers and curators
b, About Hanoi Grapevine’s Finest Reviews
Hanoi Grapevine’s Finest Reviews is a brand new category started in 2022. In this category, art enthusiasts will provide their own observations, feelings, & personal perspectives associated with their criticism and evaluation of art projects.
2, Objectives
+ To spread values and honor meaningful art projects that takes place in Vietnam;
+ To inspire and motivate artists to continue creating art;
+ To create a playground for the art-loving community to express their unique views and perspectives on outstanding artists & art projects in the past year.
3, Detail information
Participants: All of those who enjoy art and love to share their thoughts via written reviews (art reviews and experiences)
Platform for publishing articles and submitting votes: Hanoi Grapevine’s Finest Facebook page
+ Period: February 16th – April 15th 2023
4, Rules & regulations
a, Topic:
The participant is to create 01 article (1200 - 1500 words in length) to share their perspectives, evaluations & feelings regarding one of the artistic experiences they had. An artistic experience is understood as a visual art exhibition or a series of activities within the framework of a visual art project; an art performance, a music performance (contemporary experimental music, indie music), contemporary theatre or dance, or a film screening by independent filmmakers, taking place within February 2022 to January 2023.
b, Suggested question: What does the artistic experience in your review mean to you and the wider community?
** Requirements:
The submission requires a title and the author name. It also needs to be submitted with pictures, illustrations or illustrative materials.
The submission can be written in either Vietnamese or English.
+ Submission period: March 15th – April 1st, 2023
Submissions will be publicly and anonymously posted within the album “HANOI GRAPEVINE’S FINEST REVIEWS 2023” on the Hanoi Grapevine Finest Facebook fanpage: https://www.facebook.com/hanoigrapevine.finest
** Notes:
+ The participant needs to present their evaluation, perspective and research on the art event/experience from the point of view of an audience member or an art critic;
+ Submissions must be original, have not entered any other contests & have not been published in any kinds of media;
+ Each participant should submit only 01 entry;
+ Each participant is responsible for the copyright of the written entry and accompanying media;
- The media used are images whose copyright fully belong to the participant.
- The media used belong to the event mentioned in the text and are public on social media, with full and accurate source credit when used in the text.
+ Any opinions, views & information found and used by the participant in the submission (e. g. from experts, books, online articles, films, videos, photographs, dictionaries, research papers, etc.) must be appropriately cited;
+ The participant consents to the use of their articles for communication purposes such as the promotion of the contest and other related communications by the organisers.
Please refer to “Hanoi Grapevine’s notes on originality and citation” at this link: https://bit.ly/3vX7I4g
5, Awards
01 First Prize – for the best entry selected by Hanoi Grapevine; VND 3.000.000 in cash and gifts;
01 Second Prize - for the 2nd best entry selected by Hanoi Grapevine; VND 2.000.000 in cash and gifts;
01 Third Prize - for the 3rd best entry selected by Hanoi Grapevine; VND 1.000.000 in cash and gifts;
01 Favorite Prize: The best submissions beside the First, Second & Third Prize will be open to public vote via Facebook interaction; the submission with the highest number of votes (the highest number of interactions) will win the Favorite Prize; VND 1.000.000 in cash and gifts;
Voting score calculation will be based on the total number of reactión, comments and shares of the article on the fanpage (1 react = 1 comment = 1 share = 1 point/1 account)
6, Marking criteria
a, Validity
+ Art activity selected for the review must took place during the period from February 2022 to January 2023
+ No plagiarism; the accuracy and truthfulness of the information included in the article must be ensured and cited fully
+ No more than three spelling errors
+ No image copyright infringement
b, Creativity
+ Original & unique perspective
+ Accurate, concise and valuable choice of words
+ Well thought-out illustrations
c, Coherence & persuasion
+ Coherent expression, logical and concrete writing structure
d, Academia
+ Sufficient examples/references
+ Distinctive quotes
+ Rich background knowledge
+ Comparison among different sources of information and materials
7, Entry submissions
Submission and required information must be sent via the submission form. The link for the submission form will be opened on March 15th 2023 at https://forms.gle/GQWNm3UPqYyBXBoT7
All inquiry should be sent to [email protected]
8, Coverage recommendation
Participants are encouraged to share their entry from the official fanpage of the contest on their personal page as well as other communication channels using the hashtags #hanoigrapevinefinest #hanoigrapevinereview
