Call for applications: Young Performer Awards Competition adjudicators in SA

The National Eisteddfod Academy Young Performer Awards Competition is presented over four elimination rounds and provides a platform where the best young performers in all the various regions of the National Eisteddfod from the preceding year can come together and participate, compete and showcase their talents across the full spectrum of artistic and cultural diversity. The competition was launched in 2004 and since then more than R500 000 has been awarded in prizes.

The NEA expects adjudicators to be educators at heart and to embrace the NEA’s values of passion and compassion, integrity and credibility, inclusiveness and respect for the uniqueness of each participant, and to have an awareness of and pride in multicultural diversity.

Interested practitioners in the arts industry are invited to send their CVs to [email protected] to be considered as adjudicators at the NEA Young Performer Award Competition 2023.

Over the years, the adjudication panels have comprised well-known personalities in the performing arts industry, including Mimi Coertse, Sibongile Mngoma, Petro Malan, Gloria Bosman, Relebogile Mabotja, Bianca le Grange and Vinette Ebrahim.

Many past winners and participants in the competition have gone on to excel on the professional stage. Among them Henno William, a 2015 silver medallist and a SA’s Got Talent 2015 finalist, was signed by a New York-based music executive. Others include Julian Hepburn, a finalist in SA’s Got Talent, Andile Ndlovu and Camille Bracher, top achievers in ballet who forged international careers, Iman Bulbulia, who performed at the prestigious Carnegie Hall, and Carmen Pretorius, now an established musical theatre and TV star in the entertainment industry seen most recently in Janice Honeyman’s Adventures in Pantoland.