Creative Lives AwardsCelebrating the achievements of community-led creative groups The Creative Lives Awards celebrate the creative groups that enhance people's lives in villages, towns, and cities across the UK and Ireland. Since 2010, we've invited community-led groups to share their activities and achievements, so that we can give them a well-deserved moment in the spotlight. Our Award winners all use creativity to bring people together. Groups might take part in singing, dancing, painting, crafting, performing, playing music, or any other creative activity. All of them provide vital opportunities for people to find community, express their creativity, make friends, learn new skills, boost their wellbeing - and have fun together! The 2024 Creative Lives Awards shortlist is now online. Read all about them and vote for your favourite! A Celebration of Humanity Want to learn more about the Creative Lives Awards? You can read about some of our previous winners below and the wonderful work they do, or check out a list of our recent winners here. We hope they will inspire you to tell us all about your group! Imagine! Belfast Imagine! Belfast is a grassroots non-profit organisation that runs an annual week-long festival to stimulate fresh ideas on civic activism, culture and politics. It aims to discuss and interrogate issues that are squeezed out of our usual political discourse. As well as a hugely successful virtual festival of 115 events held in March 2021, which attracted a 133% increase in attendees on the previous year, the festival also included a number of special projects that involved participatory and creative contributions from members of the public. The projects managed to invite people to look back over the challenges of the previous year, look forward to what kind of future they would hope for and also recognise the potential in the here and now. "As a special project for the 2021 festival, we invited people to send us their top three proposals for change. We were delighted with the response from the public, with over 300 ideas received, and we’ll be encouraging policymakers to consider these proposals in the years ahead." Peter O'Neill, Imagine! Belfast Learn more about Imagine! Belfast Website www.ImagineBelfast.com Facebook http://bit.ly/imaginefestival Twitter @imaginebelfast Instagram https://www.instagram.com/imaginebelfast YouTube ImagineBelfast Vote for this group Create your own user feedback survey Manage Cookie Preferences