Golden Bird Award
The Golden Bird Awards are granted to young innovative artists who have delivered new contents and aesthetic procedures and whose work demonstrates a different understanding of production, presentation, and distribution of artworks. The recipients of the Golden Bird 2008 award were Vesna Lemaić for literature, Daša Doberšek for performing arts, Luka Juhart for music, Mark Požlep for visual arts, and Marko Naberšnik for film. The 2009 award was given to Nataša Živkovič for dance, Anja Planišček for architecture, Cirkulacija 2 for music, Jasna Krajinovič for film, Kristina Hočevar for literature and Jože Barši for visual arts. The recipients of the 2010 award were Polonca Lovšin for visual and intermedia arts, Andrej Šprah for film, Tadej Glažar for architecture, Miha Ciglar for music, Petra Veber for theatre (stage set), Barbara Korun for literature and Gašper Malej for translation.
Since 2005, the jury also awards the Golden Nest Award, aimed at encouraging the creation of production conditions that enhance the very creativity. So far it went to Defonija for developing a programme of improvised and experimental music concerts at Klub Gromka (2010), Stripburger, a pioneer of independent comics (2009), Odprti krog for architecture and urbanism (2008), PreGlej for the development of contemporary playwriting (2007), P74 Centre and Gallery (2006), and OTOK Cultural Institute for the development of film culture.