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The GaGAs – GGA’s Audience Development Awards 2009
There is some promising and inspiring audience development work going on throughout Scotland. Some organisations are planning new initiatives, some are half way to their goals and others are reflecting on the end of a project or initiative. We like to share some of this insight with you through our annual awards – the GaGAs:

• Audience Insight Award
• Audience Development Pioneer(s) Award
• Audience Development Leadership Award
• Audience Development Initiative of the Year Award

2009 Nominees and Winners (in bold):

Audience Insight Award
1. Citizens’ Theatre
- ‘Persona Generation’ and website re-design project
2. St Mungo Museum of Life & Art
- Staff training programme and insight into six world religions practiced in Glasgow
3. National Theatre of Scotland
- National Audience Research Project

Audience Development Pioneer Award
1. Glasgow Film Theatre
- Glasgow Film Festival 2009
2. East Ayrshire Library, Registration & Information Services
- The Burns Monument Centre and Rejuvenation of Library Services
3. Glasgow’s Concert Halls
- Celtic Connections’ Friends: Pruning for Progress and Cultivating the Cuttings

Audience Development Initiative of the Year Award
1. BBC SSO
- Listen Here! A concentrated summer mini-festival of orchestral music in all its shapes, forms and styles featuring seven concerts over four days, all free.
2. RSNO
- Close Encounters: A one-week, three concert project exploring the musical synergies that occur when a symphony orchestra performs with artists from other genres.
3. Young Audiences Scotland
- A pilot audience development project for the children and young people’s theatre sector

Audience Development Leadership Award
Winner – Jackie Shearer, Arts Manager, Platform