The 2011 Genius Awards, celebrating local heroes of visual art, music, literature, theater, and film, were Friday, September 16 at the Moore Theatre.
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Last Year's Event
The 2011 Stranger Genius Awards issue, with profiles of last year's winners, hit the streets September 14. Last year's geniuses were DK Pan (Visual Art), Gary Hill (Film), Lesley Hazleton (Literature), The Intelligence (Music), and John Osebold (Theater).
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Sponsor the Genius Awards
The Stranger Genius Awards is a cross between the MacArthur Grants and Publisher's Clearinghouse: Every fall since 2003, we have given a check for $5,000 and an obscene amount of attention to four artists and an arts organization. Sometimes we reward achievement. Sometimes we reward promise. Sometimes we reward big institutions. Sometimes we reward shoestring guerrilla groups. Sometimes we reward people who need the money. Sometimes we reward people who don't.
There is no application process. A panel of Stranger editors goes to a private boxing gym and conducts their deliberations while sparring. Winners are notified via cake. The $5,000 comes with no strings attached.
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