The 2010 Genius Awards, celebrating local heroes of visual art, music, literature, theater, and film, are Friday, September 17.
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Last Year's Event
The 2009 Stranger Genius Awards issue, with profiles of last year's winners, hit the streets November 12th. Last year's geniuses were Jeffry Mitchell (Visual Art), Zia Mohajerjasbi (Film), Stacey Levine (Literature), The Cody Rivers Show (Theater), and Pacific Northwest Ballet (Organization).
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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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