The Beate Sirota Gordon Award is awarded for accomplishments of artists living in Austria who want to carry out an artistic or cultural project in Japan in the field of gender equality and women’s rights or the role of women in the 21st century. The prize is endowed with 7,000 euros. The conditions and the application form are available on the award website SirotaAward.at. Project descriptions can be submitted until 22 January 2023.
Last year the first Beate Sirota Gordon Award went to the Austrian artist Martha Schnuderl for her project "DO YOU SEE ME NOW", a documentary short film about the role of women, the struggle for gender equality and the challenges of self-realisation in the contemporary Japanese society, as seen through the eyes of a group of young Japanese women.
About the Beate Sirota Gordon Award:
The award was established in honour of Austrian-born Beate Sirota Gordon (1923-2012), who, as the author of Articles 14 and 24 of the Japanese Constitution after World War II, helped women in Japan achieve unprecedented rights in marriage, family, and society. Sirota Gordon is celebrated in Japan to this day as an advocate for women and as a heroine of the modern Japanese feminist movement. For more information see this video.