This year marks the introduction of a special Earth Partner Impact Award ($2,500) recognising the submitted project that best demonstrates the power of environmental art within communities.

The inaugural Impact Award has been granted to DANÇA PAJÉ: FAVELA ANCESTRAL by the Instituto Afro-Aurora Dance, Brazil. A choreography by young people from a favela (slum) created to honour Afrodescendent and Indigenous heritage and emphasize ecological and social struggles in Brazil, giving young people an opportunity to practice art amidst violence.