Advocacy

Noel Tovey Achievement Award
Each year Phunktional presents The Noel Tovey Achievement award to a talented emerging artist who has shown extraordinary team building and leadership skills during the time we have worked with them. This is presented at Phunktional’s Annual Showcase held in March each year.

Presented by Noel Tovey
Noel Tovey has a career spanning 54 years in Europe and Australia as an indigenous actor, dancer, singer, director choreographer, designer, writer and teacher. Some of his many career highlights include: principal dancer with Sadler’s Wells Opera Ballet; receiving the Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee Award for The Living Floor Project which he wrote and directed; and most recently writing and performing his award winning autobiography Little Black Bastard for festivals and theatres across Australia.

Award Winners: 
2010 - Phillip Murray (Mildura)

Noel Tovey Achievement Award winner Phil Murray anounced in The Age, award presented at the Phunktional Showcase contact us for more info

2009 - Cody Matthews

2009 Award winner working with Phunktional in a Community Project, Bega Valley, NSW 2009