City of Zurich honors Brandy Butler
The City of Zurich is awarding musician and performer Brandy Butler the 20,000 Swiss franc prize for outstanding cultural achievements.
According to the press release, Brandy Butler has developed into one of the most important cultural mediators and activists in the city of Zurich in recent years. She is also part of and a driving force behind various local and national initiatives. For example, she has been organizing the highly acclaimed Drag Story Time for years. She also organizes the Black Performance Lab, in which "queer people of color (PoC) performers can reorient themselves". Most recently, she organized the Space Lab at Tanzhaus Zürich, where the PoC art scene from all over the world was able to work together and network in new ways.
The City of Zurich Art Prize, endowed with CHF 50,000, will go to filmmaker Cyril Schäublin in 2023. The award for special cultural merit will be presented at the cultural awards ceremony on November 24, 2023. The art prize will be presented at a separate ceremony.
