It’s that time of the year again. Standing ovation to this year’s Cultural Medallion recipients: visual artists Ho Ho Ying and Milenko Prvacki, author JM Sali, conductor Jennifer Tham and… all-around theatre awesomeness T Sasitharan! Particularly happy about Sasi finally getting it. Woot. And let’s not forget the Young Artist Award recipients. You’ve got nine of them: theatre director Zizi Azah, multi-media artist Brian Gothong Tan, visual artists Genevieve Chua and Tan Wee Lit, sound artist Darren Ng, fictionist O Thiam Chin, dancer Zhuo Zihao and filmmakers Liao Jiekai and Looi Wan Ping. Congratulations to everyone! By the way, the NAC is also launching its Cultural Medallion Speaker series where you go and, erm, hear Cultural Medallion recipients speak. First one’s on Oct 28 (feat. JM Sali and Prvacki) and the second one’s on Nov 4 (feat.Ho, Tham and Sasi). It’s free but you have to register here. And since on the subject of awards, here’s one final shout out. Fictionist Suchen Christine Lim is this year’s Southeast Asian Writers Award (aka SEA Write Award) winner for Singapore. The Bangkok-based regional literary awards is given annual to Asean writers—last year’s recipient was Robert Yeo. Congratulations to everyone!