SHILLONG: The second edition of the Monolith Festival, 2016 has won an award in two categories at WOW Awards Asia 2017 at Aerocity, New Delhi held on July 7 and 8 this month.
In a press statement by the Rockski Group, it was stated that WOW Awards Asia is the most reputed recognition platform in the world encompassing almost every aspect of the event industry.
The first award that the Festival received was the Bronze award for Intellectual Property-Achievement in Production Management through Rockski Group which was the Event Management agency responsible for the production of the festival in the first two editions.
The gold and silver achievers were both based out of Dubai and they were awarded for their work at the Launch of KEF Infra Park,UAE and the inauguration of the Biltmore Hotels in Tbilisi, Georgia.
“Awards are great reaffirmation of the effort put in by our team on audience engagement. The wins at WOW are doubly special because of the stiff competition we were up against,” Jason Manners of Rockski Group stated.
He further added, “We were invited for a discussion forum with people of the Dubai Tourism Board and they mentioned that everybody was shocked with the kind of budget the Monolith Festival had and they had expected it to cost a lot more with the kind of work that was done with the local resources available.”
Manners went on saying that one of the judges in the category, Lee Charteris, the current President of the ILEA Middle East chapter was very impressed and expressed his interest of even visiting the Festival because he has never seen an Indigenous Festival of this scale being managed in a very professional manner.
The second award was also bronze and it was for Intellectual Property- Festival of the Year in Art/Culture/Lifestyle.
The Rockski group credited the award to the Khasi Heritage Conservation Forum (KHCF), an off shoot forum of the Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council (KHADC) comprising of Alan West Kharkongor, Desmond Kharmawphlang, Neil Antonio War, Kyntiewbor War, D.M. Lyngwa, Banlumlang Blah, Peter Mawlong who were all responsible for coming up with and curating the concept and ideas revolving around the Festival.
The Member Secretary KHCF, Kharkongor stated that it was an honour to receive this award on such a huge platform where all the organizations involved were of very high calibre and credibility.
The organisers attribute the success of the festival to all those involved in the festival whom without their rigorous and full hearted effort, the recognition wouldn’t have been possible.
