PICA and National Print Awards dates released

By Wayne Robinson | 27 November 2020

Print & Visual Communication Association has released the key dates for next year’s PICAs and National Print Awards, with print’s night of nights set to run during PacPrint in Melbourne next September.

PICAS 2020: online only this year, although there was time when we could celebrate together, these are last year's Victoria Gold winners — *National Print Awards and PICAs going back to in-person events: PIctured are the 2019 Victoria Gold winners*

The PVCA is planning on returning to in-person events for the 2021 awards season for both the state-based PICAs and the main National Awards, following a year in which everything was live streamed.

The National Print Awards gala dinner will take place on the Thursday of next year’s PacPrint, the industry’s big local show which runs every four years. It was pushed back to September when drupa was rescheduled from June this year to next April.

The PICA awards evenings will take place in July kicking off in South Australia, and running through July.

Entries open on 1 February, with a call for entries to be expected via post, in January, detailing all the categories, entry fees and information.

The 2021 awards theme is Print Perfection, with hashtag #PVCAPrintPerfection the source of information

Key dates:
Entries open – Mon 1 Feb
Entries close – Fri 30 Apr
South Australia – Fri 2 Jul
Victoria – Fri 9 Jul
New South Wales – Fri 16 Jul
Queensland – Fri 23 Jul
Western Australia – Sat 31 Jul
National Print Awards (Melbourne) – Thu 30th Sep