Kinsale Shark Awards
We are about inspiring creative thinking. We have been doing so for over 50 years.
The Kinsale Shark is awarded to outstanding work.
There is affection for Kinsale, there is affection for what it means to peopleâ€.
The unique shark head trophy is one of the most coveted awards in the creative industry, for it is that rare thing – an award or true beauty.
Over the last fifty years The Kinsale Sharks has attracted thousands of delegates from advertising communities all over the world.
It has attracted judges of the calibre of Dan Weiden of Wieden & Kennedy – the adman who wrote the line ‘Just Do It’ the line that launched one of greatest brands of all time – Nike.
Speakers have included Mike Reiss, creator and writer of one of the most inventive and successful programmes in the history of television – The Simpsons.
As our most recent speaker, the brilliant film maker Tony Kaye, remarked after his ‘turn’ at festival in the Temperance Hall in Kinsale “ You go to be inspired in the greenest garden of allâ€
See you in September 2013!