More details about the night are coming soon (along with an updated Winner badge).

A big thank you to all those who have voted for Alice!

Set up by Foluke Akinlose MBE, the Precious Awards celebrate the achievements of businesswomen of colour.To learn more about the awards, read our review of the Precious Awards 2009 and our interview with Foluke Akinlose.

The blogger category has been introduced this year and we’re proud to be among the first winners.

Thanks to all of you who read Catch a Vibe and have voted for us. It’s heart-warming to know that our hard work is appreciated. We took a gamble when we chose to write about culture, as opposed to more popular subjects like music and fashion. We do write about music and fashion, but also about film, books, theatre, dance and visual arts, fields in which black people excel but tend to be overlooked. The choice to focus on the UK – with nods to the US and the diaspora – seemed like another challenge. There’s no denying the US influence on popular culture but it is equally important to acknowledge the talent here in the UK and on the African continent.

We are glad that you, our audience appreciate and value our unique mix of arts, culture and entertainment. We promise to keep up the good and improve however we can. Hopefully this award will give us even more exposure, enabling us to bring you more high profile features and interviews.

Last but not least, thanks to the Black Weblog Awards team and congratulations to all the other nominees and winners!

Alice Gbelia
Editor
Catch a Vibe
Best International Blog, BWAs 2010
Top London Lifestyle Blog, Lastminute.com May 2010

-          Catch a Vibe is now a bi-monthly online magazine, published every 1^st and 3^rd Tuesday of the month (except for this September, where the first issue was a bit late

-          A newsletter will be sent each time the new issue comes out, so sign up to make sure you’re not missing out!

-          The articles from each issue are on the homepage. Old articles are archived in the Vault so that you can browse at your leisure

-          We now have video on the website so that you can watch films and theatre trailers, as well as music videos. The homepage video will be regularly updated and will feature whatever we think is worth sharing

-          Talking about sharing: you’ll be able share articles on Twitter, Facebook or by email by clicking on this little green icon  that’s at the bottom of every article

-          Catch a Vibe is your magazine so leave comments! Whether positive or negative, we want your opinion on all the articles published

-          We don’t pretend to cover everything so we’ve added a News section: stop by every morning to get your fix and read who’s doing what in the arts, culture and entertainment world

-          Event listings are in the section What’s On. We’re a bit more selective than in the past and will publish only the events that have the most ‘edutainment’ value. But we’re not the organisers so we don’t offer any  guarantee, only our humble opinion of what’s worth seeing

-          The blog is now integrated to the website. It will feature our opinions and views on arts & culture and will be updated whenever we have something to say

-          Last but not least, the photo gallery with pictures of cool events in London!

We’ve got more surprises on store but that will be all for now. Remember to sign up to the newsletter to receive event alerts and notices of competitions!