Date and Time
Mon, Jan 20, 2025 6:00 PM
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8:00 PM
EST
Location
Online
Learn best practices for writing grants for artists/creatives across disciplines. Have all your questions answered & learn from your peers.
In this drop-in virtual workshop series you will learn and talk through everything you need to know about applying for arts grants in Canada regardless of creative discipline.
The first 30 minutes of each session will be focused on the drop-in theme. For the second half of the session, you’ll have the opportunity to ask questions, review past or upcoming grant proposals you’ve written and receive guidence from the facililtor.
This workshop series is applicable to all artists, creatives and arts professionals working in any discipline: dance, film, literature, music, theatre, new media, visual art, and more. The focus will be in the funding landscape in the GTA.
This drop-in series will cover the following topics:
- How the landscape of arts granting works in Canada locally, provincially, and nationally and the similarities and differences in what they fund and in their application process.
- Tips, models, strategies and practices for proactive and care-centered grant writing, including tips on time management, accessing available support, peer review, navigating online grant systems, and models for engaging in the application process in a healthy way.
- Learn the main components to successful grant-writing, such as supplementary materials, speaking to the grant officer, budgets, and more.
- An overview of specific development and mentorship grants that support artists, including an overview of specific grants to support emerging artists.
- Review key questions found in many applications across the different councils and considerations/best practices for responding to them.
Drop-in series schedule and session topics:
- Monday, September 23 – Mentorship and Professional Development Grants
- Monday October 21 – Community Arts and Film Grants
- Monday, November 18 – Curatorial Grants
- Monday, December 16 – Grants for Writers and Theatre Artists
- Monday, January 20 – Grants for Black, Indigenous, and people of colour (BIPOC) Artists
- Monday, February 17 – TBD
All sessions will be held from 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT on Zoom.
Accessibility: If you need assistance or support to participate such as an ASL interpreter, please get in touch with us at info@bramptonartsorg.ca as soon as possible (minimum of three days in advance) so that we can make the necessary accommodations.
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Facilitator
Shaina Agbayani is a Tagalog transdisciplinary artist whose work is devoted to unraveling borders between art, life, ritual and ecology. Her work has been supported by organizations such as the Laidlaw Foundation, the Tides Foundation, the School for Social Entrepreneurs, the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts.
As co-founder of Greenhouse Theatre, she has curated programming merging ritual, art, land connection, and interdisciplinary creative practices across Turtle Island and in the archipelago known as the Philippines. As an author, she has been published in books such as Feel Ways, Home is the Body: 2SLGBTQIA+ FilipinX Femme, North of the 49th Parallel, and Countermap: A Poetics of Place as well as digital publications including Tilting, Re: Asian, and Briarpatch Magazine, with upcoming literary projects supported by the Ontario Arts Council
