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(4) TRADE SERIES: Grant Writing 101

Event
Monday, December 9
(4) TRADE SERIES: Grant Writing 101

Details

Monday, December 9
2:30-5:30pm
TAPA Office at B Street Arts Hub, 1100 Bathurst Street

Facilitator: Ontario Arts Council & Toronto Arts Council
 

Monday, December 9, 2024
2:30PM-5:30PM 

Cost = FREE!
B-Street Arts Hub, 1100 Bathurst St.

Registration Deadline: December 4

In this session, we will dive into theatre grant opportunities, assessment and evaluation, and the granting cycle. We will explain project grants available for individuals and collectives/companies and how to prepare your application. Participants are encouraged to bring their laptops/hard copy applications.

Facilitator:
DANIEL CARTER, Theatre Officer, Ontario Arts Council
SARAH MILLER-GARVIN, Interim Theatre Program Manager, Toronto Arts Council

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Thank you for your interest in the workshop! At the moment, we have reached our capacity limit. If you would like to join a waiting list, please contact Scott Dermody at scottd@tapa.ca.

(5) TRADE SERIES: Grant Writing Mock Jury

Event
Wednesday, December 11
(5) TRADE SERIES: Grant Writing Mock Jury

Details

Wednesday, December 11
2:00-4:00pm
TAPA Office at B Street Arts Hub, 1100 Bathurst Street

In partnership with: Generator

Wednesday, December 11, 2024
2:00-4:00PM ET

Location: B-Street Arts Hub, 1100 Bathurst St.

Registration Deadline: December 9

Led by Wayne Burns, this hands-on workshop offers artist-producers an insider’s look into what makes a grant application successful. Wayne will guide you through essential strategies for writing clear, compelling proposals that capture your project’s vision, impact, and fit with funders’ priorities.

In a unique mock-jury exercise, you’ll get to review real grant applications—some successful, some not—and score them using an authentic jury rubric. Afterward, Wayne will lead a discussion on the scoring process, providing valuable insights into what catches a jury member’s eye and what might hold an application back.

By the end of the session, you’ll leave with:

  • A clear understanding of what jury members prioritize
  • Practical tools to refine your own grant proposals
  • A deeper awareness of common pitfalls and how to avoid them

This workshop is perfect for artist-producers looking to level up their grant-writing skills and boost their chances of securing project funding!

Important Note: By signing up for this workshop, you will receive a Google Form with the grant applications to review one week prior to the workshop. Please read through the grants and score them based on the criteria in the form before the workshop. This should take about 1 to 1.5 hours. Completing this in advance will give you a sense of what it’s like to be on the jury, and during the in-person session, we’ll dive deeper into the review process together.

Facilitator:

WAYNE BURNS

Follow the link below for more information and don’t forget to sign up as we only have a limited number of places available.

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Land Acknowledgement

At the end of the last ice age, the land that we work on was flooded as the glaciers melted, becoming ancient Lake Iroquois. Just up the street, our office at B Street, what we now know as Davenport Road was the shoreline and a trail known as “Gete-Onigaming,” Ojibwe for “at the old portage,” came into being to travel between the Humber and Don River. This route served many diverse people, just as we intend to serve the various diverse communities through B Street.

The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) is grateful for and acknowledges the sacred land on which we work, live and play. The land and waterways in this area have been the site of human activity for over 15,000 years and is ancestral territory called Tkaronto, “where the trees stand in the water.” Tkaronto is a gathering place of many nations and peoples past and present, recorded and unrecorded, including: the Wendat, the Haudenosaunee, and the Anishinaabe, including the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation.

Tkaronto was subject to the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes. We acknowledge this treaty was ignored and disregarded.

We acknowledge and reference the global oppression of colonialism that is ongoing and stand in solidarity with the First Nations, Metis, and Inuit communities who continue to seek liberation and decolonization within the colonial project of Canada.

TAPA encourages you to visit Native Land for details of indigenous territories, treaties and languages and to take action to respect and care for the land, air and water we continue to share.

TAPA unveiled a visualization of our land acknowledgement in 2024. Our visualization was created by Tyler J Sloane (they/he/she) who is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on performance arts and media arts, and has a foundation in theatre as an actor, producer, and director. Click the button below to view the piece and learn more.

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