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How do I apply for a Tontine Award?

If you would like to submit an application for a $1000 Tontine Award, please complete the application form below during our call for applications in October or April every year.  As the Tontine awards is a bilingual initiative, applications can be submitted in either French or English. Applications must be submitted in writing following the guidelines below, but you can also include other supporting materials (in any format, including video, audio, photos, etc.).  Note: Only fully completed applications will be considered.

 

How are the grants selected?

Each Tontine Trustee has an equal vote in choosing the successful grantee. We make our decisions based on merit, using a consensus-based model to discuss and review each proposal.  If your proposal is not selected for the Tontine Award in the application round for which it was submitted, and your project is not time-bound, it can be resubmitted in a future application round.

 

Good News! If your application is successful and you are awarded a Tontine micro-grant, there are no reporting or follow-up requirements beyond keeping the Trustees informed about the date(s) of your creative event, so we can come out and support you!

 

Next Application Date: Oct. 15 - Nov. 15, 2024

For our Fall Award we’re partnering with arts leader Debaser to award TWO local artists each $1000 and exhibition space during the Pique Spring Edition 2025 from March 8-10, 2025.

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Applicants must:

  • Identify as women or gender-diverse individuals

  • Be based in the Ottawa-Gatineau region

  • Be proposing a visual arts project aligned with the theme “inspire inclusion”.

  • Projects can either be new, build on something existing, and/or be immersive

  • Be available to participate in Pique Spring edition: March 8-10, 2025

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Important dates:

  • Application deadline: November 15, 2024, at 11:59 PM

  • Results communicated by: January 10, 2025

  • Exhibition: March 8 to 10, 2025

* We strongly encourage trans women, queer women, women of colour, women with disabilities, HIV + women, women of all ages, including young women, immigrant women, single mothers and people from marginalized genders to apply.

 

 

* Nous invitons les femmes de tous horizons, âges et couleurs à proposer des projets créatifs. Cela comprend les personnes transgenres et allosexuelles, les femmes immigrantes, les femmes handicapées, les femmes séropositives pour le VIH, de même que les mères seules.

 

 

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