LIFT Touring Workshop with Belleville Downtown DocFest

Grant Writing for Arts Councils:

Saturday, September 19th
11am – 4pm, location TBD

Cost:
Members/ Students: $20
General: $30
Enrolment limit: 8

Registration deadline: Thursday, September 10th at 5pm.

Because the instructors are traveling for the workshops we require pre-
registration. We require five business day cancellation notice for a full refund.
Classes with fewer than two people will be cancelled.

Workshop Description:

Sustaining a career as an artist necessitates learning how to write a clear,
concise and persuasive arts grant application. Get started with this workshop,
which will outline the process of planning, writing and submitting grant proposals
that accurately and interestingly represent your individual project. The course will
focus on what juries look for in the presentation, budget preparation and support
material. We will also briefly review and critique participants' grant proposals to
provide individual feedback on how to fund your works in progress. The focus in
the workshop will be grant-writing for media arts, but visual artists are also
welcome to attend, and most of the issues addressed are the same from one
discipline to another.

Upcoming media arts grant deadlines:
- Canada Council for the Arts: October 1, 2015
- Ontario Arts Council: October 1, 2015 (Mid-career and Established Artists)
- Ontario Arts Council: November 3, 2015 (Emerging Artists)

***Participants must submit a draft project description by Friday September 4, 2015.
Please submit to specialprojects@lift.on.ca with “DocFest: Grant Writing for Arts
Councils” in the subject line***

Instructor Bio:
Chris Gehman is a filmmaker, arts administrator, educator, and occasional
curator and critic, based in Toronto. His films have been screened at venues
around the world, including EXiS (Seoul, Korea), Experimenta (Bangalore, India),
Anthology Film Archives (New York City), et al. His 2008 film Refraction
Series premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won an award at
the 2009 Ann Arbor Film Festival. Chris was Artistic Director of the Images
Festival from 2000 to 2004, and has also worked as a programmer for
Cinematheque Ontario, TIFF and Pleasure Dome. He edited Explosion in the
Movie Machine: Essays and Documents on Toronto Artists' Film and
Video (Images Festival and LIFT, 2013), and co-edited The Sharpest Point:
Animation at the End of Cinema(YYZBOOKS, 2005) with Steve Reinke; his
writings on experimental media have also appeared in publications such as
Millennium Film Journal, FUSE and Cinema Scope. Currently, Chris is the
Finance Manager at Vtape in addition to his artistic and freelance work. He is
familiar with many granting programs at the provincial and national level, and has
received numerous grants to support his work.

This workshop is part of LIFT's Touring Filmmaking Workshops with media arts
centers throughout Ontario. The touring program is generously supported by
the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF).

For more information on LIFT: www.lift.ca

For more information on Belleville Downtown DocFest: www.downtowndocfest.ca

LIFT Touring Workshop with Belleville Downtown DocFest