Access Copyright Foundation announces its 2024 Events Grant recipients
Thursday, February 6, 2025
TORONTO: February 6, 2025 – Access Copyright Foundation is pleased to share the 24 organizations that have been awarded Events Grants for the Foundation’s 2024 round of funding.
Please join us in congratulating:
- Atlantic Book Awards Society; Halifax, NS
- Cabot Trail Writers Festival Society; Grand Etang, NS
- Canadian Artists' Representation / Le Front des artistes canadiens; Ottawa, ON
- CARFAC Maritimes; Dieppe, NB
- Diaspora Dialogues; Toronto, ON
- Federation of British Columbia Writers; Courtenay, BC
- Gallery Gachet Society; Vancouver, BC
- Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award; Halifax, NS
- League of Canadian Poets; Toronto, ON
- Lethbridge Public Library; Lethbridge, AB
- MASC; Ottawa, ON
- Morrin Centre - Literary and Historical Society of Quebec; Quebec City, QC
- Ontario Book Publishers Organization; Stratford, ON
- Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre; Halifax, NS
- Saskatchewan Festival of Words Inc.; Moose Jaw, SK
- Shuswap Association of Writers; Salmon Arm, BC
- Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts; Sechelt, BC
- The Canadian Children's Book Centre; Toronto, ON
- The FOLD Foundation; Brampton, ON
- Toronto Indie Author Conference; Toronto, ON
- Whistler Writing Society; Whistler, BC
- Winnipeg International Writers Festival; Winnipeg, MB
- Wordstock Sudbury Literary Festival; Sudbury, ON
- Writers Federation of Nova Scotia; Halifax, NS
Among the projects that this tranche of $100,000 in grant funding will support are a public education campaign Canadian Artists’ Representation is launching on the Artist Resale Right aimed at visual artists across the country, celebrations planned by the FOLD Foundation to mark the 10th anniversary of the founding of its Festival of Literary Diversity and work by the Saskatchewan Festival of Words to bring authors into Saskatchewan schools to work with students.
“I am deeply gratified that the Foundation has been able to support a diverse array of events planned in Canada throughout the rest of this year,” said Foundation chair Paul Seesequasis. “This is a meaningful contribution towards a health ecosystem for Canadian culture.”
Access Copyright Foundation grants are awarded through a peer review process administered by SK Arts on behalf of the Foundation. Jurors for the 2024 Events Grant program were writer Amanda Leduc (Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space. Coach House Books), Michelle Peters, executive director of the Association of Manitoba Book Publishers and writer Robin van Eck (Rough, Stonehouse Publishing).
About Access Copyright Foundation’s Events Grant program
Access Copyright Foundation Events Grant program provides funding to organizations and artists groups to showcase publishable works to the public or to host professional development events for writers, visual artists, publishers and related arts professionals.
About Access Copyright Foundation
Access Copyright Foundation provides support to creators and organizations engaged in the development and dissemination of publishable Canadian works in the literary and visual arts. We are an arm’s length foundation of Access Copyright, the collective voice of creators and publishers in Canada.
To learn more about Access Copyright Foundation, please visit the Foundation’s website.
For a look at how Access Copyright Foundation’s grants support Canada’s creative community, please visit the Foundation’s Spotlight page.
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For media inquiries:
Robert Gilbert, Manager, Communications and Marketing, Access Copyright
rgilbert@accesscopyright.ca