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Toronto – Dance Ontario is delighted to announce generous funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation for a three-year initiative to establish dance networks in Sudbury, Windsor and Sault Ste. Marie.
The Association will act as a catalyst for collaborators drawn from local arts councils, public school boards, dance studios, and local professional artists who will promote and encourage increased sustainable dance activities. Modeled on dance networks established over the past three years in Dufferin, Halton and London, members of the latter will act as mentors for the new dance hub participants.
Funds from the grant will be used to help with staffing costs, including the hiring of a Project Coordinator, as well as the costs of hosting meetings and workshops in the three communities.
Dance Ontario will launch the project in Windsor when staff and board members will attend the Ontario Secondary Schools Dance Festival in late May 2016.
Enriching people’s lives through arts, culture and heritage, this initiative will build access to arts-based learning opportunities and compelling artistic, cultural and heritage experiences, and will impact on the lives of 11,000 people in the community.
Dance Ontario recognizes and thanks the Ontario Trillium Foundation for its commitment to increasing access to dance across the province. For more information, please visit: www.danceontario.ca
A leading grantmaking foundation in Canada, the Ontario Trillium Foundation strengthens the capacity of the voluntary sector through investments in community-based initiatives. An agency of the Government of Ontario, OTF builds healthy and vibrant communities. For more information on the Foundation, please visit the website at: www.otf.ca