Writing about your Practice and Projects:
a session on preparing applications and grant writing led by Leelee Oluwatoyosi Eko Davis

If you require any help with registration contact aprilruthhubbard@gmail.com

For many artists, the challenge of talking about our work and articulating our ideas is real. For IBPOC, Deaf, Disabled, and newcomer, the experience can be even more challenging. Figuring out our artistic goals and articulating our artistic endeavours is big work! Being able to do so is critical to our ability to sustain ourselves and our practices. 

In this 30 min session the group will choose from a list of important elements to focus on together. 

Potential topics include:

-Crafting your writing
-Creating support materials
-Gaining presentation opportunities
-Building teams of support
-Enlisting collaborators
-Navigating institutional systems
-Locating funding and opportunities
-Meeting impending ‘deadlines’

Some would say the administrative part of being an artist is a full-time job in itself. In this session we will take time to flush the process and support you to create an empowering context to move your vision forward. ASL and closed captioning will be live at the session.

Leelee Oluwastoyosi Eko Davis’ artistic practice is rooted in foundations of contemporary dance and intermedia creation methodologies. As a disabled, transgenderqueer artist of Nigerian/French/Algonquin descent, working in decolonial frameworks is central to their research and creations. Being from Treaty 1 Territory, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Leelee has created opportunities to train and work professionally across Turtle Island. Their artistic goals are to merge performance and life, stage and experience, building a bridge to revealing the human condition. They can most commonly be found producing their own work as a solo artist, however, often collaborate across milieus. Leelee has had the profound pleasure of collaborating with artists and choreographers on works for theatre, film, community, and stage. They've participated on the assessment committees of Toronto Arts Council, Arts Nova Scotia, and Canada Council for the Arts among other organizations. Eko Davis also works as a program designer, facilitator, and consultant in the field of Social Innovation and Adaptive Change.