Denis Salter Grants/
Les subventions Denis Salter

DEADLINE: 30 September 2023
Committee Chair: Emily Rollie (she/her)

(le français suit)

Begun in 2020 and formerly known as the CATR Grants, the aim of the Denis Salter Grants program is to diversify the Association’s programming while extending its impact beyond the annual conference site and time.

Awarded on an annual basis, these $500 grants will be dispersed to CATR/ACRT members to provide assistance to initiatives that support the goals of the Association taking place outside of the context, theme, time and place of the annual conference. Projects that support and engage CATR member graduate students, recent doctoral graduates and emerging scholars as well as scholars who are independent, precarious, and do not identify as “emerging” will be prioritized. The Denis Salter Grants benefit from the kind support of Montréal's Teesri Duniya Theatre, in memory of Denis's longstanding support of, and friendship with, the company.

Eligible activities include the following:

● local/regional conferences, workshops, meetings, and in general activities that respond to the need for scholars to support each other through the exchange of ideas, in person or online

● small-scale events/projects, for which the grant is sufficient, or as ‘seed’ funding for additional fundraising (SSHRC conference grants, for example, but not exclusively)

Eligibility

Anyone who has been a member of CATR/ACRT for more than one year is eligible to apply (that is, that has renewed membership at least once).

Application procedures

Please submit a 500-word proposal summarizing the project, along with a one-page budget detailing the anticipated use of funds, along with any additional funding sources consulted to Emily Rollie.

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La date limite du dépôt : 30 Septembre 2023
La presidente du comité : Emily Rollie

Initiées en 2020, les subventions Denis Salter, anciennement connues sous le nom des subventions CATR/ACRT, ont comme but de diversifier la programmation de l’Association tout en prolongeant son impact au-delà du lieu et du moment du colloque annuel.

Décernées annuellement, ces subventions de 500 $ seront accordées aux membres de l’ACRT/CATR afin de soutenir les initiatives qui rencontrent les objectifs de l’Association en dehors du contexte, du thème, des dates et du lieu du colloque annuel. Seront priorisés les projets qui appuient et mobilisent les étudiant(e)s diplômé(e)s de l’ACRT, les récent(e)s titulaires d’un doctorat, les chercheur(e)s émergent(e)s, ainsi que les chercheur(e)s indépendant(e)s en situation précaire et qui ne s'identifient pas comme "émergent(e)s" seront prioritaires. Les subventions Denis Salter bénéficient de l'aimable soutien du Théâtre Teesri Duniya de Montréal, en mémoire du soutien et de l'amitié de longue date de Denis envers la compagnie

Parmi les activités admissibles, on compte :

• les conférences locales ou régionales, les ateliers, les réunions et les activités générales qui répondent à la nécessité des chercheurs de se soutenir mutuellement par l’échange d’idées, en personne ou en ligne ;

• les événements ou projets à petite échelle pour lesquels la subvention est suffisante, ou servant comme financement de départ pour des collectes de fonds supplémentaires – par exemple, mais de façon non exclusive, les subventions du CRSH pour des activités scientifiques.

Admissibilité

Les membres actuels de l’ACRT qui ont renouvelé leur adhésion à l’Association au moins une fois dans les dernières deux années sont invité.e.s a postuler leur candidature.

Pour faire une demande

Veuillez soumettre à Emily Rollie une proposition de projet de 500 mots ainsi qu’un budget d’une page. Le budget devrait détailler les coûts prévus du projet et les autres sources de revenus, s’il y en a.

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2022 Recipients:

Christine Balt
“Applied Theatre Now: Theory, Practice, Impacts” – a three-part virtual conversation series for CATR members, to occur in winter 2023.  

Hope McIntyre and Kim Richards
Online workshop to offer an organized mode of learning for CATR members about how to incorporate more sustainable practices into our work. 

Ilana Khanin, with Funmi Cole, Evan Moritz and Yizhou Zhang
Festival Of Original Theatre (FOOT) 2023, a graduate student conference at the University of Toronto.  

Marilo Nuñez and “Decolonizing Activation”
Decolonizing Activation is a collective attempt to find pathways for decolonizing theatre, performance, and performance studies and supports the work of artist-scholars to explore land-based practices and collective learning and teaching models.  

Sarah Robbins and Stephen Johnson
A long-running project, “Gatherings: Archival and Oral Histories of Performances’ Virtual Antiques Roadshow Fall 2022” and support of the work of graduate students who involved in the project. 

Jacqueline Taucar and Neil Silcox
E-initiatives for contingent, underemployed, precarious faculty, and emerging and independent scholars – an outgrowth of and event supporting the work of the CATR taskforce on precarity.

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2021 Recipients:

Benjamin Gillespie, Hannah Rackow, Signy Lynch
This project offers a symposium on career planning and outcomes for theatre and performance studies graduate students and recent graduates. Building on the trio’s previous work on the CATR Emerging Scholars Taskforce Follow up committee, their project is a 1 day gathering filled with practical workshops and networking opportunities in February 2022. We are eager to see how this continues to support and amplify the work of emerging scholars, and excited that Benjamin, Hannah, and Signy have devoted time, energy, and support to this endeavor.

Patrick James
James’s project “Re*Spire” is in interdisciplinary project that combines dance, technology, performance art, and responses to COVID. A collaboration with Robin Poitras, Artistic Director of New Dance Horizons (co-creator/performer) and Krista Solheim (performer), the interdisciplinary nature of this project was especially appealing to the committee as it brings together performance, technology, dance, and ritual as a way to confront timely social situations.

Taiwo Afolabi
Afolabi’s project “Re-imagining and Rebuilding the Prairie Theatre Sector through Critical Dialogue” is a web series of 10 episodes that will focus on critical issues pertinent to advancing the ecology of theatre on the Prairies. The committee applauds Taiwo’s focus within this project on the intersections of race, identity, representation, and systemic change, and we look forward to seeing and hearing more about the project’s development as part of next spring’s CATR.

Taylor Graham
Graham and 3 collaborators (Lauren McLean, Kiera Obbard, and Joseph Shea-Carter) will convene a multidisciplinary conference with a focus on performing/envisioning utopias at the University of Guelph. The event, focusing on social and environmental justice, is interested in examining and problematizing the concept of utopia and will be wonderfully interdisciplinary and inclusive of scholars, artists, public intellectuals, and community members at all stages in their careers, with particular interest in supporting graduate students and upper level undergraduates.

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2020 Recipients

Matt Jones, Sebastian Samur, & Nae Hanashiro Ávila for their project, “Quarantine Performance: Global Responses to COVID-19 in the Performing Arts.”

Rohan Kulkarni and Robert Motum for their project to create and support a BIPOC Emerging Scholars Panel at FOOT 2021.

Laine Zisman Newman to support an on-going Queer Theatre Working Group.

DONATE TO THE CATR GRANTS!

All donations collected through CATR's Canada Helps page until September 15, 2021, will help us fund new research work by emerging scholars.

Donate Now - Canadian Association of Theatre Research (canadahelps.org)

FAITES UN DON POUR LES SUBVENTIONS DE L'ACRT !

Tous les dons recueillis sur la page Canada Helps de l'ACRT jusqu'au 15 septembre 2021 nous aideront à financer de nouveaux travaux de recherche par des chercheur.euse.s émergent.e.s.

Faites un don - L'association Canadienne de la recherche théâtrale (canadahelps.org)