2:00 pm, ET
11:00 am, PT
Getting that Grant with Canada Council
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
11:00 am PST / 12:00 pm MST / 1:00 pm CST / 2:00 pm EST / 3:00 pm AST / 3:30 pm NST
60 minutes
Hosted on Zoom
Live captions available
Member-Exclusive / Free Registration
Join representatives from Canada Council for the Arts as they provide information on the different granting streams available for writers. Program Officers Megan Mabey and Nicole Lavigne will present the Explore and Create Program, Arts Across Canada and Arts Abroad Programs. Hosted by author Rajni Mala Khelawan, this webinar runs approximately 60 minutes, including a Q&A period. This is a member-exclusive webinar. TWUC members will have access to a recording of the webinar for 30 days.
Megan Mabey is a program officer in the Explore and Create program at the Canada Council for the Arts.
Megan Mabey est une agente de programme au sein du programme Explorer et créer au Conseil des arts du Canada.
Nicole Lavigne is a program officer in the Arts Across Canada and Arts Abroad program at the Canada Council for the Arts.
Nicole Lavigne est une agente de programme au sein du programme Rayonner au Canada et Rayonner à l’international au Conseil des arts du Canada.
Rajni Mala Khelawan is an Indo-Fijian Canadian author of two literary novels entitled Kalyana (2016) and The End of the Dark and Stormy Night (2008). Her first children's book I am a Hindu was published in 2024. Her short story "Bucket of Cherries" was a winning entry for New Asian Writing 2017 Short Story Competition. Khelawan also won the Canada Council for the Arts Create and Explore grant in 2022 to write a novel based on her ancestral indenture history; and was granted the prestigious SSHRC scholarship in 2020 to fund her Master's thesis, "Gender and Ritual among Fijian Hindu Women." She holds a Master of Arts degree in the Study of Religion from the University of Toronto. When she is not writing novels or busy with academic pursuits, she is filming and editing a travel adventure vlog called Adventures with Arjun on YouTube. Khelawan currently lives and works in Toronto.
