KTA is a 2025 Work in Culture CAT Fund Recipient
The Kingston Theatre Alliance is currently at a pivotal moment in our organization’s journey—a moment filled with growth, reflection, and planning for the future. As the arts landscape of Kingston continues to shift, our position as an arts service organization must also shift accordingly. This is why we are so excited to announce that we have received funding from the Catalyst and Transformation (CAT) Fund!
The Work in Culture Catalyst and Transformation (CAT) Fund provides funding to Ontario arts organizations to investigate, plan, and implement substantive change in their operations. The KTA will be using this funding to conduct an Exploration project, to explore the question of if we should expand our mandate to include more performing arts disciplines, such as dance, comedy, drag, circus, and burlesque.
Presently, the KTA is a theatre-first organization (as the name would suggest). However, our work has always included a variety of live performing arts, most notably through our work producing and presenting The Kick & Push Festival. The question at hand is if these disciplines, and the communities they entail, need and want formal arts service representation, and if the KTA is the organization to do so.
The CAT Fund is providing us this exciting opportunity to engage with the various communities and their members to discover what needs exist, and how we can possibly expand our mandate—and thus our work—to better serve the vibrant live performance that does and can exist in Kingston.
About Work in Culture
Work in Culture (WIC) is a non-profit arts service organization that advances the careers of artists, creatives, and cultural workers from diverse lived experiences, and supports the organizations that engage them, through entrepreneurial and business skills development and innovative research. Learn more about Work in Culture and the Catalyst and Transformation (CAT) Fund at workinculture.ca/programs/cat-fund.
