Donate today to help Tett Centre achieve its full potential!

Your gift―large or small―will make a difference by stabilizing our capacity to offer high-impact arts programming.

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Why Support Tett?

Creative Hub

Together with our tenant arts organizations and artists, the Tett Centre for Creativity & Learning is a site of artistic creation, learning, and exchange. We engage and inspire every part of our community as a hub of creation, presentation, and participation in the arts.

Teenagers sit at a long table oil painting.

Community Builder

We are a place where diverse groups of all ages and abilities gather to learn and create. With ongoing drop-in programs including the Kids Creativity Club and Tett Tuesdays Open Studio, we’re working to expand our reach and build our capacity for collaboration, exchange, and social interaction, while also improving our accessibility practices to broaden participation in the arts.

An instructor leads two kids on either side through a printmaking activity.

Champion for the Arts

We are continuously growing our impact in Kingston’s arts sector and developing exciting opportunities to support our artistic community. Our educational programming seeds life-long learning for hobbyists and professionals alike. Crucially, we offer the city’s leading cultural groups affordable spaces on which they rely.

Emily and Tong in the Creativity Studios.

Treasured Incubator

We nurture the livelihoods and professional growth of Kingston artists and their organizations, while fostering collaboration through innovative programs and creative engagement opportunities. Through programs such as our new Tett Artist Residency, we’re filling a gap in Kingston’s arts sector and building exciting opportunities for professional development.

Sheldon Traviss in the studio at the Tett Centre.

Cultural Leader

We have built a reputation as an accessible multi-use arts centre that supports our region’s cultural vitality. We’re working to broaden the range of cultural events we offer, and advance equity, diversity, inclusion, and Indigenization throughout our processes and programming.

Creativity Studio Artist Pengyuan Wang in front of three large, colourful paintings

Forward Thinker

We’re building on our history of community building focused on arts, culture, and access, while also looking to the future by developing capacity and sustainability, increasing diversity, and reaching out to more people. Your gift will help us develop the Tett Centre as a responsive resource for the community and a thriving creative hub.  

Two people sit on the floor watching a panel discussion.

There Are Many Ways to Give

You can make a personal or corporate donation, a one-time gift, or a monthly contribution. Monthly gift-giving through pre-authorized credit card payments has many benefits, supporting the Tett Centre throughout the year.

✓ Monthly donations are easy, secure and environmentally sound.
✓ You can make changes at any time.
✓ Your gift is put to work immediately.
✓ Receive an annual charitable donation income tax receipt. 

You Can Also Donate by Mail

Mail your donation to us at the following address:

Tett Centre for Creativity & Learning
Attention: Director
370 King Street West, Suite 309
Kingston, ON  K7L 2X4

Our Charitable Registration Number is 819094806RR0001.

Make Space for Art: A Decade of Impact, A Future of Possibility

As a charitable arts organization, the Tett Centre depends on community generosity to make everything we do possible. For the past decade, we’ve been a creative anchor for Kingston – a place where artists, families, and community members come together to learn, share, and grow.

When we make space for creativity, lives and communities thrive. As we step into our 11th year, we’re asking for your help to ensure this vital hub of creativity and connection can continue to nurture and inspire our community for decades to come.

 

Invest in Kingston's Creative Capital

This year, we have a fundraising goal of $20,000, which will help ensure:

  • Free community programs continue to bring people together
  • Children and youth have safe, inspiring spaces to develop their creative voices
  • Innovative ideas flourish through our Artist Residency program 
  • Affordable studio space remains accessible to artists
  • Our historic building remains a vibrant hub of creativity for all 

 

Join our Community of Space Makers Today!

Every gift directly supports creativity and connection through free community programs and events, arts education, and accessible spaces. Every contribution – no matter the size – makes a real impact. 

Monthly gifts of $25-$50 provide consistent support for year-round programs

$100-$500 helps keep creative spaces affordable and accessible

$500-$1,000 powers a month of community arts programming

$2,000 enables transformative artist residencies

 

The Ripple Effect of Creative Spaces

At the Tett Centre, we make space for art – and with your support, that space becomes a catalyst for community transformation. Every contribution strengthens the programs and initiatives that change lives every day.

Step inside our historic waterfront building on any given day, and you’ll see how the space we create, together with supporters like you, ripples outward into the community:

  • Youth in our Creative Futures program develop confidence that follows them into classrooms, workplaces, and future careers.
  • Professional artists in our Artist Studios collaborate with emerging creatives, sparking ideas and innovations that reach far beyond our walls.
  • A newcomer participating in the Tett Tuesday Exhibition finds a passion for curation – building friendships, belonging, and meaningful creative connections.

Questions?

If you have any questions, please contact Brianne Franklin, Director of the Tett Centre for Creativity & Learning, at director@tettcentre.org