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Why Support the 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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:

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

Our Charitable Registration Number is 819094806RR0001.

Connecting to the arts and each other: We can't do it without you

The Tett Centre for Creativity & Learning is a charitable arts organization that operates the city-owned J.K. Tett heritage building on Kingston’s waterfront. Together with our tenant arts organizations and artists, and our neighbour Queen’s University’s Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts, we are a thriving creative hub.

The Tett Centre is a treasured incubator for Kingston’s artistic talent, and a place where diverse groups of all ages and abilities gather to create, perform, learn, and inspire one another – seeding the skills for life-long learning, while offering the city’s leading cultural groups the affordable spaces on which they rely.

An exciting new chapter: Championing the arts, powering the future

The Tett Centre for Creativity & Learning is at a pivotal point in our history – with our second Strategic Plan launching in 2023, and new leadership, we have the opportunity to push the Tett to the next level. Over the past eight years, the Tett has built an inspiring foundation as a site of creation, presentation, and participation in the arts. The Tett nurtures the livelihoods and professional growth of artists and their organizations, while fostering collaboration through innovative programs and creative engagement opportunities.

As we enter this next phase in the Tett’s history, we look forward to growing our impact in Kingston’s arts sector and developing exciting opportunities to support our community in meaningful ways. With these goals in mind, we will be launching our inaugural Tett Residency program in 2023!

The Tett Residency program seeks to fill a gap in Kingston’s arts sector by establishing a unique residency opportunity. This program will increase access to studio space and career development opportunities for emerging artists by awarding four three-month artist residencies per year. Artists in residence may include emerging visual, performance, and literary artists; curators; photographers and videographers. This program will build exciting opportunities for professional growth and foster connections across communities in Kingston and beyond.

We need your support!

While working to invigorate our organization and better support artists and cultural workers, the Tett faces continuing financial pressures brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as rapidly rising inflation. In this next stage in the Tett’s history, we seek to further develop our role as a creative hub for artists of all kinds. Programs like the Tett Residency will increase our impact as a site for creative incubation and artist development. As a registered charity, the Tett Centre for Creativity and Learning relies on support through donations, sponsorships, grants, program fees, and revenue from space rentals to fund operations and community-focused initiatives. Your donation will sustain the Tett and help us continue to develop exciting new programs to advance Kingston’s arts sector.

Questions?

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

Donate today to help the Tett achieve its full potential!