Presented by Chad Hersler
March 31, 2019, 10am–1pm
Chad will lead a hands on workshop that explores the nitty gritty of grant writing for the arts in BC and Canada. Bring your projects, your ideas, and lets dive in!
Chad is the Executive and Artistic Director of Deer Crossing The Art Farm – a Sunshine Coast based organization of creative community builders. Since The Art Farm was officially formed in 2008, Chad has overseen the development of an annual outdoor festival (Synchronicity 2009-2015), FUSE Community Work Hub: a shared work space for creative and social entrepreneurs on the Sunshine Coast, eight seasons of The Rainforest Circus: a site-specific interdisciplinary collaboration between artists, their community and a local rainforest, The Smart Farm Project: a land-use innovation that provides affordable housing for young farmers and catalyzes new farms, Human Nature: three years of youth-led community-engaged arts programming inspired by ecological themes, and The Imagination Network: a partnership between an academic institution, a health care organization and The Art Farm to co-create, produce and perform a theatrical production in collaboration with people living with dementia. Before his stint with the Art Farm Chad worked as a professional actor and writer for over 15 years. Chad lives two kilometres up the Port Mellon Highway with his amazing wife and two awesome children.
