Babycastles Academy is the education arm of Babycastles. Join us on Sunday afternoons at 3pm for workshops and jam sessions. Learn new skills. Make new friends.

This workshop is a broad and beginner-friendly introduction to writing grant proposals, exhibition proposals, artist-in-residency applications and other forms of professional proposals. In this introduction, we’ll look at a few applications, sources for finding opportunities, and tips on language and style. The goal is to demystify the grant-writing process and demonstrate a basic typical workflow to make writing grants and proposals approachable and easier to do.

The talk will be oriented to artists, game-makers and other creative practitioners. Join in the chat to ask specific questions, or feel free to join the #babycastles-academy channel on our public Discord server to ask questions in advance.

Teacher: Lee Tusman, a co-organizer at Babycastles

Grantwriting classes can be very expensive! Babycastles is different! We’re a nonprofit community organization fostering and amplifying diverse voices in videogame culture. Babycastles provides artists support to actualize ideas and expose that work to new audiences. Help keep Babycastles thriving during COVID-19! Participants are encouraged to send a $5 - $15 sliding scale donation. Venmo: @babycastles or make a one-time contribution or sign up for a membership at https://withfriends.co/babycastles If you are employed and can become a member, please consider doing so and keep Babycastles around for 10 more years!

*This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council.