Trellis Micro-grants: Announcing Round 3
Montreal, March 25, 2026 – ELAN’s Trellis Micro-grants program is proud to announce its third round of funding for Quebec anglophone artists. Funded by Heritage Canada, Trellis Micro-grants are a unique opportunity for artists and arts organizations to create projects that explore and develop the place of English-speaking arts in Quebec, while asking them to create connections with the French-speaking community. By the endpoint of the currently allotted funding in 2028, Trellis Micro-grants will have distributed a total of $1,212,000 to initiatives across the province.
Since 2025, Trellis has supported the local arts scene by providing grants to 38 unique projects ranging from independent theatre in Montreal to community choirs in the Laurentians to square dancing in Gaspé. The new batch of projects for this year are equally wide-ranging and are sure to have a powerful impact throughout the province. Here are just a few from this year:
On the individual artists’ side, Maggie Winston’s Beaver Dreams is an ode to her family’s history in Morin-Heights—presented in puppet form for all ages! Using the Trellis grant, she will develop a fully bilingual version of the show to present in the Laurentians.
City of Many Roots isa mixed-media sculpture workshop facilitated by Carolina Aguirre. In partnership with French and English community centres in Montreal, the workshop is designed to encourage immigrant youth to share their perspectives through this highly accessible art form.
The program funding also extends to arts organizations. The No Excuses No Limits Movement, which connects dance and disability communities, is giving a space for a class of disabled students to break down barriers and perform a breakdancing piece to an audience of hundreds at the Maison de la culture Maisonneuve.
In collaboration with local grassroots organizations, the Montreal arts interculturels (MAI) will be holding open mics, living libraries, and music workshops to approach the often-overlooked social issues affecting the most vulnerable folks in the neighbourhood of Milton-Parc.
The unveiling took place at a press event at ELAN’s Community Digital Arts Hub. The event, which you can see on ELAN’s YouTube, featured the project team, grant recipients, and jury members, speaking to the exciting projects to come. Clips from the event will soon come to our socials, which we encourage you to follow for grant updates.
Since its inception, Trellis Micro-grants has materially contributed to anglophone artistic excellence and community-building through the arts in Quebec. The sheer amount of media coverage, in English and French, that our recipients have receive testifies to that, as do the many applications we received this year—a whopping 370. There were countless worthy proposals among them and the jury had their work cut out for them in selecting the recipients for this round of funding.
The full list of 15 recipients is below.
