Run an event in Toronto
We want to help you get an event started!!!
Want to do an event in Toronto? We’d love to help make it happen! Here are some ways we can help:
Reach an audience: by promoting it though all our networks
Venue: Finding venues in Toronto can be hard. We can help!
Microgrants: We offer small grants to select events we really like
Other stuff: In future, we hope to also offer mentoring on how to run a successful event, matching events with volunteers to help with setup, etc, and a peer network of other event-creators
Want help with promotion or venue matching: We offer support for all kinds of participatory / weird / fun / smart events
Our aim is to have a curated list of lots of participatory events in Toronto.
If your event is some sort of playful event, we’d love to hear from you and add you to our calendar and newsletter. We have a few thousand people across various social media, and do lots of sold-out events.
If you want help finding a venue, let us know, and we might be able to help! We have a list of people and organizations who want to host interesting events - most of the venues we work woth are available for free.
We offer microgrants for events that match our specific aesthetic
The criteria for microgrants are a lot narrower, and harder to express - a “we know it when we see it” sort of thing.
You might want to read the general “about” document, maybe especially the list of things that inspire us to get a feel.
A few things we especially love:
Rationalists, TPOT, post-rationalists
Events about sex, relationships, kink, polyamory
Interesting events for kids that are also fun for grownups
Social experiments
Authentic Relating games
A mix of earnest and funny/playful
Events that bring lots of math to social interactions
Events that seem too stupid to actually exist
Karaoke
Events that create some social discomfort
The people we really want at our events are people who are smart, high-agency, and comfortable taking some social risks
We welcome events that are small, low-effort experiments. A dozen or two people in a living room engaged in some fun social experiment is totally great. If you want to do something more ambitious, we welcome that, too. Events can be free to attend, or ticketed, up to you. We don’t support private events.
How the microgrants work
We offer microgrants of $100 to $300. In general, we will give recipients 50% of the grant when they publicly announce the event and open registration, and the other 50% after the event is completed. If you need more of the money up-front for some specific reason, let us know, we’re flexible on this.
You can spend the money on whatever you want, including compensation for the time you put into the project. We don’t need receipts or anything.
The money for the grants comes from ticket sales at the Trampoline Hall Lecture Series.
There’s no specific deadline. We give out microgrants on a rolling basis.