This holiday season, you can change the trajectory of a young artist’s life. The Grateful Giving 2025 campaign fuels the Headwaters Arts Scholarship Fund, which provides crucial financial support for high school students in the Headwaters region pursuing advanced education and training in the creative arts. This fund has helped launch countless (38) young visual, literary/writing, music, theatre, dance and film/media artists since its beginnings in 2011-12—but today, its resources are running dangerously low.
We need your help to replenish the fund and keep these opportunities alive. Your gift—at any amount – can:
- Empower graduating students to follow their creative passions
- Celebrate the arts by investing directly in local young talent
- Spark inspiration in tomorrow’s creators, makers, performers, and innovators
- Support youth as they explore, experiment, and express themselves across all artistic disciplines
This season, we invite you to make one final, meaningful gift—one that reaches far beyond the holidays and carries forward into the future of our artistic community.
Every donor will be recognized with a personalized ornament on our Giving Tree in the Headwaters Arts Gallery at the Alton Mill Arts Centre—your name standing proudly among friends and neighbours who believe in the power of the arts.
Donors of $100 or more will receive a hand-made ornament created by textile artist and Headwaters Arts member Lynn Gilbank.
The Headwaters Arts Grateful Giving Campaign will run from November 22nd through December 31st.
The Headwaters Arts is a not-for-profit organization run by volunteers that present special arts events and showcases local and regional artists through the year in the headwaters Arts Gallery in the Alton Mill Arts Centre located 1402 Queen Street West in Alton, Ontario.
The Headwaters Arts Gallery is open Wednesday-Sunday, 10 am- 5 pm and Holiday Mondays.
Be sure to follow us on IG @headwatersarts and Facebook.
Give with gratitude
Give with heart
Give a young artist the chance to shine.
We acknowledge that the land on which we gather, and on which the Region of Peel operates, is part of the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit. For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples inhabited and cared for this land. In particular we acknowledge the territory of the Ani-shinabek, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Ojibway/Chippewa peoples; the land that is home to the Metis; and most recently, the territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation who are direct descendants of the Mississaugas of the Credit.
We are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land, and by doing so, give our respect to its first inhabitants.