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Innovation and Creation Champion

2025 Application

The City of Oshawa invites nominations for the Innovation and Creation Champion. This award honours an individual, collective and/or organization in the creative and cultural industries who has created or enhanced an event, product, program or partnership in the past year. In addition, the award recognizes work that is unique, transformative, and positive in its impact on arts, culture, and heritage in Oshawa.

The winner of this award will receive a $200.00 honorarium.

Nominee Eligibility (Please be aware of the following)

An organization or community group may nominate an individual, collective and/or organization for any award.
Nominees must be a current or former resident of the city of Oshawa, work in the city of Oshawa, or collaborate with an Oshawa-based organization.
A nominee may be the recipient of only one award per year.
City of Oshawa staff and elected officials are not eligible for an award, but may nominate individuals.
An individual cannot be nominated posthumously.

Selection Criteria

The following criteria will be used to select the award recipient:

The level of creativity and innovation of the event, product, program or partnership
The community impact of the event, product, program or partnership
Notable achievements relevant to event, product, program or partnership

Submission Guidelines

Nominations will be accepted beginning Monday, January 6, 2025. The deadline for nominations is 11:59 p.m. on Monday, February 3, 2025.

If you have any questions in respect to the application and process, please contact [email protected]. Paper copies of the application are available at Service Oshawa.

This form may contain personal information as defined under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. This information is collected under the legal authority of the Municipal Act, 2001, S.O. 2001 c.25, as amended. This information will be used and maintained by the City of Oshawa for purposes of administering the Oshawa Culture Counts Awards, and may be used for advertising or publicity purposes. Questions regarding this collection may be directed to the City’s Information Access and Privacy Officer, City of Oshawa, 905-436-3311.

Name of individual, collective, and/or organization being nominated

Address of the individual, collective, and/or organization being nominated

Website of the individual, collective, and/or organization being nominated (if applicable)

Telephone number of the individual, collective, and/or organization being nominated

Email address of the individual, collective, and/or organization being nominated

Your Name

Relationship to the nominee

What is your connection to Arts, Culture and Heritage in Oshawa?

Your address

Your website (if applicable)

Your telephone number

Your email address

Provide a brief biography of the nominee. This information may be used as a basis for the award presentation and marketing purposes if the nominee is selected as a winner.

Please describe the event, product, program or partnership from 2024 that makes you believe this person/organization deserves a Culture Counts Award.

How has the nominee contributed to the Arts, Culture, and Heritage Sector in Oshawa or beyond?

Are there any additional reasons you would like to nominate this person/organization?

Optional: If you would like to upload additional information and/or supporting documents, you may include a maximum of 5 documents

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To help inform our outreach activities, please tell us how you heard about the Awards program?

Events & Culture Newsletter

Poster or Postcards

Social Media

Word of Mouth

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I certify that the statements made by me are true and complete to the best of my knowledge. I understand that any misrepresentation made by me in connection with this application will be sufficient cause for rejection of this application.

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