Our community partnerships encourage collaboration and allow us to further cultivate and support a vibrant, sustainable, and diverse creative community.

Factory Media Centre is Hamilton’s not-for-profit artist-driven resource centre for film, video, new media, installation, sound art, and other multimedia art forms. Through our community partnerships we encourage collaboration with local organizations or individuals who require access to professional media equipment, studio space, or media skills to produce programs to benefit the greater community. 

Partner with us!

Do you have a project in mind and are interested in partnering with us? Send a partnership proposal to programming@factorymediacentre.ca

Proposals for Community Partnerships should include:

• Background Information about the organization, group, or artist(s) proposing to partner with FMC
• Project description: what your project aims to achieve and how it can benefit the community
• Project scope: including project dates (projected or concrete), what type of FMC support the project needs, any other information to help us better understand your project
• Any audio/visual support or website links important to understanding the project
• Contact information for the project leader

If your organization is a local not-for-profit organization or artist run centre and requires the use of FMC’s services, please email staff at info@factorymediacentre.ca with project details for review. If you are an artist who identifies as a Black, Indigenous, or Person of Colour, and/or LGBT2S+ and/or person with a disability or who is underemployed who requires support for a creative project, please email staff at info@factorymediacentre.ca with project details for review.

Partners and Collaborators

We’re thankful to have the opportunity to collaborate and partner with so many amazing organizations and individuals! Some of our previous partners include…

Upon the review of a proposed community partnership project, FMC staff or board will schedule a meeting with the project leader to determine the details and level of involvement of FMC for the project. FMC recognition for the community partnership project should include a verbal or written description of our support, and logo on promotional material for the project. All partnerships must also provide high-quality documentation (images, video or sound) for FMC website, archives, publication and grant applications.

Due to high request volumes, FMC must limit the number of community partnerships per year and may decline partnership requests if the necessary equipment and human resources is unavailable. Partnerships typically take a minimum of 3 weeks to organize before the start date of the project. Priority will be given to projects which bridge the gap between knowledge production in the gallery and access to artistic resources in the community.