Over 20 local projects will receive funding from Lambton's Creative County Grant Program.
A total of $65,620 will be distributed among 21 groups and organizations towards local arts, culture and heritage initiatives.
Sarnia-Lambton Rebound will receive $5,000 to support its Act II youth expressive arts program.
Over $6,000 will go to the Oil Museum of Canada Foundation to support the installation of new historical interpretive signs, an audio tour and historical flags throughout the Village of Oil Springs.
The Kiwanis Club of Forest will get $2,700 to support new activities with the Indigenous Film and Food Festival and $6,000 is going to the Petrolia Volunteer Business Group to support educational plaques explaining the historical significance of buildings in Petrolia's downtown area.
Lambton County's Cultural Services Division said a total of 29 requests for funding were submitted.
The grant program started in 2013, with the goal to support innovative projects that build cultural capacity and strengthen the creative community.
The next application intake is scheduled for the fall to support project and initiatives planned in 2025.
For further details visit the County of Lambton's website.
A full list of the this year's grant recipients is available below:
• $3,400 to Town of Plympton-Wyoming to support wayfinding signage to promote the Plympton-Wyoming museum
• $2,500 to Huron Shores Area Transit to support the engagement of Indigenous artists for a bus shelter art project at Kettle & Stony Point First Nation
• $2,000 to Inwood 150th Celebration Committee to support the publication of a commemorative book
• $1,500 to Community Living Sarnia-Lambton to support its Art is for Everyone arts program initiative
• $4,575 to John Howard Society of Sarnia-Lambton for its Educational Community Awareness Support Through Art program
• $2,000 to Lambton Concert Band to support a year of musical celebration to mark the 25th anniversary of the concert band within Lambton County
• $1,000 to Dr. Eliana Elkhoury to support literacy kits offered through the Arabic Literacy Enrichment Program
• $2,000 to artist Liana Russwurm to support the Brooke-Alvinston Youth Art Workshops
• $7,350 to Electric Motion Pictures / Aaron Huggett to support the Lambton County film Within A War
• $2,250 to Esther Tolooei to support the research and writing of a book about the 1918 Flu Pandemic in Lambton County
• $5,000 to Bonnie Sitter to support a documentary film about Farmerettes, who volunteered through the Ontario Farm Service Force (1941-1952)
• $2,800 to The Culture Capture Project / Ryan Lindsay to support the development of an educational holographic display of war chief Young Gull for use in museums.
• $3,500 to Le Centre communautaire Francophone de Sarnia-Lambton to create a French-language song and accompanying video about Sarnia-Lambton.
• $1,500 to Sarnia Concert Association to work with community groups to provide free tickets to engage a more diverse audience to its concert series
• $2,000 to IODE Margaret Stokes Chapter, Petrolia to support its 75th anniversary high tea and luncheon event
• $2,500 to Bridgeview Public School to support a mural for its school learning commons project