Trillium Awards are the Ontario Federation’s way of recognizing outstanding contributions beyond the scope of regular activities by Ontario dancers whose accomplishments reflect extraordinary contributions of an innovative or improving nature.
Trillium Merit Award
Dancing 5 years or more, with a significant amount of their dancing experience in Ontario, Merit Award winners have made a significant contribution to dancing in Ontario, served in leadership capacities at the club level, and been involved in an executive of committee level at the regional, provincial, or national level.
Nominees will have participated in dancer and/or leader recruitment actives as well as helping leaders or dancers develop through mentoring activities such as serving as angels and/or serving in leaders’ clinics.
Nominate someone for the Trillium Merit Award
Trillium Long Service Award
Dancing 20 years or more with a significant amount of their dancing experience in Ontario.
Long Service Award winners will have served in leadership capacities at the club level and supported dancer and/or leader recruitment activities.
Nominate someone for the Trillium Long Service Award
Nominating Someone for a Trillium Award
- Review the Nomination Guidelines
- Nomination must be received by the Federation Secretary no later than April 30 each year
- Nominations must be submitted through your local, regional Association – NOT directly to the Ontario Federation
- Decide whether the Long Service or Merit Award is more appropriate
- Complete the applicable form
- Make sure all of the required elements for the particular award has been addressed.
- While the following items aren’t necessarily required, it will be useful to consider your nominee’s dance history regarding:
- Involvement on other dance related activities Convention Committees
- Caller’s Clinic involvement – positions, dates, # of years, etc
- Participation at Frosh Dances – other involvements
- Volunteer participant in demonstrations. – Hospitals, Malls, Nursing Homes, Festivals, etc
- Actively promoting the Square & Round Dance movement
- Promotion of dancing in public places
- Recruitment of new dancers – Duty as angels
- Special Advertising – innovative new methods