Deanne Hupfield, Fancy Shawl Dancer. CNAL/RCAA Conference 2015.
The inaugural VS. Arts grant includes $5,000 for a musician in Canada who is Indigenous, Black or a person of colour (IBPOC), between the ages of 18-28, to create their debut EP recording. Groups who meet these criteria are also welcome to apply.
Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is a hotbed of creativity, but many emerging artists in this neighbourhood lack the financial means to take their work to the next level.
Vancouver Foundation created the Downtown Eastside Small Arts Grants Program, in partnership with the Carnegie Community Centre, to provide downtown eastside emerging artists with small grants to support and showcase their work.
Supporting & Empowering Music Professionals In British Columbia
Music BC’s Let’s Hear It! Live BC micro grants provide assistance to BC based artists, venues, promoters, music organizers and entrepreneurs to present unique musical experiences that will engage audiences across the Lower Mainland and in communities throughout the province of BC.
PROGRAM GOALS
With a focus on artistic excellence and community impact, the Winnipeg Arts Council supports opportunities for the people of Winnipeg to engage with the arts as artists and as audiences. Responding to evolving practices and the needs of Winnipeg’s diverse artistic community, WAC invested $3,873,310 in 2017 into the thriving Winnipeg arts scene through our diverse and peer-assessed grant programs.
Individual Artist Grant Program for Winnipeg Artists working in all disciplines
The Yellowknife Community Foundation was formed in 1993 to provide interested individuals and organizations with a means of supporting projects in our community for the enduring future. It embodies a simple concept – that people working together can make a difference.
Our mission is to enhance the quality of life of the citizens of Yellowknife, and the surrounding area by: identifying and addressing current and anticipated community needs; and, raising, managing, and distributing money from donated funds to meet those needs.
Calgary Arts Development supports and strengthens the arts to benefit all Calgarians.
As the city’s designated arts development authority, Calgary Arts Development supports and strengthens the arts to benefit all Calgarians. We invest and allocate municipal funding for the arts provided by The City of Calgary and leverage these funds to provide additional resources to the arts sector. Our programs support hundreds of arts organizations, individual artists, artist collectives, and ad hoc groups in Calgary.
The Creative Saskatchewan Investment Fund grant programs are generally available to creative industry projects and endeavors that encompass music, sound recording, screen-based media, television, interactive digital media, visual arts, crafts, publishing, and live performing arts.
BOOK PUBLISHING
CRAFT & VISUAL ART
WHAT IS THE MID PROGRAM?
The Music Industry Development (MID) program fosters the development and growth of the music industry in New Brunswick through project investment proposed by artists and music businesses based in New Brunswick. Music·Musique NB administers the investment program on behalf of the New Brunswick Department of Tourism, Heritage and Culture.
WHO CAN APPLY TO THE MID PROGRAM?
Financial circumstances shouldn’t be a barrier to post-secondary education. That’s why the Edmonton Community Foundation (ECF) offers a range of scholarships and bursaries to help students with financial need achieve their post-secondary goals.
The NWT Arts Council was established August 1985, as an advisory board to the GNWT. The mandate of the NWT Arts Council is to promote the arts in the Northwest Territories.
The Arts Council provides recommendations to the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment on financial awards for creative artistic projects in the visual, literary, media and performing arts, and on issues and policies associated with the arts and artists.