Music

The Music Projects program provides funding to professional, non-profit music organizations and collectives to pursue one-time or time-limited music projects involving production, presentation, dissemination and/or other activities that contribute to the development of music in Toronto. The City of Toronto supports this program through a funding allocation approved annually by Toronto City Council. The Music Program is strongly committed to the development and performance of works by Canadian artists.

This is a partnership program, between school boards and the Ontario Arts Council (OAC), that supports community-engaged artists to work alongside teachers to engage students in creative learning involving creative and critical processes. School boards partner with the OAC over a seven-year period to build capacity for implementing school board-wide arts projects.

Purpose

This program supports the ongoing operations of Ontario-based, not-for-profit community-engaged arts organizations working in Ontario communities or schools.

Priorities

The program’s priorities are to support organizations that:

• generate and host high-quality, innovative work that cultivates a rich engagement between artists and participants or communities
• implement strategies to reduce or eliminate barriers to public engagement in the arts
• engage Ontario artists to work with communities and schools

Toronto Arts Council’s Community Music Making program recognizes the role that non-professional music organizations play in creating a dynamic and culturally engaged City. This program provides funding to support the Toronto-based annual programming of non-profit community choirs, opera, orchestras, and ensembles that are committed to building community through music making processes such as creation, workshops, concert production, and other related activities.

Purpose
The Ontario Arts Council (OAC) supports Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis) creativity and celebrates the vitality of diverse cultural and artistic expression.

Indigenous Artists in Communities and Schools Projects is a multidisciplinary program supporting projects that bring together Ontario-based, professional Indigenous artists and arts professionals in communities and schools to provide access to the arts and create meaningful art experiences that transmit Indigenous artistic skills and cultural knowledge to participants.

This program supports Ontario-based Indigenous arts professionals and arts professionals of colour, or ad hoc groups/collectives made up of Indigenous arts professionals or arts professionals of colour for professional development and skill-building opportunities that advance applicants’ work and careers. It funds all contemporary and traditional art practices that are supported at OAC. Projects can include: study and training, mentorship, internship and apprenticeship and documentation of art work.

This funding supports organizations in delivering residence-based art summer schools that offer:

• an arts intensive training experience in any discipline through technical skills workshops with professional artists and instructors
• opportunities for young people from across the province to engage in the creative process

To be eligible for this funding, applicants must be:

This funding supports Alberta schools by subsidizing fees of professional Alberta artists of any artistic discipline that provide interactive arts residency projects for grades K-12.

We fund D.R.E.A.M.S.

Every student in a public elementary school should be provided with opportunities that make school life exciting, interesting and most importantly, FUN!

Since launching in 2005, the S'Cool Life Fund has provided grants for over 1,100 D.R.E.A.M.S. (Drama, Recreation, Extra-Curricular, Arts, Music, or Sports) projects across the country worth over $2.9 MILLION helping to make school life more enjoyable for thousands of public elementary school kids (JK-8).

What We Fund