Grant Programs
September 15, 2022
Operating Assistance
Supports the public program activities of visual arts organizations that sustain an annual artistic and curatorial program that includes creation, development, presentation, collections, and dissemination activities.September 15, 2022
Operating Assistance
Supports festivals organizations that produce a major recurring public festival, have a clear theme or vision, present professional artists and possess stable artistic and administrative management.September 15, 2022
Operating Assistance
Supports BC service organizations that provide a range of services to an established membership base comprised of allied arts organizations in BC.Early Career Development - Individuals
Open for Intake
July 10, 2024
Individual Arts Grants
Early Career Development supports immersive and highly impactful opportunities, with measurable learning outcomes, for Emerging and Early Career Practitioners to: Develop their artistic or administrative practice. Participate in knowledge transfer, skill sharing, and reciprocal learning in the sector. Expand their career experience, professional networks, and exposure. Build capacity in their identified community(ies) (for example, geographic, cultural, area of practice).June 25, 2024
Individual Arts Grants
Supports independent media artists with the creation of specific projects. Projects and works must be independent of commercial industries for film, video, and gaming.April 30, 2024
Individual Arts Grants
Supports BC residents with full-time arts training costs after they finish secondary school.May 23, 2024
Project Assistance
Supports arts and culture organizations in the development and delivery of training activities through a specific project or component within the organization’s overall activities. Grants are not available through this program to support an arts training organization’s general operating activities.May 16, 2024
Project Assistance
The Arts-Based Community Development (A-BCD) program supports eligible organizations to either: Engage professional artists in the development and delivery of projects that provide arts-based community development impacts and benefits to a specified community through the creation and presentation of new artworks or provide training or mentoring for artists or community workers to understand and learn about how to create and safely implement or facilitate arts-based community development projects.September 15, 2022