Grant Programs
If you are interested, a calendar showing the annual grant program cycles is now available by clicking on Funding (see top bar).
All grant programs offered through the BC Arts Council are listed below, with the ones currently open listed first. The search bar at the top of this page can be used to filter the programs by applicant type, field of practice or program type. You can also sort the list by program title or deadline.
Programs that are not open at this time are listed at the bottom of this page for information only. As they are opened, they will move up the list.
CLICK on the Title of the program listed below for detailed information.
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Fields of PracticeDetails
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Arts-Based Community Development & Leon and Thea Koerner Award
Open for IntakeMay 14, 2025Project 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. -
Scholarship Program
Open for IntakeApril 30, 2025Individual Arts Grants
Supports BC residents with full-time arts training costs after they finish secondary school. -
Arts Circulation and Touring - Individuals
Open for IntakeApril 16, 2025Individual Arts Grants
Arts Circulation and Touring supports eligible arts and culture organizations, collectives and individuals with circulation and touring activities both within British Columbia and outside of the province. Grants received in this program are intended to enhance professional and artistic opportunities and exposure of B.C. artists, collectives, and arts organizations regionally, nationally, and internationally. Assistance through this program is available to arts and culture organizations, collectives and to individual art practitioners through three categories. -
Arts Circulation and Touring - Organizations
Open for IntakeApril 16, 2025Project Assistance
Arts Circulation and Touring supports eligible arts and culture organizations, collectives and individuals with circulation and touring activities both within British Columbia and outside of the province. Grants received in this program are intended to enhance professional and artistic opportunities and exposure of B.C. artists, collectives, and arts organizations regionally, nationally, and internationally. Assistance through this program is available to arts and culture organizations, collectives and to individual art practitioners through three categories. -
Professional Development
Open for IntakeApril 10, 2025Individual Arts Grants
Supports professional artists and arts & culture professionals to undertake specific learning activities to advance their practice or career. -
Arts Impact Grant
Open for IntakeApril 9, 2025Project Assistance
Arts Impact Grants are responsive and flexible funding for arts and culture organizations and collectives. The intention of the program is to allow applicants to prioritize a specific project or group of related activities that will provide the most meaningful impact to their organization, artistic practice, or to their community. -
Ongoing
Project Assistance
Application Assistance provides a contribution towards costs for artists and arts and culture practitioners who are Deaf or have a disability, to register for the online grant system, and create and submit applications, project updates, and final reports for BC Arts Council grant programs. -
Ongoing
Project Assistance
Access Support provides an additional contribution towards costs for specific accessibility services and supplies, rental equipment, and other supports required to carry out a project funded by the BC Arts Council (referred to as the “associated grant”).
Recently Passed Deadlines
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December 19, 2024
Project Assistance
The Accelerate Program is a two-year initiative to improve access and reduce barriers to funding for equity deserving and regional arts and culture organizations and collectives. -
November 6, 2024
Project Assistance
Enables eligible organizations to develop and enhance spaces that support the work of B.C.’s arts and cultural practitioners. -
October 17, 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. -
October 17, 2024
Project Assistance
Supports eligible organizations and arts or curatorial collectives in the development, enrichment, and creation of new or unique public programming through a specific project, component, or programming initiative within an existing festival. -
October 17, 2024
Project Assistance
Supports the development, creation, production, realization, dissemination, or live performance of classical, experimental, original, traditional, and contemporary performing art forms from all world cultures. Performing Arts includes dance, music, theatre, multidisciplinary, or other performing arts practices such as circus arts and comedy. -
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). -
July 10, 2024
Project Assistance
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). -
May 30, 2024
Individual Arts Grants
Supports initiatives in the development, creation, production, realization, dissemination, or live performance of classical, experimental, original, traditional, and contemporary performing art forms from all world cultures. Performing arts includes dance, music, theatre, multidisciplinary, or other performing arts practices such as circus arts and comedy. -
September 15, 2022
Operating Assistance
Supports organizations that provide comprehensive programs of specialized training for professional artists and cultural workers or for those who are committed to pursuing professional careers in the arts. -
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. -
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
Performing Arts Organizations provides funding to assist the general operations of established non-profit arts and culture organizations working in professional dance, music, theatre, comedy, circus, or multidisciplinary performing arts. The program is intended for organizations that sustain an annual artistic program encompassing creation, development, production, and public presentation.