Integrated Arts and Contemporary Circus Art Program for Arts Professionals: Travel Grants
Deadline
You may submit your application at any time. You are encouraged to apply a minimum of eight weeks before your departure date so you may, where possible, receive notification of the results of your request before your departure.
The Canada Council will not accept applications postmarked after your departure date, incomplete applications, or those submitted by fax or email.
Please refer to the Program Guidelines for detailed information
Program Description
The Travel Grants component of the Integrated Arts and Contemporary Circus Art Program for Arts Professionals is for Canadian, professional artists and independent critics and curators working in integrated arts and contemporary circus art. Travel Grants offer three categories of funding:
1. Support for Presentation Travel
This category supports travel undertaken in response to an invitation that you have received, asking you to publicly present your work or ideas in Canada or abroad.
2. Support for Travel to Artists’ Residencies
These grants contribute to your travel costs to participate in a residency in a national or international artistic community.
3. Support for Professional Development Travel
This category assists you to attend workshops, symposiums and conferences, and (or) to participate in other professional development opportunities outside your home region.
This program is accessible to Aboriginal artists and artists of diverse regional and cultural communities of Canada.
Artists and Community Collaboration
This is an arts process that actively involves professional artists and non-arts community members working together on creative and collaborative projects..
Eligibility of Applicant
To apply to the Canada Council for the Arts, you must be a Canadian citizen or have permanent resident status, as defined by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. You do not need to be living in Canada when you apply.
You must also meet the Canada Council’s definition of a professional artist, which is an artist who:
- has specialized training in the artistic field (not necessarily in academic institutions)
- is recognized as a professional by his or her peers (artists working in the same artistic tradition), and
- is committed to devoting more time to artistic activity, if possible financially.
To meet the definition of a professional artist in the Integrated Arts and Contemporary Circus Art program you must also have:
- maintained an integrated arts or contemporary circus art practice for at least one year before the competition deadline,
- a minimum of one year of public presentation or publication in integrated arts or contemporary circus art.
If you are a critic or curator, you must be a practising, independent integrated arts critic or curator. An arts critic must have published a minimum of three articles, papers or exhibition texts on independent integrated arts or contemporary circus art artists and artworks. A curator must have completed at least three programs of independent inter-arts work that have been presented publicly.
Note that meeting the eligibility criteria allows you to apply to the program, but does not guarantee that you will receive a grant.
Grant Amount
Travel Grants are available in fixed amounts ($500, $750, $1,000, $1,500, $2,000 or $2,500), depending on the extent of travel. Note that the amounts of $2,000 and $2,500 are available only if you are travelling to or from northern Canada or to international destinations other than the United States and Europe.
Further Information
Sue-Ellen Gerritsen
Program Officer
Inter-Arts Office
Canada Council for the Arts
350 Albert Street, P.O. Box 1047
Ottawa ON K1P 5V8
Telephone: 1-800-263-5588 (toll-free) or 613-566-4414, ext. 4679
TTY: 1-866-585-5559
Fax: 613-566-4386
April 2011