Music Project Grants: Artists and Community Collaboration Program
Deadline
1 February
Program Description
The Artists and Community Collaboration Program (ACCP) supports diverse artistic activities that bring together professional artists and the broader community.
Artists and community collaboration is an arts process that actively involves the work of professional artists and the broader community members in creative and collaborative relationships.
The Music Project Grants: Artists and Community Collaboration Program offers project support to projects initiated and coordinated by individual professional musicians, professional music ensembles/bands or professional non-profit music organizations.
Grants are intended as a contribution towards the specific costs of the development, creation or production of work and/or public presentation of work.
Eligibility
Eligible Applicants
- Applicants must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada, as defined by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.
- Full-time students are not eligible.
- Individual musicians applying to this program must be recognized as professional artists. The Canada Council for the Arts defines a professional artist as someone who has specialized training in the field (not necessarily in academic institutions), who is recognized as such by her or his peers (artists working in the same artistic tradition), who is committed to devoting more time to the artistic activity, if financially feasible, and who has a history of public presentation or publication.
- Music organizations applying to this program must be incorporated non-profit music organizations and must not be currently receiving annual assistance from the Music Section. Professional music ensembles/bands are also eligible to apply.
This Canada Council program is accessible to Aboriginal artists or arts organizations and artists or arts organizations from diverse cultural and regional communities of Canada.
It is strongly recommended that potential applicants speak to the Music Section Officer to confirm their eligibility before submitting their request.
Applicants should be aware that meeting the eligibility criteria allows them to apply to the program. It does not, however, guarantee that they will receive a grant.
Grant Amount
Applicants may apply for up to $20,000 per project. Because of the high number of applications that may be received and the limited resources available, grants awarded may be smaller than the amounts requested.
To be eligible for support, expenses must be directly related to the project. They may include:
- professional musicians’ fees
- production costs
- marketing and publicity costs
- rehearsal costs, and
- honoraria for community participants (i.e. non-professionals).
Other reasonable expenses directly related to the project will be considered.
Application Form
Music Project Grants: ACCP (pdf, 78 KB)
This form can only be printed and cannot be filled out on-line.
Further Information
Gerri Trimble, Program Officer
Music Section
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. 4103
TTY: 1-866-585-5559
Fax: (613) 566-4409
December 2009