Professional Choir Program: Annual Funding
NOTE: The updated application forms will be available two months before the deadline date.
Deadlines
15 January 2011 (Annual Funding)
Program Description
This program has two components:Multi-year (three years) and Annual Funding and Project Funding. Grants assist professional Canadian choirs to develop and present choral repertoire. The program’s particular emphasis is excellence in the presentation of Canadian music and encouragement to showcase Canadian artists.
The Project Funding component has its own guidelines and application form.
Goals for the Professional Choir Program
This program is intended:
- to contribute to the activities of professional Canadian choirs, from any cultural background, devoted to the development and presentation of choral music
- to encourage innovative education and outreach programs that attract and serve new audiences for choral music, including young audiences
- to stimulate the appreciation and enjoyment of choral music in Canada, and
- to encourage exemplary management and governance practices within the choral field.
This Canada Council program is also accessible to Aboriginal arts organizations and arts organizations from diverse cultural and regional communities of Canada.
Eligibility
Eligible Applicants
Applicants for Multi-year and Annual Funding must:
- be an incorporated, non-profit Canadian professional choir
- have completed at least three seasons of professional activities
- have a consistent core or membership of singers
- have a season of activities (concerts) planned that includes a variety of self-produced programs showcasing Canadian choral music works
- have a paid, professional Choral Conductor/Artistic Director
- have a paid, professional administrative staff to support their artistic activities
- have a board of directors
- have experienced financial stability for at least the past two years, and
- receive significant support from other levels of government, the public or the private sector
- be adult choirs that have received project grants in each of the last two competitions and meet the basic eligibility criteria in order to apply for annual funding.
Choirs that meet the eligibility criteria and have received at least $20,000 from this program at the last competition may be eligible for multi-year funding. All other choirs must apply for annual funding.
Grant Amount
The peer assessment committee recommends funding priorities and establishes the value of the Canada Council for the Arts’ contribution to the applicant’s proposed activities. Recommendations are based on the program’s assessment criteria and available funds.
Retroactive funding is not available.
CADAC Financial Reporting
The Canada Council for the Arts is collecting financial information through a new national online database called CADAC (Canadian Arts Data/Données sur les arts au Canada). This system will enable arts organizations applying for operating funding from public funders who are members of CADAC to submit their financial information in the same format.
The following are member partners: the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, the City of Vancouver, the New Brunswick Department of Wellness, Culture and Sport, the Manitoba Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council, the Saskatchewan Arts Board and the Toronto Arts Council.
Application Form
Further Information
André Jutras
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. 5071
TTY : 1-866-585-5559
Fax: 613-566-4409
November 2009