New Music Program: Multi-year and Annual Funding
The Canada Council for the Arts is committed to equity and inclusion, and welcomes applications from diverse Aboriginal, cultural and regional communities, including people with disabilities.
Deadline
1 April 2012
If this date falls on a weekend or statutory holiday, the deadline moves to the next business day.
Please refer to the Program Guidelines for detailed information.
Program Description
The New Music Program provides multi-year (two-year), annual and project funding to Canadian professional ensembles, performing groups, collectives, specialized producers/presenters and non-profit organizations devoted to the development and presentation of new music in public venues and before a live audience. The project funding component of this program has its own guidelines and application form.
Eligible forms of new music are not defined by specific aesthetic categories, but all applicants should be aware that the nature of the program is to support groundbreaking musical creation in a diversity of innovative approaches, as well as risk-taking in the overall development of the art form.
Some of the common forms of new music include (but are not limited to) the following:
- contemporary classical
- musique actuelle
- free improvisation
- electroacoustic / acousmatic
- audio art / sound art
- sound installation
- turntable art
Multi-year and Annual Funding
Multi-year funding grants contribute financial support, over two years, for the applicant organization’s overall local activities and operational structure.
Annual funding grants contribute financial support, on a yearly basis, for the applicant organization’s overall local activities and operational structure.
Eligibility
All Applicants
Co-productions and free concerts are welcomed additions to your programming, but the minimum of annual self-produced and ticketed events must be met.
Applicants must also:
- take the main responsibility for the operational framework of the presentations (even in the case of co-productions)
- engage professional artistic personnel
- have an administrative infrastructure in keeping with the nature of their artistic production
- receive significant support from other sources, and
- not have an accumulated deficit that threatens the viability of their organization.
Multi-year grant applicants
Applicants to this component must meet the requirements as indicated above and must also:
- be incorporated non-profit organizations with a board of directors. Organizations with less formal structures are eligible for annual and project funding.
- have all required activities take place in the organization’s home market
- have presented at least two full seasons of local performances, including at least three different events, ensuring consistency and continuity in their yearly series of concerts/events. A minimum of three different events are required annually, and these must be self-produced and ticketed.
Annual grant applicants
Applicants to this component must meet the requirements at the beginning of this section and must also:
- have presented at least two full seasons of local performances, including at least two different events. A minimum of two different events, plus another public activity (tour, CD launch with performance, workshop, etc.) are required annually. These must be self-produced and ticketed.
Grant Amount
The peer assessment committee recommends funding priorities and establishes the value of the Canada Council’s contribution to the applicant’s proposed activities. Recommendations are made in relation to the program’s assessment criteria.
Further Information
Jeff Morton
Music Section
Canada Council for the Arts
350 Albert Street, P.O. Box 1047
Ottawa ON K1P 5V8
1-800-263-5588 (toll-free) or 613-566-4414, ext. 5111
TTY : 1-866-585-5559
January 2012