Aboriginal Organizations
All grants offered by the BC Arts Council are available to Aboriginal artist organizations.
Working with the The First Peoples’ Heritage, Language and Culture Council, the BC Arts Council also offers grants to artist organizations through the Aboriginal Arts Development Awards.
The Aboriginal Arts Development Awards consists of four components:
- Aboriginal Arts Administrator and Cultural Manager Internships
- Emerging Individual Artists
- Sharing Traditional Arts Across Generations
- Organizations
The Awards are for Aboriginal arts organizations that have a demonstrated commitment to their artistic practice in any discipline – visual, music, dance, theatre, literary or media.
The Awards help Aboriginal artists advance their work and artistic skills through mentorships and training, gain the recognition of their peers, develop a history of public presentation and devote more time to the creation of new work.
The awards program is part of a special First Peoples' Council Arts Program, which supports the rejuvenation and practice of traditionally based arts and culture practices, and the vitality of all forms of Aboriginal arts and culture with a specific focus on the province of B.C.
The First Peoples’ Council is a provincial Crown Corporation formed by the government of British Columbia in 1990 to administer the First Peoples’ Heritage, Language and Culture Program. Over the past 20 years, the First Peoples' Council has successfully distributed over $20 million to British Columbia’s Aboriginal communities for language, arts and culture projects.