• May 1, 2024

    Project Assistance

    Arts Circulation and Touring supports eligible arts and culture organizations, collectives and individuals with circulation and touring activities both within British Columbia and outside of the province. Grants received in this program are intended to enhance professional and artistic opportunities and exposure of B.C. artists, collectives, and arts organizations regionally, nationally, and internationally. Assistance through this program is available to arts and culture organizations, collectives and to individual art practitioners through three categories.
  • May 31, 2023

    Individual Arts Grants

    See our Grant Program Calendar for upcoming BC Arts Council programs. Individual Arts Grants: Professional Performing Artists supports initiatives in the development, creation, production, realization, dissemination or live performance of classical, experimental, original, traditional and contemporary performing art forms from
  • Ongoing

    Project Assistance

    Access Support provides an additional contribution towards costs for specific accessibility services and supplies, rental equipment, and other supports required to carry out a project funded by the BC Arts Council (referred to as the “associated grant”).
  • Ongoing

    Project Assistance

    Application Assistance provides a contribution towards costs for artists and arts and culture practitioners who are Deaf or have a disability, to register for the online grant system, and create and submit applications, project updates, and final reports for BC Arts
  • Professional Development

    Open for Intake
    April 12, 2024

    Individual Arts Grants

    Supports professional artists and arts & culture professionals to undertake specific learning activities to advance their practice or career.
  • December 6, 2023

    Individual Arts Grants

    See our Grant Program Calendar for upcoming BC Arts Council programs. Individual Arts Grants: Visual Artists supports professional visual artists, contemporary and traditional craft artists, and independent critics and curators with the creation of specific projects. Grants are available to
  • October 6, 2023

    Individual Arts Grants

    Supports professional writers with specific creative writing projects.
  • June 30, 2023

    Project Assistance

    See our Grant Program Calendar for upcoming BC Arts Council programs. Early Career Development supports immersive and highly impactful opportunities, with measurable outcomes, for emerging and early career practitioners to: develop their artistic or administrative practice; participate in knowledge transfer,
  • June 23, 2023

    Individual Arts Grants

    Supports independent professional media artists to create specific projects.
  • Scholarship Program

    Open for Intake
    April 30, 2024

    Individual Arts Awards

    Supports BC residents with full-time arts training costs after they finish secondary school.