Grant Programs

  • Arts Infrastructure Program

    November 6, 2024

    Project Assistance

    Enables eligible organizations to develop and enhance spaces that support the work of B.C.’s arts and cultural practitioners.

  • Project Assistance: Professional Arts Festivals

    Open for Intake
    October 16, 2025

    Project Assistance

    Supports eligible organizations and arts or curatorial collectives in the development, enrichment, and creation of new or unique public programming through a specific project, component, or programming initiative within an existing festival.

  • Project Assistance: Museums and Indigenous Cultural Centres

    Open for Intake
    October 16, 2025

    Project Assistance

    Supports eligible museums, Indigenous cultural centres and arts or curatorial collectives with the development and creation of artistic or cultural history programming and community engagement initiatives. Examples of eligible projects include exhibition development, documentation and dissemination projects, artists’ residencies, exploration of new museological and curatorial practices, community engagement projects, public programs, and collections management projects.

  • Project Assistance: Media Arts Organizations

    Open for Intake
    October 16, 2025

    Project Assistance

    Supports eligible organizations and arts or curatorial collectives in the development, expansion, enhancement, or creation of new or unique independent media arts works, programming and community engagement initiatives. Projects and works must be independent of commercial industries for film, video, and gaming.

  • Project Assistance: Community Arts Organizations

    Open for Intake
    October 16, 2025

    Project Assistance

    Supports community arts councils and cultural organizations with either a specific project or to assist the production activities of the organization. 

  • Operating Assistance: Visual Arts and Media Arts Organizations

    September 15, 2022

    Operating Assistance

    Supports the public program activities of visual arts organizations that sustain an annual artistic and curatorial program that includes creation, development, presentation, collections, and dissemination activities.

  • Operating Assistance: Professional Arts Festivals

    September 15, 2022

    Operating Assistance

    Supports festivals organizations that produce a major recurring public festival, have a clear theme or vision, present professional artists and possess stable artistic and administrative management.

  • Operating Assistance: Public Museums and Indigenous Cultural Centres

    September 15, 2022

    Operating Assistance

    Supports the public program activities of public museums and Indigenous cultural centres that sustain an annual artistic and curatorial program that includes creation, development, presentation, collections, and dissemination activities.

  • Operating Assistance: Community Arts Organizations

    September 15, 2022

    Operating Assistance

    Supports organizations that provide public access to a range of artistic and cultural activities, develop and encourage leadership for arts and culture at the community level, and encourage support for arts and culture from local and regional governments.

  • Operating Assistance: Book Publishers

    September 15, 2022

    Operating Assistance

    Supports book publishers committed to developing and promoting Canadian writers through publishing works of literary, artistic or cultural importance for the general public.