Grant Programs

  • 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: Arts & Cultural Service Organizations

    September 15, 2022

    Operating Assistance

    Supports BC service organizations that provide a range of services to an established membership base comprised of allied arts organizations in BC.

  • Early Career Development - Individuals

    Open for Intake
    July 8, 2026

    Individual Arts Grants

    Early Career Development supports immersive and highly impactful opportunities, with measurable learning outcomes, for Emerging and Early Career Practitioners to: Develop their artistic or administrative practice. Participate in knowledge transfer, skill sharing, and reciprocal learning in the sector. Expand their career experience, professional networks, and exposure. Build capacity in their identified community(ies) (for example, geographic, cultural, area of practice).

  • Scholarship Program

    April 29, 2026

    Individual Arts Grants

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

  • Project Assistance: Professional Arts Training Organizations

    May 20, 2026

    Project Assistance

    Supports arts and culture organizations in the development and delivery of training activities through a specific project or component within the organization’s overall activities. Grants are not available through this program to support an arts training organization’s general operating activities.

  • Project Assistance: Community Arts Festivals

    February 18, 2026

    Project Assistance

    Supports community-based arts and cultural organizations in British Columbia in the production of a local community arts festival.

  • Arts-Based Community Development & Leon and Thea Koerner Award

    May 13, 2026

    Project Assistance

    The Arts-Based Community Development (A-BCD) program supports eligible organizations to either: Engage professional artists in the development and delivery of projects that provide arts-based community development impacts and benefits to a specified community through the creation and presentation of new artworks or provide training or mentoring for artists or community workers to understand and learn about how to create and safely implement or facilitate arts-based community development projects.