Grant Programs

  • Project Assistance: Professional Arts Festivals

    Open for Intake
    May 23, 2024

    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.

  • 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: 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

    June 30, 2023

    Project Assistance

    Access our Grant Program Calendar on the Funding page 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;

  • 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.

  • Project Assistance: Professional Arts Training Organizations

    Open for Intake
    May 23, 2024

    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.

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

    Open for Intake
    May 16, 2024

    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.

  • Operating Assistance: Professional Arts Training Organizations

    September 15, 2022

    Operating Assistance

    Supports organizations that provide comprehensive programs of specialized training for professional artists and cultural workers or for those who are committed to pursuing professional careers in the arts.