Grant Programs
The grant programs offered through the BC Arts Council are listed below. The search bar at the top of the page can be used to filter the programs by applicant type, discipline or program type. You can also sort the list by program title or deadline.
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DisciplinesDetails
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Arts-Based Community Development & Leon and Thea Koerner Award
Open for IntakeMay 15, 2020Project Assistance
Supports projects that develop and extend the practice and understanding of arts-based community development through the processes of creating new work, producing events, or developing resource materials for arts-based community development practitioners. -
Scholarship Awards
Open for IntakeMay 15, 2020Individual Arts Awards
Supports BC residents with full-time arts training costs after they finish secondary school. -
May 30, 2020
Project Assistance
Supports projects which assist with special training activities and the development of recognized arts and cultural training programs and organizations. -
Professional Development - August Intake
Open for IntakeAugust 1, 2020Project Assistance
Supports professional artists and arts & culture professionals to take advantage of opportunities which require travel or to undertake specific learning activities to advance their practice or career. -
Touring Initiatives - August Intake
Open for IntakeAugust 1, 2020Project Assistance
Supports touring activities outside the province that will lead to enhanced professional opportunities.
Recently Passed Deadlines
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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. -
Project Assistance
Supports professional artists and arts & culture professionals to take advantage of opportunities which require travel or to undertake specific learning activities to advance their practice or career. -
Project Assistance
Supports touring activities outside the province that will lead to enhanced professional opportunities. -
Project Assistance
Supports organizations on operating assistance with flexible, responsive funding for capacity-building projects. -
May 31, 2019
Individual Arts Awards
Supports independent professional media artists to create specific projects. -
June 15, 2019
Project Assistance
Supports early career practitioners to develop their practice through internship, cohort, residency, and mentorship opportunities. -
July 2, 2019
Project Assistance
Supports arts and cultural organizations undertake significant strategic projects to address artistic and organizational opportunities and challenges. -
September 30, 2019
Operating Assistance
Supports BC service organizations that provide a range of services to an established membership base comprised of allied arts organizations in BC. -
September 30, 2019
Operating Assistance
Support organizations that sustain an annual artistic program encompassing production, distribution, collections and dissemination activities. Media arts are defined as works in film, video, audio/sound art and new media. -
September 30, 2019
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. -
September 30, 2019
Project Assistance
Supports organizations on operating assistance with flexible, responsive funding for capacity-building projects. -
October 15, 2019
Project Assistance
Supports the development and creation of new or unique public programs and documentation by professional media arts organizations. -
October 15, 2019
Project Assistance
Supports the development, enrichment and creation of new or unique public programming through a specific project, component or programming initiative within the festival. -
December 1, 2019
Project Assistance
Supports professional artists and arts & culture professionals to take advantage of opportunities which require travel or to undertake specific learning activities to advance their practice or career. -
December 1, 2019
Project Assistance
Supports touring activities outside the province that will lead to enhanced professional opportunities. -
December 15, 2019
Project Assistance
Supports arts and cultural organizations to hire students for professional work experience through co-op placement and work-integrated learning programs. -
January 15, 2020
Project Assistance
Supports organizations taking innovative and inspiring approaches to actively engaging British Columbia’s young people with arts and culture programming as participants, makers, or audiences. -
March 8, 2020
Project Assistance
The In-Province Arts Touring & Circulation Project Assistance Pilot Program supports the circulation and exposure of B.C. art and artists within B.C. Awards under this program are intended to support opportunities for arts organizations, independent artists, and collectives, groups or