Grant Programs

  • Application Assistance

    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 Council grant programs.

  • Arts Impact Grant: Transformation and Sustainability

    June 3, 2026

    Project Assistance

    Arts Impact Grants are responsive and flexible funding for arts and culture organizations and collectives. The intention of the program is to allow applicants to prioritize a specific project or group of related activities that will provide the most meaningful impact to their organization, artistic practice, or to their community.

  • Arts Infrastructure Program

    Open for Intake
    November 12, 2026

    Project Assistance

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

  • Professional Development

    Open for Intake
    September 23, 2026

    Individual Arts Grants

    Supports professional artists and arts & culture professionals to undertake specific learning activities to advance their practice or career.

  • Project Assistance: Professional Arts Festivals

    October 22, 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.

  • Operating Assistance: Professional Arts Festivals

    Open for Intake
    October 8, 2026

    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

    Open for Intake
    October 8, 2026

    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

    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.