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.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.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.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.September 15, 2022