Indigenous Arts Program Pilot

Find your registration type

Answer a few questions to identify how you should register in the online grants management system.

This registration pathway offers guidance for how to register in the online grants management system. However, it does not take into account all aspects of program eligibility.

Your registration will still undergo a secondary check, and additional information may be requested before your registration can be approved. Review the program guidelines and other resources available on the program webpages to learn more about your eligibility as an applicant, and about eligible projects.

Reach out to a program advisor if you need assistance.

Continue

Registration pathQuestion 1 of 7

Are you an Individual, applying for work you are doing on your own, without collaborators?

Registration pathQuestion 2 of 7

Are you applying on behalf of an Indigenous-led, registered non-profit organization or a First Nations Governing Body?

Registration pathQuestion 4 of 7

Is your organization a Museum, or an Indigenous Cultural Centre?

Do you hold Indigenous art or cultural belongings, and have a public space to display them in?

Registration pathQuestion 5 of 7

Is your organization an Arts Organization?

An Arts Organization is a registered non-profit or community service co-operative whose primary focus is on arts. Do your operations and activities reflect a main arts purpose or mandate and include public arts programming, services or experiences?

Registration pathQuestion 6 of 7

Does your Indigenous-led, registered non-profit organization have a broad mandate that is not primarily focused on arts and culture, but you do offer arts and culture programming?

Registration pathQuestion 3 of 7

Are you applying as part of a formal collective who has a history of working together?

Registration pathQuestion 4 of 7

Are all the members of your collective Indigenous?

Registration pathQuestion 5 of 7

Is your collective made up of three people or more?

Registration pathQuestion 6 of 7

Do at least 3 members of the collective meet the following criteria:

  • Have a minimum of 2 years of established practice in their field, following basic training, with roles that hold creative control of projects
  • Can demonstrate previous work as an individual practitioner, including at least one public event for which they received an artist fee
  • Have lived in BC for the past 12 months prior to the application deadline
Registration pathQuestion 7 of 7

Does your collective meet the following criteria?

  • Have a demonstrated body of previous work by current members of the collective
  • At least one public presentation of work by the current collective for which you received an artist fee
  • The intention to continue working together with current members as a collective on future projects

Great!

Register in the online system as an Individual and start your application once your registration is confirmed.

For the application question “I am applying on behalf of…” choose “an individual.”

Review the Guidelines for Individuals and Groups.

Register in the online grants management system as a First Nations Band Council and Indigenous Community Organization and start your application once your registration is confirmed.

Review Guidelines for Organizations and Collectives

Register in the online grants management system as a Publisher – Books and Literary Periodicals and start your application once your registration is confirmed.

Review Guidelines for Organizations and Collectives

Register in the online grants management system as a Museum or Indigenous Cultural Centre and start your application once your registration is confirmed.

Review Guidelines for Organizations and Collectives

Register in the online grants management system as an Arts Organization and start your application once your registration is confirmed.

Review Guidelines for Organizations and Collectives

Register as a First Nations Band Council and Indigenous Community Organization.

Review Guidelines for Organizations and Collectives

Contact a program advisor to discuss your organization.

Choose one eligible person to apply on your group’s behalf.

Register in the online system as an Individual and start your application once your registration is confirmed.

For the application question “I am applying on behalf of…” choose “a group or collaboration.”

Review the Guidelines for Individuals and Groups.

While your collective is not eligible to apply to this program, individual Indigenous members of your collective may apply to this program for a project that they are leading and have creative authority over.

Review the Guidelines for Individuals and Groups.

Choose one eligible person to apply on your collective’s behalf.

Register in the online system as an Individual and start your application once your registration is approved.

For the application question “I am applying on behalf of…” choose “a group or collaboration.”

Follow the Guidelines for Individuals and Groups.

Choose one eligible person to apply on your collective’s behalf.

Register in the online system as an Individual and start your application once your registration is approved.

For the application question “I am applying on behalf of…” choose “a group or collaboration.”

Review the Guidelines for Individuals and Groups.

Choose one eligible person to apply on your collective’s behalf.

Register in the online system as an Individual and start your application once your registration is approved.

For the application question “I am applying on behalf of…” choose “a group or collaboration.”

Follow the Guidelines for Individuals and Groups.

Register in the Grants Management system as an Arts or Curatorial Collective and start your application once your registration is approved.

For the application question “I am applying on behalf of…” choose “a collective.”

Review the Guidelines for Organizations and Collectives.