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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Arts Periodicals: Operating
Open for IntakeSeptember 30, 2020Operating Assistance
Supports a sustained artistic and editorial program by organizations that includes any form of artistic expression or social, cultural or intellectual commentary or inquiry through regular publication in print or electronic form. -
Dance Organizations: Operating
Open for IntakeSeptember 30, 2020Operating Assistance
Supports non-profit performing arts organizations working in dance that sustain an annual artistic program. -
Music Organizations: Operating
Open for IntakeSeptember 30, 2020Operating Assistance
Supports non-profit performing arts organizations working in or across the disciplines of music that sustain an annual artistic program. -
Theatre Organizations: Operating
Open for IntakeSeptember 30, 2020Operating Assistance
Supports non-profit performing arts organizations working in theatre that sustain an annual artistic program. -
Project Assistance: Creative Writers
Open for IntakeSeptember 30, 2020Individual Arts Awards
Supports professional writers with specific creative writing projects. -
Service Organizations - Operating
Open for IntakeSeptember 30, 2020Operating Assistance
Supports BC service organizations that provide a range of services to an established membership base comprised of allied arts organizations in BC. -
Book Publishers - Operating
Open for IntakeSeptember 30, 2020Operating Assistance
Supports book publishers committed to developing and promoting Canadian writers through publishing works of literary, artistic or cultural importance for the general public. -
Community Arts Organizations - Operating
Open for IntakeSeptember 30, 2020Operating Assistance
Supports organizations that provide public access to a range of artistic and cultural activities, develop and encourage leadership for arts and culture at the community level, and encourage support for arts and culture from local and regional governments. -
Media Arts Organizations - Operating
Open for IntakeSeptember 30, 2020Operating 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. -
Public Museums and Indigenous Cultural Centres - Operating
Open for IntakeSeptember 30, 2020Operating Assistance
Supports the public program activities of public museums and Indigenous cultural centres that sustain an annual artistic and curatorial program that includes creation, development, presentation, collections, and dissemination activities. -
Professional Arts Festivals - Operating
Open for IntakeSeptember 30, 2020Operating 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. -
Visual Arts Organizations - Operating
Open for IntakeSeptember 30, 2020Operating Assistance
Supports the public program activities of visual arts organizations that sustain an annual artistic and curatorial program that includes creation, development, presentation, collections, and dissemination activities. -
Project Assistance: Community Arts Organizations
Open for IntakeOctober 15, 2020Project Assistance
Supports community arts councils and cultural organizations with either a specific project or to assist the production activities of the organization. -
Project Assistance: Media Arts Organizations
Open for IntakeOctober 15, 2020Project Assistance
Supports the development and creation of new or unique public programs and documentation by professional media arts organizations. -
Projects Assistance: Museums and Indigenous Cultural Centres
Open for IntakeOctober 15, 2020Project Assistance
Supports the development, enrichment, and creation of new or unique public programming and documentation, including exhibitions, dissemination projects, artists’ residencies, exploration of new forms, audience development or collections management projects. -
Project Assistance: Professional Arts Festivals
Open for IntakeOctober 15, 2020Project Assistance
Supports the development, enrichment and creation of new or unique public programming through a specific project, component or programming initiative within the festival. -
Project Assistance: Visual Arts Organizations
Open for IntakeOctober 15, 2020Project Assistance
Projects Assistance: Visual Arts Organizations supports the development, enrichment, and creation of new or unique public programming and documentation, including exhibitions, dissemination projects, artists’ residencies, exploration of new forms, and audience development. COVID-19 As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, we -
Project Assistance: Arts Infrastructure Program
Open for IntakeOctober 19, 2020Project Assistance
Project Assistance: Arts Infrastructure enables eligible organizations to develop and enhance spaces that support the work of B.C.’s arts and cultural practitioners. The program aims to support projects that: Catalyze the development of new or existing arts and cultural spaces -
Project Assistance: Book Publishers
Open for IntakeOctober 22, 2020Project Assistance
Supports book publishers committed to developing and promoting Canadian writers to publish up to three eligible titles in the proposed year.
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. -
Project Assistance
Supports organizations on operating assistance with flexible, responsive funding for capacity-building projects. -
July 2, 2019
Project Assistance
Supports arts and cultural organizations undertake significant strategic projects to address artistic and organizational opportunities and challenges. -
November 15, 2019
Individual Arts Awards
Supports professional visual artists, craft artists and independent critics or curators to create specific projects in their discipline. -
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. -
February 21, 2020
Project Assistance
Supports community-based arts and cultural organizations in British Columbia in the production of a local community arts festival. -
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 -
May 15, 2020
Project 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. -
May 15, 2020
Individual 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. -
May 30, 2020
Project Assistance
Supports initiatives in the development, creation, production and/or live performance of classical, experimental, original, traditional and contemporary art forms from all world cultures. -
May 30, 2020
Project Assistance
Supports initiatives in the development, creation, production and/or live performance of classical, experimental, original, traditional and contemporary art forms from all world cultures. -
May 30, 2020
Project Assistance
Supports initiatives in the development, creation, production and/or live performance of classical, experimental, original, traditional and contemporary art forms from all world cultures. -
May 30, 2020
Project Assistance
Supports the development, enrichment and creation of new or unique public programming in the literary arts. -
May 30, 2020
Project Assistance
Supports the development, enrichment and creation of new or unique projects by BC-based arts periodicals and associated public programming. -
May 31, 2020
Individual Arts Awards
Supports independent professional media artists to create specific projects. -
May 31, 2020
Project Assistance
To help with the impacts of COVID-19, organizations who have received at least one BC Arts Council project assistance grant in the past three years within eligible programs can apply for a one-time grant of $5000. -
June 30, 2020
Individual Arts Awards
The Microgrant Pilot Program is intended to support professional artists and cultural practitioners in B.C. to adapt either an existing work or their professional practice to respond to emergent needs or changes in the arts and culture sector. The goal -
July 15, 2020
Project Assistance
Supports early career practitioners to develop their practice through internship, cohort, residency, and mentorship opportunities. -
August 1, 2020
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. -
August 1, 2020
Project Assistance
Supports touring activities outside the province that will lead to enhanced professional opportunities.