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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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 -
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Project Assistance
Access Support provides an additional contribution towards costs for specific accessibility services, rental equipment, and other supports required to carry out a project funded by the BC Arts Council (referred to as the “associated grant”). Read the guidelines at this -
Project Assistance: Professional Arts Training Organizations
Open for IntakeMay 31, 2022Project Assistance
Supports projects which assist with special training activities and the development of recognized arts and cultural training programs and organizations. -
Projects Assistance: Media Arts Organizations
Open for IntakeMay 31, 2022Project Assistance
Supports the development and creation of new or unique public programs and documentation by professional media arts organizations. -
Project Assistance: Museums and Indigenous Cultural Centres
Open for IntakeMay 31, 2022Project 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 IntakeMay 31, 2022Project 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 IntakeMay 31, 2022Project Assistance
Projects Assistance: Visual Arts Organizations supports the development, enrichment, and creation of new or unique public programming and documentation, including exhibitions, dissemination projects, new works, artists’ residencies, exploration of new artistic or curatorial practices, community engagement, and audience development. -
Project Assistance: Professional Performing Arts Organizations
Open for IntakeMay 31, 2022Project Assistance
Project Assistance: Professional Performing Arts Organizations supports initiatives in the development, creation, production, realization, dissemination or live performance of classical, experimental, original, traditional and contemporary performing art forms from all world cultures. Performing Arts includes dance, music, theatre, multidisciplinary or -
Individual Arts Awards: Professional Performing Artists
Open for IntakeMay 31, 2022Individual Arts Awards
Individual Arts Awards: Professional Performing Artists supports initiatives in the development, creation, production, realization, dissemination and/or live performance of classical, experimental, original, traditional and contemporary performing art forms from all world cultures. Performing Arts includes dance, music, theatre, multidisciplinary or -
Project Assistance: Literary Arts
Open for IntakeMay 31, 2022Project Assistance
Project Assistance: Literary Arts supports professional literary arts organizations in British Columbia to develop and promote Canadian literature and Canadian writers through publishing, presentation, and dissemination of works of literary, artistic, or cultural importance. This is achieved through support for: -
Individual Arts Awards: Media Artists
Open for IntakeJune 30, 2022Individual Arts Awards
Supports independent professional media artists to create specific projects. -
Early Career Development
Open for IntakeJune 30, 2022Project Assistance
Supports early career practitioners to develop their practice through internship, cohort, residency, and mentorship opportunities. -
Professional Development
Open for IntakeJune 30, 2022Project Assistance
Supports professional artists and arts & culture professionals to undertake specific learning activities to advance their practice or career. -
September 15, 2022
Operating 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. -
September 15, 2022
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. -
September 15, 2022
Operating Assistance
Supports non-profit performing arts organizations working in dance that sustain an annual artistic program. -
September 15, 2022
Operating Assistance
Supports non-profit performing arts organizations working in or across the disciplines of music that sustain an annual artistic program. -
September 15, 2022
Operating Assistance
Supports non-profit performing arts organizations working in theatre that sustain an annual artistic program. -
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. -
September 15, 2022
Operating Assistance
Supports book publishers committed to developing and promoting Canadian writers through publishing works of literary, artistic or cultural importance for the general public. -
September 15, 2022
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 15, 2022
Operating 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. -
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 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.
Recently Passed Deadlines
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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
This program is not currently being offered. 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 -
September 10, 2020
Project Assistance
Supports touring activities outside the province that will lead to enhanced professional opportunities. -
December 15, 2020
Project Assistance
Supports arts and cultural organizations to hire students for professional work experience through co-op placement and work-integrated learning programs. -
December 20, 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. -
January 4, 2021
Project Assistance
The Project Assistance: Pivot Program supports the B.C. arts and culture sector in adapting their organizations, programs and practices in response to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Pivot Program intends to support: Organizational Development and Transition – Projects that support organizations -
January 29, 2021
Project Assistance
Expanded Arts & Culture Resilience Supplement is a one-time funding program for B.C. arts and culture organizations facing financial impacts due to the COVID-19 pandemic. -
February 16, 2021
Project Assistance
This program is not currently being offered. The Pivot for Individuals program assists professional artists, cultural practitioners, and arts administrators to adapt and transition their practice in response to changes in the arts and culture sector or undertake learning activities -
September 30, 2021
Individual Arts Awards
Supports professional writers with specific creative writing projects. -
September 30, 2021
Operating 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. -
October 22, 2021
Project Assistance
Supports community arts councils and cultural organizations with either a specific project or to assist the production activities of the organization. -
December 6, 2021
Project Assistance
Supports professional visual artists, craft artists and independent critics or curators to create specific projects in their discipline. -
January 14, 2022
Project 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. All projects must clearly demonstrate how they benefit arts and cultural practitioners. The program aims to support projects that: Catalyze -
January 20, 2022
Project Assistance
COVID-19 continues to have a profound effect on arts and cultural organizations in B.C. and to illuminate the need to address racism and systemic inequities. The Arts Impact Grant is a responsive and flexible funding program. This grant allows applicants -
March 7, 2022
Project Assistance
Supports community-based arts and cultural organizations in British Columbia in the production of a local community arts festival. -
May 2, 2022
Individual Arts Awards
Supports BC residents with full-time arts training costs after they finish secondary school. -
May 17, 2022
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.