Grant Programs
If you are interested, a calendar showing the annual grant program cycles is now available by clicking on Funding (see top bar).
All grant programs offered through the BC Arts Council are listed below, with the ones currently open listed first. The search bar at the top of this page can be used to filter the programs by applicant type, field of practice or program type. You can also sort the list by program title or deadline.
Programs that are not open at this time are listed at the bottom of this page for information only. As they are opened, they will move up the list.
CLICK on the Title of the program listed below for detailed information.
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Fields of PracticeDetails
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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 -
Ongoing
Project Assistance
Access Support provides an additional contribution towards costs for specific accessibility services and supplies, rental equipment, and other supports required to carry out a project funded by the BC Arts Council (referred to as the “associated grant”). -
Professional Development
Open for IntakeApril 12, 2024Individual Arts Grants
Supports professional artists and arts & culture professionals to undertake specific learning activities to advance their practice or career. -
Scholarship Program
Open for IntakeApril 30, 2024Individual Arts Awards
Supports BC residents with full-time arts training costs after they finish secondary school. -
Arts Circulation and Touring
Open for IntakeMay 1, 2024Project Assistance
Arts Circulation and Touring supports eligible arts and culture organizations, collectives and individuals with circulation and touring activities both within British Columbia and outside of the province. Grants received in this program are intended to enhance professional and artistic opportunities and exposure of B.C. artists, collectives, and arts organizations regionally, nationally, and internationally. Assistance through this program is available to arts and culture organizations, collectives and to individual art practitioners through three categories.
Recently Passed Deadlines
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May 31, 2023
Individual Arts Grants
See our Grant Program Calendar for upcoming BC Arts Council programs. Individual Arts Grants: Professional Performing Artists supports initiatives in the development, creation, production, realization, dissemination or live performance of classical, experimental, original, traditional and contemporary performing art forms from -
June 23, 2023
Individual Arts Grants
Supports independent professional media artists to create specific projects. -
June 30, 2023
Project Assistance
See our Grant Program Calendar 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; participate in knowledge transfer, -
October 6, 2023
Individual Arts Grants
Supports professional writers with specific creative writing projects. -
December 6, 2023
Individual Arts Grants
See our Grant Program Calendar for upcoming BC Arts Council programs. Individual Arts Grants: Visual Artists supports professional visual artists, contemporary and traditional craft artists, and independent critics and curators with the creation of specific projects. Grants are available to