Individual Arts Grants: Performing Artists

Description

Individual Arts Grants: Performing Artists supports established B.C.-based performing artists, playwrights, producers, and arts and culture practitioners in the development, production, performance, or creation of new or unique performing arts works. BC Arts Council grant programs support a wide variety of practices within the performing arts, including:

  • Dance (performance, choreography)
  • Music (audio or sound art, composition, conducting, music production, performance for instruments or voice)
  • Theatre (acting, applied theatre, design, devising, directing, musical theatre, playwriting, production and stage management, technical direction)
  • Multidisciplinary/Other performing arts practices (interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary, comedy, circus, storytelling, clown)

Projects can include activities that span multiple phases of the creative process, such as:

  • Creation of new work (early drafts, research, composition, creation-based residencies)
  • Project development (workshopping, presentations-in-development, collaborations, stage readings, talkbacks)
  • Presentation (live performance, world premieres, full productions, post-production, self-produced tours)

Program Guidelines (PDF)

Application Preview (Word)

Application Checklist (PDF)

 

Registration will close at 11:59 p.m. (Pacific Time) on Wednesday, May 20, 2026.  This is five business days before the grant deadline. 
If you try to register after this time, you will not be able to apply for this intake. 
Applications are open until 11:59 p.m. (Pacific Time) on Wednesday, May 27, 2026. 
 

Review the Program Guidelines to learn about:

  • How to apply
  • Who can apply
  • Eligible projects and expenses
  • Exclusions
  • Grant amounts (requests up to $25,000)
  • What is needed for the application, including support material
  • How applications will be assessed

Please review the Program Guidelines before contacting the Program Advisor. 

Resources

Application Assistance
This program provides funding for support services required to create and submit grant applications, project updates, and final reports for BC Arts Council grants.

Access Support
This program provides additional funding to support access costs associated with a project funded by a BC Arts Council grant.

Sample Resume (Word)

Sample CV (Word)

Glossary

How to Apply

Applications are submitted through the Grant Management System.

New applicants must register and create a profile in the online system by 11:59 p.m. (Pacific Time) on Wednesday, May 20, 2026 to access grant applications for the Individual Arts Grants: Performing Artists. Once registered in the system, grant applications will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. (Pacific Time) on Wednesday, May 27, 2026. 

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