Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects (Canada)

Multi- and inter-arts activities: are practices, initiatives and events that have two or more artistic forms present in equal balance in the creation, production and presentation of work. Artistic forms may remain separate or can be combined to create new, unified forms. Multi and inter-arts activities involve bringing art forms together in ways that make the activity unique and therefore not eligible for funding in OAC’s discipline-based programs in Theatre, Dance, Music, Literature, Visual Arts or Media Arts.

Categories

• The program has four categories:
  • Creation: supports the initial artistic costs of creating new multi- and inter-arts work, for research, exploration and experimentation
  • Production and Presentation: helps support the artistic production and presentation costs of multi- and inter-arts work
  • Series/Festivals: helps support the presentation and promotion costs of arts activities/events presented either at regular intervals or within a defined and concentrated period of time of one or more days
  • Development Initiatives: helps support the costs of activities and initiatives that significantly benefit Ontario’s multi and inter-arts sector. This includes professional development workshop series, training initiatives, conferences and other activities with a community impact. Projects cannot be related to creation, production or presentation activities of a single production. Professional development workshop series and training initiatives must include registration fees

Funding Information

• Creation: maximum $10,000
• Production and Presentation: maximum $20,000
• Series/Festivals: maximum $15,000
• Development Initiatives: maximum $8,000

What this program funds?

• artists’ fees
• production costs (for example, staging, technical equipment, costumes)
• purchase of small-scale equipment, software, electronics and similar materials required to carry out the project
• venue or studio rental
• marketing, promotion and administration costs
• childcare and other dependant care fees enabling individuals to take part in the project (this does not include regular, ongoing expenses)
• expenses related to making the project accessible to audience members and project participants (other than the applicant) who are Deaf or have a disability

What this program does not fund?

• events or activities that take place outside of Ontario
• projects eligible for funding in other OAC programs
• amateur, pre-professional, student or faculty projects
• events for which the presentation of artistic programming is not the primary purpose
• fundraising activities
• tours (see Touring and Circulation Projects)
• major capital expenditures, including buying, leasing or renovating buildings and purchase of major equipment

Eligibility Criteria

• professional artists who are Ontario residents
• ad hoc groups and collectives with 50 per cent of their members residing in Ontario
• incorporated not-for-profit Ontario-based arts organizations with a head office in Ontario
• non-arts organizations, ad hoc groups and collectives. They must have professional artists, arts professionals or curators (for example, an advisory committee) directly involved in making programming decisions for the project.

Ineligibility Criteria

• municipalities, colleges and universities
• students for whom the proposed activity is directly related to their graduate degree or thesis
• organizations that receive a grant in the Multi and Inter-Arts Organizations – Operating program
• organizations that receive an operating grant in other OAC programs, with the exception of organizations mandated to serve one or more of the OAC priority groups
• series or festivals not involving professional artists/arts professionals and/or directly in programming decisions.

For more information, visit Ontario Arts Council.