ArtReach Community Arts Programming Grant (Canada)

Art Forms

• ArtReach supports skill-building programs in emerging, popular, andtraditional art forms, as well as artrepreneurship.
  • Hands-on art-making
    • This includes but is not limited to the following disciplines: music creation/ recording/ production, dance, drama/ theatre/ performing arts, creative writing, poetry, spoken word, carnival and circus, Indigenous arts, film, TV, radio, podcasting, culinary arts, photography, digital media, multimedia, visual arts, zine-making, street art, graphic design, textiles, storytelling, fashion design, aesthetics, floral design, etc.
  • Artrepreneurship
    • ArtReach also supports programs that provide artistic professional development (artrepreneurship) to youth participants. This includes the development of skills needed to succeed as an artist (EG. branding and marketing as an artist, arts administration, selling your art, exhibition planning, writing artist grants, portfolio development, legal considerations for artists such as copyright and IP, etc.). Artrepreneurship programs do not require hands-on art making as part of programming

Funding Information

• Stream 1
  • Who: Any applicant
  • What: Up to $10,000 for your program
• Stream 2
  • Who: Anyone funded by ArtReach before (as an individual artist, a group/organization/collective, or as a lead team member of a previously funded group/ organization/collective)
  • What: Up to $15,000 for your program

Who they fund?

• Unincorporated/ grassroots groups, incorporated non-profit organizations, and registered charities led by artists and arts leaders 13-29
• Individual artists aged 13-29
• Youth groups that are housed within organizations led by people 30+

What they do not fund?

• Drop-in programs, events, or festivals
• Personal or collective projects
• Art therapy programs
• Programs whose primary activities are religious or political

Eligibility Criteria

• Coordinated and delivered by individual artists 13-29 or groups/organizations/collectives led by people 13-29 from equitydeserving communities
• Offered to participants aged 13-29
• Led by and serving people from equity-deserving communities
• Delivered in Toronto, by a Toronto-based applicant, for participants in Toronto (this includes only the City of Toronto, Scarborough, North York, and Etobicoke)
• Free for participants to engage in
• Focused on the arts and artistic skill-building. Other benefits/focuses must be secondary.

For more information, visit ArtReach.