Community Arts Programming Grant – Canada

Art Forms

ArtReach supports skill-building programs in emerging, popular, and traditional 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

Eligibility Criteria

• They fund programs
  • Coordinated and delivered by individual artists 13-29 or groups/ organizations/ collectives (grassroots or incorporated) led by people 13-29 from equity-deserving communities.
  • Offered to participants aged 13-29 from equity-deserving communities who face systemic barriers to accessing high-quality arts opportunities.
  • 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.
  • That are registration-based and serve the same group of participants throughout its duration.
• Applicant Eligibility
  • They fund
    • Unincorporated (grassroots) or incorporated non-profit organizations/ registered charities led by artists and cultural workers 13-29.
    • Individual artists aged 13-29.
    • Youth groups that are housed within larger not-for-profit or charitable organizations.
    • Applicants 30+ providing arts training opportunities to participants 13-29 facing severe barriers.

Rules

• Applicants can receive a maximum of three Community Arts Programming grant.
• Grantees must complete their current ArtReach-funded program and submit their final reports before re-applying for funding.
• Prep for approved programs cannot start earlier than May 1st of the year of application, and programming itself cannot start before June 1.
• Applicants may receive less than the amount requested.
• Applicants may only submit one grant application to this program per funding round.
• Grant Review Team members cannot apply to the round of funding they’re adjudicating.            ​

Ineligible

• They don’t fund
  • Drop-in programs, events, or festivals
  • Personal or collective projects
  • Art therapy programs
  • Programs whose primary activities are religious or political.

For more information, visit ArtReach.