Arts Grants Call for Applications: Gender-Based Violence Prevention Projects (Canada)

The purpose of this call for applications, established in partnership with the Interministerial Women’s Secretariat, is to provide financial support for the creation and dissemination of artistic projects that raise public awareness of gender-based violence (GBV) and its impacts as well as promote prevention of GBV.

Artistic projects are accepted in the following fields of practice:

• crafts,
• dance,
• interdisciplinary arts,
• film and media arts,
• music and sound,
• theatre,
• visual arts,
• deaf and disability arts,
• circus arts, as well as
• writing and publishing.

This granting program is also intended to support opportunities to publicly present artistic works in order to increase access, understanding, and prevention of GBV through art, and to support the research and creation of works as well as the dissemination of completed works of art.

How much funding is available?

• Total funding available for all projects is $100,000. Of the total, $25,000 will be prioritized for Indigenous artists and/or works that focus on violence prevention in Indigenous communities, and/or Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ People (MMIWG2S).
• Total maximum grant amounts:
  • Established Professional Artists: $10,000
  • Emerging Professional Artists: $7,000

What are the eligibility requirements?

• This grant is available to individuals or small groups/bands at the established and emerging professional artist levels.
• New project submissions from an applicant in default on any reporting, project completion or financial obligation to Innovation PEI will not be reviewed until a resolution to the default is reached.
• Prince Edward Island-based Indigenous artists, groups (including ad-hoc groups) are eligible to apply. It is important to be recognized as an artist in the Indigenous community as the Peer Assessment Committee evaluating the projects will consider community connections.

What are the residency requirements?

• To apply for this granting program, you must have a PEI address as your primary residence for a minimum of twelve consecutive months. Artists on extended travel for their work are still considered PEI residents, but those who move their primary residence to another province or country within the twelve consecutive months previous to the application deadline are not eligible. Groups or bands must have a majority of members be residents of PEI.

Ineligible

• The following projects are not eligible for funding as part of this program:
  • purely commercial self-promotion ventures,
  • festivals, and
  • contests.
• Capital costs are not eligible.
• Amateur artists, students, and not-for-profit organizations are not eligible for funding.

For more information, visit Prince Edward Island.