Entries open for Share – Artists in Communities Grant (Canada)

Funding Information

• Micro-grant: $1,000 (for individual applicants only)
• Small scale: up to $7,500
• Large scale: up to $15,000
• Large scale grants over $7,500 must have a matching amount of revenue within the budget from other sources equal to or greater than the amount requested from MAC.

Ineligible Activities

• The following activities are ineligible in most of MAC’s programs, with some exceptions:
  • Activities that do not have art as a primary focus
    • Activities that are predominantly political, religious, academic, or sports-related
    • Art therapy in all disciplines, where the primary intention is therapeutic as opposed to artistic
    • Journalistic podcasts
    • Fundraising activities and contributions to endowment funds
    • Academic writing and publishing
    • Presentations of academic papers at academic conferences
    • Youth activities that are not led by a professional artist
    • Equipment purchases that constitute more than 25% of the MAC grant request with the exception of the Support-Strengthen grants
  • Activity which prioritizes sales over the creation of artist work
    • Commercial, corporate, or industrial production work in any discipline. Example: promotional videos
    • Travel guidebooks, how-to books, reference books, self-help books, cookbooks, catalogues of exhibitions, trade or professional periodicals and books
    • Previously published material
  • Activities where the applicant does not have creative control over the work
    • Works commissioned by a government agency
    • Assistant directing
  • Activities that do not follow standards of the art practice or sector
    • Activities carried out by groups and organizations that are not planning to pay fees, honoraria or royalties to artists and performers
    • Printing and distribution costs of literary materials that are not produced by a professional publisher
  • Activities outside Manitoba or without a majority of Manitobans
    • Touring outside the province of Manitoba
    • Activities that do not employ a majority of Manitoban professional artists, arts/cultural workers, or Indigenous Knowledge Keepers
  • Activities that are funded through other provincial government funding
    • Music recording and music videos, with the exception of the Indigenous 360 grants
    • Television projects

Eligibility Criteria

• MAC accepts applications from applicants who are:
  • Professional artists
  • Arts/cultural professionals
  • Indigenous Knowledge Keepers
  • Students of the arts
  • Professional arts groups
  • Professional not-for-profit arts organizations
  • Professional for-profit arts organizations (book and periodical publishers)
  • Professional arts service organizations
  • Community not-for-profit organizations
• MAC also accepts nominations for their Recognize – Prizes program. Any person, group, or organization that has no conflict of interest with the nominee can submit a nomination.
• Manitoba residents
  • To apply for a MAC grant, you must have a permanent physical address in Manitoba. You also must have lived in Manitoba for at least one full year before applying for a MAC grant.
  • If you live in Manitoba, you can be absent from the province for up to one year if:
    • The absence is temporary (for example: because of an artistic opportunity, or because you’re in school);
    • You do not apply for public funding from the province or country where you are temporarily living.

Ineligibility Criteria

• The following organizations are generally ineligible to apply for all Manitoba Arts Council grants:
  • Museums and Heritage groups
  • Libraries
  • Organizations, affiliated with large institutions, that are not financially, curatorially, and artistically independent
  • Municipalities and sub-committees of municipalities
  • Charitable Foundations
  • Organizations that directly or indirectly receive ongoing funding from the Department of Sport, Culture and Heritage.

Application Requirements

• MAC welcomes applications in both official languages. When MAC receives applications in French, they select bilingual assessors who are familiar with your discipline and activities to sit on the assessment panel. An assessment panel that includes at least one French application will have a minimum of one bilingual assessor.
• Portions of the application will also be translated into English for non-French speaking assessors. Support material will not be translated.
• When parts of an application need to be translated, you have two options:
  • MAC will translate the application for you
  • You can hire a translator of your choice and MAC will then repay you at a rate of $0.27 per word. MAC will let you know which portions need translation.

For more information, visit National Youth Council of Ireland.