Canada: Arts-Based Community Development & Leon and Thea Koerner Award

Deadline: 17-May-22

The British Columbia (BC) Arts Council is pleased to announce the Arts-Based Community Development (ABCD) & Leon and Thea Koerner Award.

Arts-Based Community Development (ABCD) supports community organizations to engage professional artists in the development and delivery of community-based, arts-centered activities that contribute to a tangible and active understanding of arts and culture as a path to health, well-being, and human dignity and celebration.

Categories

This program provides support in two categories:
- New Work, which:
  - Supports one-time projects that create new artistic work through collaborative, community-based arts and cultural activity with a specified community. These projects must have a specified public outcome.
  - Recognizes the long-term commitment required of community-engaged practice by allowing projects with a phased approach over a maximum of three years.
- A-BCD Skills Development and Knowledge Transfer, which:
  - Supports projects which assist in developing skills for artists to initiate and conduct arts-based community development activities.
  - Creates opportunities for experienced arts-based community development practitioners to realize new ways of knowledge sharing, including training or mentoring artists and social service practitioners in safe and effective approaches to arts-based community development.
  - Enhances the capacity of artists to provide leadership by offering them an opportunity to develop their practice as a means of community transformation or social change.

Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible to apply for both programs, the applicant must:
- Be a professional or community arts organization, registered and in good standing as a non-profit society or community service co-op in B.C. for at least one fiscal year prior to application, with a dedicated arts and cultural purpose, and working in collaboration with a specified community.
To be eligible for both programs, the project must:
- Use arts-based community development principles and align with one of the categories .
- Demonstrate confirmed professional artistic expertise. Professional artists may work in any discipline, traditional or contemporary, and must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents residing in B.C. for at least one year prior to the application.
- Demonstrate confirmed community development expertise.
Leon and Thea Koerner Award
- In addition, to be eligible for the LTK Award the:
  - Applicant must also be a registered charity or other qualified donees as defined by the Income Tax Act (Canada), including First Nations that are registered as such with the Canada Revenue Agency.
  - The project must use professional arts-based activity in collaboration with a confirmed social-service agency.