Deadline: 30-Apr-23
The Canada Council is seeking nominations for the Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts, an annual prize that recognizes the highest level of artistic merit, distinguished career achievement, and outstanding contribution by a Canadian professional artist in music, theatre or dance.
The prize is awarded on a 4-year cycle – in dance, theatre, and music. The prize to be awarded in 2023 will be in the field of theatre.
The Canada Council is committed to equity and inclusion, and encourages applications and nominations from individuals, groups and organizations from culturally diverse, Deaf, disability and official language minority communities. The Canada Council recognizes and affirms the Aboriginal and treaty rights of the Indigenous peoples of this land and encourages applications and nominations from First Nations, Inuit and Métis individuals, groups, and organizations in all its programs. Measures are in place in all programs to support these commitments.
Prize Information
- Prize amount: $50,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Candidates must be nominated by 1 nominator; either an individual or an organization from the Canadian professional performing arts community.
- This prize recognizes individual achievement or artistic partnerships. An artistic partnership may include up to 3 individuals who have developed a singular artistic practice. Each artist must meet the eligibility requirements below.
- Nominees must:
- Be a professional artist in the performing arts
- Be actively involved in the performing arts in Canada or have spent the majority of their artistic career in Canada
- Have created, as creative and/or interpretive artists, an outstanding and distinguished body of work in any theatre forms or genres over a significant period
- Have work that has been recognized at national and international levels
- Be Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada as defined by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. They do not need to be living in Canada when their nomination is submitted.
- Be living as of the nomination deadline date.
Nomination Assistance
- Application/Nomination Assistance contributes to costs for services to help with a prize application or nomination for individuals who self-identify as:
- Deaf, hard of hearing, having a disability or living with a mental illness
- First Nations, Inuit or Métis facing language, geographic and/or cultural barriers.
- To submit a request, contact the Prizes team 1 to 4 weeks prior to the deadline.
Ineligible nominees
- Organizations cannot be nominated
- Members of the Board of the Canada Council are not eligible during their term and for 6 months following the end of their term.
For more information, visit Canada Council.