Arts and Culture Grants program in Canada

Deadline: 20-Oct-21
The City of Richmond is pleased to announce Arts and Culture Grants program that aims to support a range of artistic and cultural activity including literary, visual, media, dance, theatre, music, multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and community-based arts, reflecting different cultural traditions as well as contemporary art forms and practices.

The program provides grants to support organizational capacity through Operating Assistance as well as one-time or time-limited initiatives through Project Assistance. Organizations may not apply for more than one City of Richmond grant per year.

Operating Grants are provided to support the annual programming and operating activities of eligible organizations. All grants are reviewed on a yearly basis and are not to be viewed by applicants as an ongoing source of funding.

Funding Information

Project grant funds may be requested for up to 50% of the total cost of the project, to a maximum of $5,000.

Eligible Activity

Examples of Eligible Activity:

The development of arts and cultural activity that reflects cultural traditions or contemporary artistic practices that will result in some form of dissemination or presentation to a broad public audience.
Public dissemination may include exhibitions, performance, publications, presentations, video, film, new media, radio, or web-based initiatives (not the development of organizational/program websites.)
Artisanal projects that include manual work of a high standard to create items that may be functional and/or decorative, including furniture, clothing, jewellery, watercraft, etc.
Collaborative and creative initiatives between professional artists and community members that will result in some form of public presentation and which clearly express community interests and issues and demonstrate a strong collaborative process.
Special requests for audio recordings, publications, film, video or web-based unique initiatives.
Artistic Residencies that facilitate learning, development and cultural exchange between professional artists or artisans and qualified host organizations

Eligibility Criteria

Project Assistance is available for new and/or developing arts and culture organizations, or established arts and culture organizations working on a project basis or undertaking a special one-time initiative.
Applicants must be registered as a non-profit society in good standing within the Province of BC, having been legally established and in operation for at least 6 months at the time of application deadline.
Applicants must be active in Richmond and may be based outside of Richmond so long as their projectMtakes place in Richmond, serves the Richmond community and employs Richmond artists (program may include some artists that are not local). For example, an art installation in Richmond organized by a Vancouver-based arts organization that employs Richmond artists and involves community engagement with Richmond residents would be eligible, but a concert in Richmond presented by a Burnaby-based organization would not be eligible.
Programming and services must be accessible to the public and publicized citywide, or in the case of umbrella organizations, must further the interests of artists, creators, arts organizations and elements of the arts community. The organization’s activities can include policy development, provision of services, and production of collective projects.
Applicants must be independent organizations with clear mandates that include the provision of public programs and/or services with an arts and culture focus.
All principal professional artists should be compensated for their participation commensurate with industry standards.
Applicants should have stable administration and artistic leadership, directed by recognized arts/culture professionals and/or experienced volunteers.
Applicants must have other cash revenue sources for their activity that may include self-generated or earned revenue (ticket sales, concession, memberships), funding from other levels of government federal) and private sector support (fundraising, foundations, sponsorship, cash and in-kind donations).
Applicants must provide independently prepared financial statements for the most recently completed fiscal year: an un-audited statement endorsed by two signing officers (with balance sheet and income statement, at minimum), review engagement or audit.