Deadline: 19-Mar-25
Are you an established or an emerging arts or culture organization that needs a well-equipped venue to produce an event? Apply for the Theatre Rental Grants Program.
The TRG program is an in-kind grant stream and offers assistance to non-profit professional arts and cultural organizations for some of the costs when using the Vancouver Civic Theatres.
What grant funding can pay for?
- Venue fees, including the services of some City of Vancouver IATSE technicians during your theatre rental
- Some front-of-house fees
- Technical days and rehearsal uses
What the funding can’t pay for?
- Fundraising events for a third party (such as a group other than the applicant society)
- Events that aren’t aligned with the society’s mandate
- Administration charges (insurance, licences)
- Taxes (GST)
- Technical service charges above what’s included in a technical day (stage crew wages, dance floor installation, piano tuning, and more)
- Audience services labour for pre- and post-show events and receptions, and charges for merchandising, licensing and commission, additional security, stage door, and more
- Stage crew wages beyond what is included within the rental fee
Eligible Projects
- Your organization may apply for this grant to rent:
- The Orpheum
- The Annex
- Vancouver Playhouse
- Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Eligibility Criteria
- To apply to this program, the organization must:
- Be a non-profit society, a community service co-op legally registered and in good standing with BC Registries and Services, a First Nations Band Council on whose unceded traditional homelands Vancouver sits, or a registered charity with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) OR Groups that are not incorporated as registered non-profits, co-ops, or charities may contact staff to determine if an application in partnership with a registered non-profit society, co-op, charity or First Nations Band council is eligible
- First-time applicants must provide documentation of non-profit, registered or charitable status, e.g., Certificate of Incorporation
- Have an active presence in and deliver programs and services within Vancouver, or if led by either the xʷməθkʷəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples held in their traditional homelands
- Provide equitable access to programs and services
- Provide respectful and safe working conditions for artists, staff, volunteers and contractors
- Have an active Board of Directors comprised of volunteers that are representative of the mission and people served
- Comply with all applicable laws, governing acts, regulations, bylaws and guidelines, including obtaining any necessary licenses, permits or approvals required for the project
- Have skilled leadership, and be working with artists and creative collaborators with the relevant lived experience, permission, knowledge, skills, and expertise to lead and contribute to the work
- Aim to compensate artists, cultural practitioners, and project contributors at standard industry rates.
For more information, visit City of Vancouver.
