Shevchenko Foundation Grant Program: Dance Sector (Canada)

Deadline: 01-Oct-2024

The Shevchenko Foundation is providing support to performance focused Canadian groups, ensembles, or collectives, in all forms of Ukrainian Canadian dance, including folk dance, ballet, folk ballet, and contemporary dance.

The Shevchenko Foundation’s grant-giving stewardship extends priority to projects and programs that:

• Contribute to enriching the Canadian experience with the beauty, passion, and diversity of Ukrainian Canadian culture;
• Contribute to strengthening the Ukrainian community in Canada;
• Share Ukrainian Canadian cultural contributions with a broad and diverse public on a community, regional or national level;
• Exhibit financial capability to undertake and sustain the project and/or program within the boundaries of a business plan, either as an organization or an individual;
• Employ new technologies and partnership models on how Ukrainian Canadian cultural heritage is created, produced, disseminated, and preserved.

Eligible Projects

• The Dance Sector of the Arts Pillar for Organizations provides funds toward:
  • Commissions by an established organization or collective for original dance choreography including accompanying music. Eligible expenses can include professional fees to choreographers, music arrangers, composers, musicians, and set and costume designers not under continuing contract to the applying organization.
  • Professional development and training workshop costs for external experts such as choreographers, mentors, and master teachers not under ongoing contract to the applying organization.
  • Concert production (costs of guest performer fees, producer fees, sound, lighting, facility rental, promotion, and advertising, etc.).
  • Canadian tours of Ukrainian Canadian dance groups, ensembles, or collectives (travel costs, concert production, presentation costs).
  • International tours of Ukrainian Canadian dance groups, ensembles, or collectives (travel costs, concert production, presentation costs) where there is industry standard box office revenue and/or industry standard fee for services presenter’s contract.
  • Commissioning by an established organization or collective for an original musical work or adaptation for dance (professional fees to Canadian composers and arrangers, research costs, etc.).
• Priority will be given to projects that:
  • Demonstrate their feasibility by providing a best-practice model for the delivery of all stages of the project, can provide evidence of realistic budgets, and can provide evidence of financial and/or in-kind supports from other sources.
  • Engage collaboration, partnership, and/or co-production with experienced mentors and/or existing dance organizations, arts centres, or festivals.

Who is eligible? 

• Organizations
  • Canadian not-for-profit community organizations, artist collectives, Canadian registered private businesses whose activities occur primarily in Canada, and Canadian chartered educational institutions.
  • Canadian not-for-profit professional, semi-professional and amateur groups governed by a board of directors or a body responsible for the organization.
  • Note: It is the responsibility of organizations working with children under the age of 18, who are funded by the Shevchenko Foundation, to ensure that they follow youth protection policies and procedures in their jurisdictions.
• How often can one apply? 
  • No new application will be accepted if a Final Report has not been submitted from a previous grant.
  • Applicants who are applying for more than one grant in the calendar year can do so only when the Final Report on the first project has been approved by the Shevchenko Foundation.
  • Applications for projects that are phased over more than one year will be accepted. Funding will be granted in phases, subject to meeting annual reporting requirements.

Ineligible 

• The Arts Pillar Dance Sector grant program does not provide funding for:
  • Year-end recitals, operational costs related to ongoing dance education programming, banquet costs in celebration of milestone anniversaries, nor adjudication costs and prizes of dance competitions.
  • Production and purchase of costumes.
  • Industry-defined ongoing operating programming, nor yearly overhead expenses of an arts organization.

For more information, visit Shevchenko Foundation.