Deadline: 01-Oct-2024
The Shevchenko Foundation is seeking applications to support performance focused Canadian groups, ensembles, choirs and orchestras, working in all forms of traditional, classical, liturgical, and new music, influenced by Ukrainian heritage.
The Arts Pillar Music Sector grant program does not provide funding for year-end recitals, operational costs related to ongoing music education programming, nor adjudication costs and prizes of music competitions.
Project grant support is not provided for industry defined ongoing annual operating programming nor yearly overhead expenses of an arts organization.
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 Music Sector of the Arts Pillar for Organizations provides funds toward:
- Concert production (costs of guest performers fees, producer fees, sound, lighting, facility rental, promotion and advertising, etc.)
- Tours of Ukrainian Canadian music groups, ensembles or collectives (travel costs, concert production, presentation costs)
- Music festival programming (costs of guest artists, producer fees, facility rental, sound, lighting, promotion and advertising, etc.)
- Sound recordings (recording costs, musicians’ fees, distribution costs. Applicants must articulate their recording product sales strategy and clearly state how they accommodate new technology for music content dissemination in a digital marketplace.
- Professional development and training workshop costs for external experts such as conductors and master teachers, who are not under ongoing contract to the applying organization.
- Commissioning by an established organization or collective for an original musical work or adaptation (professional fees to Canadian composers and arrangers, research costs, etc.)
- Priority will be given to projects that can 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.
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.
For more information, visit Shevchenko Foundation.