Deadline: 01-Oct-2024
The Shevchenko Foundation is providing support to performance-focussed Canadian organizations or collectives, working in all forms of theatre, expressing a tangible connection to the Ukrainian Canadian experience.
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 Theatre Sector of the Arts Pillar for Organizations provides funds toward:
- Theatre production projects of new works or new and innovative concepts for productions of pre-existing dramatic material (guest performer fees, producer fees, sound, lighting, facility rental, promotion and advertising, etc.)
- Tours of Ukrainian Canadian theatre groups or collectives (travel costs, concert production, presentation costs)
- International tours of Ukrainian Canadian theatre groups, ensembles or collectives (travel costs, concert production, presentation costs) where there is industry standard box office revenue and/or an industry standard fee for services presenter’s contract.
- Theatre festival programming costs (costs of guest artists, producer fees, facility rental, sound, lighting, promotion and advertising, etc.)
- Professional development and training workshop costs for external mentors and master teachers, who are not under ongoing contract to the applying organization
- Commissioning by an established organization or collective for an original theatre work, adaptation or translation (professional fees to Canadian playwrights, 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 inkind supports from other sources.
- Engage collaboration, partnership, and/or co-production with experienced mentors and/or existing theatre 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.
- Project grant support is not provided for industry defined ongoing annual operating programming nor yearly overhead expenses of an arts organization.
For more information, visit Shevchenko Foundation.