Deadline: 15-May-25
The Canadian Heritage is pleased to invite applications for its Canada Arts Training Fund to support arts training in Canada and also contribute to the development of future artists and cultural leaders.
The CATF provides financial support for the ongoing operations of Canadian arts organizations that specialize in training artists for professional national or international artistic careers, at the highest levels.
CATF also promotes the development of professional artists such as actors, artistic directors, choreographers, circus artists, comedians, composers, dancers, deaf and disability artists, Indigenous artists, interdisciplinary artists, musicians, playwrights, performance artists and visual artists.
Priorities
- Funding priorities are Indigenous and equity arts training.
Eligible Activities
- You must demonstrate that your training activities:
- are clearly aligned with CATF program objectives and expected results
- are provided in Canada by a human and are mainly in-person in this digital era
- For the training of artists, you must demonstrate that the training:
- reinforces the leadership capacity of artists in their fields
- supports digital capacity building and transformation to help artists to understand, engage and respond to the cultural and social changes the digital world has produced in the arts sector.
Ineligible Activities
- The following training activities are not eligible:
- recreational classes
- programs that are not designed to prepare emerging artists for careers in the arts
- training provided by generative artificial intelligence (AI)
- professional training related to industries such as cultural and creative industries.
Eligibility Criteria
- Indigenous Organizations:
- To be eligible for funding, your Indigenous organization must be:
- a Canadian not-for-profit arts institution/organization incorporated under the Canada Not-For-Profit Corporations Act or under corresponding provincial or territorial legislation or
- Equivalent Indigenous peoples’ institutions in Canada. Indigenous includes First Nations (status, non-status), Inuit, and Métis and
- led by Indigenous people who occupy a majority of leadership/decision-making positions within the organization.
- has a stated mandate to primarily serve Indigenous people.
- All eligible organizations must:
- exist primarily to provide training to emerging artists for career in the arts or
- have an integral component within your overall activities that offers learning program to prepare emerging artists for career in the arts.
- Also, you must demonstrate that the training program:
- operates independently from a provincial/territorial educational program
- is governed by a Board of directors
- administers its own budget
- To be eligible for funding, your Indigenous organization must be:
- Equity Organizations:
- To be eligible for funding, your Equity organization must be:
- a Canadian not-for-profit arts institution/organization incorporated under the Canada Not-For-Profit Corporations Act or under corresponding provincial or territorial legislation or
- Equivalent Indigenous peoples’ institutions in Canada. Indigenous includes First Nations (status, non-status), Inuit, and Métis and
- led by individuals of equity groups who occupy a majority of leadership/decision-making positions within the organization. This criterion is flexible for Deaf and Disability organizations.
- has a stated mandate to primarily serve equity groups.
- All eligible organizations must:
- exist primarily to provide training to emerging artists for career in the arts or
- have an integral component within your overall activities that offers training to prepare emerging artists for careers in the arts.
- Also, you must demonstrate that the training program:
- operates independently from a provincial/territorial educational program
- is governed by a Board of directors
- administers its own budget
- To be eligible for funding, your Equity organization must be:
Ineligibility Criteria
- Federal organizations and federal Crown corporations are not eligible for funding.
For more information, visit Government of Canada.