Deadline: 15-Jul-22
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts (AFA) has announced an open call for the Summer School Project Funding Program.
This funding supports organizations in delivering residence-based art summer schools that offer:
- an arts intensive training experience in any discipline through technical skills workshops with professional artists and instructors
- opportunities for young people from across the province to engage in the creative process
Eligible Projects
Eligible summer school projects must:
- consist of residence-based art-intensive camp programs of no less than five (5) consecutive days in length where students are provided with supervision, meals and overnight accommodation
- deliver arts programming to students ages 11-19 years
- provide students access to Alberta’s professional artists and instructors
- provide a daily regime of workshops and other hands-on activities for students to learn arts skill techniques and actively engage in creative process learning
- provide adequate participant supervision and safety requirements
- deliver age-appropriate curriculum and course content
- encourage participants to discover and express their creative potential
- provide workshops and other activity in an appropriate inclusive environment
- encourage province-wide participation
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible for this funding, applicants must be:
- registered not-for-profit organizations
- registered and in good standing in Alberta under the appropriate legislation, for at least one year prior to the deadline
- have been in operation for at least one full year prior to the deadline
- have at least 50% of the organization’s board members, or ruling council, living in Alberta
- demonstrate adherence to good governance principles, efficient administration practices and commitment to fiscal responsibility
- demonstrate financial stability, in the judgment of the AFA, for at least one year
- operate as a stand-alone organization at arm’s length from municipalities, commercial enterprises or schools
- have the authority to provide residence-based programming for minors
- have previous experience organizing, designing and operating residence-based art programming
- Previous grant recipients must have met reporting requirements in order to be eligible to receive funding.
- Two or more organizations that satisfy the eligibility criteria may apply to collaborate to operate a summer arts school program. A partnership project must be submitted through one primary organization. The primary organization must designate the main contact for all requirements of the grant.
- Partnership projects must demonstrate that:
- control and responsibilities in the partnership are shared equally amongst all partners
- knowledge and practices will be shared and exchanged for the benefit of all project partners
- the partnership results in activity that is beyond the normal programming of partnering organizations
- the project could not be otherwise completed without the existence of the partnership
Ineligible
- municipalities
- commercial enterprises
- schools
- groups that are not arm’s length from municipalities, commercial enterprises or schools
- organizations that engage primarily in competition-based activity
For more information, visit https://affta.ab.ca/funding/find-funding/summer-school-project-funding