Deadline: 20-Mar-2024
Are you an established or an emerging arts or culture organization that needs a well-equipped venue to produce an event? Apply for the Theatre Rental Grants Program.
The TRG program is an in-kind grant stream and offers assistance to non-profit professional arts and cultural organizations for some of the costs when using the Vancouver Civic Theatres. Examples of these costs include Council approved rental rates, Front of House labour, in-house technical equipment, and some Technical labour (Head Carpenter, Head Electrician, and Head Sound). These grants support performing arts groups by providing access to well-equipped professional venues and to continue to support artists.
This program is for Vancouver-based, professional non-profit arts and cultural organizations that have a mission to develop, create, produce, present and disseminate artistic work for the benefit of the arts sector, in any artistic discipline (i.e. Indigenous arts, community arts, dance, interdisciplinary, literary, media, multidisciplinary, music, theatre, visual arts).
The program is for organizations that have a clear and relevant mission to deliver annual public artistic programs. These producing and presenting organizations range from Lunar New Year Celebration Festivals to Opera. They have identified that their performance requirements and audience estimates are a right fit with the available Civic Theatre spaces. They may be recently in corporated (minimum 6 months before grant deadline) or long-standing societies. They have demonstrated capacity to produce in a professional venue, deliver quality work that reflects range of diverse and creative expression of Vancouver, and promote the events to a broad Vancouver audience.
Eligibility Criteria
- To apply to this program, the organization must:
- Be a non-profit society, a community service co-op legally registered and in good standing with BC Registries and Services, a First Nations Band Council on whose unceded traditional homelands Vancouver sits, or a registered charity with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) OR
- Groups that are not incorporated as registered non-profits, co-ops, or charities may contact staff to determine if an application in partnership with a registered non-profit society, co-op, charity or First Nations Band council is eligible
- First-time applicants must provide documentation of non-profit, registered or charitable status, e.g., Certificate of Incorporation
- Provide equitable access to programs and services
- Provide respectful and safe working conditions for artists, staff, volunteers and contractors
- Have an active Board of Directors comprised of volunteers that are representative of the mission and people served
- Comply with all applicable laws, governing acts, regulations, bylaws and guidelines, including obtaining any necessary licenses, permits or approvals required for the project
- Have skilled leadership, and be working with artists and creative collaborators with the relevant lived experience, permission, knowledge, skills, and expertise to lead and contribute to the work
- Aim to compensate artists, cultural practitioners, and project contributors at standard industry rates.
Ineligible
- Events where the central focus or theme is not artistic or cultural
- Events that do not meet the program goals and eligibility criteria
- Events that have taken place prior to September 1, 2024
- Other City of Vancouver departments and branches including community centres.
- Social Service, Religious, Sports organizations or clubs.
- Administrative charges (insurance, licenses)
For more information, visit City of Vancouver.