Annual Support to Aboriginal Peoples Dance Companies, Organizations and Collectives
NEW THIS YEAR: CADAC Financial Reporting
Deadline
1 November
Program Objective
The program of Annual Support to Aboriginal Peoples Dance Companies, Organizations and Collectives provides annual operating funding. The objective of the program is to support the creation, production, revival and presentation of significant dance works in traditional dance and contemporary dance forms.
Program Description
These grants contribute to the overall cost of ongoing activities, or operations, which can include research and creation of new work, remounts, company classes, master classes, choreographic labs, workshops, commissions, home market activities (such as self-presentations, school shows, lecture demonstrations and presentations), and the administrative support required to sustain these activities.
Touring and international co-production activities are supported through other grant programs, but are reflected in this application. The professional activities of individual company members may be referenced in this application, but are not funded through this program. These activities may receive assistance through other programs of the Canada Council for the Arts (consult the website at www.canadacouncil.ca/dance).
Eligibility
Applicant Eligibility
Applicants to this program must meet all of the following criteria to be eligible.
Eligible applicants are Aboriginal-controlled dance companies, organizations and collectives. Applicants must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada, as defined by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.
Applicants must:
have completed a minimum of five years of continuous activity, including full-evening programs of work
- be directed by recognized professional artists and engage professional interpreters and other professional artists; the Canada Council for the Arts defines a professional artist as someone who has specialized training in the field (not necessarily in academic institutions), who is recognized as such by her or his peers, who has a history of public presentation or publication (not necessarily in Canada Council-sanctioned events or venues), and who is committed to devoting more time to artistic activity if financially feasible
- operate on the basis of a season or have a sustained activity level
- have independent revenues and an appropriate company, organization or collective infrastructure
- have received within the past four years two project grants under the Creation/Production in Dance program support or another form of project support for the production of dance works through the Dance Section’s national-level competitions (e.g., a production project grant for a short- or long-term dance project, funding for an international co-production or creation-based collaboration)
- have received, as a company and not as an individual artist, regular (at least three grants in the past five years) project and/or operating funding from other public sector funders (provincial or municipal); this category does not include individual travel or creation grants.
CADAC Financial Reporting
NEW THIS YEAR: CADAC
The Canada Council for the Arts is collecting financial information through a new national online database called CADAC (Canadian Arts Data/Données sur les arts au Canada). This system will enable arts organizations applying for operating funding from public funders who are members of CADAC to submit their financial information in the same format.
The following are member partners: the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, the City of Vancouver, the New Brunswick Department of Wellness, Culture and Sport, the Manitoba Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council, the Saskatchewan Arts Board and the Toronto Arts Council.
Grant Amount
The minimum amount that applicants to this program may apply for is $30,000.
Grant amounts will vary based on the requests received and the peer assessment committee’s evaluations. Applicants may not be awarded the full amount they request.
Retroactive funding is not available: grant money may be used only for expenses in the applicant’s next fiscal year of activities.
If companies choose to allocate these amounts in a different manner than stated in their application, they must keep the Canada Council informed of their plan and provide appropriate budget revisions during the annual term.
Application Guidelines and Form
Further Information
Jerry Longboat
Dance Section Officer
Canada Council for the Arts
350 Albert Street, P.O. Box 1047
Ottawa ON K1P 5V8
Telephone: 1-800-263-5588 (toll-free) or 613-566-4414, ext. 5257
TTY: 1-866-585-5559
Fax: 613-566-4409
September 2009