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Integrated Arts Program for Organizations - Creation/Production Project Grants

Deadline

15 November

If this date falls on a weekend or statutory holiday, the deadline moves to the next business day. Your completed application and all required support material must be postmarked on or before the deadline date.

The Canada Council will not accept applications postmarked after the deadline, incomplete applications, or those submitted by fax or email. You will not be contacted if your application is incomplete.

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Program Objective

  • Increase knowledge, promote and support diversity, plurality and (or) hybridity of practice as demonstrated in the body of work of an individual artist or within an organization’s programming.
  • Support both contemporary and traditional work, and (or) the integration of contemporary and traditional work.
  • Support artistic excellence in works, processes, professional development and research methodology, while taking into account the local, regional and (or) cultural context.
  • Support relationships and collaboration among artists of different disciplinary and cultural backgrounds.
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Program Description

The Canada Council defines integrated arts as professional artistic activities with a singular artistic vision that combine art forms, or integrate existing art forms into its own distinct form. To be eligible for funding from the Integrated Arts Program, the proposed integrated arts activities must fall outside the framework of existing funding programs offered by the Canada Council’s Dance, Media Arts, Music, Theatre, Visual Arts, or Writing and Publishing sections. The proposed activities must also fall outside the framework of programs offered by the following Canada Council offices: Aboriginal Arts, Audience and Market Development, or Equity.

For in-depth information about integrated arts, please consult Opening up Space: Toward an Expansive Vision for Multidisciplinary Arts in Canada. For in-depth information about artists and community collaboration (which is referred to immediately below), please consult IMAGINE - An External Review of the Canada Council for the Arts’ Artists and Community Collaboration Fund. (You can find these documents on the Inter-Arts Office web page of the Canada Council website.)

For examples of grants previously awarded by the Inter-Arts Office, consult the Searchable Grants Listing at www.canadacouncil.ca/grants/recipients.

Note that you can get a print version of any Inter-Arts Office document by contacting the Inter-Arts Office.

Artists and Community Collaboration

This is an arts process that actively involves professional artists and non-arts community members working together on creative and collaborative projects. For more information, go to the Artists and Community Collaboration Program (ACCP) link on the Inter-Arts Office web page.

Artists and community collaboration is recognized as an eligible arts practice in all programs of the Inter-Arts Office. There are two methods of applying for support of this practice.

  1. If you are applying to a project, touring or travel grants program, use the regular guidelines and form for the program and indicate in Part A of the form that you are applying to the ACCP. In addition, ensure that your detailed project description responds to the specific assessment criteria for the ACCP, which are listed in the program guidelines.
  2. For the following programs, include any artists and community collaboration activities with other eligible activities when completing your application form: Visiting Foreign Artists Program; Flying Squad: An Organizational Development Program; Integrated Arts Program for Organizations: Annual Operating Grants; and Integrated Arts Program for Organizations: Dissemination, Support and Development Annual Programming Grants.

For further information about ACCP, click on the following link: IAP ACCP Guidelines with Q and A

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Eligibility

You are responsible for providing all required information to confirm the eligibility of your organization and proposed activities. The Canada Council will make eligibility decisions based on the information you provide in this application and cannot contact you for additional information. If your application is found to be ineligible, it will be returned to you, with a letter of explanation.

Applicant Eligibility

  • To apply to this program, your organization must be working in integrated arts and must meet the definition of an artists’ collective or incorporated group. (See the Definitions of Terms section of these guidelines.)
  • If your organization is receiving operating support or annual programming support from the Inter-Arts Office, it is not eligible to apply to most other Canada Council programs. It is, however, still eligible for capacity building grants from the Equity Office or the Aboriginal Arts Office and for the touring grants from the Inter-Arts Office.
  • If your organization is receiving operating funding from another Canada Council disciplinary section, it is not eligible to apply to the Inter-Arts Office programs.

This program is accessible to Aboriginal arts organizations and arts organizations of diverse regional and cultural communities of Canada.

Restrictions

  • You may not apply to this program for support of the same activities that appear in any other current request to the Canada Council or that have already been funded by the Canada Council.
  • If your application is unsuccessful in a program competition, you may submit it only one more time to a competition for the same program.
  • You must submit any overdue final reports for previous Canada Council grants. Final reports must be submitted to and approved by the Canada Council before you may apply for a new grant.

Eligible Activities

Funded activities can take place in Canada or abroad and must take place between 1 April 2010 and 31 March 2012.

You can hire or work with non-Canadian artists or arts organizations. However, they cannot apply directly to the Canada Council.

Research/Development/Creation

Eligible activities include:

  • researching and developing ideas, concepts and projects
  • experimenting with new materials
  • working with specialists to develop knowledge and skills
  • engaging in other activities related to the creative development of new work.

A development period should be geared toward future production or, where this applies, dissemination of research findings.

Production

Grants for production can be used for all of the above activities. The following activities are also eligible:

  • producing new artworks
  • self-presenting as part of the first performance of a work
  • remounting works that have been created by the applicant.
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Grant Amount

You may apply for a maximum of $30,000 in each competition, including applications to the Artists and Community Collaboration Program (ACCP). Note that you must round your budget request to the nearest hundred dollar figure.

You may also apply for the Dissemination, Support and Development Project Grants. But the total of your requests to both programs cannot be more than $30,000.

If you apply to the Touring Grants component, however, you can request up to $30,000 from each component (in other words, a maximum of $60,000).

You may not be awarded the full amount that you request.

Retroactive funding is not available. In other words, funding is not available for activities that are carried out before the competition deadline.

Eligible Expenses

  • Artists’ fees (incorporated groups should request salaries rather than subsistence).
  • Fees for project personnel.
  • Production and material costs.
  • Dissemination costs for the first public self-presentation of a work.
  • Equipment rental costs.
  • Research costs.
  • Travel costs directly related to production or research.

Ineligible Expenses

  • Capital costs and the cost of purchasing equipment.
  • Ongoing operating costs.
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Application Guidelines and Form

Creation/Production Project Grants (for Organizations) (PDF Acrobat format; this document can be printed; the attached application form cannot be completed on line).

Part C - Financial Information for Creation/Production for Orgs (Excel format)

Integrated Arts Program: Questions and Answers for Organizations 2009 (PDF Acrobat format)

OR

To apply for a grant online go to GO! Grants Online

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Further Information

Sue-Ellen Gerritsen, Program Officer
Inter-Arts Office
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. 4679

TTY: 1-866-585-5559

Fax: 613-566-4386 

 August 2009