Deadlines and notification of results

Explore and Create Engage and Sustain Creating, Knowing and Sharing: The Arts and Cultures of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples Supporting Artistic Practice Arts Across Canada Arts Abroad Strategic Funds and Initiatives

The Council is modernizing its granting systems, including an updated funding portal in the summer of 2025. This may temporarily delay the notifications of results in 2025. We will continue to deliver results as quickly as possible and will return to normal delivery times once the updated portal has been launched.

Important notes:

Access to your account and all portal-related tasks is temporarily unavailable.
Funding opportunities with an “any time” deadline will have staggered openings between end of August and end of September 2025.
Deadlines and notification of result dates may change. Consult this page for up-to-date information before applying.
As of January 1, 2024, we’ve simplified our annual application limits:

We removed the limit on the total number of applications you can submit each year.
Each funding component has its own application limits that now align to the calendar year (1 January to 31 December).

Last updated: July 17, 2025

See the upcoming notification of results dates for past 2025 deadlines.

Upcoming deadlines

Explore and Create

Funding opportunities with an “any time” deadline will have staggered openings between end of August and end of September 2025.

Grant components	Application deadlines	Notification of results
Artistic Creation	Any time before the start date of your project or activity (will open by the end of September 2025)	Usually within 5 months of submitting your application

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Creating, Knowing and Sharing: The Arts and Cultures of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples

Funding opportunities with an “any time” deadline will have staggered openings between end of August and end of September 2025.

Grant components	Application deadlines	Notification of results
Travel	Any time before your departure date (will open by the end of August 2025)	Usually within 3 months of submitting your application
Small-Scale Activities	Any time before the start date of your project or activity (will open by the end of August 2025)	Usually within 3 months of submitting your application
Short-Term Projects	10 September 2025 17 December 2025	Usually within 4 months of the application deadline
Long-Term Projects	TBC	Usually within 5 months of the application deadline
Indigenous Organizations (Translation deadline)	Fall 2027 TBC	TBC

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Supporting Artistic Practice

Funding opportunities with an “any time” deadline will have staggered openings between end of August and end of September 2025.

Grant components	Application deadlines	Notification of results
Sector Support Innovation and Development	Any time before the start date of your project or activity (will open by the end of September 2025)	Usually within 5 months of submitting your application
Composite Activities	15 October 2025	Usually within 5 months of the application deadline
Literary Publishing Projects	TBC	Usually within 7 months of the application deadline
Literary Publishers	Spring 2027	TBC
Support Organizations (Translation deadline)	April 2026 TBC	TBC
National Arts Service Organizations (Translation deadline)	April 2026 TBC	TBC

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Arts Across Canada and Abroad

Funding opportunities with an “any time” deadline will have staggered openings between end of August and end of September 2025.

Grant components	Application deadlines	Notification of results
Micro-grants	Any time before the start date of your project, activity or departure date (will open by the end of September 2025)	Usually within 4 months of submitting your application
Representation and Promotion	Any time before your departure date (will open by the end of August 2025)	Usually within 4 months of submitting your application
Translation	8 October 2025	Usually within 4 months of the application deadline
International Translation	8 October 2025	Usually within 4 months of the application deadline
Circulation and Touring	3 September 2025 10 December 2025	Usually within 5 months of the application deadline
Foreign Artists Tours	22 October 2025	Usually within 5 months of the application deadline
Public Outreach	8 October 2025	Usually within 5 months of the application deadline
International Residencies	3 September 2025 10 December 2025	Usually within 5 months of the application deadline
International Co-Productions	22 October 2025	Usually within 5 months of the application deadline
Arts Festivals and Presenters (Translation deadline)	Summer 2028 TBC	TBC

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Strategic Funds and Initiatives

Funding opportunities with an “any time” deadline will have staggered openings between end of August and end of September 2025.

Grant components	Application deadlines	Notification of results
Access Support Fund	Any time before the start date of your project or activity (will open by the end of August 2025)	See guidelines
Market Access Strategy for Official Language Minority Communities (OLMC) Fund	Any time before the start date of your project or activity (will open by the end of August 2025)	Usually within 5 months of submitting your application

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Upcoming notification of results for past 2025 deadlines

Explore and Create

Notification of results for past deadlines

Grant components	Application deadlines	Notification of results
Professional Development for Artists	Any time before the start date of your project or activity, until 9 April 2025	Usually within 6 months of submitting your application
Research and Creation	Any time before the start of your project or the part of your project for which you are seeking funding, until 23 April 2025	Usually within 6 months of submitting your application
Concept to Realization - Project grants	Any time before the start of your project or the part of your project for which you are seeking funding, until 23 April 2025	Usually within 6 months of submitting your application
Concept to Realization - Composite grants	23 April 2025	Usually within 6 months of the application deadline
Artist Driven Organizations (Translation deadline)	2 April 2025 16 April 2025	Usually within 8 months of the application deadline

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Engage and Sustain

Notification of results for past deadlines

Grant components	Application deadlines	Notification of results
Artistic Catalysts (Translation deadline)	2 April 2025 16 April 2025	Usually within 8 months of the application deadline
Artistic Institutions (Translation deadline)	2 April 2025 16 April 2025	Usually within 8 months of the application deadline

Grant components

Application deadlines

Notification of results

Artistic Catalysts

(Translation deadline)

2 April 2025

16 April 2025

Usually within 8 months of the application deadline

Artistic Institutions

(Translation deadline)

2 April 2025

16 April 2025

Usually within 8 months of the application deadline

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Creating, Knowing and Sharing: The Arts and Cultures of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples

Notification of results for past deadlines

Grant components	Application deadlines	Notification of results
Travel	Any time before your departure date, until 23 April 2025	Usually within 3 months of submitting your application
Small-Scale Activities	Any time before the start date of your project or activity, until 23 April 2025	Usually within 3 months of submitting your application
Short-Term Projects	26 March 2025	Usually within 4 months of the application deadline
Long-Term Projects	9 April 2025	Usually within 5 months of the application deadline

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Supporting Artistic Practice

Notification of results for past deadlines

Grant components	Application deadlines	Notification of results
Professional Development for Arts Professionals	Any time before the start date of your project or activity, until 9 April 2025	Usually within 5 months of submitting your application
Sector Innovation and Development - Project grants	26 March 2025	Usually within 7 months of the application deadline
Literary Publishing Projects	26 March 2025	Usually within 7 months of the application deadline

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Arts Across Canada

Notification of results for past deadlines

Grant components	Application deadlines	Notification of results
Travel	Any time before your departure date, until 14 May 2025	Usually within 5 months of submitting your application
Representation and Promotion	Any time before your departure date, until 14 May 2025	Usually within 5 months of submitting your application
Translation	2 April 2025	Usually within 5 months of the application deadline
Circulation and Touring	9 April 2025	Usually within 5 months of the application deadline
Foreign Artists Tours	Any time before the start date of your project or activity, until 26 March 2025	Usually within 6 months of submitting your application
Public Outreach - Project grants	9 April 2025	Usually within 5 months of the application deadline

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Arts Abroad

Notification of results for past deadlines

Grant components	Application deadlines	Notification of results
Travel	Any time before your departure date, until 14 May 2025	Usually within 5 months of submitting your application
Representation and Promotion	Any time before your departure date, until 14 May 2025	Usually within 5 months of submitting your application
Translation	2 April 2025	Usually within 5 months of the application deadline
Circulation and Touring	9 April 2025	Usually within 5 months of the application deadline
Residencies	26 March 2025	Usually within 4 months of the application deadline
Co-Productions	Any time before the start date of your project or activity, until 26 March 2025	Usually within 6 months of submitting your application

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Strategic Funds and Initiatives

Notification of results for past deadlines

Grant components	Application deadlines	Notification of results
Access Support Fund	You can submit an Access Support request with your associated application, until 21 May 2025.	See guidelines
Market Access Strategy for Official Language Minority Communities (OLMC) Fund	Any time before the start date of your project or activity, until 14 May 2025	Usually within 5 months of submitting your application

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