Glossary
Explore our glossary to understand important grant-related terms and how we use them.
First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples, as defined in the Constitution Act.
The applicant profile is how you tell us who you are and what you do so that we can determine if you’re eligible to apply for funding. Once ...
An application deadline date is a date by which an application must be submitted. Generally, for project grants, the portal opens 2 months before ...
The original grant related to a request for a supplement.
Capital expenditures are not eligible for grants from the Canada Council unless explicitly stated as eligible in the component Guidelines. Capital...
Artistic co-production: An arrangement where two or more artistic groups and/or organizations combine creative, financial and human resources to p...
Support for multiple projects taking place over 1 to 3 years. Instead of submitting a number of separate project applications, individuals, groups...
Concerned status is a term assigned to an organization receiving a core grant that may place Council’s investment at risk. It may be ap...
An organization that receives a core grant over a 2-4 year funding cycle.
Multi-year funding to organizations that cover a broad array of operating costs
The presence, expressions and participation of many different individuals and communities co-existing in the general culture of a society, and the...
cultural intellectual property
Indigenous peoples right to own and control their cultural heritage. Indigenous heritage is used to refer to these rights to bring the terminology...
The Canada Council for the Arts uses “culturally diverse” to respectfully identify racialized groups that correspond to “visible...
culturally diverse arts organizations
Organizations that demonstrate a sustained commitment to the creation, production, distribution and/or collection of art by Canadian arts professi...
cultural-diversity People of African, Asian, Latin American, Middle Eastern and mixed racial heritage who have been historically disadvantaged as ...
A cut-off date is different from an application deadline date. For some components, you can apply any time before the start of your project, and t...
People with hearing loss, or are hard-of-hearing, oral-deaf, deaf-blind or late-deafened, many of whom identify as Culturally Deaf- sharing distin...
Deaf: People with hearing loss, hard-of-hearing, oral-deaf, deaf-blind and late-deafened, many of whom identify as Culturally Deaf – sharing...
deaf and disability arts organizations
Organizations that demonstrate a sustained commitment to the creation, production, distribution or collection of art in the field of Deaf and disa...
Direct project costs pay for items and people that are needed for a specific project. These are variable costs that relate directly to the activit...
Disability is an experience of exclusion or disadvantage. People with disabilities are those with actual or perceived impairments who experience d...
Disability arts are created by people with disabilities or with mental illness. This includes artistic practices and processes grounded in ensurin...
Disability Justice is a conceptual approach to addressing disability inequity which focuses on the ways different aspects of social and political ...
Text intended for presentation before an audience. This could be an original text, an adaptation of a dramatic or literary text drawn from a Canad...
Digital publications that are primarily text with photographic and illustrated editorial content. They are: delivered via a website, download...
Deaf and Disability Arts Organizations Equity-seeking Groups Mad arts Official Language Minority Communities (OLMC) OLMC Arts...
Equity-seeking groups are communities that face significant collective challenges in participating in society. This marginalization could be creat...
Fields of practice are linked to applicant profiles in the portal and describe a general field of artistic activity or an artistic discipline.
first nations, inuit and métis arts/cultural professional
Arts/Cultural Professionals are individuals whose work supports, facilitates, investigates or examines the work of First Nations, Inuit and M&eacu...
first nations, inuit and métis aspiring artists
Aspiring Artists must be working under the mentorship of an artist who fulfills the professional artist criteria. First Nations, Inuit and M&eacu...
first nations, inuit and métis cultural carriers
Cultural Carriers are individuals whose role within First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities supports the preservation, retention, maintenance, ...
first nations, inuit and métis for-profit organizations
To be eligible as a First Nations, Inuit or Métis for-profit organization, you must: have a board of directors or equivalent governanc...
first nations, inuit and métis groups or collectives
Eligible groups and collectives have two or more members with at least 50% of the membership of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. To ...
first nations, inuit and métis not-for-profit organizations
To be eligible as a First Nations, Inuit or Métis not-for-profit organization, you must: have a board of directors or equivalent governance g...
first nations, inuit and métis professional artist
The Canada Council supports art made by First Nations, Inuit and Métis artists for creative and cultural purposes. It values distinctive voices th...
The first inhabitants (First Peoples) of a land (including First Nations, Inuit and Métis of Canada), and the philosophies, cultures, cosmologies ...
indigenous traditional knowledge
Traditional knowledge refers to tradition-based literary, artistic or scientific works; performances; inventions; scientific discoveries; designs;...
An assessment committee composed of Council staff knowledgeable about a given artistic activity or field of practice.
A professional literary book publisher is an organization that publishes books as its primary activity (fiction, poetry, literary non-fiction, chi...
The Canada Council for the Arts supports creative writing in all of its genres and forms. Literary non-fiction is one of the genres supported by t...
The Canada Council recognizes mad arts within the overall Disability Arts sector. Mad is framed as a social and political identity by people who h...
A status given to an organization following multiple reductions in core funding. Further to an assessment, a peer committee may recommend a decrea...
The ability to: present, exhibit or sell works outside a home market participate in co-productions, residencies or exchanges (usually ab...
Grants that normally have one payment and that are for one-time small-scale activities. Such project grants may have activities spanning more than...
A community of people whose access to political, financial, or social power and resources has been markedly limited regardless of the size of the ...
An artist who: is entering, or is in the early stages of, his or her professional career in one or more fields of practice recognized by the ...
Critical or interpretive texts about an art form such as essays, theory, etc.
official language minority arts organizations
Organizations that demonstrate a sustained commitment to the creation, production, distribution or collection by arts professionals from official ...
official language minority communities
Canada’s official languages are English and French. Official language minority communities (OLMCs) are groups of people whose maternal...
Operating costs pay for items and people to generate the ongoing activities of the business. Typical operating costs of arts organizations and gro...
The Canada Council for the Arts peer assessment committees are groups of peer assessors who are invited to evaluate applications and nominations f...
The Canada Council for the Arts peer assessors are individuals who are invited to join peer assessment committees to evaluate applications an...
The fields of practice of theatre, circus arts, music and sound, and dance. Inter-arts work may also be among the performing arts.
An artist who: has specialized training in the artistic field (not necessarily in academic institutions) is recognized as a professiona...
Grants that normally have one payment and that are for a single project or for a project that repeats over a given period.
Funding available to applicants in the Creating, Knowing and Sharing program who face increased or unusual costs due to their geographic inaccessi...
Additional funding applied to an awarded grant.