Visiting Foreign Artists Program (Pilot program): All Artistic Disciplines
Deadline
1 June 2006
If this date falls on a weekend or statutory holiday, the deadline moves to the next business day. Your completed application and all 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.
Program Description
The Visiting Foreign Artists Program provides grants to Canadian professional arts organizations to encourage visits by individual professional foreign artists of outstanding achievement. Organizations may invite an individual artist from any foreign country.
While in Canada, the visiting foreign artist is to direct workshops, teach master classes for professional artists and/or, for Inter-Arts, Media Arts, Visual Arts, Theatre and Writing and Publising, give artist talks. Visiting foreign artists will be expected to supplement the activities of their host organization rather than replace a staff member.
Eligibility
Professional Canadian arts organizations that have received at least one grant from the Canada Council for the Arts in the last three years are eligible to apply to this program. Organizations receiving operating funding cannot apply to this program for activities already supported by the Canada Council. Furthermore, they must state clearly how the activities of the visiting foreign artist would be distinct from their activities that the Canada Council is currently funding. This program will not support visits already funded by another Canada Council program.
Eligible organizations may submit up to three applications to each competition. Only one foreign artist may be invited per application.
All invited artists must be recognized as professionals in their discipline. The Canada Council defines a professional artist as someone who has specialized training in the field (not necessarily in an academic institution), who is recognized as such by her or his peers (artists working in the same artistic tradition), and who has a history of public presentation or publication.
All Canada Council for the Arts programs are accessible to Aboriginal artists or organizations and artists or organizations of diverse cultural and regional communities of Canada.
Grant Amount
Grants are available in fixed amounts of $500, $750, $1,000, $1,500, $2,000, $2,500 or $3,000. Grant requests should be based on the funding required to carry out the proposed project.
The Canada Council for the Arts will contribute towards the visitor’s accommodation, per diem and transportation costs only. The program’s maximum daily contribution for combined accommodation and per diem is $100 per person per day.
Not all applicants will necessarily receive the full amount that they requested.
Retroactive funding is not available.
Assessment of Applications
Applications to this program are assessed by a committee of officers or peers working in the arts discipline of the host organization. Grant decisions are based on the availability of funds, the merit of the project compared with all others in this national competition, and the program’s assessment criteria described in the application guidelines accompanying the form. The decisions made by the committee are final recommendations for approval by the Canada Council.
Applicants will be notified of the results, in writing, approximately three months after the application deadline. Results are not released over the telephone or by e-mail.
Other Program of Assistance
Japan-Canada Fund
Projects eligible for support from the Japan-Canada Fund: The Government of Japan has supplied the Canada Council for the Arts with a sum of money to be used "to further strengthen the relations between Canada and Japan." This gift has led to the establishment of the Japan-Canada Fund, which supports performances, presentations and exhibitions by Japanese artists through programs of activities by established, professional Canadian presenters. It also assists Japan-Canada collaborations, residencies, co-presentations and co-productions that result in a public performance or exhibition in Canada. Requests for support from this fund are processed through existing Canada Council programs and peer assessment processes.
Application Form
Visiting Foreign Artists (Pilot Program) (PDF Acrobat format).
This form can only be printed and cannot be filled out on-line.
Further Information
This program summary provides an outline of the Visiting Foreign Artists Program. For further details or to obtain an application form, contact the appropriate Canada Council Program Officer at the extensions listed below.
Telephone: 1-800-263-5588 (toll-free) or (613) 566-4414
TTY (TDD) machine, for hearing-impaired callers: (613) 565-5194
- Dance Section
Mark Shaub, ext. 5506
- Inter-Arts Office
Claude Schryer, ext. 4204
- Media Arts Section
Robin Dupuis, ext. 5253
- Music Section
Karen Barber-Ing, ext. 4243
- Theatre Section
Sheila James, ext. 4148 (anglophones)
- Marie-Josée Miville-Deschênes, ext. 5024 (francophones)
- Visual Arts Section
Pao Quang Yeh, ext. 5094
- Writing and Publishing Section
Marcel Hull, ext. 4571
Fax: (613) 566-4390
Canada Council for the Arts
350 Albert Street, P.O. Box 1047
Ottawa ON K1P 5V8
March 2006