Grant Programs for Aboriginal Artists and Arts Organizations

This program provides support and assistance to Canadian Aboriginal dance professionals (individuals) to pursue projects involving professional development, research, and apprenticeship or mentorship.

The program aims to respond to the natural creative cycles of dance artists and to bring high quality dance works to audiences. It provides project support to Canadian Aboriginal dance professionals (individuals), companies, collectives and organizations.

This program reduces the historical barriers to media arts production by Aboriginal artists and encourages the use of media arts as a tool for artistic expression.

This program provides project support to Aboriginal individuals, groups, collectives and organizations that contribute to the diversity and originality of Aboriginal peoples music.

This program provides developmental support to Aboriginal theatre organizations. Aboriginal peoples include Status, Non-Status, Métis and Inuit people.

This program supports Aboriginal artists (working individually or together) to undertake activities that contribute to the knowledge, sharing, understanding and development of Aboriginal traditional art forms.

This partnership initiative between the Canada Council for the Arts and the National Gallery of Canada provides a two-year (September 2007 – September 2009) development opportunity for one mid-career curator of Aboriginal ancestry to work in a challenging museological environment.

This initiative supports professional development in all aspects of curatorial practice in the visual arts for Aboriginal people at their chosen host institution.

This program supports Aboriginal groups, collectives, cultural centres and other organizations to undertake activities that contribute to the knowledge, sharing, understanding and evolution of Aboriginal traditional art forms.

The objectives of the Grants to Aboriginal Writers, Storytellers and Publishers program are to encourage the artistic development of established and emerging Aboriginal writers and storytellers, to encourage the development of Aboriginal publishers and collectives, and to help increase appreciation for Aboriginal literature in Canada. Aboriginal peoples include Status, Non-Status, Métis and Inuit people.

This is one component of the Grants to Aboriginal Writers, Storytellers and Publishers program.