Culturescope.ca - Aboriginal Peoples Collaborative Exchange: National and International Project Grants

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"The Aboriginal Peoples Collaborative Exchange program assists Aboriginal artists (individuals) or artistic groups from Aboriginal communities to travel to other Aboriginal communities to share traditional and/or contemporary knowledge or practices that will contribute to the development of their artistic practice. The program fosters unique artistic relationships and networks through these collaborative exchanges among Aboriginal artists across all disciplines

Eligibility

Canadian individual applicants, groups, collectives and organizations are eligible to apply to this program. Foreign applicants must have a Canadian group, collective or organization apply on their behalf.

Individual applicants must be Aboriginal artists. They must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada, as defined by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. Individual artists must have:

completed their basic training (not necessarily in a formal educational institution but perhaps through a mentorship process)produced an independent body of work received the recognition of their peers through the public presentation of their work or have been recommended by an established Aboriginal artist or an Aboriginal arts organization.

Groups or collectives must have Aboriginal artists as a majority of their members. Their artistic direction must be provided by Aboriginal artists of Canada. Arts organizations must be owned and operated by Aboriginal people. At least 51 percent of the directors on their board must be Aboriginal people, and one of them must sign the application.

Groups, collectives or organizations must show an ongoing commitment to Aboriginal arts.

In Canada, Aboriginal peoples include Status, Non-Status, Métis and Inuit people. For this program, Aboriginal peoples also include Indigenous and Aboriginal people from outside Canada.

Full-time undergraduate students at a school, college or university are not eligible to apply. Graduate students are eligible only if they meet the Canada Council's definition of a professional artists, and if the project for which they are applying is not related to their program of study. (A letter from the applicants's program director that verifies this information must be included with the application.)

Note that meeting the eligiblity criteria allows you to apply to the program. However, it does not guarantee that you will recieve a grant.

Eligible Activities

The grants may be used for:

National project travel, which allows Aboriginal artists and artistic groups to travel within Canada to collaborate with prominent Aboriginal artists and artistic groups. This category also assists prominent Aboriginal artists or artistic groups to travel to an Aboriginal community in Canada to collaborate with Aboriginal artists and/or arts organizations.

International project travel, which allows Aboriginal artists and artistic groups from Canada to travel to other countries to collaborate with prominent or highly regarded Aboriginal artists and artistic groups, in response to an invitation.

This category also supports projects to bring established Aboriginal artists and artistic groups from other countries to Canada, to work with Aboriginal artists and/or arts organizations."