Project Assistance: Community Arts Festivals

Overview

Project Assistance: Community Arts Festivals supports the artistic development of local, community-based arts festivals by providing funding for fees paid to B.C. or Canadian professional artists and technicians and Elders or Knowledge Keepers engaged in the festival.

Eligibility

The festival must be an existing festival with an arts focus, presented by local Indigenous or community arts organizations, and may feature a combination of local and touring artists. A festival is an event that includes related arts and cultural activities and programming presented within a concentrated place and time and must be longer than one day in duration.

Key dates

• Application deadline: February 18, 2026, 11:59 p.m.
• Registration pause: February 10, 2026, 11:59 p.m. (five business days before deadline)

How to apply

Applications are submitted through the Grant Management System. New applicants must register and create a profile in the online system. Registration requests may take up to five business days to process.

Support available

• Application Assistance: Funding for support services to create and submit grant applications, project updates, and final reports
• Access: Additional funding to support access costs associated with a funded project

Contacts

• Krista Patterson, Program Advisor (Community Arts Festivals): [email protected], 236-478-2550
• Justine Shore, Program Advisor (Accelerate Community Arts Festivals): [email protected], 250-940-8538