ALBERTA GRANTS CALENDAR
This calendar captures upcoming grant deadlines for funding available to arts organizations and artists in Alberta. We have included public funders at the municipal, provincial, federal levels, along with private foundations that support the arts in Alberta.
We hope that this resource is a helpful tool for the arts sector in planning applications and learning about funding programs that are available. You are able to add these events directly into your own calendar by clicking on your preferred calendar application in the listing.
This calendar will be actively updated. If you know of a funding program or grant available to artists or organizations that has not been included in the calendar, please reach out to our Funding Manager, Ayla Stephen, at ayla@rozsafoundation.com.
The Rozsa Foundation would like to express its gratitude to Mark Hopkins for instigating this initiative for community.
Funding Opportunities with Ongoing Intake
Some funding / granting programs do not have set deadlines and are open to ongoing applications. We have kept those separate from the calendar and have listed them for you below the calendar.
Funding Opportunities with Ongoing Intake
Some funding/granting programs do not have set deadlines and are open to ongoing applications. We have kept those separate from the calendar and have listed them for you below.
NATIONAL
Department of Canadian Heritage
Events — Community Support, Multiculturalism, and Anti-Racism Initiatives Program - For organizations.
Canada Cultural Spaces Fund - For organizations.
Canada Council for the Arts
Access Support - For individual applicants who self-identify as Deaf, having disabilities or living with mental illness, as well as groups and organizations that dedicate the majority of their resources towards supporting these communities.
Arts Abroad
Representation and Promotion - For registered or incorporated Canadian arts organizations, foreign arts organizations that invite Canadian artists to present artistic works and to Canadian arts organizations that bring international buyers to Canada.
Travel - For individuals, groups, collectives, organizations, and cultural connectors and sector builders.
Co-Productions - For artistic groups and collectives, artistic organizations, festivals and presenters, and literary book publishers.
Arts Across Canada
Travel: For individuals, organizations, and other.
Representation and Promotion: For support groups, organizations and shared platforms; magazine publishers; and agencies, management service organizations and art dealers.
Foreign Artist Tours: For artistic organizations; festivals, presenter and touring networks.
Creating, Knowing and Sharing: The Arts and Cultures of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples
Small-Scale Activities - For First Nations, Inuit and Métis artists, arts/cultural professionals (including artists’ representatives), cultural carriers, artistic groups, collectives and organizations working in all disciplines
Travel - For First Nations, Inuit and Métis artists, arts/cultural professionals (including artists’ representatives), cultural carriers, artistic groups, collectives and organizations working in all disciplines.
Explore and Create
Professional Development for Artists - For artists and artistic groups.
Research and Creation - For Canadian artists, artistic groups and arts organizations.
Concept to Realization - For artists, artistic groups and collectives, arts organizations, and visual arts publishers.
Strategic Funds
Market Access Strategy for Official Language Minority Communities (OLMC) Fund - For Anglophones in Quebec and Francophones outside of Quebec.
Strategic Innovation Fund
Seed Grants - For individuals, organizations, and other.
Supporting Artistic Practice
Professional Development for Artists - For individual arts professionals.
Digital Generator - Canadian arts groups, collectives, and organizations.
Digital Greenhouse - For Canadian individuals, groups and organizations.
RBC
RBC Emerging Artists - For organizations that are registered charities.
Calgary and Area
FACTOR - The Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent On Recordings
Live Performance - subsidizes the cost of domestic and international performances including showcases and tours for musicians.
Songwriter Development - subsidy toward a year of songwriting initiatives, such as domestic and international travel for co-writing sessions and trips, songwriting camps and workshops, and eligible showcases.
Sponsorship - supports music-related projects and events which are not captured in other FACTOR program mandates.
Video - contributes to the cost of producing music videos for eligible Canadian sound recordings by artists rated 2 and 3.
CALGARY AND AREA
Calgary Arts Development Authority (CADA)
Honouring the Children Grant - For Indigenous artists or Indigenous arts organizations who live and work on Treaty 7 territory.
Indigenous Artist Microgrant - First Nation, Metis and Inuit individual artists and artist collectives living and working in the Treaty 7 region working on the preservation, maintenance and revival of Indigenous culture, traditions or forms. Applications accepted between February 12 - August 24, 2024).
Calgary Foundation
Stepping Stones Grants - For grassroots community groups.
Neighbour Grants - For registered charities and other groups.
City of Calgary
Arts & Culture Microgrant - For non-profits and registered charities, including Community Associations and Business Improvement Areas
EDMONTON AND AREA
Edmonton Arts Council
Invent & Adapt - For organizations and festivals.