Amount:
$30,000
Type of Program:
Grant
Description:
Toronto Arts Council’s Animating Historic Sites program provides funding to arts organizations, collectives or professional artists to re-imagine and animate selected Toronto historic sites. There are two grants under this program: Artist Residency and Programming grants.
Artist Residency grants provides artists, collectives and arts organizations the opportunity to undertake a residency at Scarborough Museum, Montgomery’s Inn, or Evergreen Brick Works. Grant recipients will have the opportunity to conduct artistic research, investigate the site and its exhibits and archives, explore its surrounding landscape, historical and environmental context, and engage with the local community, and create new work.
Programming grants provide the opportunity to create and deliver free site-specific programming at Gibson House, Montgomery’s Inn, Spadina Museum, Scarborough Museum, or Todmorden Mills.
Comments on Funding:
Funding is up to 100% of project costs. The maximum grant in each category (Artist Residency and Programming) is $30,000. A TAC Accessibility grant will provide up to a maximum of $5,000 towards accessibility costs for artists incurred during the project.
When It Ends:
Intake opens two to three months before the submission deadline
Deadline:
July 5, 2022
Eligibility:
This program is open to professional artists, arts organizations and collectives working in any artistic discipline (i.e.: theatre, dance, music, visual arts, media arts, community-engaged arts, Indigenous arts, disability arts, arts education, etc).
Individual artists must:
Organizations and Collectives must:
Applications Steps:
Applicants must register to Toronto Arts Council's online grant application system and submit their applications during the intake period.
Programs are open to receive applications two to three months before the submission deadline.
Applications remain available until 11:59:59 PM of the published deadline date.
Documentation Needed:
Check the program guidelines for details when they will be available (3 months prior to the grant deadline).
Other Things to Note:
- 1Program guidelines will be added approximately 3 months before the deadline date.
- 2All projects must be completed in the 2022 calendar year.
- 3Accessibility costs include but are not limited to: ASL interpretation, audio description, closed captioning, communications assistants, attendant care (including helpers for Elders), support workers and equipment rentals or other supports required to meet artists’ accessibility needs).
