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Toronto Arts Council (TAC), Toronto District School Board (TDSB) and Prologue to the Performing Arts – Artists in the Schools (2022)

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Maurice
Posted: January 28, 2022

Amount:

No Fixed Amount

Type of Program:

Grant

Description:

Toronto Arts Council’s Artists in the Schools is a four-week spring festival that includes artist residencies, mentorships and special arts presentation events.

The festival provides students with the opportunity to explore their personal connections to the people, places, histories and happenings of their city through art. Funding goes directly to the artists and arts organizations participating in the festival.

This year’s theme, Intersections, is an invitation to focus on (re)connecting, (re)encountering and (re)imagining the spaces we occupy; as we explore and celebrate the unique experiences of our students and their communities throughout Toronto.

When It Ends:

Ongoing

Deadline:

Next deadlines to be determined. 

Eligibility:

TAC funding of this project is going directly to the artists and arts organizations participating in the festival.

Individual artists must:

  • be Canadian Citizens, or Permanent Residents (Landed Immigrants), or have an application pending for Permanent Resident status, or be a Protected Person (approved refugee claimant);
  • have been a resident of the City of Toronto for at least one year prior to the deadline, and live and work in Toronto for at least 8 months a year;
  • be professional artists (someone who has developed their skills through training and/or practice; is recognized as such by artists working in the same artistic tradition; actively practices his or her art; seeks payment for her/his work; and has a history of public presentation);
  • not have any overdue final reports for any grant programs or final report due in the grant program in which the grant application is being submitted;
  • be 18 years of age or older.
  • Individual artists may only receive one discipline-stream project grant and one strategic initiative grant per calendar year.

Organizations and Collectives must:

  • be incorporated non-profit arts organizations or unincorporated arts collectives which operate on a non-profit basis. A collective is defined as two or more artists working together under a group name with a bank account held in that name;
  • be located and operating in the City of Toronto;
  • have a track record of arts activity;
  • have a viable administrative and financial plan for meeting the proposed activities;
  • have received two project grants in addition to other eligibility requirements in order to be eligible for operating funding;
  • not have any overdue final reports for any grant programs or final report due in the grant program in which the grant application is being submitted.
  • Organizations and Collective may only receive one discipline-stream operating or project grant and one strategic initiative grant per calendar year. 

Other Things to Note:

tdsbCREATES is presented by the TDSB Arts Department & the Toronto Arts Council.

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Program Contact:

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Maurice

Maurice (Moe) Muise learned the ins-and-outs of government while an employee of the Government of Canada in Ottawa for 10 years. His current focus is helping small businesses in Ontario to identify and maximize government grants to grow their business.
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