Festival Special Project Grant

Granting Programs

Calgary festivals will see an additional investment of $300,000 this year through Calgary Arts Development’s Festival Special Project Grant. 17 grants have been provided to support Calgary festivals in programming excellence, increased awareness and participation, and healthy operations and growth.

In addition to this investment of financial resources, Calgary Arts Development will work with Tourism Calgary to support and promote Calgary festivals. This is a new granting program for 2008 only and may not be renewed in 2009.

A list of grants provided through the Festival Special Project Grants program is available here.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Goals of the Program
The goals of the program are to:

encourage artistic and organizational innovation
encourage participation in our arts festivals by a diverse range of communities
build Calgary's reputation as a year-round home for dynamic arts festivals

The Festival Special Project Grant Program invests in projects that meet the goals above through any of the following means:

festival programming excellence
increased festival awareness and participation
healthy festival operations and growth

Grant Amounts
The total funds available for Festival Special Project Grants in 2008 is $300,000. A portion of this total fund will be allocated for projects requesting $10,000 or less with the remainder allocated to projects requesting between $10,001 - $45,000.

Eligibility
To be eligible organizations must:

be a registered non-profit arts organization
present an arts festival:

The definition of an arts festival for the purposes of this grant is: A special event that occurs within a defined limited period of time, whose primary purpose is to present a multi-faceted, broad-based, celebratory experience, with activities that are accessible to the general community and that gather audiences in excess of 100 persons.

have completed at least one year of festival programming
devote a portion of their presentation to the work of professional artists, that pay artist fees or, in the case of emerging festivals, have a long term plan to do so

Applicants are eligible for one award from the Festival Special Project Grant in 2008.

CONTACT
phone 264-5330 or e-mail:

Holly Simon, Community Investment Officer holly.simon@calgaryartsdevelopment.com

Karen Ball, Director of Community Investment karen.ball@calgaryartsdevelopment.com