Cultural Learning and Sharing Grant Program

• A symposium and toolkit on reconciliation and redress in the arts lead by elders, knowledge keepers, artists, and cultural experts from the Coast Salish Cultural Network.
• Learning and sharing among a cohort of dancers who live with chronic illness and who are working toward a framework for the dance community to provide support.
• An arts management mentorship for emerging QTBIPOC administrator.
• Immersive workshops and conversations led by an Indigenous artist and facilitator to support a non-equity-led organization to embed into its operations equity and artistic sovereignty through Indigenous ways of being and knowing.
• A national convening of racialized screen industry creatives to share critical knowledge, resources, and experiences so as to develop practices, pathways, and protocols to effectively work together.

Spring 2024 key dates

The 2024 program opened in January 2024 and by May 2024, the 2024 budget was fully allocated.

The program is currently closed and will re-open for applications in 2025.

Who can apply

• Artists and cultural leaders who identify as:
  • xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), Urban Indigenous
  • Black or of African descent
  • People of Colour
  • Deaf/deaf, Hard of Hearing
  • Living with a disability/disabled people
  • LGBTQ2+ and gender diverse
• Arts and culture organizations’ leaders, artists and staff that wish to build their pathways to becoming more equitable
• Individual artists and cultural leaders may apply via a sponsor non-profit arts and cultural organization