Monday December 23, 2019 ~ GREATER VICTORIA
~ West Shore Voice News
The deadline for the first 2020 intake of Project, Series & Extended Programming grants by the Capital Regional District (CRD) is fast approaching.
The program supports emerging or established arts organizations to produce or present one-time, recurring projects including short series of events or programming within a year.
This program is open to non-profit arts and cultural societies registered in BC and based in a participating Arts & Culture Support Service municipality or electoral area (Saanich, Victoria, Oak Bay, Esquimalt, View Royal, Highlands, Metchosin, Sooke, Southern Gulf Islands).
The upcoming extended grant application deadline is now 4:30 pm on Thursday, January 9, 2020. After that, there’s another deadline presently set as Thursday, April 30, 2020 at 4:30 pm.
A grant amount recommended in the Projects, Series and Extended Programming Grant program is determined by evidence of demonstrated need in the application, by the needs of other applications received at the same deadline, and by limits to available resources.
Eligible activities include but are not limited to:
- Support for artistic growth
- Development of an art project
- Production of an arts event
- Dissemination of an artistic creation
Ineligible activities:
- Contests and competitions
- Conferences, workshops and other forms of training
- Scholarships
- Capital expenditures
- Food, beverages and other hospitality costs
- Touring, travel expenses, or tourism promotion
- Elimination or reduction of accumulated deficits
- Expenses for events or activities that have already taken place