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Connections & Exchanges Initiatives program │Edmonton Arts Council (EAC)

May 1, 2025

Value

Varies

Description

This program invests in new and existing arts and heritage activity, enables resiliency and innovation, invests in collaborations and creations, supports the artistic work of not for profit organizations, and supports the collective responsibility of the arts community for the implementation of Connections & Exchanges.

Eligible Applicants

Organizations must:

  • Be a non-profit organization with a primary arts or festival mandate;
  • Have an up-to-date organizational profile in the Edmonton Art’s Council online portal, SmartSimple;
  • Not be in arrears with the City of Edmonton.

ELIGIBLE INITIATIVES MUST BE: 

  • Relevant to the organization’s mission, mandate, activities or strategic plans;
  • Engage and pay artists and/​or arts professionals fair and professional compensation;
  • Time specific, with a defined start (after the application deadline) and end date;
  • Either a new initiative, or a significant change to an existing activity.

Eligible Expenses

Examples of projects that might fit within the Connections & Exchanges Initiatives Program:

  • A dance organization commissions an emerging choreographer to create a new work for future production/​presentation.
  • An organization supports a tour of landscape themed paintings by local visual artists to various small cities in Alberta.
  • A community-based choir hosts an established conductor, to guest conduct and offer professional development to the choir members.
  • A writer support organization establishes a buddy system to provide support for first-time novelists.
  • An Indigenous-led theatre company increases the development, workshop and/​or rehearsal process to incorporate consultations with Elders and Knowledge Keepers.
  • Two Edmonton-based organizations of different disciplines take an already created multidisciplinary work featuring Edmonton artists on tour to central Canada for a week.

Deadline Date

May 1, 2025 at 11:59 AM (noon)

Contact

Contact Name: Edmonton Arts Council (EAC)

Phone Number: 780−424−2787

E-mail Address: ⁠grants@​edmontonarts.​ca

Website: https://www.edmontonarts.ca/calls-funding/funding/connections-exchanges-initiatives

Industry:

Arts and Culture, Non-Profit

Location:

Alberta

Tags:

Arts Network, Arts Organization

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