Calgary Arts Development announced that applications are now open for the Community-Run Public Art Microgrant Program 2023. Eligible organizations include community-run organizations, including informal groups that define themselves in terms of distinct communities, neighbourhood associations and nonprofit organizations or charitable organizations in Calgary. The total funding for the program is $300,000, and communities may apply for up to $10,000 to support eligible projects.

Projects must address one of the following five themes:

• Foster truth & reconciliation
  • Learn about the truth of Canadian colonization and its ongoing impact on First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples.
  • Explore and create paths toward reconciliation and right relations with Indigenous peoples and the land.
• Art for Social Change
  • Consider how art can be a force for social change. Investigate and develop a project that could transform people’s lives, even if on a small scale. Art as activism and activism as art.
• Uncover little-known stories about the city or overlooked histories
  • Team up with artists, Indigenous Elders or historians to create a project that connects people to places and spaces in different ways.
  • Celebrate overlooked people and events and the diversity or diverse learnings of your community.
  • Restore or uncover names of places.
• Explore stories of your community
  • Create and share stories of how local businesses or community organizations tell the story of where you live and what makes your community unique.
• Bring beauty, joy, whimsy and hope
  • Art doesn’t have to be political or serious. Introduce whimsy, surprise and joy to your community.

Program Schedule

• September 25, 2023: Applications open
• November 3, 2023: Application deadline (no applications accepted after 4:30 pm MT)
• Mid to Late November 2023: Evaluation of applications
• Early December 2023: Notification of results
• December 2023: Funds distributed

For further information about the program or to apply, click here.

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