New Music Program: Annual Funding
NEW THIS YEAR: CADAC Financial Reporting
NOTE: The updated application forms will be available two months before the deadline date.
Deadline
15 March 2011 (Annual funding)
Program Description
The New Music Program provides multi-year (two-year), annual and project funding to Canadian professional ensembles, performing groups, collectives, specialized producers/presenters and non-profit organizations devoted to the development and presentation of new music in public venues and before a live audience. The project funding component of this program has its own guidelines and application form.
Eligible forms of new music are not defined by specific aesthetic categories, but all applicants should be aware that the nature of the program is to support groundbreaking musical creation in a diversity of innovative approaches, as well as risk-taking in the overall development of the art form.
Some of the common forms of new music include (but are not limited to) the following:
- contemporary classical
- musique actuelle
- free improvisation
- electroacoustic / acousmatic
- audio art / sound art
- sound installation
- turntable art
Multi-year and Annual Funding
Multi-year funding grants contribute financial support, over two years, for the applicant organization’s overall local activities and operational structure.
Annual funding grants contribute financial support, on a yearly basis, for the applicant organization’s overall local activities and operational structure.
Eligibility
Multi-year Funding Grants
Applicants applying for multi-year funding must be incorporated non-profit organizations with a board of directors. Organizations with less formal structures are eligible for annual and project funding.
All required activities must take place in the organization’s home market.
Multi-year funding applicants must have presented at least two full seasons of local performances, including at least three different events, ensuring consistency and continuity in their yearly series of concerts/events. A minimum of three different events are required annually, and these must be self-produced and ticketed.
Annual Funding Grants
Annual funding applicants must have presented at least two full seasons of local performances, including at least two different events. A minimum of two different events, plus another public activity (tour, CD launch with performance, workshop, etc.) are required annually. These must be self-produced and ticketed.
All Applicants
Co-productions and free concerts are welcomed additions to your programming, but the minimum of annual self-produced and ticketed events must be met.
Applicants must also:
- take the main responsibility for the operational framework of the presentations (even in the case of co-productions)
- engage professional artistic personnel
- have an administrative infrastructure in keeping with the nature of their artistic production
- receive significant support from other sources, and
- not have an accumulated deficit that threatens the viability of their organization.
Applicants or organizations already receiving annual or multi-year funding may apply for a Special Project grant by using the New Music Program Project Funding form. Only projects that are truly special (not normally included in the organization’s mandate or regular activities) will be considered. Applicants should verify the eligibility of their project by consulting with the Music Section officer listed on the first page of this document before applying.
Please note that as per our policy, your application will not be eligible if any reports that are due for previous Canada Council grants have not been submitted to the Canada Council before the application deadline date for this grant program.
Small ensembles and collectives are eligible for Annual Funding grants, but not eligible for Multi-year Funding grants.
Applicants that have received at least two consecutive New Music Program: Project Funding grants (or in some cases, one of these grants from the Concert Production and Rehearsal Program: Project Funding) and that meet the basic eligibility criteria may apply for Annual Funding grants.
Successful applicants to the New Music Program cannot receive funding from the Concert Production and Rehearsal Program.
New Music festivals organized by symphony orchestras cannot receive funding from this program. Organizers of such events should apply to the Professional Orchestra Program.
This Canada Council program is accessible to Aboriginal arts organizations and arts organizations from diverse cultural and regional communities of Canada.
Grant Amount
The peer assessment committee recommends funding priorities and establishes the value of the Canada Council’s contribution to the applicant’s proposed activities. Recommendations are made in relation to the program’s assessment criteria.
Funding is not available for activities carried out before the program deadline
Application Form
This application form consists of all documents below. These documents can be printed. The form cannot be filled out on-line.
Further Information
Aimé Dontigny
Music Section
Canada Council for the Arts
350 Albert Street, P.O. Box 1047
Ottawa ON K1P 5V8
Telephone: 1-800-263-5588 (toll-free) or 613-566-4414, ext. 5111
TTY : 1-866-585-5559
January 2010