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Aboriginal Arts, Arts Education, Community Arts, Compass, Dance, Franco-Ontarian Arts, Literature, Multidisciplinary Activity, Music, Theatre, Touring, Visual and Media Arts & Crafts
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Program for: Individuals
Purpose: Access and Career Development is a new Ontario Arts Council (OAC) program that supports Ontario-based Aboriginal arts professionals and arts professionals of colour. The program will fund professional development and skill-building opportunities that advance the applicants’ artistic work and careers.
In keeping with its strategic plan, Stability and Strength, the OAC is committed to reflecting the cultural diversity and Aboriginal identity of the province through its programs. The OAC also recognizes that there continue to be systemic barriers for arts professionals of colour and Aboriginal arts professionals. Part of the solution is the launch of Access and Career Development to support the cultural diversity of Ontario’s arts sector.
Applicants can request funding for training, mentoring or apprenticing in all contemporary and traditional art practices.
Eligibility: Individual Aboriginal arts professionals and arts professionals of colour.
Aboriginal includes Métis, Inuit, Status and Non-Status
People of Colour includes Chinese, South Asian, Black, Filipino, Latin American, Southeast Asian, Arabic, West Asian, Japanese, Korean and Pacific Islander, etc. It also includes New Canadians of colour.
Arts Professionals are artists, arts administrators, community animators, curators, programmers, technicians and arts educators who are engaged in creating, promoting, presenting, distributing and programming artistic work.
You can submit your application in French and we will have your application translated by accredited translators before assessment. The English translations are available to you by request after the results have been announced. We do not translate written material that is not a required element of the application. We will make sure an assessor is Francophone.
Deadline Date: May 2, 2011
Program Guidelines
The following guidelines are for information only. Before making an application, please ensure you have the most up-to-date guidelines, and a complete package, which can be obtained by contacting the OAC (see below). Guidelines and application forms are available on the web at least three months before the deadline.
Final Report Form
For more information, please contact Bushra Junaid, Access and Career Development Program Officer, 416-969-7407, toll free 1-800-387-0058 extension 7407, bjunaid@arts.on.ca.
Services in French are available by contacting Fabiola Cavé, Program Assistant, 416-969-7424, toll free 1-800-387-0058 extension 7424, fcave@arts.on.ca.
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