Arts-Based Community Development & Leon and Thea Koerner Award
British Columbia Arts Council
Grant Description
In arts-based community development work, professional artists assist communities through arts-centred activity to gain awareness of their own power as culture makers and contribute to the advancement of creative productivity, opportunities for celebration, and human dignity, health and well-being.
Support is offered to two categories of activity through the Arts-Based Community Development Program (ABCD): New Work & Skills Development and Knowledge Transfer
Additional Information
New Work
Support for one-time projects that create new artistic work through community-based arts and cultural activity. It is expected that these projects will have a specified public outcome. A phased approach, lasting three years is possible under this program.
Skills Development and Knowledge Transfer
Support to enhance the capacity of artists to provide leadership to the field, by offering them an opportunity to explore and discuss their creative practice and/or to create opportunities for arts-based community development practitioners to realize new ways of presenting the outcomes of existing best-practice models to new audiences.
Eligibility Requirements
Applicant Type
Artistic Discipline
Funding Type
Priority Community
Career Type
N/A
Minimum Fund Amount
N/A
Maximum Fund Amount
N/A