This grant provides funding in three-year cycles to eligible professional organizations that produce large-scale public presentations of arts disciplines.

This funding is designed to support your organization’s operations, which are specific to your organization’s mandate, strategic and/or business plan and activities as described in your application and/or reporting.

To be eligible for Major Arts Presenters operating funding, you must:

• have artistic presentation as your organization’s principal mandate, as stated in its incorporation documents
• engage in on-going development, implementation and promotion of arts presenting programming as its core primary activity in an annual program of presentation of professional artists open to the public
• employ at least one full-time equivalent administrative and/or artistic staff member who is responsible for planning and producing artistic performances and events