Grant Investment Programs

Our grant investment programs support individual artists, artist collectives and arts organizations. Grant investments help fund operations, projects, skill development, capacity building and other initiatives that strengthen Calgary’s arts sector.

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A family in team Canada hockey jersey's outside a cinema, looking happy during the 2024 Calgary International Film Festival

CIFF Audience members at Chinook Cineplex during the 2024 Festival

Photo: Michael Grondin

Grant Program Announcements

Second Intake: Artist Development Microgrant

Applications for the second intake of the 2025 Artist Development Microgrant open on September 17, 2025. This program is intended to support professional and business development activities for individual artists and artist collectives. The deadline…Read more

Changes to our Operating Grant Program for 2026

Following a major evaluation and redesign, operating grants are now assessed and awarded through two separate programs: one for community arts organizations and one for professional arts organizations. Program criteria, conditions and requirements of the…Read more

Applications Open: Original Peoples Investment Program

Applications are open for the Original Peoples Investment Program. This program is intended to provide one-time project funding to First Nations, Métis and Inuit (FNMI) individual artists, FNMI artist collectives, and Indigenous-led and -centred arts…Read more

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Our Commitment to Equity

Our commitment to Indigenous reconciliation, racial equity, disability justice, and gender and sexual diversity.

We acknowledge that the land we gather on, Mohkinsstsis, is the ancestral territory of the Siksikaitsitapi — the Blackfoot people — comprising the Siksika, Kainai and Piikani Nations, as well as Treaty 7 signatories, the Tsuut’ina Nation and the Îyârhe Nakoda Bearspaw, Chiniki and Goodstoney First Nations. Today this land is home to the Otipemisiwak Métis Government Districts 5 and 6 as well as many First Nations and Inuit from across Turtle Island.

We acknowledge that there has been art, music, dance, storytelling and ceremony on this land since time immemorial and it is in the spirit of this land and its people that we do our work.

Please see our full Commitment to Equity, including the sections on our aspirations, accountability, current initiatives and EDIA history.