CAIP has four Streams.

Read the Program Guidelines and Eligibility Criteria below for each stream to ensure your organization, yourself as an individual artist/creator/practitioner of traditional arts, or your artist collective/ad hoc group meet the requirements.

Is your organization a nonprofit and/or registered charitable arts organization looking for investment? The LAC supports London-based nonprofit and/or registered charitable arts organizations working in all artistic disciplines and their various cultural forms. LAC accepts applications from disciplines including literature, film, music, performance (dance, spoken word/storytelling, theatre), and visual art.

Investments contribute to the artistic and administrative costs associated with an organization’s ongoing yearly/seasonal activities in the city of London.

Learn more about LAC’s Organizational Investment Streams:

• Annual Operating Stream (AOS)

• Development Acceleration Stream (DAS) – Invitation only

Program Guidelines and Eligibility Criteria vary slightly by Investment Stream. General requirements for nonprofit and/or registered charitable arts organizations (AOS and DAS) include:

• Be an Ontario incorporated nonprofit and/or registered charitable arts organization located in London.

• Have completed at least one fiscal year of sustained, regular, ongoing presentation/programming in London as of the application date. Newly incorporated Arts Organizations, if previously operating as a Collective, this history will be considered.

• Organizations in the DAS Stream must have annual operating budgets greater than $250,000.00.

• Organizations must be led by paid professional artistic/administrative personnel (full-time/part-time for organizational operations/contract for seasonal activities) managing the organization’s artistic programming/administrative operations.

• Organizations must include artist fees (guest artists/contracted artists) in their expenses.

• Organizations must provide proof of sound financial management and an annual operating budget of less than $1,500,000.00.

The full Program Guidelines and Eligibility Criteria for Nonprofit/Registered Charitable Arts Organizations (AOS and DAS) can be reviewed here https://www.londonarts.ca/arts-organizations .

Are you an Individual Artist/Creator/Practitioner of Traditional Arts or a member of a Collective/Ad Hoc Group of Artists/Creators/Practitioners of Traditional Arts looking for investment support to bring your artistic project to life?

The LAC supports Artists residing within London, Ontario and surrounding First Nations Communities (Chippewas of the Thames First Nation; Munsee Delaware Nation; and Oneida Nation of the Thames). LAC accepts applications for projects in literature, film, music, performance (dance, spoken word/storytelling, theatre), and visual art.

• Individual Artists/Creators/Practitioners of Traditional Arts

• Collectives/Ad Hoc Groups of Artists/Creators/Practitioners of Traditional Arts

Project Streams support the following for both Individual Artists and Collectives/Ad Hoc Groups:

• Research: Research is a stand-alone request. It cannot be combined with Creation, and/or Presentation/Production requests.

• Creation

• Production/presentation(s)

• A series of presentations

• Festival(s)
  

Program Guidelines and Eligibility Criteria for Individual Artists and Collectives/Ad Hoc Groups vary slightly by Investment Stream. General requirements include: Individual Artists, Creators, Practitioners of Traditional Arts, and/or Collectives/Ad Hoc Groups of Artists, Creators, Practitioners of Traditional Arts

• Individual Artists, Creators, Practitioners of Traditional Arts and Lead Artists, Creators, Practitioners of a Collective or Ad Hoc Group must be a London residents or residents of the surrounding First Nations Communities (Chippewas of the Thames First Nation, Munsee Delaware Nation, Oneida Nation of the Thames). Proof of residency is required.

• Must be 18 years of age or older and conduct their practice primarily in London or their First Nation Community.

• Lead Individuals and members of Collectives/Ad Hoc Groups must be Canadian Citizens or Permanent Residents. If Permanent Residents, individuals must provide a copy of their Permanent Resident Card.

• Must demonstrate ability, innovation, and originality.

• Must indicate a range of revenue sources for the proposed project including earned, private sector and/or government revenue.

• Must provide a safe/supportive workplace/studio practice in which diversity, dignity, and perspectives of all individuals are valued/respected.

• Only non-profit activities are eligible.

• Budgets must balance to zero, no surplus and no deficit.

The full Program Guidelines and Eligibility Criteria for Individual Artists/Creators/Practitioners of Traditional Arts can be reviewed here https://www.londonarts.ca/professional-artists.

The full Program Guidelines and Eligibility Criteria for Collectives/Ad Hoc Groups of Artists/ Creators/Practitioners of Traditional Arts can be reviewed here https://www.londonarts.ca/artist-collectives.