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From the Canada Council for the Arts
Note: this program is targeted to professional artists as well as cultural
professionals (for example, curators, scholars, producers), cultural
carriers (for example, Elders, knowledge keepers), and cultural connectors
(for example, traditional educators, language holders)
{Re}conciliation
A groundbreaking arts partnership looks to the past & future for new
dialogues between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples in Canada
http://canadacouncil.ca/aboriginal-arts-office/reconciliation
This unique initiative will promote artistic collaborations between
Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal artists, investing in the power of art and
imagination to inspire dialogue, understanding and change. Council will
administer the {Re}conciliation initiative. A call for proposals will be
issued in late May 2015. Interested artists and arts organizations will be
invited to submit proposals for project funding up to $75,000. This
initiative precedes the release of the much-anticipated report from
Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and seeks to help artists
and Canadians alike reflect upon, and help repair historic injustices.
The partnership also highlights Council’s recent commitment to building a
vital and engaged new Aboriginal program as part of the upcoming
transformation of its national arts funding programs.
Application deadline: 11:59pm July 24, 2015
The objectives are:
• To use the arts as a vehicle of understanding and relationship building
between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities in Canada
• To support the creation and dissemination of art works in any and all
art forms, disciplines or genres that articulate critical and creative
responses of the Aboriginal community to cumulative trauma
• To investigate the potential of conciliation and reconciliation using
art to engage Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal audiences in Canada
• To build audience development and community initiatives within the
healing process, challenge,provoke, reflect and witness through an
artistic lens
• To articulate the challenges and the possibilities of creating, through
the arts, new dialogues and discourses about conciliation and
reconciliation.
Eligible candidates
• Individuals of Aboriginal Heritage who are 18 years and older:
– must be a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident of Canada
– professional artists
– cultural professionals (for example, curators, scholars, producers)
– cultural carriers (for example, Elders, knowledge keepers)
– cultural connectors (for example, traditional educators, language holders)
•Collectives composed of a majority of Aboriginal individuals
(see above)
•Organizations whose artistic direction, creative/editorial control and
financial accountability/responsibility are fulfilled by Aboriginal staff
or board member(s):
– non-profit organizations (registered or not registered)
– for-profit publishing houses and magazines
– other similar organizations
Full description (8pg PDF file):
http://canadacouncil.ca/~/media/files/misc/reconciliation-call-for-proposals-05-15.pdf
– page 7 has full listing of what needs to be submitted for application
Form (for sections A, F, G of application) (3pg PDF File):
http://canadacouncil.ca/~/media/files/misc/reconciliation-form-sections-a-f-g-05-15.pdf
