Strategic Initiatives Fund – Arts Wellness Component
Tourism, Heritage and Culture
Overview
The Strategic Initiatives Fund – Arts Wellness Component provides eligible New Brunswick arts organizations and groups with funding for partnership projects that positively impacts wellness through arts.
Deadlines: June 1, 2024; September 15, 2024; January 15, 2025
Eligibility
Eligible APPLICANTS would include (but not limited to):
• Non-profit arts and cultural organizations legally incorporated in New Brunswick;
• Cultural Industry for-profit businesses legally registered in NB, (craft entrepreneurs, commercial galleries etc.);
• Municipalities with a cultural policy;
• First Nations groups.
Eligible PARTNERS would include (but not limited to):
• Non-profit community organizations
• Multicultural organizations
• Municipalities
• Early learning and childcare facilities
• Long-term care facilities
• Homeless shelters
• Hospitals
• Schools
• Libraries
• Transition homes
• Incarcerated facilities / Detention/rehabilitation centres
• First Nations
• Wellness organizations/consultants
Description
This program provides funding in the form of a grant of up to 50% of the project’s total cost to a maximum of $10,000 per year and aims to:
• Build healthier and resilient communities through the arts;
• Improve access to arts and artists from equity-seeking groups;
• Support arts activities to underserved communities;
• Strengthen the wellness knowledge and capacity for arts organizations and artists.
Eligible activities would include those that:
• Focus primarily on engaging and presenting the arts through programming that can include creation projects, workshops, mentoring and/or performances with professional New Brunswick artists;
• Demonstrate a clear partnership with the co-applicant;
• Have a clear artistic mandate or theme and how they will engage the audience from a wellness perspective;
• Encourage broad-based knowledge and awareness of wellness in the arts.
• Foster diversity, inclusivity and engage equity-seeking groups. This may include but not limited to artists/participants from the following communities: culturally diverse; deaf and disability; Indigenous communities; and gender and sexual minorities.
*Please refer to the guidelines/program call on the Arts Culture NB Portal which contains important information about deadlines and criteria of this program.