Call for applications: Music-French Project (Canada)

This policy promotes the development of song and music artists by allowing artists to focus on their creative or production projects, prioritizing access to cutting-edge human and technological resources to realize their projects, and supporting artists to publicize their work.

Category

• The program is divided into five categories:
  • Creation: A project to create a new song or musical piece through composing music, writing lyrics, or both.
  • Creating a Demo or EP: Includes all steps from recording to release (for an EP).
  • Making a Full Album: Covers all stages from recording to album release.
  • Show Development: This is the stage where a new show consisting of original French songs is prepared, with a known date and location, and the audience is physically or virtually present (e.g. online broadcast, radio broadcast).
  • Music Video Production: The production of a music video for a French song that has already been produced and recorded. A music video is not considered complete until it is released to the public.

Funding Information

• Creation: Up to $5,000
• Demo or EP Production: Up to $5,000
• Full-length Album Production: Up to $10,000
• Show Development: Up to $8,000
• Music Video Production: Up to $8,000

Qualification criteria

• Professional music artist based in Ontario.
• Ad hoc groups, collectives and non-profit music organizations comprised of professional music artists, at least 50% of whom reside in Ontario.
• To participate in this program, you (or one of your members if you are a group or organization) must meet the following criteria:
  • The writer or composer of the song that is the subject of the request.
  • Or the lyricist of the song that is the subject of the request. You must specify the name of the French-speaking composer who will collaborate on the project.
  • Or the composer of the music that is the subject of the request. If applicable, you must specify the name of the French lyricist who will collaborate on the project.

Disqualification criteria

• Colleges, universities and local governments.
• Organizations receiving:
  • An operating grant for one of the French language arts programs is available:
    • Visual Arts, Media Arts and Crafts: French-speaking self-managed artists’ organization and center.
    • How does French broadcasting work?
    • Working on the French version.
    • Operation of a French-language arts service agency.
    • Operating a French-language theater.
    • There is no obligation to provide services to more than one priority group of CAOs and there is no other operating subsidy.

For more information, please visit: Ontario Arts Council.