[BC-Wide] Arts-Based Community Development & Leon and Thea Koerner Award (Deadline: May 14, 2025)

The Arts-Based Community Development (A-BCD) program supports eligible projects that embody arts-based community development (A-BCD) principles, through two categories:

• Projects where a professional artist (or artists) facilitates and supports the collective creation of new artwork in any discipline by community participants.

or

• Training of professional artists or community workers in Arts-Based Community Development processes.

The Leon and Thea Koerner Awards (LTK Award) are grants provided by the Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation through a partnership with the BC Arts Council. The LTK Award is given to up to 5 organizations that are recognized for achieving social benefit through excellence and innovation, creating projects that lead to social change or transformation. This aligns with the principles of arts-based community development.

For guidelines, application checklist, info session recording, and more, please visit: https://www.bcartscouncil.ca/program/arts-based-community-development/