Bring bold literary ideas to life across Toronto’s communities ✍🏽📚

The Literary Projects program supports Toronto-based organizations and collectives creating impactful literary experiences—from spoken word events and reading series to festivals, conferences, workshops, and magazine publishing.

This grant supports one-time or time-limited projects that contribute to the growth of literary arts in Toronto, including production, presentation, professional development, and independent magazine publishing. Funding can go toward artist fees (required), production and technical costs, marketing, documentation, and more. Digital projects are also eligible.

💰 Up to $8,000 available (projects must include additional revenue sources)
🗓 Deadline: August 4, 2026
📍 Projects must take place in Toronto
👥 Open to non-profit organizations and collectives

Questions? Reach out to rudrapriya@torontoartscouncil.org
Learn more (link in bio) Literary Projects | Toronto Arts Council

Credit Image: Tisania Francis-Smith (Spoken by T) and her Journal
Credit: Photography by Phil Garstka, LRS directed by Brennan Wisdom James, Produced by Elle de Lyon, Art by Anastasia de Lyon

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Bring your dance vision to life 💫

The Dance Projects grant supports professional dance artists, collectives, and organizations in Toronto across every stage of the creative process — from research and choreography to rehearsal, production, and live or digital presentation.

TAC’s Dance Projects funding recognizes a wide range of dance practices and requires the payment of artist fees. Funding can support expenses like artist and production fees, studio time, venue rentals, marketing, outreach, and more.

You can apply in one of four categories:
🔹Creation – ($10,000 max and may cover 100% of costs) supports new choreographic work, research, development and commissions

🔹Production & Presentation – ($20,000 max) supports rehearsing and staging of dance performances

🔹Dance Series & Festivals – ($10,000 max) supports showcasing Toronto-based dance artists and companies

🔹Dance Field Development – ($8,000 max) supports workshops, labs, and initiatives that strengthen the dance sector.

📍 Projects must take place in the City of Toronto
📅 Deadline: August 4
🔗 Learn more about the requirements (link in bio) Dance Projects | Toronto Arts Council
📩 Questions? tafiya@torontoarts.org

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Photo credit: 12th Soo Ryu Festival, presented by Korean Dance Studies Society of Canada, 2022. Photo by Gabriel Cropley. Funded by a Toronto Arts Council Dance Operating Grant. Featuring professional dancers performing traditional Korean dance on stage in traditional costume. Instagram: @thekoreandancestudies …

Bring your community together through art 🎨🙌🏽💛

The Creative Communities Projects program supports Toronto-based artists, collectives, and non-profit organizations to lead collaborative arts projects that publicly engage communities with arts and culture in meaningful ways.

Projects can include one or more arts practices music, dance, theatre, visual arts, storytelling and more—and must involve collaboration between professional artists and community members, with a focus on participation, skill-building, and public engagement.

This program supports:
✨ Arts engagement projects that encourage community participation
✨ Arts community development that builds and strengthens artistic communities
✨ Increased access to arts experiences across Toronto

💰 Grants up to $15,000
📅 Deadline: August 4
📍 Projects must take place in Toronto

Learn more + apply at torontoartscouncil.org/grants/creative-communities-projects
Questions? Reach out to kevin@torontoartscouncil.org

Slide 1 Photo Credit: @shadowlandtheatre. Photo by Hannah Mittelstaedt, 2023. Supported by Toronto Arts Council Creative Communities.

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Celebrating Asian Heritage Month with Long Time No See Collective (@ltnschinatown) ❤️

Long Time No See (LTNS) is a collective of artists and educators from different backgrounds and generations of Chinese settlers living on Turtle Island. Through storytelling, public art, workshops, and community engagement, they honour their ancestors by teaching the histories of Chinatown, uplifting stories that have been erased, and reflecting on their responsibilities to act in solidarity with Indigenous peoples.

One of LTNS’s ongoing community projects, “Chinatown, the Best!”, invited seniors in the Chinatown community to imagine what would make Chinatown a more vibrant and welcoming place to live and gather. Through weekly gatherings at community centres, seniors shared their experiences, hopes, skills, and visions for the future of Chinatown. Participants were also invited to reflect on the best version of themselves and be photographed. ( Slide 2)

As part of LTNS’s Longing Belonging, 100 Years 100 Stories exhibition programming, members of the Markham community took an art bus ride to Toronto Chinatown for the rare opportunity to visit one of the historic Family Associations and hear about its history from Leo Chan. (Slide 3))

For May 5, 2026, LTNS partnered with Chinatown Land Trust, Thank-you Chinatown, and community volunteers to create a series of posters featuring community members wearing red dresses in honour of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit people (MMIWG2S+). (Slide 4)

Learn more about LTNS and their work: https://ltnschinatown.com
Instagram: @ltnschinatown

Photo Credit (all photos): Maylynn Quan (@maylynnquan)
Image Descriptions:
• Chan Family Association
• For May 5, 2026 LTNS teamed up with Chinatown Land Trust and Thank-you Chinatown and many community volunteers to produce a series of posters with community members wearing red dresses to honour MMIWG2S+
• Chinatown the Best! (2024)

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