Department of Tourism announces Creative Projects Fund

Tuesday, 26 March 2024 12:02

By Tonya Organ

Submissions are due by May 15th and more information can be found on Celebrate NL’s website.

Tourism Minister Steve Crocker has announced details of a Creative Projects Fund. The fund is open to not-for-profit and for-profit professional arts organizations that have the creation and/or presentation of works of art as their primary activity. This includes those with a focus on performing arts; film, media, and digital arts; visual arts; literary arts; and interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary arts. Projects must meet two or more of the following criteria:

Be delivered in multiple regions of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Be a new initiative or significant new extension of an existing project.
Have secured a minimum of 30 per cent of the total project cost (excluding any operational expenses) from non-provincial government sources at the time of application.

Submissions are due by May 15th and more information can be found on Celebrate NL’s website.

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