Press Releases and Announcements
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May 04, 2021
$1 MILLION+ PANDEMIC RESPONSE GRANTS PROGRAM
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September 24, 2013
In April 2013, four million dollars in new funding was approved for Toronto Arts Council grants, with an additional two million dollar increase anticipated for each of the next three years. With an approved strategy in place, TAC was well prepared for this funding increase. In the six months since the City budget announcement, TAC’s committees and juries have adjudicated almost 800 grant applications, with 300 more applications currently being evaluated, and two more grant deadlines remaining this year.
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November 30, 2011
November 30, 2011 - Tuesday morning, November 28th, Councillor Gloria Lindsay Luby (Ward 4, Etobicoke Centre) presented the Friends of the Arts Petition to City Council, featuring 20,000 signatures representing residents living in every ward of Toronto.
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January 31, 2014
On January 30, Toronto City Council passed the City’s 2014 budget. Provisions for arts funding include a continuation of City Council’s commitment to reach the $25 per capita funding target by 2017.
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December 13, 2021
Writing to you at the end of our second pandemic year, I want to express my admiration for Toronto's artists and arts organizations who have continued to survive and even thrive in the most trying of circumstances.
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June 03, 2021
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March 21, 2013
Culture Days @ The Library, a partnership between Toronto Art Foundation's Neighbourhood Arts Network, Toronto Public Libraries and Ontario Culture Days, is now opening the application process to Toronto-based artists and cultural groups seeking free venues for activities taking place on September 27-28, 2013, in preparation for the fourth annual Culture Days national celebration of the arts.
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June 13, 2013
Toronto Arts Council and ArtReach Toronto are in a new partnership that will result in an investment of $300,000 in the form of grants for youth arts projects in underserved communities across Toronto.
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November 11, 2011
November 11, 2011, Toronto, ON - The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) along with Friends of the Arts will meet with over twenty five individual City Councillors on Monday November 14 to discuss the importance of and impact of the arts on Torontonians.
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November 12, 2012
November 12, 2012 - The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) along with Friends of the Arts will meet with over 25 Toronto City Councillors on Tuesday, November 13 to discuss the importance of and impact of the arts on Torontonians.