Strategic Partnerships, Partnership Programs and Allocations

Toronto Arts Council invests in innovation with our strategic initiatives. New and innovative funding programs and partnerships offer artists and arts organizations the ability to respond to exceptional opportunities and incubate new ideas, projects and initiatives. Browse through the list below to view longer descriptions of select  Strategic Partnerships, Partnership Programs and Allocations for 2014.

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  Animating Historic Sites 

  Partnership Program

  Toronto Arts Council has partnered with City of Toronto Museum Services and the Royal Ontario Museum to provide opportunities for artists to re-imagine and animate five Toronto Heritage sites and the ROM through engagement with their histories, local contexts, and communities. Programming Grants and Exploration Grants are offered through this program. Click HERE to view descriptions of Animating Historic Sites program 2014 recipients.

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  ArtReach Toronto 

  Strategic Partnership

  Toronto Arts Council partnered with ArtReach Toronto to increase access and opportunities for cultural participation for youth across the City. ArtReach brings its signature high-engagement approach to grant making, which combines mentoring and capacity building assistance for the grant recipients, as well as funding for their projects. Click HERE to view descriptions of ArtReach Toronto 2014 grant recipients.

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  Artists in the Schools 

  Partnership Program

  Toronto Arts Council has partnered with Toronto District School Board (TDSB) and Prologue to the Performing Arts on the tdsbCREATES Festival, a four-week spring festival that included artist residencies, mentorships and special arts presentation events. Click HERE to visit the tdsbCREATES website

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  Artists in the Library 

  Partnership Program

  Toronto Arts Council has partnered with Toronto Public Library (TPL) to facilitate the animation of five library spaces outside the downtown core, increase arts access in local communities, and create new work and collaborative opportunities for Toronto artists. Click HERE to view descriptions of Artists in the Library program 2014 recipients.

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  Neighbourhood Arts Network (NAN) 

  Strategic Partnership

  Toronto Arts Council is a partner with other agencies and organizations for the ongoing development of the Neighbourhood Arts Network (NAN). The network acts as a catalyst for new discussions and relationships, facilitates capacity building and professional development, collects research and shares information, and facilitates a shared vision around the place of arts in community development. NAN creates new opportunities for emerging and diverse artists through their Vision awards, which recognize artistic excellence and contribution to community, for professional newcomer artists and community-based arts projects, and through extensive partnerships with local arts organizations and festivals on learning, networking and arts animation activities. Neighbourhood Arts Network (NAN) is an initiative of the Toronto Arts Foundation. Click HERE to visit the Neighbourhood Arts Network website.

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  Open Door Funding 

  Strategic Allocation

  TAC introduced its new Open Door process in 2014 as a means of responding to important and timely arts sector initiatives outside of the discipline-specific funding streams. TAC aims to provide catalyst funding for ideas and initiatives that have the potential to create transformative change for artistic disciplines, communities of artists and arts organizations and the arts sector at large. Proposals must demonstrate the potential for impact in the following defined categories: Market Development, New Models and Innovations, Exceptional Opportunities. Click HERE to read more about Open Door 2014 recipients.

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  Panamania 

  Strategic Partnership

  Toronto Arts Council is partnering with the Pan Am Festival of Art and Culture to support 15 Toronto organizations for the new works they are creating for the Panamania multidisciplinary arts festival, a high-profile PanAm initiative that will showcase Toronto as a leading international city of the arts. TAC funding will help ensure the successful execution of these projects, which will receive national and international exposure. Click HERE to read more about 2014 Panamania recipients.

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  Platform A 

  Strategic Partnership. Funds disbursed as micro-grants

  Platform A is a partnership involving four organizations that have pioneered work in the field of community arts in Toronto: Arts for Children and Youth, Art Starts, Jumblies Theatre, and Sketch: Working Arts for Street and Homeless Youth. The project is creating new opportunities through shared platforms, mentorships, organizational bridge building, and micro-grants and will test new models for collaboration and resource sharing in the youth and community-engaged arts sectors. Click HERE to view descriptions of Platform A micro-grant recipients for 2014.

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  Targeted Enhanced Funding 

  Strategic Allocation

  TAC provided targeted funding to selected organizations that receive operating grants to support the continuation or expansion of their work with children, youth and/or culturally diverse communities in Toronto, specifically for activities taking place outside the downtown core. These grants are separate from their operating grants and are intended to support the costs of the intensive work involved in this kind of high-engagement work. Click HERE to view descriptions of Targeted Enhanced Funding recipients.

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  Theatres Leading Change 

  Strategic Allocation

  TAC provided funding for a community convening. Theatres Leading Change Toronto, a group of 18 theatre and dance organizations, shared the ideas that emerged from their two year process of exploration and discussion through a community convening in June. Prior to releasing a comprehensive report on the process, this community gathering offered the best way to share, develop and disseminate the ideas that emerged through the work and might serve as the impetus to establish a community agenda for change.