Arts and participation projects

Open to: artists, arts organisations and non-arts based organisations, communities and groups.

Grants for: arts projects that actively involve professional artists in creative collaboration with communities.

Grant value: up to $10,000 for research and development or $25,000 for presentation.

About Arts Participation Projects

Arts and Participation Projects grants support arts projects that broaden access to arts experience through creative collaborations between professional artists and communities across all art forms.

Arts projects that explore and critically reflect on emerging social issues will also be considered. Two funding streams are available:

• up to $10,000 for research and development: scoping new project ideas and developing participatory arts projects
• up to $25,000 for presentation: project development, delivery and outcome.

Eligibility checklist

• You meet all City of Melbourne Grants and Sponsorship program eligibility requirements.
• You meet the essential Arts Grants criteria.

Contact

Applicants in this category are strongly advised to speak to the program manager to discuss their application.

Phone: (03) 9658 9983

Application form

You are required to complete either the PDF or text form and return to City of Melbourne. For people who require an accessible format to use with assistive technologies, please use the text only format.

Full guidelines

For full details on the grants program, download the full City of Melbourne Grants and Sponsorship 2012 Guidelines document here:

Guidelines 2012-Active Melbourne, Arts, Community Services (text only, 910kb)