Currently 3 active cross-disciplinary and social impact grants, fellowships and residencies open to applicants in Canada. Hand-curated and updated weekly. Almost every entry is funded; a few notable unpaid open calls and festival submissions are included as clearly flagged exceptions. Browse the list below, or use the interactive desk for filtering and shortlisting.
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The Guggenheim Fellowship is awarded to mid-career individuals who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts, giving them six to twelve months of funded time to work with as much creative freedom as possible. Around 175 to 200 fellows are chosen each year from a field of several thousand applicants (a success rate of roughly five percent), across more than 50 fields spanning the creative arts, the humanities, the natural sciences and the social sciences, including architecture, film, music, photography, fine arts, computer science and interdisciplinary work. ELIGIBILITY: citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada; applicants must be mid-career with a significant record of published or exhibited work, and current students and previous Guggenheim Fellows are not eligible. APPLICATION: through the Foundation's own portal, which opens in late summer 2026, so check the site if it is not yet live. The application deadline is 15 September 2026 with no late submissions accepted; work samples are due 29 September 2026 and reference letters 13 October 2026. Results are announced in late April 2027. No fee.
Created in 2014 as a partnership between Toronto Arts Council and Toronto Public Library, Artists in the Library gives Toronto artists paid opportunities and space while widening access to the arts in Etobicoke, York, North York, East York and Scarborough. It funds professional artists, arts organisations and collectives in any artistic discipline to create and deliver free community-engaged arts programming at a Toronto Public Library branch. TAC encourages applications from its equity priority groups and from artists working in their local communities. WHAT RECIPIENTS GET OUT OF IT: a chance to explore their practice in a community setting, access to branch space and facilities, meaningful engagement with the branch and its community, close support from the branch team, experience navigating a multi-stakeholder environment, and the delivery of a community-engaged arts project from start to finish. WHAT COUNTS: community engagement is required but its format can vary, covering exhibitions, installations, performances, concerts, screenings, readings, filmmaking, storytelling, workshops, artist talks, participatory programmes, arts education and mentorship. Permanent exhibitions and installations are not eligible. Projects are produced by the recipient, hosted and supported by the assigned branch, and must be delivered on site within branch operating hours. SCALE: because host slots at TPL branches are limited, this is not for one-off workshops or small-scale events; the offering must be substantial with a budget to match. LOCATION: there is no list of eligible branches for 2026. Applicants indicate a preferred area or neighbourhood outside the downtown core and TPL staff assign the branch based on suitability and availability, so a different branch than the one requested may be assigned. For Toronto and East York, downtown is excluded, defined as south of St Clair, east of Jane and west of the Don Valley. Only one branch may be proposed. ELIGIBILITY: individuals must be Canadian citizens, permanent residents, have a pending PR application, or be a protected person, must hold a Social Insurance Number, and must have lived in the City of Toronto for at least one year before the deadline and live and work there at least eight months a year (no PO boxes). Artists in graduate study may not apply for work related to their programme without a letter from the programme director. Organisations must be incorporated non-profit arts organisations, and collectives must operate on a non-profit basis, be located in Toronto, and have both members (for a pair) or a majority of members resident in Toronto; successful collectives must supply bank account details in the collective's name. IMPORTANT: proposals must align with TPL's programming policy, and proposals that TPL staff judge unsuitable for a branch or impossible in its context will not be funded, so read the 'Working With Toronto Public Library' section of the guidelines. First-time applicants are encouraged to consult the programme manager and to attend the Zoom office hours on eligibility and project fit (17 September) and on budgets (29 September). Contact: Lena Golubtsova, lena@torontoartscouncil.org. Deadline 6 October 2026.
The Societe des arts technologiques (SAT) in Montreal runs a research-creation residency program in arts and technologies for artists and collectives working in the performing arts and/or media arts. The residency funds a research-creation stage of a project in technological arts rather than the finalisation of a finished work, so the call weighs the exploration process and the innovation in it above a polished outcome. Each selected project receives a CAD 10,000 grant, whether the applicant is an individual artist or a collective, plus access to SAT spaces and equipment, technical and creative support from the SAT teams, mentoring and training activities, and documentation and archiving. Access to spaces and equipment is assessed against the project's needs and granted subject to availability. Travel, meal and accommodation costs beyond the grant are not covered. Open to professional artists and artistic collectives worldwide, at any level of experience and from any primary discipline, provided the profile and project suit immersive technologies; collectives must submit a joint portfolio showing they can carry out the project independently, particularly the visual and sound creation inside a dome. Each application must include a form and supporting documents setting out the concept, the technical solutions considered, and what will be explored during the residency. One application per project and per person; incomplete applications are not evaluated; use permanent, downloadable links rather than WeTransfer or similar temporary services. Accommodations and alternative support documents (large print and so on) are available on request at residences@sat.qc.ca. Deadline 18 October 2026. Apply through the Google Form linked from the SAT open-call page.