Service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Canada Council for the Arts fosters and promotes the arts in Canada through a wide range of grants and services for professional Canadian artists and arts organizations in dance, media arts, music, writing, theatre, publishing, interdisciplinary work and performance art, and the visual arts. Professional individual artists and professional non-profit arts organizations may apply for assistance. The information brochure, Applying to the Canada Council for the Arts, is also available in Braille and large print. The enthusiastic endorsement, by high performance athletes and coaches, of the Calgary Centre during its first two years led Sport Canada to a commitment to create additional centres in Montreal and Winnipeg.
Discussions are ongoing regarding the establishment of centres in Toronto and Vancouver.
The partners are also committed to a centre in the Atlantic provinces, in collaboration with the respective provincial governments. You have the right to see your personal information records held by federal government institutions and to ensure that the collection, use, disposal or disclosure of these records is in accordance with the Privacy Act . See the Privacy Program in the section on Human Rights.