Canada Arts Presentation Fund

Canada Arts Presentation Fund is sponsored by Department of Canadian Heritage. Supports organizations that professionally present arts festivals or performing arts series, as well as organizations that offer support to arts presenters.

Canada Arts Presentation Fund - Canada. ca Canada Arts Presentation Fund On November 4, 2025, the government announced $46. 5 million over 3 years, starting in 2026-2027, to the Department of Canadian Heritage for the Canada Arts Presentation Fund (CAPF) to support professionally presented arts festivals or performing arts series.

This proposed funding would renew the $8 million in additional funds initially allocated to the CAPF through Budget 2019 and subsequently renewed through the Fall Economic Statement 2020 and Budget 2021. It would also renew the additional $7. 5 million per year, allocated through Budget 2024.

The CAPF provides financial assistance to organizations that professionally present arts festivals or performing arts series (arts presenters) and organizations that offer support to arts presenters. Through the CAPF, Canadians have access to a variety of professional artistic experiences in their communities.

Each year, the CAPF supports approximately 800 professional arts festivals and performing arts series, as well as other activities related to art presentation, in more than 270 cities or communities across Canada. The CAPF has 2 main components — Programming and Development. The Programming component has 2 streams: Professional Arts Festivals and Performing Arts Series Presenters; and Presenter Support Organizations.

You can consult the Canada Arts Presentation Fund Evaluation 2018-19 to 2022-23 . Professional Arts Festivals and Performing Arts Series Presenters This stream provides support to existing professional arts festivals and performing arts series presenters, to offer a variety of professional artistic experiences to Canadians.

Apply Programming: Professional Arts Festivals and Performing Arts Series Presenters Presenter Support Organizations This stream provides support to existing presenter support organizations, to assist with activities and services that help arts presenters to evolve professionally in their field.

Apply Programming: Presenter Support Organizations This component provides support for the emergence of arts presenters and presenter support organizations for under-served communities or artistic practices. Note : An organization cannot apply to the Programming component and the Development component in the same year for its regular programming activities.

Apply Development — Canada Arts Presentation Fund As announced on March 15, 2023, the Creative Export Strategy has been renewed for the period of 2023-2024 to 2025-2026. For more information, please visit the Creative Export Strategy web page .

Previously, through Canada’s Creative Export Strategy (2018-2023), the CAPF was allocated $500,000 per year for a period of 5 years ending March 31, 2023, to offer supplemental support to existing CAPF recipients for activities that contribute to a favourable environment for Canadian cultural export by promoting Canadian artists to international markets.

Arts presentation organizations that previously accessed this support through the CAPF (Creative Export Envelope) can now apply for export support funding through the Creative Export Canada program’s 2 funding streams. Applicants can contact the program to discuss their projects and determine which of the 2 streams is a better fit for their activities.