AIE (Grants for Districts)
Program of the BC Arts Council
For more than 30 years, the Artists in Education (AIE) funding program has supported the arts in schools right across BC by providing matching funds for performances. AIE has introduced hundreds of thousands of children and youth to traditional and cultural events in a multidisciplinary range of dance, theatre, music, literary, media and visual arts.
Program goals and objectives:
- Expose young people to performances that have artistic quality and educational merit.
- Balance exposure of the arts to young people in remote, rural and urban environments.
- Establish professional standards for arts practices and presentations in schools and expose BC’s children and youth to professional quality arts programming.
- Develop, maintain and expand the market for professional artists working with children and youth.
- Facilitate communication between the arts and education communities by developing mutual awareness, respect and appreciation.
- Promote the arts as an area of study and professional employment.
Please note: only one application per school district is accepted. Only district representatives may apply. Contact aie@artstarts.com to obtain an application form. Program guidelines are available on our Forms & Deadlines page.
This Artists in Education grant is designed to support a wide range of professional arts activities throughout all of BC’s districts and associations. Open to all BC School Districts, the Federation of Independent School Associations and the First Nations Schools Association, the annual allocation of funding is determined through a formula based on the number of schools, number of students and a distance code assigned to each district or association.
ArtStarts gratefully acknowledges the support of the following funders of the Artists in Education program.
