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They are: delivered via a website, download...</p> </div> <div class="term"> <p class="term-title"><a href="https://canadacouncil.ca/glossary/equity" target="_blank">equity</a></p> <p>Equity is a principle and process that promotes fair conditions for all persons to fully participate in society. It recognizes that while all peop...</p> </div> </div> <div id="f"> <div class="letter"> <span>F</span> </div> <div class="term"> <p class="term-title"><a href="https://canadacouncil.ca/glossary/fields-of-practice" target="_blank">fields of practice</a></p> <p>Fields of practice are linked to applicant profiles in the portal and describe a general field of artistic activity or an artistic discipline. </p> </div> <div class="term"> <p class="term-title"><a href="https://canadacouncil.ca/glossary/first-nations-inuit-and-metis-arts-cultural-professional" target="_blank">first nations, inuit and métis arts/cultural professional</a></p> <p>Arts/Cultural Professionals are individuals whose work supports, facilitates, investigates or examines the work of First Nations, Inuit and M&eacu...</p> </div> <div class="term"> <p class="term-title"><a href="https://canadacouncil.ca/glossary/first-nations-inuit-and-metis-aspiring-artists" target="_blank">first nations, inuit and métis aspiring artists</a></p> <p>Aspiring Artists must be working under the mentorship of an artist who fulfills the professional artist criteria. First Nations, Inuit and M&eacu...</p> </div> <div class="term"> <p class="term-title"><a href="https://canadacouncil.ca/glossary/first-nations-inuit-and-metis-cultural-carriers" target="_blank">first nations, inuit and métis cultural carriers</a></p> <p>Cultural Carriers are individuals whose role within First Nations, Inuit and M茅tis communities supports the preservation, retention, maintenance, ...</p> </div> <div class="term"> <p class="term-title"><a href="https://canadacouncil.ca/glossary/first-nations-inuit-and-metis-for-profit-organizations" target="_blank">first nations, inuit and métis for-profit organizations</a></p> <p>To be eligible as a First Nations, Inuit or Métis for-profit organization, you must: have a board of directors or equivalent governanc...</p> </div> <div class="term"> <p class="term-title"><a href="https://canadacouncil.ca/glossary/first-nations-inuit-and-metis-groups-or-collectives" target="_blank">first nations, inuit and métis groups or collectives</a></p> <p>Eligible groups and collectives have two or more members with at least 50% of the membership of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. To ...</p> </div> <div class="term"> <p class="term-title"><a href="https://canadacouncil.ca/glossary/first-nations-inuit-and-metis-not-for-profit-organizations" target="_blank">first nations, inuit and métis not-for-profit organizations</a></p> <p>To be eligible as a First Nations, Inuit or M茅tis not-for-profit organization, you must: have a board of directors or equivalent governance g...</p> </div> <div class="term"> <p class="term-title"><a href="https://canadacouncil.ca/glossary/first-nations-inuit-and-metis-professional-artist" target="_blank">first nations, inuit and métis professional artist</a></p> <p>The Canada Council supports art made by First Nations, Inuit and M茅tis artists for creative and cultural purposes. It values distinctive voices th...</p> </div> </div> <div id="i"> <div class="letter"> <span>I</span> </div> <div class="term"> <p class="term-title"><a href="https://canadacouncil.ca/glossary/indigenous" target="_blank">indigenous</a></p> <p>The first inhabitants (First Peoples) of a land (including First Nations, Inuit and M茅tis of Canada), and the philosophies, cultures, cosmologies ...</p> </div> <div class="term"> <p class="term-title"><a href="https://canadacouncil.ca/glossary/indigenous-traditional-knowledge" target="_blank">indigenous traditional knowledge</a></p> <p>Traditional knowledge refers to tradition-based literary, artistic or scientific works; performances; inventions; scientific discoveries; designs;...</p> </div> <div class="term"> <p class="term-title"><a href="https://canadacouncil.ca/glossary/internal-committee" target="_blank">internal committee</a></p> <p>An assessment committee composed of Council staff knowledgeable about a given artistic activity or field of practice. </p> </div> </div> <div id="l"> <div class="letter"> <span>L</span> </div> <div class="term"> <p class="term-title"><a href="https://canadacouncil.ca/glossary/literary-book-publisher" target="_blank">literary book publisher</a></p> <p>A professional literary book publisher is an organization that publishes books as its primary activity (fiction, poetry, literary non-fiction, chi...</p> </div> <div class="term"> <p class="term-title"><a href="https://canadacouncil.ca/glossary/literary-works" target="_blank">literary works</a></p> <p>The Canada Council for the Arts supports creative writing in all of its genres and forms. Literary non-fiction is one of the genres supported by t...</p> </div> </div> <div id="m"> <div class="letter"> <span>M</span> </div> <div class="term"> <p class="term-title"><a href="https://canadacouncil.ca/glossary/major-warning" target="_blank">major warning</a></p> <p>A status given to an organization following multiple reductions in core funding. Further to an assessment, a peer committee may recommend a decrea...</p> </div> <div class="term"> <p class="term-title"><a href="https://canadacouncil.ca/glossary/market-access" target="_blank">market access</a></p> <p>The ability to: present, exhibit or sell works outside a home market participate in co-productions, residencies or exchanges (usually ab...</p> </div> <div class="term"> <p class="term-title"><a href="https://canadacouncil.ca/glossary/micro-grant" target="_blank">micro grant</a></p> <p>Grants that normally have one payment and that are for one-time small-scale activities. Such project grants may have activities spanning more than...</p> </div> <div class="term"> <p class="term-title"><a href="https://canadacouncil.ca/glossary/minoritized-culture" target="_blank">minoritized culture</a></p> <p>A community of people whose access to political, financial, or social power and resources has been markedly limited regardless of the size of the ...</p> </div> </div> <div id="n"> <div class="letter"> <span>N</span> </div> <div class="term"> <p class="term-title"><a href="https://canadacouncil.ca/glossary/new-early-career-artist" target="_blank">new/early career artist</a></p> <p>An artist who: is entering, or is in the early stages of, his or her professional career in one or more fields of practice recognized by the ...</p> </div> <div class="term"> <p class="term-title"><a href="https://canadacouncil.ca/glossary/non-literary-publishing" target="_blank">non-literary publishing</a></p> <p>Critical or interpretive texts about an art form such as essays, theory, etc. </p> </div> </div> <div id="o"> <div class="letter"> <span>O</span> </div> <div class="term"> <p class="term-title"><a href="https://canadacouncil.ca/glossary/official-language-minority-communities" target="_blank">official language minority communities</a></p> <p>Official language minority communities (OLMCs) are groups of people whose preferred language is not the majority language in their province o...</p> </div> <div class="term"> <p class="term-title"><a href="https://canadacouncil.ca/glossary/operating-costs" target="_blank">operating costs </a></p> <p>Operating costs pay for items and people to generate the ongoing activities of the business. Typical operating costs of arts organizations and gro...</p> </div> </div> <div id="p"> <div class="letter"> <span>P</span> </div> <div class="term"> <p class="term-title"><a href="https://canadacouncil.ca/glossary/peer-assessment-committee" target="_blank">peer assessment committee</a></p> <p>The Canada Council for the Arts peer assessment committees are groups of peer assessors who are invited to evaluate applications and nominations f...</p> </div> <div class="term"> <p class="term-title"><a href="https://canadacouncil.ca/glossary/peer-assessor" target="_blank">peer assessor</a></p> <p>The Canada Council for the Arts peer assessors are individuals who are invited to join peer assessment committees to evaluate applications an...</p> </div> <div class="term"> <p class="term-title"><a href="https://canadacouncil.ca/glossary/performing-arts" target="_blank">performing arts</a></p> <p>The fields of practice of theatre, circus arts, music and sound, and dance. Inter-arts work may also be among the performing arts.</p> </div> <div class="term"> <p class="term-title"><a href="https://canadacouncil.ca/glossary/professional-artist" target="_blank">professional artist</a></p> <p>An artist who: has specialized training in the artistic field (not necessarily in academic institutions) is recognized as a professiona...</p> </div> <div class="term"> <p class="term-title"><a href="https://canadacouncil.ca/glossary/project" target="_blank">project grant</a></p> <p>Grants that normally have one payment and that are for a single project or for a project that repeats over a given period. </p> </div> </div> <div id="r"> <div class="letter"> <span>R</span> </div> <div class="term"> <p class="term-title"><a href="https://canadacouncil.ca/glossary/racialized-culturally-diverse" target="_blank">racialized (culturally diverse)</a></p> <p>Refers to people of African, Asian, Latin American, West or Central Asian, Pacific Islander, or mixed heritage that includes one or more of these ...</p> </div> <div class="term"> <p class="term-title"><a href="https://canadacouncil.ca/glossary/racialized-culturally-diverse-groups" target="_blank">racialized (culturally diverse) groups</a></p> <p>Refers to people of African, Asian, Latin American, West or Central Asian, Pacific Islander, or mixed heritage that includes one or more of these ...</p> </div> <div class="term"> <p class="term-title"><a href="https://canadacouncil.ca/glossary/remote-community-allowance" target="_blank">remote community allowance</a></p> <p>Funding available to applicants in the Creating, Knowing and Sharing program who face increased or unusual costs due to their geographic inaccessi...</p> </div> </div> <div id="s"> <div class="letter"> <span>S</span> </div> <div class="term"> <p class="term-title"><a href="https://canadacouncil.ca/glossary/supplement-grant" target="_blank">supplement grant</a></p> <p>Additional funding applied to an awarded grant.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>  <footer class="score-footer " > <div class="container score-page-layout-column3 score-page-layout-equal "> <div class="score-column3 equal" > <div class="score-left"><div class="score-content-spot" > <h4>Find out more about funding opportunities</h4> <a class="score-button" href="https://canadacouncil.ca/funding/grants">Grants</a> <a class="score-button" href="https://canadacouncil.ca/funding/prizes">Prizes</a> <a class="score-button" href="https://canadacouncil.ca/funding/strategic-funds">Strategic funds</a> </div></div> <div class="score-center"><a class="score-button goldenrod" data-ux-args="{"ClickMessagesTransmitting":[],"StateChangeMessagesTransmitting":[],"ShowActionMessages":[],"HideActionMessages":[]}" data-ux-module="score_bootstrap/Components/Button" data-ux-state="pending" href="https://canadacouncil.ca/subscribe">Subscribe to the mailing list</a> <div class="socials "> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/CanadaCouncil" target="_blank"><img src="/-/media/Images/CCA/contact-us-page-icons/social-youtube-white.svg?h=25&iar=0&w=35&hash=CAE648AA05AED544A4383B7E448BCA7D" alt="Youtube" width="35" height="25" /></a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/canadacouncil/" target="_blank"><img src="/-/media/Images/CCA/contact-us-page-icons/social-facebook.svg?h=35&iar=0&w=16&hash=A8A1D258B9D85CF300A9F80BCFAAB9FB" alt="Facebook" width="16" height="35" /></a><a href="https://twitter.com/CanadaCouncil" target="_blank"><img src="/-/media/Images/CCA/contact-us-page-icons/logo-x-social.svg?iar=0&hash=0F7444DC6B8F9DACCCB8C53D704C0EA0" alt="X logo" /></a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/canada-council-for-the-arts" target="_blank"><img src="/-/media/Images/CCA/contact-us-page-icons/social-linkedin-white.svg?h=34&iar=0&w=35&hash=35057FC8C2655CBBDDD4EE58CCC44FA2" alt="Linked In" width="35" height="34" /></a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/canada.council/" target="_blank"><img src="/-/media/Images/CCA/contact-us-page-icons/social-instagram-white.svg?h=35&iar=0&w=35&hash=A63D56AD7F5B45E075D69C27DE74B414" alt="Instagram" width="35" height="35" /></a></div><div class="score-content-spot" > <p>150 Elgin St | P.O. 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