Downtown Music Vibrancy Relaunch Grant

Posted on April 5, 2022

Are you an Edmonton-based business, organization, venue or arts professional that presents live music?

The Downtown Music Vibrancy Relaunch Grant provides up to $5,000 to present live music in Edmonton’s downtown core from now until June 30th, 2022.

This opportunity was created by West Anthem and supported in part by the City of Edmonton’s Downtown Vibrancy Strategy, in partnership with The National Music Centre and Alberta Music. Applications are open now until April 22nd.

ABOUT THE GRANT
This grant aims to promote and support Edmonton’s vibrant arts & culture sector in the heart of the city where many music venues and artistic spaces call home. It is also meant to encourage collaboration and partnership between arts organizations, businesses and arts professionals with a vested interest in the future of live music in our city at a time when it is crucially needed.

Events must be hosted within the boundary as stated in this map provided by the Downtown Business Association:

ABOUT WEST ANTHEM
West Anthem was established to help stimulate the growth and sustainability of Alberta’s music industry. Its objectives are to develop a comprehensive understanding of the economic profile of Alberta’s music cluster, support the business capacity of the music industry, advocate Alberta’s music industry as a key economic driver and a vehicle for diversification, and to establish and implement a live music strategy for Alberta.

Applications are now closed

Contact

Email: info@westanthem.com

Alberta spans five treaty territories and eight Métis settlements. Like their ancestors, many Indigenous individuals and families make their homes across the prairies, including the Blackfoot Confederacy – Kainai, Piikani, and Siksika – the Cree, Dene, Saulteaux, Nakota Sioux, Stoney Nakoda, and the Tsuu T’ina Nation. The Métis People of Alberta include the Six Regions of the Métis Nation of Alberta. Many First Nations, Métis, and Inuit, both from here and as visitors from elsewhere, have helped care for these lands for generations. We recognize they have traditions and relationships to the land far outstretching the arrival of settlers.

We are extremely grateful for these lands on which we reside, work, and play. We make this acknowledgement as an act of gratitude and reconciliation. While championing the arts in Calgary and across Alberta, we intend for our work to contribute to the valuing of traditional art forms and result in greater opportunity for the creative Indigenous talent who walk these lands today.