Toronto Arts Council
Creative Enquiry Lab
Toronto, Ontario
The 2026 intake is current/upcoming at verification date.
August 17, 2026; the funded experience runs January–August after notification in November.
- Eligible applicants
- Toronto arts organizations and collectives that can identify a current organizational challenge or question, involve organizational leadership, and work with students in Toronto Metropolitan University’s Creative School Design Solutions Super Course.
- Funding amount or limit
- Set grant amount of $15,000; applicants do not submit a budget. TAC suggests planning roughly two-thirds for project-lead fees and one-third for materials and direct implementation expenses.
- Jurisdiction
- Toronto, Ontario
- Last verified
- 2026-08-01
Eligible activities
- An eight-month design-thinking and exploratory collaboration to address an organizational problem in programming, administration, outreach, marketing, or another operational area; a music organization or collective can use it for sector or organizational capacity work.
Verification note
This is organizational-capacity funding rather than an artist production grant, but it is a verified municipal music-adjacent opportunity for eligible Toronto organizations and collectives.
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