The CAC is glad that this program has been created, as 87% of Coalition Survey respondents cited the importance of strengthened support for digital creation and production. Details from the Canada Council:
What is Digital Now?
Digital Now is a one-time digital innovation initiative. The initiative offers grants to arts groups, collectives, and organizations to adapt existing works or create new ones to be shared virtually with audiences.
Digital Now offers a springboard for the arts sector, during this period of health-related restrictions, to make a digital leap for the sector’s recovery and stimulate job creation. Funded projects will draw on a breadth of artists and arts workers and reach local, Canada-wide, and international audiences.
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Activities: What is eligible?
The project must result in work that can be shared digitally. You can apply for costs related to the development, creation, adaptation, production, promotion, dissemination, and optimization of digital artistic content, including:
- new works or adapt existing works;
- content of any length, in any field of practice and for any age group that can be disseminated through any digital means;
- hybrid activities that combine digital and in-person dissemination;
- projects that contract artists and arts workers and pay professional fees and/or salaries.
You must comply with all government mandated public health measures in effect to reduce the transmission of COVID-19.
You cannot apply for activities that occur before the start date for the project or those on the general list of ineligible activities.
Digital Now is part of the Supporting Arts and Live Events Workers in Response to COVID-19 Initiative. You cannot receive this support for the same project from more than one Department of Canadian Heritage program and/or the Canada Council. Applicants may present a project application to each of these programs only if they are for distinct and separate projects.
https://canadacouncil.ca/funding/strategic-funds/digital-now