Are costs keeping you from joining our activities? Contact us at info@studio303.ca. We’ll do our best to support you.
Professionnal workshops
Accessbility bursary can cover 50% or 100% of the workshop registration’s cost.
Eligibility criterias:
- artists who self-identify as Indigenous, Black, and/or people of color, living with a disability, Deaf or hard-of-hearing artists, and trans artists
- Cost is a barrier
- Artists should also live in Québec.
Application:
- Maximum of 2 bursaries per workshop may be awarded
- Only for registrations for the full workshop’s duration
- The artist agrees to participate to the entire workshop
- Maximum of 2 bursaries per artist for the entire season (regardless of the percentage requested).
> Why? Bursaries aim to make our workshops accessible to marginalized artists, allowing them to train in a space that values and respects their intersectional identities. We hope this financial support will remove the financial barriers to participation and encourage new people to join our community.
Events
All events are either free or priced on a sliding scale. No one will be turned away from our events due to lack of funds. We also offer an exchange program where volunteers can receive free studio time in exchange for a few hours of work (1h for 1h).
Residencies
2 financial support measures are available to artists in residency:
Top-ups
A financial supplement added to their base fee ($500). The top-ups come from a fund to split among the artists who need it. This measure is not perfect, but works, because of the sense of trust and cohort between the artists of the season.
Criterias:
- Not having obtained grants for the residency
- Aiming for a remuneration of $30/hour per collaborator
- For a maximum of 4 collaborators
> Why? We assume that artists pay themselves for their residency time through their grants. Unfortunately, artists also often do not receive them. The top-up system aims to rebalance this situation.
> How Once the residencies have taken place, artists are contacted to confirm whether they received their grants. For those who did not, we provide a top-up.
Artists survival fund
A fund for artists in residence (current or former) who have an upcoming production for which they have not received production funding. The funding provided varies according to our resources and the requests we receive, but is on average about $1,000 for one artist per season.
> Why? It is not uncommon for artists to be denied production funding, and have to go into debt to produce their shows. This situation adds to and contributes to the precariousness of the arts sector. This fund aims to offer some support when this happens.
> How? This discretionary fund is managed by Studio 303’s artistic direction and can be distributed publicly or anonymously, according to the artist’s preference. Artists in residence can contact the artistic direction directly if they need support.