Organization
The Canada Council is an arms-length agency based in Ottawa, Ontario, that reports to the Crown through the Minister of Canadian Heritage. Its annual appropriation from parliament is supplemented by endowment income, donations, and bequests. Its main duty is alloting grants to Canadian artists based on the merits of their applications. The council also funds and administers many of Canada's top arts awards, including the Governor General's Literary Awards.
The council has six main divisions. Each of these co-ordinates grant-giving to a different area of the arts:
- visual arts
- media arts
- dance
- music
- theatre
- writing and publishing
These are complemented by three groups that work with all the sections:
- Aboriginal Arts Secretariat, which fosters First Peoples art in all media
- Equity Office, which encourages diversity in arts funding
- Inter-Arts Office, to deal with proposals that combine or transcend traditional artistic disciplines
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