Montréal's arts council covers accessibility costs for D/deaf and disabled artists
Conseil des arts de Montréal
If you're a D/deaf or disabled artist in Montréal, or you work with one, this fund is for you. It pays the extra costs you face to use the programmes of the Conseil des arts de Montréal (CAM), the city's arts council. That can be help writing an application, or the accessibility costs of a project the CAM already funds.
The deadline is Wednesday 18 November 2026, at 17:00.
WHAT IT IS
There are three parts. The first is for artists who self-identify as D/deaf or disabled: up to $500 for each application they send to the CAM. It pays for help such as preparing the application, having it reviewed or setting up a profile on ORORA, the CAM's application portal.
It's paid whether or not the application succeeds, as long as you send it, for up to three applications a year. If the project is funded, there's up to $150 more for writing the final report.
The second part comes on top of a CAM grant and pays the accessibility costs of the funded project, up to 50% of its proposed budget. Projects that directly support D/deaf or disabled artists get priority.
The third is for presenters showing a CAM-funded work to D/deaf or disabled audiences: up to $2,000 a year.
Accessibility costs are what a D/deaf or disabled person has to pay to use the CAM's programmes the same way as anyone else. Within those caps, the CAM says it can cover them in full, as long as its budget allows.
WHO CAN APPLY
- ·Part 1: an artist who self-identifies as D/deaf or living with a disability, or an authorised person helping them look for funding. Also an organisation or collective with at least one representative, main creator or director who self-identifies that way.
- ·Parts 2 and 3 are open to, among others, an artist, collective or organisation funded by a CAM programme for a project that includes D/deaf or disabled artists. An organisation presenting a work to D/deaf or disabled audiences can also apply. So can an arts organisation hosting a D/deaf or disabled intern or mentor through a CAM-funded internship programme.
- ·You must also be eligible for the CAM programme the support goes with. Excluded: organisations working only in variety arts or comedy, film or web film production projects, and projects that are mainly promotional.
- ·Disciplines, as the CAM lists them: street performance, circus arts, digital arts, cinema and video, dance, literature, music, theatre, non-traditional arts practices, visual arts and the multidisciplinary sector.
- ·Applications are in French. Exceptions include people who arrived in Québec less than six months ago and members of an Indigenous community.