PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

– Foster creativity within the Kingston Community at all levels;

– Enrich how all Kingston residents experience and engage with the arts to encourage awareness, understanding, appreciation, participation, inclusion, diversity, and access;
– Leverage arts and culture to assert Kingston’s distinctiveness and to stimulate economic development and tourism;
– Ensure that arts funding aligns with that of comparable municipalities;
– Bring provincial, national and international recognition to Kingston as a centre for the arts and culture.
– Leverage municipal investments in the arts sector to increase their profile, capacity, quality, professionalism, impact, relevance, and sustainability;
– Foster innovation, collaboration, and excellence among emerging and established professional practices across a spectrum of artistic disciplines and modes of expression;
– Seek professional development opportunities that benefit the arts sector and that impact the community at different levels;
– Pursue projects, programming and operations that are both creative and well managed, and that align with the City of Kingston’s strategic objectives;
– Ensure that projects, programming, and operations foster inclusion, diversity and access within the arts; and
– Emphasize partnership building with other sectors and orders of government to encourage diversity in terms of access and funding. 

Learn more about the objectives here (PDF).

EVALUATION PROCESS

CKAF is administered by the Kingston Arts Council (KAC). The applications are reviewed using a peer assessment process that engages stakeholders from across Kingston as jury members. Jury members are themselves representative of the arts, arts professionals, and practitioners in the City of Kingston and are selected for their knowledge of the arts, high standing within the arts community, awareness of the City of Kingston context and the broader arts environment and, where possible, are reflective of the gender, demographic and cultural diversity of Kingston itself.

All CKAF applicants must strive to offer services that respect the independence, dignity, integration and equal opportunity for individuals of all backgrounds and abilities. 

 

ADJUDICATION CRITERIA 

 Applications to CKAF are evaluated in three areas: artistic contribution, community benefit, and administration and financial responsibility. The assessment criteria for Operating grants can be found in detail in the Operating Guidelines and the criteria for Project grants can be found in the Project Guidelines. 

When assessing artistic contribution, the jury considers the support of Kingston artists through financial compensation, professional development, and new work creation; and the potential for innovation, collaboration, and excellence in the arts. The jury also considers the alignment of activities with the organization/collective’s mandate, mission, or vision.

When assessing the community benefit, the jury considers the level of engagement with Kingston residents, the ability to sustain and develop audiences, and the support from the wider community.

When assessing administration and financial responsibility, the jury considers the potential to successfully execute and fund activities and the potential to generate revenue outside of CKAF.

Additionally, the jury will consider the way in which the application demonstrates access, diversity, and inclusion:

– Access encompasses the physical, financial, intellectual, and socio-economic accessibility of programming, events, and venues.
– Diversity addresses the non-material culture of the project, specifically the way in which it welcomes people of varying ability, income, language, incarceration history, cultural background, race, ethnicity, faith, gender, orientation, or education level.
– Inclusion refers to the removal of material or non-material barriers to participation, through policies in human resources, strategic planning, physical environment, programming, audience, community development, and budget management.

The KAC is looking for jurors. If you are interested, please click here to fill out the form.

2020 CKAF RECIPIENTS

 

2020 OPERATING RECIPIENTS

Agnes Etherington Art Centre $75,000 

Cantabile Choirs of Kingston $27,998

Centre culturel Frontenac $16,608

H’art Centre $12,097

Kingston Canadian Film Festival $45,755 

Kingston Symphony Association $75,000 

Kingston WritersFest $42,589

Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre $50,000 

Reelout Queer Film Festival $22,042

Theatre Kingston $42,230 

Union Gallery $10,250

 

2020 PROJECTS RECIPIENTS

Aqua Nova, Aqua Nova Collective, $14,544

Electric Circuits Festival 2021, Electric Circuits Collective, $19,000

Emergence, Vox Intima, $9,000

Festival of Live Digital Art (foldA) 2021, SpiderWebShow, $17,000

Fun House Concert Series, Kingston Punk Productions, $8,000

GO/NO GO, GO/NO Collective, $14,000

HYDRA (Water Parade), Calliope Collective, $16,205

King Con 2020/2021, King Con Collective, $13,000

Kingston Intercultural Arts Festival, Kingston Community Health Centres,
$12,856

Live Wire Music Series 2020-2021, Live Wire Music Series, $2,550

Music You Love Played by People You Know, Orchestra Kingston, $2,040

Skeleton Park Arts Festival, Skeleton Park Arts Festival, $18,525

The Juvenis Festival 2021, Blue Canoe Productions, $16,000

Tone Deaf Festival and Satellite Concerts 2020-2021, Tone Deaf Collective,
$14,004

Voces Feminarum, Melos Choir and Period Instruments, $12,901