2026 GRANT APPLICATIONS
Deadline September 8, 2026
Are you a North Shore artist looking for funding assistance for a new artistic production, marketing development, education, professional development, or other creative project?
The Fund for the Arts on the North Shore (FANS) is here to help, with the FANS Grant Program. Over the past 30 years, FANS has provided over $128,000 in cash grants to local artists to assist in the pursuit of their creative goals.
Applications are welcomed from both emerging and established artists who are currently active in their artistic discipline and are currently living on the North Shore (North & West Vancouver + Bowen Island & Lions Bay).
Go to the grants section of this website to find out more or click here.
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2025 Event Supporters
FANS is forever grateful for the support received from local businesses. Many of these business have provide support year after year. Bravo to these amazing businesses! For more information about how to be a FANS sponsor, please email: fansawards@gmail.com
FANS VIDEO
Artists bring people together to see, hear and experience the world in new and imaginative ways. They help us reflect on who we are and where we are going. Artists help build vibrant creative communities. With this in mind FANS was created as a support system for local artists.
For more information about how to be a FANS sponsor, please email: fansawards@gmail.com
Individual artists may apply to the FANS Grant Program for financial support. This funding opportunity is intended to encourage and assist North Shore artists, who have demonstrated a maturity of talent in the advancement of their artistic careers.
The FANS Distinguished Artist Award is intended to publicly recognize and honour North and West Vancouver artists who have created a substantial, nationally recognized body of work in performing, visual, literary or media arts.
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The FANS Society has been hosting an annual arts awards event, to celebrate the vibrant and accomplished North Shore artistic community, since 1995. Over the years the evening has taken on many varied formats and provided the society with the opportunity to:
