DO-IT-YOURSELF GUIDES

Explore our DIY Guides designed to help you build your application(s) step by step with confidence.

FACTOR Artist Development – DIY Grant Guide

This guide is a step-by-step walkthrough designed to help eligible Canadian artists submit a strong $5,000 Artist Development grant application with clarity & confidence.

Inside the guide, we break down:

  • How to properly set up and navigate the FACTOR portal

  • How to structure your Artist Development project so it aligns with funding criteria

  • Exactly what materials you need to prepare (and how to present them)

This guide is ideal for artists who:

  • Are eligible for FACTOR Artist Development (see detials)

  • An emerging artist with upcoming project plans (an MP3 track & lyrics)

  • Prefer a DIY approach

An optional add-on is available if you’d like a member of the Grantable team to review your application before submission.

Creative BC Demo Recording DIY Guide 

This is a step-by-step DIY (do it yourself) guide to submitting your own AMPLIFY BC - Demo Recording grant application.

It provides up to $2,000 to cover 100% of recording expenses for one to two songs.

REQUIREMENTS:

  • Artists must have resided in B.C. for at least 200 of the 365 days immediately preceding the application deadline. 

  • The producer must be based in B.C and all production work done in B.C.