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create or reinforce theatre touring and presenting infrastructures in culturallydiverse communities;encourage new theatre programming initiatives;encourage initiatives that will benefit several artists/companies or presenters.Special Initiatives Grants cover a maximum of 50 percent of the project’s expenses.5.4 Eligibility:Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada and Canadian groups, collectivesor organizations may apply. Specific eligibility criteria within each of the threecomponents are indicated below.Theatre Touring GrantsProfessional Canadian theatre groups, collectives, companies or individual artists areeligible. The Canada Council recognizes a professional artist as someone who hasspecialized training in the field (not necessarily in academic institutions), who isrecognized by his or her peers (artists working in the same artistic tradition) and whohas a history of public presentation.Theatre Presenting GrantsCanadian theatre presenters (individuals or organizations) who specialize in presentingCanadian creation theatre for adult audiences (or who have experience in presentingCanadian creation theatre for adult audiences) can apply. The theatre work to bepresented must be a Canadian production for adults within a series or a foreignproduction within a series or a festival. Eligible productions must come from outside theprovince (or from a remote region of the province) of origin of the series or festival.Theatre SeriesPriority will be given to Theatre Series made up of at least three Canadiantheatre creations for adults in a season, linked by a common artistic andpromotional concept.Theatre Presenting Grants apply to those productions within a series that areCanadian theatre creations for adults, on tour. The tour must include at least twoCanadian cities.Priority will be given to Theatre Series with at least three sources of revenues,such as box office, sponsorship, provincial funding, municipal funding andsupport from the Touring Office of the Canada Council.FestivalsTheatre festivals of national significance (as determined by peers from the theatrecommunity) are eligible if they present theatre artists and companies on tour. ApplicantsPg. 71