In order to support creative activities that enhance the appeal of Tokyo’s arts and culture and communicate them to the world, artistic activities that promote regional culture and traditional performing arts, and artistic activities that tackle various social and urban issues, we offer grant programs tailored to each purpose.
To support both the diverse creative activities that help to enhance Tokyo’s appeal as a city and the people involved in them, we offer grants to Tokyo-based artists and arts organizations to cover part of the cost of their activities.
This program provides financial support to Tokyo-based arts organizations, intermediary groups, welfare organizations, and NPOs for artistic activities that involve people from various social environments working together and demonstrating their creativity while respecting each other’s individuality, and activities that tap into the distinctive features of arts and culture to tackle various social and urban issues. In 2025 the focus of the program will be on supporting projects helping to eliminate disparities in opportunities for children to appreciate and experience the arts.
With the aim of creating an environment allowing everyone to have contact with and participate in regional/local arts and culture, and of revitalizing and promoting regions through arts and culture, we support artistic and cultural activities that promote the cultivation and development of distinctive culture in each region of Tokyo, and initiatives designed to pass on the cultural assets and resources of each region into the future and spread the word about their appeal to a wide audience both inside and outside the region.
We provide support for up-and-coming artists and arts organizations taking on the challenge of fresh artistic and creative activities, and who aspire to become active in Tokyo’s arts scene. Aimed towards participation in performances, exhibitions, art projects, and international festivals in Tokyo or overseas as well as international collaborations etc., we provide startup support allowing young talent to lay the groundwork for future artistic endeavors.
This program provides financial support for projects related to a variety of traditional performing arts which are accessible even to complete novices and which allow individual participants to gain practical experience of the same discipline multiple times. It aims to promote the development of traditional performing arts by providing opportunities for people to experience for themselves the fascination of traditional performing arts, and by aiding traditional performing arts to take root in people’s everyday lives, thereby expanding the number of people who take lessons on a daily basis.
We offer grants to cover part of the costs of creative activities including festivals and art projects in various genres which take place in Tokyo and are jointly created by plural organizations and participants, as well as innovative and sustainable projects capable of communicating Tokyo’s appeal.
We offer grants to cover part of the costs to support initiatives and infrastructure development that increase the number of people involved in the arts and culture and create a virtuous cycle by making artworks an integral part of the lives of people in Tokyo and expanding the scope of artists’ activities.
Open to performing arts related projects (theater, dance, music, etc.) by small and medium-sized organizations that support the diversity of arts and culture in Tokyo, this program provides partial financial support for expenses related to performance, with the aim of supporting the creation and dissemination of arts and culture.
To build Tokyo into a city where everyone can partake in the thrill brought about by arts and culture, we provide support to initiatives aimed at improving accessibility for audiences/participants, targeting arts organizations, private theaters and art spaces, private enterprise, intermediary support organizations, executive committees etc. in Tokyo.
With the lifting of the state of emergency and other measures seeing a gradual easing of restrictions on the holding of events and various cultural projects, we are taking the opportunity to support artists and organizations engaging in artistic and cultural activities in a situation that remains challenging. In addition, by supporting artistic and cultural activities we aim to keep the light of culture alive and ensure that citizens of Tokyo have sustained opportunities to have contact with and enjoy arts and culture.
This Large Scale Events Grant is targeted at projects involving the implementation of multiple programs through the participation of multiple arts-related groups and organizations, so as to support more artists and staff members.
We will provide support to activities that increase public awareness, in order to promote opportunities surrounding the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. By supporting programs and projects that are topical and festive as well as grounded in the philosophies of the Tokyo-led Cultural Program, we will actively promote partnerships with a variety of sectors including private enterprise.
*Formerly Tokyo Cultural Program Grant
