Events

This grant provides funding to offset eligible expenses associated with hosting live music events and is open to for-profit applicants, including artists, venue operators, promoters, bars, restaurants and other potential music event hosts. For first-time applicants or those who haven’t applied for City funding in the last two years, attending an information webinar is a mandatory part of the application process.

The Live Music Grant program is part of the City’s Music Strategy, which aims to increase the presence of live music events in Mississauga, while helping create new spaces for live music performances.

Register for a webinar

Two sessions available:

• Thursday, March 6 from 12 to 1 p.m. Register online
• Wednesday, March 26 from 6 to 7 p.m. Register online

Once registered, participants will receive an email with details on how to attend and access the webinar.

Application process

All grant applications must be submitted online through the City’s grants portal. The deadline for the Live Music Grant is Friday, March 28, 2025 at 4:30 p.m.

The Live Music Grant is funded by the Municipal Accommodation Tax.

For more details, please review the City’s application guidelines.

A total of 88 groups and initiatives will receive support for programming and services in the areas of sports, youth initiatives, older adult initiatives, theatre, dance, visual arts and other community services. This funding also includes Culture Projects Grants, which support projects that explore and integrate art into urban surroundings, providing unique opportunities to experience art outside traditional galleries, theatres and other artistic spaces.

Residents can also look forward to the spring intake of the Live Music and Small Project Matching Grants. The Live Music Grant provides funding to help offset the costs of hosting for-profit live music events, while the Small Project Matching Grant funds projects that increase resident engagement and enhances opportunities for residents to participate in events and activities at the neighbourhood level.

Community Grant Program

This program provides annual and multi-year grants to Mississauga-based, not-for-profit community groups to deliver programs and services that keep Mississauga residents active, healthy and engaged in their communities.

Approved grants:

*Indicates multi-year funding

• Active Adult Centre Mississauga: $9,600

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Peel Inc.: $10,000

• Blooming Boulevards: $10,000

• Breakfast With Santa Foundation: $10,000

• Cruisers Sports for the Physically Disabled: $10,000

• Citizens for the Advancement of Community Development: $10,000

• Ecosource: $109,863*

• Erin Mills Youth Centre: $58,000*

• Global 180 Student Communications Inc.: $9,980

• Heart Comonos: $9,698

• Learning Disabilities Association of Peel Region: $10,000

• Malton Black Development Association: $10,000

• MIAG Centre for Diverse Women & Families: $10,000

• Mississauga Sports Council: $122,500*

• Music For Every Child: $10,000

• The Mississauga Youth Action Committee: $2,790

• Pak Pioneers Community Organization of Canada: $9,950

• Peel Multicultural Council: $10,000

• Port Credit Lawn Bowling Club: $8,000

• Safe City Mississauga: $310,142*

• Senior Tamils Society of Peel: $10,000

• Skills For Life: $10,000

• The Dam: $80,000*

• The Riverwood Conservancy: $369,859*

• The International Soccer: $10,000

• Tong Le Senior Association: $7,410

• Unity in the Community Centre of Mississauga Inc.: $5,000

• Volunteer MBC: $40,000*

Arts and Culture Grant Program

This program supports emerging and established, not-for-profit, professional and community-based arts, culture and heritage organizations in Mississauga. The grant supports the development of exemplary arts and culture programs, and services that improve participation, knowledge, understanding and an appreciation of arts, culture and heritage for residents of Mississauga.

Approved grants:

*Indicates multi-year funding

• Art Gallery of Mississauga: $471,600*

• Arts on the Credit: $15,000

• Crane Creations Theatre Company: $200,000

• CreativeHub 1352: $100,000

• Eagle Spirits of the Great Waters: $19,999

• Ensemble for French: $2,400

• Fashion Circuit Series Inc.: $17,000

• Figurative Expressions Life Drawing Group: $2,800

• Frog in Hand Productions Inc.: $165,000

• Heritage Mississauga: $391,690*

• Hispanic Canadian Arts and Culture Association: $19,999

• Meadowvale Music Theatre: $12,500

• Mississauga Arts Council: $471,600*

• Mississauga Big Band Jazz Ensemble: $3,087

• Mississauga Children’s Choir: $44,000

• Mississauga Chinese Arts Organization: $22,500

• Mississauga Choral Society: $62,000

• Mississauga Festival Choir: $38,000

• Mississauga Music: $19,999

• Mississauga Potters’ Guild: $19,999

• Mississauga Theatre Alliance: $10,000

• NeoVoce Philharmonic Choir: $6,000

• Orchestras Mississauga: $275,100*

• Sampradaya Dance Creations: $190,000*

• Sawitri Theatre Group: $140,000

• Studio 145 Initiative (Coop 145): $19,999

• Theatre Unlimited Performing Arts: $19,999

• The Canadian Arabic Orchestra: $120,000

• The Chamber Music Society of Mississauga Inc.: $112,500

• Visual Arts Mississauga: $275,100*

• Youth Troopers for Global Awareness | Studio.89: $66,000

Cultural Festivals and Celebrations Grants

This grant provides funding to offset expenses associated with providing a clean and safe venue for the presentation of arts, heritage and cultural festivals, and celebrations to residents and visitors. This grant supports a range of events that reflect the City’s many cultural traditions.

Approved grants:

*Indicates multi-year funding

• International Film Festival of South Asia Toronto: $15,000

• Mississauga Italfest: $50,000

• Malton Celebrates Canada Day: $13,500

• Mississauga Latin Festival: $19,900

• Mississauga Polish Days Festival: $19,999

• Mississauga World Music Festival: $14,896

• Mosaic – South Asian Festival of Mississauga: $150,000

• Muslimfest: $70,000

• Paint the Town Red: $105,000

• Philippines Festival Mississauga: $60,000

• The Streetsville Founders’ Bread and Honey Festival: $105,000

• Streetsville Christmas in the Village: $15,000

• Living with Wellness – Arts Festival: $15,000

• Discover Egypt Heritage Festival: $19,999

• Saigon Park Group Saigon Park Anniversary: $10,000

• Tastes of South East Asia : $15,000

• The Classical: Celebration of world music: $5,000

• The Egyptian Coptic Festival: $7,500

Culture Project Grants

This grant supports organizations, art collectives and Business Improvement Areas (BIAs) to create temporary, site-specific arts and culture projects that reimagine and activate urban spaces throughout Mississauga.

Approved grants:

• Blackwood Gallery: $5,000

• The Canadian Arabic Orchestra: $5,000

• Frog in Hand Productions Inc.: $5,000

• Kaleidoscope Chinese Performing Arts Society: $5,000

• Crane Creations Theatre Company: $5,000

• MonstrARTity Creative Community: $5,000

• Youth Troopers for Global Awareness | Studio.89: $5,000

• Indus Community Services: $5,000

• Sheridan Homelands Ratepayers’ Association: $700