Organizations who meet the following criteria will be eligible for membership in
Jazz Festivals Canada:
- The organization must be registered provincially or federally as a not-for-profit society or similar non-share capital corporation.
- The primary mandate of the organization must be the presentation of jazz and/or a regularly occurring festival of jazz or improvised music in Canada.
- The organization will have been in operation and actively presenting jazz and/or a festival of jazz or improvised music for a period of at least 2 years.
- The majority of artists presented by the organization shall be professional artists who are paid guaranteed performance fees by the organization.
- The organization shall operate according to a professional code of ethics that includes the following practices:
- Negotiating with artists, their agents and/or managers in good faith.
- Meeting all financial obligations to artists, their agents and/or managers in a timely manner and in accordance with contractual commitments.
- Acting in good faith in all dealings with other JFC members and staff, and honouring all commitments made to artists through block-booking offers or other network tour development activity undertaken with JFC members.
- The organization shall pay an annual membership fee according to the scale of fees approved by the directors of JFC.
- The organization shall send a delegate to at least one JFC meeting annually.
- The organization shall provide annual event statistics in the format approved by the directors of JFC.
- The approval of 2/3 of members in good standing is required for the acceptance of new members into JFC.
Applications for membership will be considered at JFC’s annual general meeting held in July and at JFC’s major network meeting held in October of each year.
Download a membership application form (Word Doc)
