We can offer jobs for the Performing Artists



Foreign artists and their essential support staff, the people that are integral to the performance, can work in Canada without a permit only under these conditions:

* They are only performing here for a limited period of time.

* They will not be performing in a bar or restaurant. If they will be performing in a bar or restaurant, performers and their staff each need a work permit.

* They are not entering into an employment relationship with the Canadian group that has contracted for their services.

* They are not performing for the production of a movie, television or radio broadcast.

Examples of performing artists who can come to Canada without a work permit:

* Foreign-based band or theatre group and their essential crew not performing in a bar or restaurant

* street performers (buskers), DJs

* a foreign or traveling circus

* guest artists within a Canadian performance group for a time-limited engagement

* World Wrestling Entertainment wrestlers (& similar groups)

* persons performing at a private event, such as a wedding

* air show performers,

* rodeo contestants

* artists attending or working at a showcase

* film producers (business visitors)

* film and recording studio users (limited to small groups renting studios not entering the labour market), (business visitors)

* persons doing guest spots on Canadian TV and radio broadcasts (guest speakers)