| Skeard, Edith |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
This project explores passive and active audience collaboration and playfulness through through technology, installation, and a durational, responsive, sound performance. |
| Maier, Lenore |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,920 |
This project application will support my endeavors to learn the education of new percussive styles through formal drum lessons and mentorship from Graham Templeman. |
| Berenbaum, Jenna |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$7,500 |
Writing, re-writing and editing my play 18 Jews Order Chinese Food until it is ready for production and publication. |
| Barabas, Mishel |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
To create medium to large scale portrait (with unique settings) paintings. A body of work to exhibit, engage and connect with community. |
| Afenfia, Michael |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$10,000 |
The "Head of the Baptist" is a collection of short stories and poetry exploring Nigerian-Canadian identity and relationships within the context of Canadian multiculturalism. |
| Legris, Sylvia |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$6,000 |
I will work on developing the first draft of "Wake/Subwake," a new poetry collection. |
| Black Professionals and Entrepreneurs of Saskatchewan |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$8,000 |
Black History Month Saskatchewan is a two-day multidisciplinary festival in February, that provides Black cultural education and appreciation in the province of Saskatchewan. |
| Dinsmore, Rowen |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
A project expanding my artistic practice through new ideas and mediums while obtaining advice and critique through mentorships with professional artists from Saskatchewan. |
| Pridmore, Helen |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$6,402 |
Presenting my one-person show "Mother Calling" in a double bill with Regina singer/actor Shannon Holmes, via RISER Regina's presentation series |
| Mercier, Isabelle |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Funding will help cover the cost of a unique recording opportunity for a special francophone project to be released during Winnipeg's Festival du Voyageur. |
| Ppl r Ppl Productions |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$17,000 |
Ppl r Ppl Productions is creating professional work for theatre artists and will present 'Spring Awakening' by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater, February 23-March 2. |
| Murray, Aryn |
saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$4,000 |
Collaborative creation of material for a concept album, "Speakeasy". Expansion of original works, increasing live repertoire. |
| Pottle, Adam |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I will travel to Toronto to present my new novel APPARITIONS at two events, and do a panel at the Unify Deaf Film Festival. |
| Nepjuk, Elizabeth |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
To transcribe and compile research data gathered during the production/duration of the game EVERY BODY DOES IT at the Saskatoon Fringe in August 2023. |
| Central Urban Metis Federation Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$8,000 |
7th annual CUMFI Metis Cultural Days are days of celebrating Metis Music, Dance, Theatre, Art, Culture, and Language. |
Colette Bourgonje School
Diana Roelens |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$6,486 |
Grade 7 large scale collaborative collage mural project exploring individual and collective experiences depicting how place, history and environment contribute to the formation of community. |
| Hansen, Naomi |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
My first book, Only in Saskatchewan, is shortlisted for the 2023 Taste Canada Awards and I would like to attend the awards ceremony in Toronto. |
| Kazan, Lina |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$14,577 |
Development, preparation and multiple presentations of Flamenco Borealis' reimagined stage work "Qadar: a Date with Fate" |
| Lowry, Nancy |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$16,918 |
Create large scale paintings which push my perceived physical limits while highlighting the important intergenerational role of non-male artists from the Emma Lake Artists’ Workshops. |
| Sapp, Cheyenna |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$4,069 |
I would like to write new material for my standup comedy routine to increase performance opportunities and expand my audience. |
| Bogan, Jillian |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,716 |
This grant is to finish a collection for exhibiting as well as do research travel with Alison Norlen, my mentor in the CARFAC mentorship program. |
| Lowry, Nancy |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Prototype new tools to assist me in painting new large scale work, phase 1 of 4 supporting my first solo exhibition in August 2023. |
| Saskatoon Experimental Music Ensemble |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$8,125 |
To compose, develop, rehearse, and perform three concerts worth of communally-focused experimental music in Saskatoon. |
| Oblong and Oboe |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$17,000 |
The final stage of development and world premiere of Oblong and Oboe Stir the Pot as part of Live Five’s 20th Season in Saskatoon. |
| Dynamic Video Imaging Corporation |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$2,000 |
Facilitate the travel and professional development of Dynamic Video Imaging through attending the "Reelworld Film Festival" and premier of our film "A Storm Blows Over". |
| Tweidt, Adam |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$2,000 |
Seeking funding to explore directing as a mentee during the production of Two Bees The Anger of Ernest and Ernestine. |
| La Marre, Rebecca |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I am invited by Peripheral Review, a national Canadian contemporary art journal, to interview Vancouver artist and co-founder of Western Front artist-run centre, Glen Lewis. |
| Syrnick, Daniel |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$6,673 |
To take time to develop and create a new series of 10-15 artworks, to show as a solo exibit in the coming fall. |
| Scott, Tallus |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
Study advanced drum techniques & mentorship career paths for a 5 day period, Jan.2-6, 2024, with renowned drum educator Dave Elitch in Los Angeles. |
| Froese, Robert |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$13,000 |
research and produce new ceramic work using specialized soda kiln firing methods |
| Gronsdahl, Todd |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$10,246 |
I am building and photographing "historical" scenes to exhibit with my Saskatchewan Maritime Museum installations at upcoming solo exhibitions in Swift Current and Edmonton. |
| Garez, Simon |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
To present my film Gentle Hum of Spring at two back-to-back festivals on the West Coast: 2023 Vancouver International Film Festival and Tacoma Film Festival. |
| McKnight, Spencer |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,010 |
This grant will be to take significant time to develop and create the song recital "In Dreams". |
| Write Out Loud Poetry |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$8,000 |
We will administrate a 4 day youth poetry festival in Saskatoon through showcases, workshops and community building events. |
Wildeman, Tatum
Father Megret High School |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$20,000 |
The project will provide youth access to dance for promotion of mental health through connection, celebration of culture, and foster expression of grief and trauma. |
| Janvier-Dugan, Diane |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$2,000 |
Quilted a portrait of my newly wed Dene parents in the early 50s. 56" x 82" wall hanging textile art. |
| Marion Graham Collegiate |
Saskatoon |
— |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$7,940 |
Marion M. Graham will host the spoken word poet/hip hop artist Dash Reimer for a 1 month arts residency. |
Selkirk, Jesse
Bedford Road Collegiate |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$10,000 |
The continuation of a project for participants to learn the foundations of songwriting, using the artform as a tool to
explore wellbeing and identity. |
| Alpha Kids Crew |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$7,000 |
Game Theory VI is a free community festival focusing on youth, female, and non-binary involvement in Breakin’ and growing awareness to the street dance culture. |
| One Take Super 8 Event |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$6,500 |
This project will help artists create and exhibit 25 new films as part of the annual OTS8 film event dedicated to developing filmmakers in Saskatchewan. |
| Belanger, Maureen |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$15,000 |
The funds requested are to assist in creating and writing new material for my character "Ernestine and her pet bird Muckatoon" |
| Saskatchewan Jewish Arts Festival |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$5,800 |
To fund the creation & production of a series of Saskatchewan Jewish Arts Festival "pop up" events, leading up to our next full festival (2025) |
| Hebert, Dakota |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$18,000 |
We want to develop our standup comedy careers by showcasing in Saskatchewan and California, meeting with Industry Professionals, and securing our Social Security Numbers. |
| Prairie New Music Festivals Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$8,000 |
The Strata Festival of New Music is a 3 day festival featuring newly composed music by beginner, emerging and established Canadian and Saskatchewan composers. |
| THE 525 ART POP-UPS INC. |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$2,000 |
Our pop-up art exhibition on November 25th and the pre-exhibit artists’ workshop aim to develop early-career artists who have little to no prior exhibiting experience. |
| Flamenco Borealis |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$7,000 |
Production and presentation of the 2024 Borealis Flamenco Festival Series consisting of three shows and various workshops. |
| Federation des Francophones de Saskatoon |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$8,000 |
19th Edition International Francophone Film Festival of Saskatoon CINERGIE |
École St. Paul
Colin Richet |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$7,613 |
Students will write and record a song. |
Normand, Alexis
École Père Mercure |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$10,000 |
This project is to carry out choral and rock band projects with students who will write and perform songs in French about Père André Mercure. |
| Garlimah, James |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
This project/Album is a result of over ten years of writing and recording my own music. This Project will server is my debut album professionally. |
Paivand-Iranian Canadian Society for Cultural Dialogue Inc
Yasaman Tarighatmanesh |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$15,400 |
Collaborative art work focusing on Middle Eastern women, using art to express impacts of ongoing Iranian women's movements on their own fight for women's rights. |
OUTSaskatoon Inc.
Marjorie Beaucage |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$17,125 |
OUTSaskatoon will create a two spirit drum group through drum making and singing in Saskatoon through a 10 week project called Healing Through The Drum. |
St Angela Merici Residence
Tara Stratton |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$1,230 |
12 months, weekly SpinPoi classes for seniors, promoting fitness, cognitive stimulation, social interaction, and creativity. Seek support to enhance wellbeing through art and movement. |
| Wanotch, Tori-Lynn |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I wish to procure 7 buffalo skulls to paint. In my paintings I will share the 7 sacred teachings, depicted in acrylic paint. |
| Live Five Theatre Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$2,000 |
To increase our capacity and solidify our future goals through the creation of an organizational strategic plan with guidance from an external facilitator |
| Tyler, Tim |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I have been contracted by the Eye Gallery for a 20 piece Exhibition entitled Light Floats on Black Water that runs March and April. |
| Weber, Angel |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$4,670 |
To study tsumami-zaiku, the Japanese craft of folding silk squares into complex flora and fauna arrangements, and become a certified tsumami-zaiku teacher. |
| Suchan, Paul |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Help cover artistic and travel costs for a live performance album launch by composers Paul Suchan and Silas Friesen at the Bassment by the SJO. |
Common Weal Community Arts Inc.
Michèle Mackasey |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$10,000 |
A community engaged art project focused on rejuvenation of Indigenous languages with artist Michèle Mackasey, Patuanak community, Saskatoon partners, and regional Elders. |
Riversdale Community Association
Jasmyn Albert |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$17,000 |
The Riversdale Community Association seeks to hire three Ribbon-Skirt Designers to teach our residents how to sew their own, and showcase those skirts around Riversdale. |
| Chinese Dance Club of Saskatoon |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$2,000 |
One of a kind and traditional Chinese drum dance, illustrating dancers using drums as their stages, a combination of classical dance and Han dynasty poetry. |
| Whitbread, Elizabeth |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I would like to take Maddie Tarbox's Voice Function 101 pedagogical online course in order to enhance my coaching and singing practice. |
| Mabrouk, Rawda |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
Explore the paradoxes of an Egyptian woman, bridging trauma of oppression in Egypt to the challenges of life in Canada through tracing movement onto canvas. |
| Kharsa, Ali |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
Write, rehearse, and record 3 new songs and host a community event in Saskatoon with music with an open mike. |
| Bradshaw, Kathy |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I will enrich and develop my encaustic/oil painting practice at a one month invitational artist residency in February in Pouch Cove, Newfoundland. |
| Xiao, Li |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
To purchase a computer, an external hard drive and updated software for my professional photography development. Current computer works very slowly and malfunction frequently. |
| Girls Rock Camp Saskatoon |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Funding for Girls Rock Camp Saskatoon 2024 in order to offer an honorarium to the 10 instrument instructors who support the campers. |
| Selkirk, Jesse |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
A project to collaborate with my friend Maggie Blue-Waters to compose a song about her experience as a survivor of the Sixties Scoop. |
| Wanuskewin Heritage Park |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2024-2025 |
$18,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Brenna, Beverley |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I am a Saskatoon-based artist and this Solo Exhibition will take place at Regina Beach/Last Mountain Lake at the Elsie Scherle Gallery |
| Ledoux, Maureen |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I want to purchase Embroidery Embrilliance applications to create and develop embroidery to sew onto clothing, mossbags, shirts, skirts or quilts. |
| Ledoux, Maureen |
Saskatoon |
— |
Share and Connect |
2023-2024 |
$12,664 |
To hold a three day Moccasin-making class in Mistawasis reserve. |
| Reid, Sonia |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Funding is needed to research and locate an appropriate venue for a Black Gospel Music workshop. |
| Jegede-Ikpen, Oghenerukevwe |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
To explore a new musical frontier by blending traditional African rhythms with modern synths and diverse languages, and fusing Afrobeats with the Canadian sound. |
| Ferre Play Theatre |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2024-2025 |
$14,000 |
— |
| Bernbaum, Joel |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
To do 20 interviews with Saskatchewan Jews and Muslims to begin a verbatim theatre play about the Gaza war and its effect on our community. |
| Scantily Glad Theatre |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,921 |
To tour our award-winning queer theatre/comedy show "Creepy Boys" to Regina (presented by Curtain Razors), Winterruption festival (Saskatoon) and OUTStages festival (Victoria) in early 2024. |
| Shahabadi, Mahboubeh |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$4,000 |
Art gallery portraying traditional Persian mosaic patterns and design. Providing a unique opportunity to explore the ancient history of Iran through an artistic lens. |
| Knight, Lindsay |
Saskatoon |
— |
Share and Connect |
2023-2024 |
$16,336 |
To plan, present, mentor and perform "The TMRWS" Indigenous Women in Hip Hop Festival in Treaty Six Territory on July 12, 2024. |
| Chokecherry Studios |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2024-2025 |
$20,000 |
— |
| Indigenous Poets Society |
Saskatoon |
— |
Share and Connect |
2023-2024 |
$10,000 |
Publish a Zine of indigenous writing, artwork in early 2024 of 50 pages. Create digitally and send to printers at SK and ON branches distribution. |
| Cando Metis Local 55 Incorporated |
SASKATOON |
— |
Share and Connect |
2023-2024 |
$18,000 |
We'd tell the story of the Cando and District Metis. Cando, Willowfield and Beljennie had a big Metis population with a story to tell. |
| Saskatoon Spinners and Weavers Guild |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2024-2025 |
$6,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Sun, Qiming |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
This funding is meant to support my year-long production of new artworks and the cultivation of many solo/group exhibitions during my 2024-25 Saskatoon Bunkhouse residency. |
| Cabildo Esquivel, Priscila |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$2,062 |
'KIN Movement" is art exchanged for kindness. "Ojos de Dios" - weavings traditional to the Indigenous Huichol of Mexico - are traded for good deeds. |
| Reid, Sonia |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
A community weekend to learn more about Black gospel choir music workshop culminating in a live music performance. |
| Tegenkamp, Diana Hope |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I want to work with manuscript editor, Anne Simpson, to complete the final stage of my poetry manuscript about my father, Metis activist Don Nielson. |
| Write Out Loud Poetry |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,950 |
We will bring a mini-tour of spoken word poetry workshops and performances for youth to smaller SK urban centers. |
| Pantel, Rowan |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Travel to Montreal to take part in creation workshop scheduled to take place from March 4th to March 9th, 2024, with écH2osysteme project. |
| Al-Katib, Muveddet |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
Finding my truth to reassess my traditional art to create a unique contemporary identity through a Western perspective and exploring the dynamic nature of truth! |
| Otayemi, Demilade |
saskatoon |
Theatre |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
Documenting the collaboration process between SUM Theatre and EDM Lab through, interactive documentation methods. Inspiring future collaborations and youth engagement in artistic and engineering careers |
| wâhkôhtowin School |
saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Students will be able to make ribbon skirts/shirts/beading to take home so they have them for feasts, round dances and pow wows. |
| Nwabuko, Daniel |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
Highlight, showcase and bring awareness to the beauty in diversity of black hair - the different types, forms and styles that it appears to come. |
| Zafaremili, Elham |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$4,383 |
I aim to combine Persian calliography and painting. |
St. Frances Cree Bilingual School - Bateman
Falynn Baptiste |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$10,000 |
This will be an opportunity for the Nehiyew staff and students to learn Nehiyew songs and poems with Falynn Baptiste and TKK for six weeks. |
Reimer, Joel Dash
Pleasant Hill Community Association |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$10,000 |
Dash Reimer will partner with different communities in Pleasant Hill to create an artistic response to the question of what safety looks like in community. |
| Pasqua, Anthony |
saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$4,000 |
I will research, develop, write and select 6-8 tracks for my album highlighting the modern day struggles and powerful resiliency of First Nations people. |
| Bernbaum, Joel |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$12,000 |
To create and share a new verbatim theatre play with music about the Gaza / Israel conflict and impact on people here in Saskatchewan. |
| Mabrouk, Rawda |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$6,890 |
Explore the paradoxes of an Egyptian woman, bridging trauma of oppression in Egypt to the challenges of life in Canada through tracing movement onto canvas. |
| Aden Bowman Collegiate |
Saskatoon |
— |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$12,000 |
Aden Bowman Collegiate invites artist Rebecca La Marre for a mental health and ceramics residency, offering coaching, new firing techniques, and land knowledge integration. |
