| Hip Hop Hoop Dance Productions |
Regina |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$2,000 |
To support Hip Hop Hoop Dance during a process of shifting their theatrical production from live performance to the digital realm of animated video. |
| Torwalt, Greg |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$571 |
To support my opportunity to attend the SK Writers' Guild facilitated retreat as I work on writing/editing poems, plus support the purchase of video-editing software. |
| Kuz, Tessa |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To support Tessa in the micro-development of a series of short self-choreographed solos via New Dance Horizon's Winter Blueprint Series. |
| Hernani Merino, Bruno |
Regina |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
To support the completion of 20 paintings for a solo gallery exhibition, showcasing the painting style I have been developing for the last 10 years |
| Kuz, Tessa |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$3,367 |
To support the creation of a new contemporary dance solo choreographed by Adam Barruch and danced by Tessa Rae Kuz. |
| Radiant Press |
Regina |
Literary |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
To support the enrolment of our Managing Editor in the online Certificate in Publishing program from the Chang School of Continuing Education at Ryerson University. |
| Wensel, Judy |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$17,000 |
To support the pre-production, rehearsal and presentation of a new performance work called The Last Children. |
| Uzelman, Kara |
Nokomis |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$13,000 |
To support the production and exhibition of new work from October 2, 2019 to October 1, 2020. |
| Maxwell, Aralia |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
To support the production of work and its documentation for confirmed exhibition at Neutral Ground in November 2020. |
| Cupid's Heart |
Prince Albert |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,000 |
To support the release and planned 15-show Eastern Canada tour around the latest single "Pick Me Up" from Cupid's Heart. |
| Neufeld, Travis |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$8,000 |
To support the writing and completion of a Saskatchewan-set feature film screenplay called Wildfire. |
| Anderson, Skyler |
Regina |
Theatre |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2024-2025 |
$8,000 |
To support the writing and presentation of a performance based on a difficult time of my life where I was saved by ceremony. |
| Han, Xiao |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$3,280 |
To support Xiao Han's multidisciplinary creation on a sound-based performance which reflects the relationship between human, migration, and the environment with the Saskachewan landscape. |
| Joa, Catherine |
Denare Beach |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$7,500 |
To take time to create six paintings for "View from the Edge of the World", a confirmed group exhibition at the AGR in August 2023. |
| 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. |
| Parovsky, Karley |
Regina |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
To talk to organizations, associations, elected officials, artists and Elders in Central Regina to better understand the need for arts programming. |
Santa Maria Senior Citizens Home
Barbara Goretzky |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
To test the feasibility of an arts-based program in the home with the hope of turning it into an artist in community residency |
| 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. |
| Gonie, Jalisa |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,200 |
To train at the Manitoulin Conservatory and receive direction and dramaturgy from John Turner for a festival-length clown piece. |
| Reid, Sonia |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
To train for certification as a NeuroVocal Method® Licensee. |
| 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. |
| Cameron, Ian |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$4,000 |
To travel from Regina, Saskatchewan, to St. Paul, Minnesota to learn about mechanical operation and maintenance of the pedal steel guitar. |
| Rose, Melanie |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To travel to and participate in the Artist Parent Residency - Mothra at Artscape Gibraltar Point. |
| Bernbaum, Joel |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,000 |
To travel to Australia and do an artistic apprenticeship with BIGhART - Australia's leading social arts and social change organization. |
| Aubichon, Holly |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To travel to Edmonton for installation and the opening of a group show I am participating in at Latitude 53, with a BIPOC collective. |
| Gilmour, Bonnie |
Meacham |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
To travel to the CAVA gallery in Edmonton for my exhibition setup, public reception, and then the takedown of my exhibition one month later. |
| Boechler, Jared |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$5,000 |
To undertake production on project influenced by local study in arctic region of Lapland, Finland. |
| Bates, Steve |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,000 |
To use a custom weather station to gather data from the Sun (solar radiation) to make a small body of sound and visual art works. |
| Dureault, Mitchell |
Wolseley |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To visit, access, and develop, a long term, sustainable music programming that is focused on youth, based on the needs and wants of the community. |
| Harris, Carla |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$7,500 |
To work with a dramaturg to refine a play about the experience of having a hidden disability. |
| Lenko, Timothy |
Moose Jaw |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
To work with author Michael Leali to edit and refine my novel, Houses Don't Have Ears, a middle-grade novel about mental health and imagination. |
| Ellert, RaeAnne |
Regina |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
To work with author Pam Bustin to edit and refine my memoir, RaeAmblings—A Memoir About Disability & Other Stuff, for release in spring 2025. |
| Kuzbik, Paul |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$9,000 |
To work with my band to adapt my debut solo album into a world class live show, and simultaneously write our follow up record. |
The Saskatchewan Council for International Cooperation (SCIC)
Kris Alvarez |
Regina |
Theatre |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$9,900 |
To work with Saskatchewan artists to provide young leaders with creative and supportive spaces to engage with ideas related to social justice and global citizenship. |
The Saskatchewan Council for International Cooperation (SCIC)
Melanie Rose |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$9,900 |
To work with Saskatchewan artists to provide young leaders with creative and supportive spaces to engage with ideas related to social justice and global citizenship. |
| Dieter, Mark |
Fort Qu'Appelle |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To workshop "A Path Of Ghosts And Warriors" at Native Earth Performing Arts 30th Annual Weesageechuk Begins To Dance festival in Toronto. |
| Reimer, Joel Dash |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$8,500 |
To workshop a 1 hour spoken word poetry/folk music set that integrates a loop pedal in order to tour it in Eastern Canada. |
| Boucher, Adreanna |
Prince Albert |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To workshop a new play that will premier in Prince Albert in the summer of 2021. |
| Johner, Lucas |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$7,500 |
To write 11 country-pop songs which will be released by The Johner Boys as singles, and then as an album. |
| Olsen, Farideh |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$8,000 |
To write 40 songs about motherhood for the musical component of a one woman show that integrates music, comedy and storytelling. |
| Bellegarde, Bradley |
Regina |
Music |
Indigenous/Metis Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$4,487 |
To write 6 songs, all stories with Indigenous relevance for an EP with the working title, "Rediculous Stories". |
| Olsen, Farideh |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$4,500 |
To write a 60-90min show about motherhood that integrates music and comedy. |
| Tushabe, Irene |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$6,500 |
To write a book of creative nonfiction reflecting on my departure from the Christian God in whom I was raised to have absolute faith. |
| Worrell, Peggy |
Swift Current |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
To write a collection of linked short stories with the theme of contemporary rural and urban culture in prairie Canada. |
| Lenko, Timothy |
Moose Jaw |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,000 |
To write a collection of musical theatre songs adapting the George MacDonald novel 'The Princess and the Goblin' and contract a composing consultant for coaching. |
| Goobie, Beth |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$12,000 |
To write a collection, titled lookin' for joy, that combines lyrical, narrative poetry with my experiences with spoken word/poetry slams. |
| Willett, Edward |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$5,809 |
To write a creative nonfiction book ruminating on the writing of science fiction and fantasy, drawn from experience and interviews with more than 100 authors. |
| Stevens, Tracy |
Regina |
Literary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$5,000 |
To write a film script titled: THE RIVERS FLOW: A NATIONAL TRAGEDY, the untold love story of Marguerite Monet dit Bellehumeur and Louis Riel. |
| Stevens, Tracy |
Regina |
Literary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
To write a film treatment titled: THE RIVERS FLOW: A NATIONAL TRAGEDY, the untold love story of Marguerite Monet dit Bellehumeur and Louis Riel. |
| Slade, Arthur |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$9,000 |
To write a graphic novel based on my award-winning novel DUST. |
| Murawsky, Graham |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$4,000 |
To write a new Factor Chandelier solo record in Saskatchewan focused sonically on expanding my prairie sound and taking it to the next level. |
| Slow Down Molasses |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,500 |
To write a new suite of songs for Slow Down Molasses, as well as creating supporting video and visual art for the project. |
| Burke, Kelley Jo |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,000 |
To write a production-ready draft of a musical "The Curst" in collaboration with Library Voices in preparation for a 2020 premiere with Dancing Sky Theatre. |
| Hambrock, Meredith |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$8,000 |
To write a second draft of my literary horror novel about climate change. |
| Kirchmeier, Kurt |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$9,000 |
To write a short speculative fiction novel about a man returning to his childhood home to face unresolved trauma and unanswered questions about his past. |
| Kirchmeier, Kurt |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$12,500 |
To write a young adult novel about a teen who gets caught in a time loop deep in the back-country of the Canadian Rockies. |
| Dawson, Michael |
Estevan |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$7,500 |
To write and arrange songs for a full length album and conceptualize accompanying videos, design, visuals, and photos related to the release and subsequent live performance. |
| Dawson, Michael |
Estevan |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$3,000 |
To write and arrange songs for a new album and conceptualize accompanying videos, design, visuals, and photos related to the release and live performance. |
| Gebremichael, Elsa |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
To write and co-produce songs that incorporate traditional Ethiopian elements combined pop / rock elements with producer XSDTRK for my debut Wild Black album. |
| Dieter, Mark |
Fort Qu'Appelle |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To write and complete a full story treatment for an independent feature screenplay in-development titled "As Far As The Eye Can See." |
| It's Not a Box Theatre |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$6,000 |
To write and design a series of vignettes for an outdoor digital immersive installation about climate grief and justice, to be played live by audiences. |
| St. Germaine, Yvonne |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$7,500 |
To write and perform a brand new full-length album that is contingent upon my newly released single "Sacred Tree" inspired by Sixties Scoop survivors. |
| Coppens, Nathan |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$15,120 |
To write and workshop a two-person play about adult ADHD that will be produced in the 2022-23 season with On Cue Performance Hub. |
| Bennett, Andrew |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$5,250 |
To write new experimental-electronic works from March 1st until June 30th, 2021. |
| Berglund, Melanie |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$6,000 |
To write songs for a new album and conceptualize the videos, photos, on-stage patter, images, etc that relate to the music. |
| McFadzean, Credence |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$6,153 |
To write the first draft of a fiction manuscript exploring the intricate mythology of an invented slasher movie villain or 'supernatural killer.' |
| Favel, Floyd |
Paynton |
Literary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2022-2023 |
$13,842 |
To write the story of The Battle of Cut Knife Hill accompanied by Chief Poundmaker's speech in English, Cree Syllabics, Roman Orthography, and PISL illustrations. |
| Slow Down Molasses |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$6,000 |
To write, arrange and collaborate on a new album's worth of songs for the band Slow Down Molasses. |
| Davis, Lindsay |
North Portal |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$8,000 |
To write, arrange and rehearse 8-10 original songs for Last Birds’ live performances and future full-length album. |
| Last Birds |
North Portal |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$7,000 |
To write, arrange and rehearse twelve original songs for the full-length album Last Birds plans to record in 2025 and release in 2026 |
| It's Not a Box Theatre |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$2,000 |
To write, record, and release a trilogy of interactive thriller podplays designed to be played entirely in the comforts of your own home |
| Margoshes, Dave |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$15,000 |
To write, revise and polish new short stories with an eye to a new collection during an 18-month period starting in January 205. |
| Heppner, Annalisa |
La Ronge |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$940 |
Together Brandon White and I have created a series of themed pieces about our love for local ecology and the land to exhibit next month. |
| Buena Vista School |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2020-2021 |
$500 |
Together with the Community Association, Home and School and SCC we want to have the students of BV create a mural on the rink boards. |
| Torwalt, Greg |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$2,717 |
Too Soon Monsoon is writing and recording demos live off the floor at The Sound Castle to determine songs and recording method for 2021 album. |
| Churchill Community High |
La Ronge |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,934 |
Traditional Hand Drum Making allows artist, pipe carrier and lodge keeper to come into the classroom. After drum completion, youth participate in a Blessing Ceremony. |
Pacquette, John
Churchill Community High |
Black Lake |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2021-2022 |
$10,000 |
Traditional skills knowledge keeper John Pacquette. Dene drum teachings workshops. Drum making, Dene singing, traditional dancing along with hand games. Denesuline Language support. |
| La Troupe du Jour Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$2,000 |
Translating and adapting sections of King Lear into French, a project done in partnership with GTNT to create a trilingual version of the play. |
| Dufour-Contreras, René |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Travel and attend imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts festival to showcase Buffalo Futurism. |
| Syverson, Kyle |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Travel for professional development to Earthdance Contact Improvisation event and to Contact Improvisation/performance workshop in New York. Perform with Earthdance participants in Dia:Beacon art museum. |
| Farrell, Jacob |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Travel grant to attend the 2024 Reelworld Film Festival in Toronto and exhibit my debut feature film "8th Street Menace" at its festival premiere |
| Janze, Rachel |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Travel to - and within - the Gitxsan nation to share in learning to sustainably harvest planting tannins for barktanning animal and salmon skins. |
| Ferraton, Dominique |
Gravelbourg |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,772 |
Travel to a solo exhibition in Montreal as part of the Wild City Mapping collective and housing expenses while hosting accompanying workshops |
| Mappin, Miki |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Travel to Barcelona for advanced dance training, regular practice of Contact Improvisation and meetings with dance professionals to explore performance, collaboration and residency opportunities. |
| Gan, Jelly |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Travel to Basel to install sound components for a show about the caves of Schleitheim, Switzerland. |
| Hicks, Ryan |
Regina |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Travel to BC to write material for my new album. I have eight finished and would like to write three more songs. |
| Dirty Sanchez Orchestra |
Prince Albert |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$900 |
Travel to Brandon MB July 18 and Winnipeg MB July 19 to play an all ages punk show and a two day punk festival |
| Grienke, Jennica |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Travel to Braunschweig, Germany to represent Canadian Theatre for Young Audiences Directors & Creators in the ASSITEJ International Directors Seminar June 20- 27, 2021 |
| Lodoen, Ray |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Travel to build an installation for Luna Fete Sound Collage 2021 "Moulin De Nouveau Orleans" |
| Bryans, Amber |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$500 |
Travel to Gem Lakes and do plein air painting and research for future artworks, with other artists at Plein Air Saskatchewan's fall Paint Out |
| Miller, Jacqueline |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Travel to Italy, attend 2 week plein air workshop gaining valuable skill set in plain air painting, exploring the elements of art from life. |
| Schuld, Marsha |
Rush Lake |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Travel to locations in Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan for archive research and to photograph/ interview female farmers preparatory to creating a new body of textile work. |
| Rees, Alasdair |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Travel to Montreal to participate in a reading and a salon celebrating the 10th birthday of independent literary publisher Metatron Press from October 19th-20th. |
| 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. |
| Rees, Alasdair |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Travel to Montréal to take part in two events for the Journée du Poème à Porter organized by La Poésie Partout |
| Bradshaw, Ryan |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Travel to New Zealand for two opportunities: performing and leading a workshop at the BurlesKiwi International Festival, and headlining at a monthly poetry night. |
| Glenn, Allyson |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$700 |
Travel to Portugal to attend Córtex Frontal Artist-in-Residence to conduct research and make new paintings for Eclipse series for solo exhibitions in Greece in 2024. |
| Kakakaway, Torrie |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Travel to Poundmaker Cree Nation for a PISL workshop that will directly inform a new theatrical work told entirely through Indigenous and Deaf visual languages. |
| Dunlop, Bonnie |
Swift Current |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
Travel to present micro-readings in private homes to showcase 'Raft Baby', a novel set in the Peace River country and of particular interest there. |
| Meneley, Barbara |
Val Marie |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Travel to present my artistic project "Soil" at the Prairie Art Network Institute in Calgary - Moh'kins'tsis, June 25-27, 2025. |
