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Recipient Community Discipline Program Year Amount Description
Lacelle, Katherine Saskatoon Dance Prince Edward Arts Scholarship 2024-2025 $2,500 —
Parker, Kara Saskatoon Dance Prince Edward Arts Scholarship 2024-2025 $1,000 —
FadaDance Troupe Inc. Regina Dance Professional Arts Organizations Program 2024-2025 $20,500 For general operating and programming support.
Free Flow Dance Theatre Company Saskatoon Dance Professional Arts Organizations Program 2024-2025 $20,500 For general operating and programming support.
Greystone Community Association Saskatoon Dance Artists in Communities 2024-2025 $1,000 Greystone Heights Community Association would like to promote personal, social, and cultural well-being through multiple, cultural, dance styles.
New Dance Horizons Inc. Regina Dance Professional Arts Organizations Program 2024-2025 $84,050 For general operating and programming support.
Blanchard, Abby Prince Albert Dance Prince Edward Arts Scholarship 2024-2025 $750 —
Cain, Sienna Saskatoon Dance Prince Edward Arts Scholarship 2024-2025 $1,500 —
KSAMB Dance Company Saskatoon Dance Microgrant Program 2024-2025 $2,000 A dance, music, and spoken-word performance on nature and capitalism, workshopped in an inner-city theatre residency, combining live music, mixed ability ensemble improvisation, and outreach.
Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery Moose Jaw Dance Microgrant Program 2024-2025 $2,000 This project features contemporary dance in response to Leesa Streifler's exhibition to bridge dance and visual arts while promoting community building and engagement.
Deiter, Christine Balcarres — Share and Connect 2022-2023 $2,000 I would like to plan for a youth/Elder Saulteaux Tipi camp. This camp would be about Saulteaux language, culture and games.
Miyawata Culture Association Inc. Paynton — Share and Connect 2022-2023 $15,011 A series of Plains Indian Sign Language workshops to actively teach, reanimate Cree language learning using PISL. Live and Virtually.
Bird, Lianne Balcarres — Share and Connect 2022-2023 $10,000 Singers from Peepeekisis FN joined with Saskatchewan Gymnaestada to perform at Amsterdam World Gymaestrada Festival to promote Truth and Reconciliation Call to Action.
Bear's Song Collective Saskatoon — Share and Connect 2022-2023 $15,500 To provide intergenerational teachings about birch, spruce and porcupines and using their natural resources to create birch bark baskets and documenting the entire process.
Smith, James Muskoday — Share and Connect 2022-2023 $10,000 Ask younger indigenous people what they think about Art. Show them how to develop these ideas ranging from educational, spiritual experiences, hardships, beauty nature, aspirations.
Muskoday First Nation Community School Muskoday — Share and Connect 2022-2023 $20,000 We will teach youth traditional Pow-Wow drumming, singing and regalia making. We will teach youth to make Indigenous hand drums and rattles.
Knight, Lindsay Saskatoon — Share and Connect 2022-2023 $19,997 To mentor and then host an itwewiniyiniwak("word people") storytelling gathering based on creation story(ies) of Treaty Six Territory, including contemporary/traditional rap, comedy, poetry and songwriting.
Friday, Tekeyla Webb — Share and Connect 2022-2023 $20,000 Create the Stop-Motion Animation short film Escape from Residential School by mentoring youth to help with the production, pass on my skills and build community.
Big River Metis Local #59 Big River — Share and Connect 2022-2023 $20,000 The project animates community through our stories, music and connection to our land by highlighting knowledges of past to create new pathways forward.
Aubichon, Holly Regina — Share and Connect 2022-2023 $2,000 Develop a website, creating a map to share where traditional tattoo-artists work and build community-backed resources for future inclusion of tattooing during ceremonies and events.
George-Heese, Tracey Regina — Share and Connect 2022-2023 $10,000 The project will have three components; an artist residency, a 3 session workshop circles and exhibition of final pieces. For the personal residency, I will focus on on the creation of a Treaty 4 Dress that reflects on my ancestors who were signatories of the Treaty 4 document.
Dene High School La Loche — Share and Connect 2022-2023 $5,492 Educational expedition. This project is to support and gain Indigenous knowledge through teachings and experiences. Participants will be exposed to all facades of Indigenous led projects and businesses that will encourage our Youth in taking pride of their heritage and identity as indigenous peoples.
Minahik Waskahigan Elementary School Pinehouse Lake — Artists in Schools 2023-2024 $32,000 The proposal for the residency would be the instruction of the program they will be presenting to the students as a whole class or groups.
Turtleford Community School Turtleford — Artists in Schools 2023-2024 $7,850 Bonny Macnab will work with students from k-12 on art inspired by land based learning. She will also mentor select students.
Gabriel Dumont Local #11 Saskatoon — Share and Connect 2023-2024 $19,400 Sewing Circle hosts Metis cultural arts workshops and then gathers weekly where artists mentor and support the learning of our members.
Badger, Joanne Sturgeon Lake — Share and Connect 2023-2024 $11,780 To introduce the practice of porcupine quill placement on birchbark to Nehiyawak(Cree Peoples), on Treaty Six Territory.
Petit, Marcel Saskatoon — Share and Connect 2023-2024 $10,000 To create a first draft of the documentary film Queer Seniors by editing twelve existing interviews of queer Indigenous Elders and settler senior citizens.
Wanuskewin Heritage Park Saskatoon — Share and Connect 2023-2024 $2,000 Offering a free, drop-in art collaboration in with Metis artists Holly Tennant and Leah Dorion to connect with the Prince Albert Indigenous community through art.
Belanger, Maureen Saskatoon — Share and Connect 2023-2024 $6,084 The funds will assist in the creation and development of new material for Kokum Ernestine and her pet bird Muckatoon (puppet) .
Friesen, Marcy Carrot River — Share and Connect 2023-2024 $6,084 I would like to carry out a mentorship that is shaped by ideas of matriarchy and intergenerational relationships.
Pewapsconias, Janelle Paynton — Share and Connect 2023-2024 $9,900 For youth descendants of Indian Residential School to capture survivance stories through family tree art, spoken word, and storytelling for Orange Shirt Day 2023.
GGFN Elders @level1.client.city@ — Share and Connect 2023-2024 $19,752 Create an after-school program aimed at First Nation Arts in collaboration with Students, Elders, and community members, showcasing students' work in a final celebration.
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.
Bert Fox Community High School Fort Qu'Appelle — Artists in Schools 2023-2024 $16,000 In collaboration with the Artist, we will build solid relationships with several Indigenous female students whom have expressed interest in reconnecting to their culture.
Ledoux, Maureen Saskatoon — Share and Connect 2023-2024 $12,664 To hold a three day Moccasin-making class in Mistawasis reserve.
Big River Metis Local #59 Big River — Share and Connect 2023-2024 $17,000 The project connects community through stories, music and connection to our land by highlighting knowledges of past to create new pathways forward.
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.
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.
Gladue, Raeanne Regina — Share and Connect 2023-2024 $1,000 Fund research hours for cultural film. Documentary on a native man's journey how sixty scoop and residential schools had an impact on cultural self identity.
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.
Anderson, Skyler Regina — Share and Connect 2023-2024 $10,000 To lead, mentor, and direct a group of young and emerging indigenous artists from Treaty 4 through a devised performance at the Treaty 4 Grounds.
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.
Chief Payepot School Zehner — Artists in Schools 2024-2025 $40,000 Language, Arts Festival cultural residency using visual arts to explore, themes of self discovery for students to create art projects/mural through traditional & contemporary themes.
Mount Royal Collegiate Saskatoon — Artists in Schools 2024-2025 $13,400 Establish a student studio art mentorship program with a 2S Indigenous artist fostering agency, identity and cultural celebration via collaborative murals and digital art exhibitions.
Cowessess First Nation Cowessess — Share and Connect 2024-2025 $12,957 Urban Indigenous Art Workshops: Learn traditional techniques and contemporary expressions in Indigenous art, Revitalizing cultural connection and creative exploration.
Badger, Joanne Sturgeon Lake — Share and Connect 2024-2025 $16,834 To continue teaching the art of porcupine quillwork at an intermediate level on the Sturgeon Lake First Nation, Saskatchewan.
Ledoux, Maureen Saskatoon — Share and Connect 2024-2025 $12,957 We will have a Women's Wellness Weekend at Wanuskewin Heritage Park for Adult Indigenous Women aged 30 and up.
Stobart Community School Duck Lake — Share and Connect 2024-2025 $2,500 We wish to start a hoop dance program to accompany our existing drum and dance program. Requiring funds to make hoops and hire an instructor.
L'Hirondelle, Cheryl Saskatoon — Share and Connect 2024-2025 $17,752 To share, with Metis songwriter Berk Jodoin, my method of co-writing songs with incarcerated relatives in 2 SK correctionals & arrange/record/produce/master a song from each.
Stonechild, Jacob Regina — Share and Connect 2024-2025 $2,000 I am currently looking for funding to continue my art projects not only to share but to teach those who might be interested thank you
Prairie Spirit Connection Regina — Share and Connect 2024-2025 $10,000 The teepees will be centralized for teaching, ceremony, song, providing connection to heritage, for families, children, youth, and foster parents to experience culture connections.
Reconciliation Melfort Melfort — Share and Connect 2024-2025 $8,000 Engage youth in Indigenous Arts & Cultural revitalization, promote intergenerational transfer of Indigenous cultural practices and promote Truth & Reconciliation amongst youth.
Armstrong, Audrey Saskatoon — Share and Connect 2024-2025 $2,000 Large visual artworks identify Treaty 6 and Métis territory. A community art wall invites participants to deepen their awareness of and relationship to this land.
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Photo Credit: Artist Evie Ruddy partnered with UR Pride Centre for Sexuality & Gender Diversity on a photography project featuring trans and non-binary people. Photo by Charity Marsh.