| Mirlin, Mike |
Warman |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$825 |
To have a custom tap dance floor/box designed & built to amplify and integrate tap into the creation of future work with rock musicians. |
| Merasty, Marcus |
Regina |
Dance |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Consultations with performing arts presenters in Regina, toward future mentorship and residency opportunities. |
| Dr. Brass School |
Yorkton |
Dance |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Terrance Littletent will visit Dr. Brass School to engage with staff & students, collaborating with teachers to create a future Indigenous Dance Project |
| Wu, I-Ying |
Regina |
Dance |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
This project invites artists to train in my Daoism-inspired improvisation practice, exploring how this approach can be a training method for diverse cultural backgrounds. |
| wherewe.collective |
Tisdale |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Develop dance progressive dance workshops geared towards students age 12-18 as well as teachers. All workshops developed for the collective's upcoming sleep-away dance camp. |
| Eger, Ruby |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,000 |
The goal to engage in a month long dance training program based in Lucca, Italy. |
| Harpham, Lindsay |
Tisdale |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,500 |
To spend time developing a contemporary dance curriculum focusing on floor work, partnering, and injury prevention/cross-training. Used for company, master classes and tour. |
| Solheim, Krista |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$3,500 |
With this Professional Development grant I will attend and complete The Franklin Method 6-month Level 4 long-form training program (June – November 2024). |
| Chadwick, Madison |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,573 |
With this funding I’d attend the 2024 b12 dance festival in Berlin, a professional development opportunity to attend research workshops taught by international dance artists. |
| Bundon, Johanna |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,400 |
— |
Mabrouk, Rawda
École Forest Grove School |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$7,700 |
Empowering transformation and confidence through the realm of contemporary dance. |
Mookerjee, Abhiroop
Silverspring Elementary School |
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan |
Dance |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$7,300 |
Introduce street dance in Arts Ed, fostering creativity and physical expression, promoting teamwork, enhancing students' confidence, cultural awareness and creating an inclusive environment |
| 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. |
| Ba, Flany |
Regina |
Dance |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
The Creative Lab: a collaborative space uniting Canadian dancers to develop, challenge, and showcase hard-to-learn skills through guided creative exploration and shared understanding. |
| 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. |
| Cottin, Lindsay |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Attend Dance Immersion/Dance for Fall North as a soloist and Artist-In-Residence under New Dance Horizons
in order to curate, program and present contemporary dance Saskatchewan. |
| EmDance |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
SaskFestivals |
2024-2025 |
$7,550 |
Bridging the Gap is a street dance festival that is focused on building connections between street dance communities across the prairie provinces and within Saskatchewan. |
| Alpha Kids Crew |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
SaskFestivals |
2024-2025 |
$7,000 |
Game Theory is a free community festival showcasing live deejays, street dance performances, cyphers, and Breakin' battles with its seventh edition focusing on bgirls. |
| Ba, Flany |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Space rental for recording and practice Kizomba, ensuring continuity in artistic creation after unexpected studio loss. |
| KSAMB Dance Company |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$3,054 |
A cross-discipline collaboration in scored improvisation using integrated dance to express themes of radical empowerment in the face of environmental disaster, performed at Persephone Theatre. |
| Matyushenko, Valentyna |
Grandora |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$11,000 |
Choreograph and perform the folk ballet of the play by Lesia Ukrainka "The Forest Song". |
| Flamenco Borealis |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
SaskFestivals |
2024-2025 |
$7,000 |
Production and presentation of the 2025 Borealis Flamenco Festival Series consisting of two shows, a film screening, and various workshops. |
Dr. Brass School
Terrance Littletent |
Yorkton |
Dance |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$15,643 |
Establish a Pow Wow group within our school to foster a sense of belonging and community for all students. |
| Mookerjee, Abhiroop |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Compete as an invited guest participant at the Calgary Hip-Hop and Street Dance Festival, while also attending street dance workshops led by pioneers of hip-hop. |
| Kembel, Kendra |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
To adapt and rehearse the original work, To Pass Into, and present it as Double Helix at the Shu-Box Theatre in April 2025. |
| Das, Mohana |
Regina |
Dance |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$3,200 |
The Nirvana Dance Creations team is selected to perform at the biggest festival of Toronto "North American Bengali Conference" (NABC). |
| Yu, Skylar |
Regina |
Dance |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$1,125 |
Collaborating with four other emerging dancers to shape, choreograph, and rehearse a twenty minute long dance performance to be presented in April 2025. |
| James, Zoe |
Regina |
Dance |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$1,125 |
Support for exploration and creation period to work towards creating a dance piece with four other collaborators inspired by mixes of techno and house music. |
| Eger, Ruby |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Opportunity to participate in Sabina Ludgren's DIG heels program. |
| Latendresse, Jacqueline |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Remount and tour my contemporary dance work Stutter to the Connections/Collisions Cabaret in Edmonton at Mile Zero Dance. |
| Csada, Hayley |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Access artistic development opportunities in the area of Latin dance by attending the Calgary International Salsa Congress. |
| Cameron, Heather |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$750 |
Remount the 10-minute contemporary dance duet “(b)reach” for its PREMIER performance at New Dance Horizons' Stream of Dance Festival in April 2025. |
| Willick, Tayah |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
To create and perform choreography in “Rhythm Dust”, a Saskatchewan based contemporary dance show fusing dance works with electronic music, DJ mixes, and video projections. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
$15,000 |
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. |
| 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. |
| Gabriel Dumont Local #11 |
Saskatoon |
— |
Share and Connect |
2024-2025 |
$20,000 |
3 different cultural arts workshops including a Capote making workshop, a series of 3 different forms of beading workshops and a finger woven sash workshop |
| Moosomin, Miranda |
North Battleford |
— |
Share and Connect |
2024-2025 |
$9,104 |
beading, capes, moccasins, leggings, hair ties, earrings, cuffs, sewing; ribbon skirts, shirts, jingle dresses, shirts, traditional day dresses. for ceremony purposes in Alberta and Saskatchewan. |
| Big River Metis Local #59 |
Big River |
— |
Share and Connect |
2024-2025 |
$19,550 |
Connecting communities through stories, music and a sense of place that can foster a deeper understanding and appreciation of cultural heritage. |
| Asapace, Laten |
Raymore |
— |
Share and Connect |
2024-2025 |
$2,000 |
A project to share and preserve First Nations culture through dance, beadwork, and singing, fostering community healing, learning, and cultural pride. |
