| Poulin, Danielle |
Prince Albert |
Other |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
The project will consist of two foundational beading classes that will help individuals start to learn how to bead simple projects. |
| Utman (Koops), Victoria |
Macoun |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I hope to successfully launch my debut novel, WHO WE ARE IN REAL LIFE published by Groundwood Books, which releases February 6, 2024. |
| Mycyk, Sofia |
Riverside Estates |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I will prepare an informative lecture-recital to present Ukrainian composers, relating to the Saskatoon Jazz Orchestra fundraising concert “A Kolomyika Fantasy” on March 9, 2024. |
| 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. |
| Morrow, Nicole |
Fort Qu'appelle |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$800 |
Attend a Caribou Hair Tufting class and learn this medium to incorporate in my own work. |
| 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. |
| Kovach, Jaye |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Attend Buddies in Bad Times’ Rhubarb Festival to showcase my performance 'I don’t want to see or be seen by cis people' |
| Wolverine Wood Fire Collective |
Meacham |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,250 |
Members Paula Cooley, Tabata Bagatim, Anastasia Kinzel, Rebecca La Marre, will learn to fire salt and soda kilns during the CARFAC SK Mentorship program. |
| 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. |
| Bates-Hardy, Courtney |
Regina |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
To read from my second book, Anatomical Venus, in Vancouver, BC for the Real Vancouver Writers' Series and make connections with the writing community there. |
| Houghtaling, Theo |
Swift Current |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Stay in and travel between cities in Ontario and Quebec for artistic research and development opportunities |
| Pepper, Gordon |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I would like to introduce, present and discuss my experimental documentary film 'Discarnate: McLuhan's Wake' at the Ethnografilm festival in Paris, France. |
| Mathieu, Veronique |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Present and perform at SHE Festival of Women in Music in Arkansas during an international conference which celebrates the contributions of women in music. |
| Burns, Brody |
SASKATOON |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Purchase painting materials to continue my development as an artist while i have a studio space until the end of March at AKA/Paved Arts |
| Heinek, Emily |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I want to be able to take the 3 week devising intensive hosted by Ghost River Theatre in Calgary. |
| Burwell, Marissa |
Regina |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Marissa Burwell will attend South By Southwest to perform in an official showcase in Austin, Texas between the dates of March 12 - 16. |
| Shadowpaw Press |
Regina |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$726 |
Introduce Shadowpaw Press to a wider audience by attending a book launch at the Calgary Public Library for two titles I'm publishing. |
| Wolfe, Aurora |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Attend Emma Lake Artist Collaboration residency in summer 2024. |
| Robinson, Fiji |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$314 |
My goals is to undertake professional development in story telling/performance for a multidisciplinary project entitled "The Secret Realm." |
| Akintade-Oluwagbeye, Oluwaseun Peace |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$960 |
Purchase African textile prints, linens, and sewing equipment to create Interdisciplinary Art-pieces for my BAMSaskatoon Residency |
| Zhao, JingLu |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Reproduction of the body of work for the exhibition at The Bunkhouse Gallery |
| Abo Al Shamat, Abdul Salam |
Regina |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
I've been invited to be the feature poet at the Vancouver Poetry Slam CIPS Qualifiers on April 8th. I will perform a set of poems. |
| Rosenwald, Betsy |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
To attend and create new work at an artist residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst, Virginia. |
| Broussard, Rachel |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
I will attend the Alchemy Island residency at Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts on Toronto Island for two weeks in May 2024 |
| Fink, Heike |
Prud'homme |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
I need to buy a carpet as a "frame" for an installation of 3000 felted rocks for my first major solo exhibition in Canada. |
| Grimelda |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,000 |
Grimelda will be touring through Southern Ontario & Quebec to re-establish awareness prior to performing at NXNE in Toronto. |
| Van Rees, Ken |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$650 |
To present SK Arts Board grant on wildfire art and interact with other scientists/artists exploring the Science/Art interface at the Vienna EGU conference in April |
| Winterhalt, Anastasia |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
I am doing a 3 month coaching/study intensive with Kathleen Lohrenz Gable as I prepare a role and symphony debut with the SSO. |
| Brayshaw, Cody |
Prince Albert |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$650 |
This project is a small literature review regarding sustainability in theatre to enhance my career, my academic research profile, and promote arts sustainability. |
| Campbell, Jesse |
Prince Albert |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$300 |
I would like to compensate artists for a talk and poetry reading that they will provide at the reception of the exhibition "Drawn from Words." |
| Speed, Jaime |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$400 |
I will be providing three poetry readings for an interdisciplinary art exhibition alongside three visual artists focussing on multiple representations of the prairies. |
| 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. |
| Poulin, Shantaia |
Warman |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Key West Songwriters Festival (Key West Florida) Showcase opportunity! |
| Dump Babes |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,000 |
Perform 5 shows in Western Canada to promote our new album 'Known Liar', 4 of them as tour support for Miesha and the Spanks. |
| Dieter, Mark |
Fort Qu'Appelle |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$592 |
I wish to attend the Acimowin Film Festival in Saskatoon to represent an independent documentary I wrote and directed titled "I Plowed the Sacred Soil." |
| Listen to Dis' Community Arts Organization Inc. |
Regina |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,000 |
LTD' will be touring to rural communities to perform Bits & Pieces of Dis’ & Dat for high school students, cultural leaders, and community members. |
| Kinner, Monika |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$908 |
Attend my first artist residency, enrich my artistic language of Prairie by deep-diving into botany, ecological research, ecoprinting, dying, regeneration, plant medicine, communication, pollination. |
| Garcia-Luna, Gabriela |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Attending EMMA International Collaboration 2024 residency to work among 100 invited national and international artists in the setting of the Saskatchewan boreal forest. |
| Bell, Nigel |
Air Ronge |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
To pay my featured artists $600, mixing/mastering fees $400 total $1,000 for my new album. |
| Warrington, Lauren |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Two Week Professional Development opportunity to travel to Montréal to Intern for Artist Karen Tam |
| Budgell-Eaglespeaker, Forrest Scott |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
The North Sound has been booked to open for Stephen Fearing in Penticton on May 23rd and Vancouver May 25th. |
| Van Vliet, Hope |
Regina |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$500 |
I will attend a three week devised theatre intensive. There will be classes on grant writing, healthy creation practices and dramaturgy. |
| Michaud, Jean-Marie |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
To attend a Writers Retreat/Master Class under Louis-Dominique Lavigne with BC playwrights and connect with their Artistic Director. |
| Friesen, Rilla |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$745 |
Attend Sage Hill Writing, Summer Nonfiction Course, online with Michelle Good. |
| Brander, Leone |
Regina |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
I will be attending the Sage Hill summer fiction program to develop a novel. |
| Buenavente, Joviel |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
I’m asking for funding to cover my share of costs associated with attending an Artist Residency with Bridges Art Movement in Saskatoon this July-August 2024. |
| Art Gallery of Swift Current |
Swift Current |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,000 |
Install a dynamic pilot mural project along the Chinook Parkway to enhance public art, community well-being, and grow the gallery's presence in the community. |
| Conly, Bonnie |
Grasswood |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Spend nine days in the boreal forest exploring techniques and materials--developing artworks collaboratively with other multi-disciplinary visual and performing artists at the Emma International Collaboration. |
| MacDonald, Joel |
Regina |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
I will participate in masterclasses by cello professors Orfeo Mandozzi and Wen-Sinn Yang, including intensive individual instruction and ensemble playing. |
| Tagseth, Martin |
Lake Lenore |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$905 |
Accept invitation to create new work with master ceramists
Robert Shay, Brad Schwiegger, Matt Long & Jeremy Kane at Red Lodge Center for the Ceramic Arts |
| Sun, Qiming |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
I plan to create a new series of artworks while attending the Awakening 2024 Artist Residency at Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto. |
| Sadikov, Shokhrukh (Shah) |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Two-week long residency at the University of Music and Drama Hamburg ("HfMT") to participate in a conducting Masterclass with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra. |
| Swallow, Amy |
Regina |
Please Select |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
I would like to record and release my new song "Baby Back Bitch" accompanied by a music video. |
| 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 |
| Gallagher, Kelsey |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$850 |
I’m asking for funding to cover my share of costs associated with attending an Artist Residency with Bridges Art Movement in Saskatoon this July-August 2024. |
| 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. |
| Welbourne, Jordan |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
This project is for Jordan to participate the Ukrainian Art Song Project "Summer Institute", a week-long classical singing performance and artistic development intensive in Toronto. |
| Aldred, Nicole |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Five select emerging multimedia artists from Regina are screening their video works and showcasing media art artefacts. A discussion panel will close the night. |
| de Gooijer, Nicole |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
I aim to create an elaborate bird statue costume for two Fringe Theatre Festivals this summer, engaging and entertaining crowds through interactive street performance. |
| 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. |
| Larsen, Mitchell |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
I will receive my basic actor combattant training at the 2024 National Stage Combat Certification Conference in August. |
| Former Lovers the Band |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Band recording retreat, one week of recording with the intent on creating an album for fall release and promotional photo and video. |
| Brophey, Erin |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
I would like to attend the 53rd International Double Reed Society 2024 conference. |
| Morin, Chris |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Upgrade equipment in order to level up animated projection art performances in advance of festival season. |
| Walliser, Carson |
Regina |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
I want to purchase travel (flights and buses), and pay for accommodation and the workshop fees to attend this Drag/Clown workshop in Ontario. |
| L'Hirondelle, Cheryl |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
build at least four prototypes of small spotlight holders as part of my ongoing yāhkaskwan mīhkiwap (aka light tipi) project for Nocturne Halifax (Oct 2024). |
| All My Relations Creative Connections |
Prince Albert |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,436 |
Purchase supplies to expand our community-engaged artistic practice which will promote development for a young artist collective in our community through the Coming In Project. |
| Chaos Encouraged Productions Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,000 |
Create a 4ft by 4ft stage for Trans and Genderqueer Drag performers to present a unique show at Nuit Blanche YXE in Saskatoon. |
| Powell, Marie |
Regina |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
I will attend a six-day writing retreat in Amorgos, Greece to gain opportunities to improve my skill and increase my success as a historical novelist. |
| Mitchell, Amelia |
Moose Jaw |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$500 |
My project involves submitting my short film, "Stay Here," to film festivals both in Canada and around the world. |
| Wilson, Katie |
Regina |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$64 |
Four-week three-hour sessions on songwriting, covering topics: process, song structure, genres, song forms, melodies, editing, co-writing, chord progressions, performance, copyright, releasing music and next steps. |
| Norlen, Alison |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
My proposal includes a residency at Arquetopia, Puebla Mexico where I will observe, gather, document and explore this cultural unique UNESCO World Heritage Site. |
| Conquergood, Lorna |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Create plaster sculptures that focus on human and wildlife interactions and provide an opportunity to practice a healthy and safe coexistence. |
| Cuthand, Shawn |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Help to travel with Full Metal Comedy (Myself, Ryan Moccasin, Shy Sapp) to Vancouver Fringe, where we were picked for a spot in the festival. |
| 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. |
| Sapp, Cheyenna |
Saskatoon |
Other |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
I would like to perform standup comedy in the Vancouver Fringe Festival in BC to expand my network and fan base. |
| 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. |
| Stark, Cassandra |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
My goal is to sell and promote my work at the Saskatchewan Craft Council's "Craft Is..." Market |
| Vaxvick, Sadi |
Moose Jaw |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$600 |
Tree carving in Crescent Park located downtown Moose Jaw |
| Dima, Julia |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
I will be offering "Maker's Space" a drop-in fine arts program at Al Ritchie Community Centre from Sept 2024 to March 2025. |
| Thomson, Samuel |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$798 |
Procure a new guitar to serve as a replacement for Sam's current instrument, which is no longer functional. |
| Dufresne, Gabrielle |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$350 |
Attending a two-week Masterclass on puppetry, offered in French by the Association des Théâtres Francophones du Canada and the École Nationale |
| Graham, John |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$789 |
To do a film shoot in Berlin of my new short experimental film THE COLOUR OF SOUND with a small team of creative collaborators. |
| Moosomin Visual Arts Centre |
Moosomin |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,915 |
This would be a one-day event that would celebrate the opening of the Visual Arts Centre and allow people to explore the opportunities presented. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Vida, Mackenzy |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Learn and incorporate traditional techniques by studying and creating in a printing studio in Barcelona to expand my skills as a printmaker. |
| 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. |
| Thorburn, Crystal |
Assiniboia |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$548 |
Create packaging and ship 20 artworks to Winnipeg via Canada Post for solo touring exhibition with Manitoba Arts Network 2025. |
| Okemaysim, Aren |
Regina |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
To cover partial costs of rehearsal time and travel for okimawᐅᑭᒪᐤ to participate in BreakOutWest 2024 (hosted by WCMA) in Saskatoon, SK. |
| Pooyak, Roberto |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Indigenous/Metis Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
15-17 Track Reggae & Hip Hop album following two previously released albums. |
| Nordstrom, Alexandra |
Battleford |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous/Metis Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
This project provides grades 5-9 students of Chief Poundmaker School with a week of creative workshops that use land as pedagogy for art practice. |
| Standing, Lorraine |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous/Metis Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
To research and develop my stories of my father’s stories of song and drumming when I was a child. |
| Atimoyoo, Erland |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous/Metis Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
I will reach Descendants who were unable to attend the 2018 "Gathering", report on last year's Gathering, promote this year's Gathering and contact ceremonial Elders. |
| Cuthand, Shawn |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous/Metis Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
We want to create and produce fifteen videos that focus on Indigenous comedy and satirical news. |
| Johnson, Omar |
Regina |
Music |
Indigenous/Metis Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
This project will produce an album. Utilizing a 4 part method. I.e Locale sampling, sound sculpting, sound generation, sound pallet programming, plus composition. |
| Candline, Randi |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous/Metis Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$6,500 |
I would like to take time off work to on a fully beaded Men's Grass Dance regalia. |
| Daniels, Carol |
Regina Beach |
Literary |
Indigenous/Metis Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$3,000 |
A new manuscript of poetry celebrating the joys, challenges and blessings of single parenthood |
| Cameron, Howard |
Duck Lake |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous/Metis Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
In my process of learning Cree stories from elders, I will illustrate images that coincide with the stories. Thus, limiting the need for English translation. |
