| Robertson, Morgan |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
A mandolin with a built-in pick-up is essential for my practice because, in my band (guitar bass, drums) micing it is next to impossible. |
| Benjamin, Paul |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$2,200 |
I use my 12-year-old computer with outdated IOS for music production and editing photos for my Photo Exhibitions: a new MacBook Pro would remediate. |
| Caudillo, Kiela |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$690 |
Artist is a performing vocalist requiring a wireless microphone to improve stage performances and vocal sound. |
| Kent, Grahame |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$2,776 |
Purchase of MacBook Pro for theatrical sound design/editing work using Qlab. |
| Virgo, Sean |
Eastend |
Literary |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$1,456 |
My laptop has worn out, so I’ve fallen back on an old desktop, itself pretty geriatric: portability is important to the way I write |
| Wicks, Bob |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$2,400 |
My current MacBook Pro (2012 model) has become unreliable and insufficient in supporting my artistic practice: a new computer would help me make a living. |
| Hui, Catherine |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$4,340 |
Purchase the software that professional set designers use Vectorworks software to create 3D rendering of set designs. |
| Uhrmann, Pamela |
Regina |
Other |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$2,500 |
Voiceover artist and audio editor requiring to update computer for recording, networking and live sessions to maintain professionalism. |
| Zong, Megan |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$434 |
A ring light with stand is an essential item many film actors use for audition tapes to achieve the best lighting quality for the video |
| Erickson, Shannon |
Yorkton |
Visual |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$3,464 |
Purchase of Nikon D850 will increase the resolution to 45MP and allow me to incorporate media elements into my body of work |
| Hanwell, Drew |
Regina |
Music |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$4,768 |
My band would be able to take more gigs if we could start bringing our production equipment with us in the cargo trailer. |
| Goretzky, Barbara |
Lumsden |
Visual |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$1,523 |
A new computer for ease of projection, memory storage, and screen display are greatly lacking in my current laptop when creating large murals. |
| Johnson, Landon |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$1,100 |
Purchase of DJI RS2 Gimbal to allow for more creative movement and shots for videography adding auto-movement to stationary shots when shooting with multiple cameras. |
| Bennett, Andrew |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$5,000 |
My computer is struggling to keep up with the CPU demands of contorting and producing my voice within Ableton Live. |
| Macdonald, Daniel |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$1,200 |
I am a writer currently not owning a functioning laptop. My desktop and the MacBook (circa 2009) is no longer able to update nor function. |
| Berglund, Blake |
Regina |
Music |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$1,450 |
In-ear monitors are needed as stage volume has caused inner ear damage. Their precision will assist in strengthening my vocals and tightening harmonies. |
| Seidel, Louise |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$1,899 |
This computer is powerful enough to design, run sound and projections along with dedicated graphics with or without a tech booth for theatre productions. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Kamyabi, Marzia |
Pilot Butte |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$3,000 |
The Horrors of Nine to Five: workplace violence impacts over 70% of Canadians. Dedicated to the victims of workplace violence who took their own lives. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Brown, Sharon-Ann |
Regina |
Literary |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
I would like to publish the second book in the Adventure of Baby Alfie series. The book is called 'Gameday for Baby Alfie'. |
| 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 |
| Umeh, Charles |
Regina |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$4,000 |
I want to develop a screenplay of my cultural feature film title Dirty Hands. |
| Carter, Nathan |
Loon Lake |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$3,000 |
A free music concert showcasing music, fashion and visual art created by myself and other artists identifying as BPOC. |
| Bellefleur, Stephanie |
Willow Bunch |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$4,885 |
Power Haus is a literary art book which explores; passion for community engagement and the introspective effects of colour therapy through the public art lens. |
| 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. |
| Nafisa, Fatima |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
Phase 1 of an ASL Poetry multimedia project aimed at expressing the Deaf BIPOC experience. |
| Gascon, Girlynne |
Regina |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
Mentorship with artist Patrick Fernandez with focus on finding cultural identity and production of individual work and collaboration for exhibition. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Eve, Sophia |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
To complete a literary fiction manuscript, ALL THIS TO SAY. Themes include socioeconomic and racial identities in motherhood, art vs artist, and ethics vs desire. |
| Mwela, Nyasha |
Regina |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Create and compose 4 songs. |
| Reid, Sonia |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
A community weekend Black gospel choir workshop culminating in a live music performance. |
| Robinson, Kemesha |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Vocal coaching under the mentorship of Sonia Reid in Jazz & Blue |
| Magalong, Wren |
Regina |
Theatre |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$1,200 |
A series of courses with the Canadian Institute of Theater Technologies on using the ETC lightning console. |
| 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. |
| Hutchinson, Jonathan |
Saskatooon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
The Uplift Duo will be recording a Christmas album, and putting on a Christmas concert in December showcasing music from the album, and special guests. |
| Kathrotia, Yash |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Compose a multi-movement orchestral work that features Bansuri as a solo instrument and supplement it with professional looking scores and MIDI audio files. |
| Española, Aldeneil |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
A monthly drag show that runs for three months of winter (Dec-February or Jan-March) to give opportunities for the BIPOC Drag Artists of Saskatoon, |
| Ouedraogo, Helene |
Regina |
Literary |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
une retraite pour corriger POEMES ET ROMAN
, puis une relecture par un ecrivain de la Saskachewan
enfin l'édition des deux oeuvres. |
| Porsandekhial, Narges |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
As part of an ongoing research, this project focuses on the multifaceted premise of bilingualism in artistic research and creation. |
| Buenavente, Joviel |
Regina |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$4,000 |
I'm asking for funding to cover costs related to my upcoming window gallery exhibition at Neutral Ground in Dececember 2024 to January 2025. |
| Kyuubi Culture |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Kyuubi Culture Artist Collective facilitates visual art workshops to share culture experience and foster relations between YXE-based Asian artists and the non-BPOC communities in Saskatoon. |
| Kyler, Gabrielle |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
to record and release my first EP. All songs will be original compositions by myself and my team. to record a live studio presentation |
| Hutchinson, Jonathan |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
A course demonstrating how to make the most out of playing keyboard instruments. |
| Cabildo Esquivel, Priscila |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Creation of 2 pieces of Arte Huichol in animal skulls for a Day of the Death altar display. |
| 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). |
| Latinos en Regina Mariachi Band |
Regina |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
We are a musical group that is asking for support to purchase traditional mariachi outfits to perform all over Canada representing Saskatchewan and Latino America. |
| Farshad, Don |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
A traditional Iranian art combines wood with intricately cut mirrors. This craft decorates creates stunning patterns that enhance light and add elegance to architectural spaces |
| 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. |
| Kathrotia, Yash |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Compose a one of its kind full-length orchestral concert solely showcasing Gujarati folk subject matter, music, spoken poetry, and dance. |
| 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. |
| Idowu, Moses |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Addressing a need: Reconnecting African youth to their roots through musical, artistic, and cultural performances during Black History Month to foster pride in identity |
| Akintade-Oluwagbeye, Oluwaseun Peace |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
This grant supports the development and presentation of Ori Ara Emi, an Afro-centric exhibition and workshop blending Poet Laureate, Peace Akintade’s, visual and auditory poetry. |
| Aurich, Romina |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$4,557 |
The project is to make professionally led circus training more accessible to people and to share our passion and discipline with the people around us. |
| Escanlar, Pepito |
Regina |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
To cover framing and related expenses for art exhibition of paintings capturing the evolving urban landscape of Regina since the 1980s from an immigrant's perspective. |
| Española, Aldeneil |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
I will study the "Bakla" culture of the Philippines through fabric paintings, fabric manipulation, styling and fashion design. |
| Oyatogun, Oluwafunmilayo |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Enchanted Concerts fuses orchestral music and storytelling, celebrating 65 years of the rich legacy and global impact of Nigerian music through the Black Orchestra. |
| Lee, Yuji |
Regina |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Create six artworks (paintings and drawings) and a zine exploring and highlighting trans/queer experience and ways of being, primarily by challenging current anti-trans rhetoric. |
| Muyu Sisakuna |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$4,848 |
To acquire traditional dresses made by Indigenous artisans from Ecuador, and take a Kichwa dance workshop and produce a small documentary of this learning opportunity. |
| Yoageeswaran, Luxmi |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Lux Productions empowers South Asian youth through dance, fostering cultural pride and creative expression. Funding supports inclusive programs, performances, and mentorship in underserved communities. |
| Caudillo, Kiela |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
A multidisciplinary Spanglish show: Visuals and Sounds of a Latino American settler in Canada.
An colourful exhibit of art, Paper-Mache sculptures and a musical performance. |
| Brown, Sharon-Ann |
Regina |
Literary |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
I would like to publish the third book in the Adventures of Alfie series. The book is called 'Alfie Goes to London'. |
| Eve, Sophia |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Developing, researching, and drafting a literary fiction manuscript on the politics of diaspora and cultural identity. |
| Wu, I-Ying |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
This project develops and presents Subtlety, a multidisciplinary improvisational performance featuring artists trained in my Daoist-inspired approach, aiming to share the practice with the community. |
| Jeyadharshan, Ajantha |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
"Reviving Roots: Tamil Folk Dance Initiative”
This project aims to preserve and promote traditional Tamil folk dances, fostering cultural appreciation and community engagement. |
| Zuck, Emma |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
A 30 Minute documentary film about the creation of the Ballroom Community in Saskatoon with Aldeneil's research, creating workshops for the queer BIPOC Community. |
| Latinos en Regina Mariachi Band |
Regina |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
The Mariachi Latino Band would like to record their first album consisting of 6 six songs and be able to perform all over Canada! |
| Saskatoon Igbo Cultural Association (SICA) Women Dance Group |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$4,992 |
SICA Women Dance Group seeks funding to perform at the AfroTribes Festival's "Rhythms of the Diaspora" in Regina, to showcase our vibrant Igbo culture. |
| Lagria, Jun Yves |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Create a fall programming, September to November of Bahay Kubo, a Filipinx drag collective, a monthly drag showcases the BIPOC drag artists of Saskatoon. |
| ELEV8 Music |
Regina |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
A live summer showcase featuring BPOC dancers and guest musicians, culminating in a headlining performance by ELEV8 Music to spotlight diverse local talent. |
Thomson Community School
Chancz Perry |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$39,432 |
Our Artist in Residency project is a multidisciplinary arts program designed to decrease stress and increase resiliency in youth. |
| Ecole Dundonald School |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Our Grade 4 students will engage in a series of land based explorations with Leah Dorion to explore and represent understandings of our inquiry question. |
Warman High School
Ray Keighley |
Warman |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$39,433 |
Ray Keighley will be working with Warman High staff and students to explore Truth and Reconciliation through the Arts. |
Dene High School
Tenille Campbell |
La Loche |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2020-2021 |
$20,000 |
We will build the capacity of Dene youth to express themselves musically, in written word story building and through visual imaging of photography. |
North Park Wilson School
Joel Bernbaum |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Creative Action is a new Grade 8 Arts Program. Partnering with Joel will enhance the program from the very first year of its existence! |
| Clinton Ackerman Music |
Regina |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$5,103 |
Students will practice mindfulness and independence in creative music practices, creating wind chimes while exploring different acoustic environments in Regina. |
| Midale Central School |
Midale |
Theatre |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$6,600 |
Midale Central School to partner with Missoula Theatre Group to create 2 school and community theatre events. |
Winston Knoll Collegiate
Chrystene Ells |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$39,432 |
Deaf youth engage with personal artistic practices, guided by curated artists reflecting areas of classroom cultural demographics and intersectionality, including Deafness, LGBTQ, Indigenous and Newcomer. |
Chief Gabriel Cote Education Complex
Treaty 4 Education Alliance |
Kamsack |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Grade 4 – 8 students will complete traditional art projects surrounding the theme of identity and sense of self with Dakota artist Holly Yuzicapi. |
| Mistawasis Nehiyawak High School |
Leask |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
The grant would provide an opportunity for the students to learn from a local artist to enhance cultural identity and awareness in an artistic form. |
| St. Michael Community School |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Our goal is for Lloys Dubois to come and teach our students about his creative process and incorporate his Ojibway teachings using symbols and animals. |
| Dene High School |
La Loche |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Dene High School in La Loche will establish a relationship with local and internationally recognized guitar and vocalist Damien Cheecham. |
| Brightwater Science, Environmental, and Indigenous Learning Center |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
We will create outdoor sculptures using found material to support cultural learning about sustainability. The participants will be from Confederation Park School's Cree Immersion class. |
| Prairie Sky School |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$756 |
This project is for a grade 6-8 class to learn basic wood shop skills by building shelves with woodworker Brian Gladwell. |
| Living Sky School Division No. 202 |
North Battleford |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To explore ideas about ecological art with traditional Indigenous knowledge to deepen our relationship with the land and planning for an Artist in Schools project. |
| Ernest Lindner School |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Students will engage with Tod Emel (our artist) as they compose and perform electronic music using LMMS digital music station. https://lmms.io/ |
| Stoughton Central School |
Stoughton |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Song Writers Circle with Saskatchewan Recording Artists Glen Strong and Forrest Eaglespeaker. |
Dotson, Allan
Ecole Wascana Plains Elementary School |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
A Grade 4 class will build a modular model community which will depict the use of natural resources in Saskatchewan. |
Westmount Community School
Felipe Gomez |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$7,700 |
Students will learn the music concepts of the ukulele taught by Felipe Gomez. In the end, students will participate perform in a ukulele rock orchestra. |
F.W. Johnson Collegiate
Holly Yuzicapi |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$9,547 |
After multiple land-based explorations, students will prepare materials to use for traditional art forms to create four panels which examine connections between land and reconciliation. |
