| Ritornello Chamber Music Festival |
Saskatoon |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2020-2021 |
$8,000 |
Ritornello Festival is building on 12 years of success and looking towards the future through 3 concerts of fresh and original programming in Saskatoon’s core. |
| Saskatchewan Festival of Words Inc. |
Moose Jaw |
Literary |
SaskFestivals |
2020-2021 |
$45,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Saskatchewan Jazz Festival Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2020-2021 |
$70,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Saskatoon Jazz Orchestra |
Saskatoon |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan Festival Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
SaskFestivals |
2020-2021 |
$86,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Short Cuts Festival Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
SaskFestivals |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| SK Theatre Design Festival |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
SaskFestivals |
2020-2021 |
$8,000 |
An annual theatre festival providing opportunities for professional designers to create, connect, and learn that features light and sound shows for the public. |
| The Vertigo Series |
Regina |
Literary |
SaskFestivals |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Yorkton Film Festival |
Yorkton |
Media Arts |
SaskFestivals |
2020-2021 |
$53,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| AKA Gallery Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
Re-envision AKA's organizational framework, working with diverse consultants and colleagues challenge institutional assumptions and biases in order to better support artists, communities, and staff. |
| Art Gallery of Swift Current |
Swift Current |
Visual |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
We will hire a professional videographer to create virtual tours of our next two upcoming exhibitions to help us regain, retain and broaden our audience. |
| Common Weal Community Arts Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
Hire a consultant to provide training on the ethics of online programming and support artists with strategies on how to engage community through virtual platforms. |
| Creative City Centre Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
We want to increase our digital production capabilities, to enable us to record and broadcast Saskatchewan artists via podcast, live stream, etc. |
| Free Flow Dance Theatre Company |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
The purpose of this project is to perform technological upgrades to improve our ability to deliver programming and content online via video and live streaming. |
| Friends of the Broadway Theatre Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
Complete overhaul of our Ticketing, Point of Sale and Membership software, combining all into one web-based system. |
| Godfrey Dean Art Gallery Inc. |
Yorkton |
Visual |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$4,825 |
Upgrade and replace aging and soon to be obsolete computer and technology infrastructure. Manage change and succession for a new Director & Curator position. |
| Kenderdine Art Gallery |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
To increase our organizational capacity to produce effective online content through increased community connections and redistribution of funds to skilled though precariously employed cultural workers. |
| Listen to Dis' Community Arts Organization Inc. |
Regina |
Theatre |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
Build digital capacity and aquire accessible digital equipment to increase organizational capacity, resilience and responsiveness within Saskatchewan through disability arts and culture. |
| Neutral Ground Inc. |
Regina |
Visual |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
Address the barriers to equity at Neutral Ground Artist-Run Centre through an in-depth anti-racism training program lead by Future Ancestors Inc. |
| On the Boards Staging Company, Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
Diversifying our program delivery by incorporating live streaming into the production model of independent performing artists. |
| PAVED Art + New Media |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
PAVED Arts intends to create an online open-source equipment booking and members access portal, in partnership with Video Pool artist-run in Winnipeg. |
| Persephone Theatre |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
Request for support week long Theatre Manager intensive training for Youth Tour Coordinator, Box Office Management and Staff. |
| 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. |
| Saskatchewan Festival of Words Inc. |
Moose Jaw |
Literary |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
We would like to work with a consultant and explore ways to increase our digital capacity and navigate/adapt to the future of the literary/arts/festival sector. |
| Saskatoon Symphony Society |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
Video capture training of SSO team and musicians as we launch online streaming/digital concerts to remove barriers of access for audiences during pandemic and beyond. |
| Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan Festival Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
Staff and board will take a 6-day training course and create concrete change for more equitable, diverse, and inclusive environments for our staff and public. |
| Sum Theatre Corp. |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
Expanding Sum Theatre's e-capacity by creating a participatory website. |
| Thistledown Press Ltd. |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
To cover expenses of Thistledown Press’ transition in ownership. |
25th Street Theatre Centre Inc.
Laura Hale |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Artist Laura Hale will engage the attendees of the 2020 Fringe Festival to create a large-scale, outdoor art installation over the course of ten days. |
Art Gallery of Swift Current
Shon Profit |
Swift Current |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$45,000 |
To provide a professional artist-led weekly creative art class for the Long-Term Care facilities in Maple Creek, Shaunavon and Eastend Saskatchewan. |
asokan Project Camps
Alexandra Nordstrom |
Battleford |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
This project provides youth of Poundmaker and Little Pine First Nation with five days of creative programming that use land as pedagogy for art practice. |
| Big River Metis Local #59 |
Big River |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Big River Metis Local would like to have a cultural mural painted on the west wall of our 50 year old heritage theater. |
| Broadway Business Improvement District |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$5,000 |
RedBall is a traveling public art piece considered “the world’s longest-running street art work” and moves through a city with a new site each day. |
| Camp fYrefly Saskatchewan |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$9,000 |
To empower LGBTQ2S youth by highlighting art as a formative part of expressing identity and as a vehicle for social change. |
| Clinton Ackerman Music |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Host a week long summer camp of creativity and interdisciplinary art creation. |
Common Weal Community Arts Inc.
Michèle Mackasey |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$46,500 |
A residency led by visual artist Michèle Mackasey with fransaskois youth from Saskatoon and Indigenous/Métis youth, from three northern Saskatchewan communities. |
Creative City Centre Inc.
Karlie King |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Karlie King will work with retirement communities downtown to facilitate knitting groups focused on the yarn-bombing of pre-determined locations downtown leading up to Nuit Blanche. |
| Creative Options Regina, Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Creative Options Regina wishes to facilitate a Painting workshop, where participants would have the opportunity to partake in the art form while gaining artistic skills. |
| Doyle, Eliza Mary |
Asquith |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$46,500 |
Stage 2 of Pilot Project that engages community in music for self-expression/healing/reconciliation with intent on identifying, training and mentoring community members for future workshop facilitation. |
Dunlop Art Gallery
Logan MacDonald |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Logan MacDonald will explore the Deaf experience with Deaf and Hard of Hearing students. The collaborative artwork will be exhibited at Dunlop Art Gallery. |
| Eastend Historical Museum & Cultural Centre |
Eastend |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Art as Healing workshops with people dealing with isolation facilitated by Artists in the Eastend SK area will be held September 1'18 to Feb.28'20 |
Eden Care Communities Foundation Inc.
Misty Wensel |
Regina |
Dance |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$9,781 |
Collaborating with FadaDance Troupe our project will integrate the use of dance and movement to improve the overall well-being of our staff, artists and communities. |
Free Flow Dance Theatre Company
Integrated Dance Artist Collective |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
To develop a regional community of professional contemporary dancers through creative practice with choreographer Shannon Litzenberger, toward creating a performance installation at the Remai Modern. |
Girls Rock Camp Saskatoon
Eliza Mary Doyle |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Providing opportunities for female empowerment through Cultural Arts Mentorship Programming by building capacity and expanding the Girls Rock Saskatoon program to under-served/remote communities in Saskatchewan. |
Hale, Laura
Wild about Saskatoon NatureCity Festival |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Free, drop-in, community-engaged, environmental art project using locally found plants to explore material potential and create sculptural artworks and to create space for community dialogue. |
Northern Saskatchewan International Children's Festival Inc.
Laura Hosaluk |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$6,000 |
Sock Puppet workshop |
Prairie Sculptors' Association
Manitou Beach Recreation Board |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Prairie Sculptors' Assoc. (PSA) and Manitou Beach Recreation Board will host a sculpture symposium including public art workshops and a community art project. |
Regina Folk Festival Inc.
Megan Nash |
Regina |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
All Our Relations choir, led by local musicians, will rewrite songs that shaped the labour movement and the RFF, culminating in a 50th anniversary performance. |
| Santa Maria Senior Citizens Home |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$990 |
To establish a relationship and work collaboratively with 2 artists to develop concrete plans for an artistic project in a special care home |
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 |
Saskatoon Industry Education Council
Muveddet Al-Katib |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Through art, newcomer youth will to express and share their culture while learning about the similarities and differences in other cultures in their new community. |
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. |
| Town of Lumsden |
Lumsden |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$990 |
Local artist to create an outdoor public mural in collaboration with a wide range of community members, wide range in age, displayed at the Museum. |
| UR Pride Centre for Sexuality & Gender Diversity Inc. |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Stories That Move You: A portrait and digital storytelling project by and for trans and non-binary people in Saskatchewan |
| 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. |
| Cando Community School |
Cando |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Indigenous culture through the arts - drumming |
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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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. |
| 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. |
| Ecole Lumsden Elementary School |
Lumsden |
Literary |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$962 |
Nakoda Knowledge Sharing Day with Bronte BigEagle and Keegan MacArthur
A few Nakoda writers and speakers will come and present their oral and written stories. |
| École Monseigneur de Laval - Pavillon secondaire des Quatre Vents |
Regina |
Theatre |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
A group of students (grade 7 to 12) aiming to produce an entire play in French, from acting to sound and light effects. |
| Ecole St. Pius X |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Provide funding to two interdisciplinary artists to design and develop cross-cultural and cross-curricular programming for Pre-K – Grade 3 students in the Regina Catholic School Division. |
| 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/ |
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. |
Fidelak, Terri
Christ the King School |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Creation of a large, temporary sculptural installation using locally-sourced clay to engage students in learning about connection to land and sustainability through the creative process. |
| 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. |
Living Sky School Division No. 202
Bonny Macnab |
North Battleford |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Conversations with Nature brings together artists, storytellers and healers to lead students through a process of thinking like artists, scientists and stewards of the land. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
Mistawasis Nehiyawak High School
Kris Moffatt |
Leask |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Engage students in art therapy sessions, complete a friendship canvas and develop a video of these process. Friendship and culture. |
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! |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Stoughton Central School |
Stoughton |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Song Writers Circle with Saskatchewan Recording Artists Glen Strong and Forrest Eaglespeaker. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
| Abrupt Dystopia |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$4,000 |
Abrupt Dystopia, a band formed during the Girls Rock Regina’s inaugural Adult Camp in March 2019, will be writing and recording their first album. |
| Allard, Mark |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,000 |
A Graphic Art (graphic novel format) adaptation of the Icelandic saga known as The Saga of the Völsungs. |
| Anderson, Bruce |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$9,000 |
Complete several large format and medium sized oil paintings as the beginning of two new series expanding on the concerns examined in my previous work |
| Anderson, Charles |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
I would like to complete a collection of quirky, humorous literary essays entitled The Boy in the Window. |
| Atkins, Amalie |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$15,500 |
To create a triple screen film installation for a confirmed solo exhibition at the Remai Modern opening April 5, 2019 |
| Ba, Flany |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$2,000 |
Intensive Afro-latin dance training program for teachers and performers focusing on styles and techniques difficult to encounter in North America (but widely available in Europe). |
| Bates-Hardy, Courtney |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,740 |
To attend the Sage Hill Summer Poetry Workshop, where I will work on my second poetry manuscript, tentatively titled "The Anatomy of a Monster". |
| Benjamin, Paul |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$4,400 |
Attending Colombian and South American private music master classes by drum instructor Juan David Castano at the Berklee Satellite campus EMMAT in Bogota, Colombia. |
| Bernbaum, Joel |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,000 |
To apprentice with Forklift Danceworks' Artistic Director Alison Orr on her new community engaged production of Givens Swims - the culmination of a 3-year residency. |
| 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. |
| Billings, Terry |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$6,000 |
I plan to develop several years of video documentation of ponds into a form that can be exhibited. |
| Billingsley, Alyssa |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,309 |
Professional development at Manitoulin Conservatory for Creation and Performance of a solo bouffon show with Karen Hines and directorial mentorship under John Turner. |
| Bird, Keith |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$18,000 |
I will continue to create and finish a visual collection of art pieces using traditional and spiritual values to be disseminated for our youth. |
| Blom, Monique |
Waldheim |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
To produce and perform "(In)terfertilization: Of Word and Flesh" at (UNAM) Encuentro 2019:The World Inside Out in Mexico City in June 2019. |
| Bonetto, Estelle |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,060 |
Faire « parler » les corps et les âmes à travers le prisme d'un miroir photographique et tenter de capturer leur essence, leurs mots et leurs images. |
| Bonneau, Devon |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$2,000 |
A Devised Theatre Creation project, engaging six Saskatchewan artists, exploring creative/innovative uses of movement, sound, and theatrical technology; and integrating them with traditional performance methods. |
| Bradford, Michael |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$16,000 |
This project is to complete a middle-grade novel called Bonewalkers, the third book in the Nightside series, published by Orca Books Publishers. |
| Bundon Pfeifer Henderson |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$12,000 |
A research-based creation term to develop a theatrical installation, influenced by the real life of Peter Tripp. |
| 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. |
| Burnt Thicket Theatre |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,000 |
Script development & world premiere production of My Own Personal Jesus? by Tim Bratton |
