| Knight, Lancelot |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$8,000 |
I would like to take time to write music reflecting the current state of things from addiction to mental health and everyday life. |
| Davis, Lindsay |
North Portal |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$8,000 |
To write, arrange and rehearse 8-10 original songs for Last Birds’ live performances and future full-length album. |
| Per Sonatori |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$8,000 |
Per Sonatori will be presenting three concerts as part of their 14th season, as well as workshops for both professional and emerging musicians. |
Old Coronach Street Festival
Stephanie Bellefleur |
Coronach |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$8,000 |
Local professional Artist, Stephanie Bellefleur will engage and collaborate with community members to create a large scale mural on Coronach's historic Centre Street. |
| Radius Communications Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2022-2023 |
$8,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Dowling, Katherine |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$8,000 |
To independently produce and present “The Elegy Project”—an intimate solo piano performance on expressions of grief and loss—at three historical Saskatchewan venues in May 2023. |
| Berglund, Melanie |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$8,000 |
Create music and lyrics for the Belle Plaine project that explores the theme of home. |
| Alpha Kids Crew |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$8,000 |
Game Theory V is a free community festival focusing on youth, female, and non-binary involvement in Breakin’ and growing awareness to the street dance culture. |
| Black Professionals and Entrepreneurs of Saskatchewan |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$8,000 |
A multicultural, multidisciplinary festival that celebrates Black culture from within the Black Diaspora (African-Canadian, Afro-Latino, African, Caribbean etc.) community in Saskatchewan. |
| Olsen, Farideh |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$8,000 |
To write 40 songs about motherhood for the musical component of a one woman show that integrates music, comedy and storytelling. |
| Shaw, Carey |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$8,000 |
To create a narrative short film about a 2SLGBTQ+ character who who has an unexpected encounter during an isolated period in her life. |
| Fight or Flight Theatre |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$8,000 |
The Unforgettables has been selected for Live Five Independent Theatre’s upcoming season. This grant will help us pay our artists a living wage. |
| Country at the Creek Music Fest Inc. |
Big River |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$8,000 |
Country at the Creek Music Festival is an annual outdoor Music event held just outside of the community of Big River. |
| Miyawata Culture Association Inc. |
Paynton |
Theatre |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$8,000 |
This project an Indigenous Performance Festival which is multi cultural in practice and presentation. This festival includes local and international presenters. |
| Anskohk Aboriginal Writers' Circle Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$8,000 |
SAWCI will host Word Splash, an evening of Indigenous literature with emerging and established Indigenous writers live in Saskatoon, virtually Canada-Wide in a hybrid event. |
| Unheard Sound Collective |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$8,000 |
To present the 11th edition of Sounds Like: An Audio Festival with the theme "Duality" in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 12-13 and October 13-14, 2023. |
| Federation des Francophones de Saskatoon |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$8,000 |
18th Cinergie Festival, International Francophone Film Festival of Saskatoon |
| Prairie New Music Festivals Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$8,000 |
The Strata Festival of New Music is a 3 day festival featuring newly composed music by beginner, emerging and established Canadian and Saskatchewan composers. |
| Pottle, Adam |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$8,000 |
Complete the first draft, then revise and rewrite into a second draft my young adult horror novel FULL MOON CHRISTMAS. |
| Anderson, Charles |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$8,000 |
I plan to finish writing a novel-in-stories entitled Penny Fictions which is presently one-sixth complete. |
| The Salt Shaker Festival |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$8,000 |
This application is seeking funding for the Salt Shaker Festival, a 3-day multi-media arts festival set in Manitou Beach on July 12th-14th, 2024. |
| Waskesiu Recreation Association Inc. |
Waskesiu Lake |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$8,000 |
The Lakeside Music Festival is a free, family-friendly outdoor festival. 2023 attendance was 5000+. All performers are from Saskatchewan, and Sunday specifically highlights Indigenous talent. |
| Black Professionals and Entrepreneurs of Saskatchewan |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$8,000 |
Black History Month Saskatchewan is a two-day multidisciplinary festival in February, that provides Black cultural education and appreciation in the province of Saskatchewan. |
| Central Urban Metis Federation Inc |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$8,000 |
7th annual CUMFI Metis Cultural Days are days of celebrating Metis Music, Dance, Theatre, Art, Culture, and Language. |
| Dog Patch Music Festival Inc. |
Loon Lake |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$8,000 |
Dog Patch Music Festival is requiring funds to assist in paying musicians. |
| Write Out Loud Poetry |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$8,000 |
We will administrate a 4 day youth poetry festival in Saskatoon through showcases, workshops and community building events. |
| Sarasa Performance Laboratory Inc. |
Paynton |
Theatre |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$8,000 |
The Poundmaker Performance Festival is an intercultural and Indigenous Performance Festival within a Laboratory setting. The Festival takes place in an Indigenous community and structures. |
| Cathedral Area Community Association |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$8,000 |
We are seeking support for the 33rd annual 'Cathedral Village Arts Festival'. A free six day celebration of the creative spirit showcasing local grassroots talent. |
| Holophon Audio Arts |
Regina |
Media Arts |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$8,000 |
To launch Regina’s inaugural sound art festival running from October 26th, 2024 to October 27th, 2024. |
| Country at the Creek Music Fest Inc. |
Big River |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$8,000 |
Country at the Creek Music Festival is an annual outdoor Music event held just outside of the community of Big River |
| Kitchen Party Music, Inc. |
Forget |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$8,000 |
Kitchen Fest: A series of 8 inter-ractive evening concerts over two weeks presenting Saskatchewan musicians collaborating with professional musicians from across Canada and the World. |
| Prairie New Music Festivals Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$8,000 |
The Strata Festival of New Music is a 3 day festival featuring newly composed music by beginner, emerging and established Canadian and Saskatchewan composers. |
| Federation des Francophones de Saskatoon |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$8,000 |
19th Edition International Francophone Film Festival of Saskatoon CINERGIE |
| The Salt Shaker Festival |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2024-2025 |
$8,000 |
This application is seeking funding for the Salt Shaker Festival, a 3-day multi-media arts festival set in Manitou Beach on July 11th-13th, 2025. |
| Dog Patch Music Festival Inc. |
Loon Lake |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2024-2025 |
$8,000 |
Dog Patch Music Festival is requesting funds to assist in paying our musicians. |
| Hambrock, Meredith |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$8,000 |
To write a second draft of my literary horror novel about climate change. |
| Biggar Old Time Music Festival Committee |
Biggar |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2024-2025 |
$8,000 |
A three-day professional music festival celebrating and revitalizing the cultural, historic, and artistic nature of Old Time Music and Dance in rural Saskatchewan. |
| Cathedral Area Community Association |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2024-2025 |
$8,000 |
We are seeking support for the 34th edition of our Cathedral Village Art Festival to be held in Cathedral at the end of May. |
| Outlook & District Heritage Museum |
outlook |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2024-2025 |
$8,000 |
Our festival takes place outside, we want to create a safe place for our performers and community members to come together. |
| Write Out Loud Poetry |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
SaskFestivals |
2024-2025 |
$8,000 |
We will administrate a 4 day youth poetry festival in Saskatoon at The Remai Modern through showcases, workshops and community building events. |
| Anderson, Skyler |
Regina |
Theatre |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2024-2025 |
$8,000 |
To support the writing and presentation of a performance based on a difficult time of my life where I was saved by ceremony. |
| Kitchen Party Music, Inc. |
Forget |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2024-2025 |
$8,000 |
Kitchen Fest: A series of 8 inter-ractive evening concerts over two weeks presenting Saskatchewan musicians collaborating with professional musicians from across Canada and the World. |
| Gan, Jelly |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$8,000 |
A music video using Chinese pop culture aesthetic references from C-dramas, 80s Mando pop, and karaoke. |
| Hambrock, Meredith |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$8,000 |
To continue working on my short story collection. |
| Cline, Heather |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$8,000 |
I am creating a multi-media exhibition, viewing the landscape through a conservation lens, walking the land with people affiliated with the Nature Conservancy of Canada. |
| Doyle, Eliza Mary |
Asquith |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$8,000 |
Music collaboration with musician/producer Nich Davies to inspire/complete/infuse fresh musical genres/ideas, proceed to workshop/collaborate album material with my band before recording follow-up full-length album |
| Daniels, Carol |
Regina Beach |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$8,053 |
Weather or not, a personal memoir through poetry (working title). To develop a manuscript of poems which chronicle my experiences under a living sky |
| Moker Wernikowski, Connie |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$8,104 |
To research and create a dance piece/study for five local dancers, informed by the work of Saskatchewan dance pioneer, Amelia Itcush. |
| Saskatoon Experimental Music Ensemble |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$8,125 |
To compose, develop, rehearse, and perform three concerts worth of communally-focused experimental music in Saskatoon. |
| Radius Communications Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2023-2024 |
$8,200 |
For general operating and programming support. |
Ecole Dundonald School
Paula Cooley |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2021-2022 |
$8,217 |
The focus of the project is an exploration of culture and community through texture, colour, and shape culminating in a clay art installation. |
| Anderson, Charles |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$8,265 |
This grant is to complete an essay collection entitled POSTCARDS FROM THE PANDEMIC. |
| Brochu Lambert, Anne |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$8,300 |
To conceive and create an interactive slide projection-based art installation, complementing two-dimensional works for a curated duo show at the AGR in 2023. |
| Payne, Laura |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$8,491 |
For the creation of work, including paintings and electronic media, for a solo exhibition at Galerie Roberston Arès, Montréal QC |
| Murza, Michael |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$8,500 |
To compose "Cold and Lonely Kingdom," an album telling stories of a fantasy world that contains parallels to the history and geography of Saskatchewan. |
| Ouellette, Dianne |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$8,500 |
I will honour the memory of the extinct "buffalo wolves" and the strength of these beings, who at one time thrived in the prairie grasslands. |
| Körner, Miriam |
Air Ronge |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$8,500 |
This project is to create an illustrated children's book (text and illustrations) that addresses climate grief
and climate change in a literary way. |
| Ripplinger, Matthew |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$8,500 |
Cosmic Tundra will be a short 16mm experimental film, aiming to represent surreal landscapes paralleling the rugged realism of the Yukon environment. |
| Reimer, Joel Dash |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$8,500 |
To workshop a 1 hour spoken word poetry/folk music set that integrates a loop pedal in order to tour it in Eastern Canada. |
| Gronsdahl, Todd |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$8,500 |
To build the installation for exhibit at AKA ARC, which will then function as a workshop for me and the community to to create in. |
| Fernandez, Cezar Patrick I |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$8,587 |
Develop and produce new works for three exhibitions in the Philippines. |
| QuarterTones Flute Ensemble |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$8,600 |
The QuarterTones Flute ensemble will work in collaboration with emerging composer, Makenzie Hay to create a work for flute trio. |
Bradley, Bevin
Bethlehem School |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2021-2022 |
$8,700 |
Bevin Bradley will work with the Alt. Education class at Bethlehem high school through a series of art workshops to create an student handbook resource. |
Prairie Sky School
Carol Daniels |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2022-2023 |
$8,808 |
This project is to create a Spring Storytelling Festival. |
| Lyons, Joanne |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$8,850 |
This project is to create new mixed media work exploring the weight of accumulation. |
Badger, Joanne
Sturgeon Lake Central School |
Sturgeon Lake |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$8,896 |
To introduce the art of porcupine quill placement on birchbark, to youth in school, on the Sturgeon Lake First Nation, Saskatchewan. This is intermediate level. |
| Martin, Monique |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$9,000 |
To continue the touring of my installation based work "Continuous" and "Context is Everything" to 7 different exhibitions, solo and group. |
| Noel-Maw, Martine |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$9,000 |
To complete my "Will James Triad" by writing a novel based on my play "Dans l’ombre de Will James". |
| Deaf Crows Collective |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$9,000 |
The project will develop the ASL/English script, puppetry, and ASL poetry, and present a workshop reading of "1000 Ladders Down" with a small ensemble. |
| 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 |
| Nuit Blanche Saskatoon Contemporary Arts Festival Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$9,000 |
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| 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. |
| Kuzbik, Paul |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$9,000 |
To work with my band to adapt my debut solo album into a world class live show, and simultaneously write our follow up record. |
| Lepage, Mario |
St. Denis |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$9,000 |
Write and compose music and lyrics for Ponteix’s next record |
| Carroll, Jonathan |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$9,000 |
Gridlocked is an augmented reality project about the history technology and how it changes our relationship to land. |
| Dunlop, Bonnie |
Swift Current |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$9,000 |
Create 10 new pieces and polish existing 22. On retreat, write 5 pieces utilizing archived material. Meld the material into a completed manuscript. Query publishers. |
| Pottle, Adam |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$9,000 |
Revise and polish my graphic novel script, SHADOWS ARE ALWAYS HUNGRY, into a second draft worthy of submission to publishers and artists. |
| Slade, Arthur |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$9,000 |
To write a graphic novel based on my award-winning novel DUST. |
| Lorer, Danica |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$9,000 |
Continue work on Ghosts and Other Grandfathers, a poetry and storytelling project that was supported by a Canada Council grant in its first phase. |
| Baudemont, David |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$9,000 |
Writing of "Fenêtre sur cour", a collection of poems and poetic aphorisms inspired by ink drawings |
| Beltran, Marlene |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$9,000 |
The production of an original play for young audiences featuring D/deaf performers. Telling the story of forbidden love between a cat and a swallow. |
| Kirchmeier, Kurt |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$9,000 |
To write a short speculative fiction novel about a man returning to his childhood home to face unresolved trauma and unanswered questions about his past. |
| Peart, Greta |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$9,000 |
I will create an empathy-focused videogame called “Mitch” that explores finding personal growth and groundedness amidst new and unfamiliar experiences. |
| Tootoosis, Lyndon |
Battleford |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$9,000 |
Create a series of sculptures that will speak about nehewuk way of dealing with loss and grieving, geared to those who never learned these techniques |
Art Gallery of Regina Inc.
Ashley Johnson |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2024-2025 |
$9,000 |
This 2-part project (Experiences of difference and health through art & Forum co-creation) offers marginalized communities transdisciplinary experiences of the body, health, & self. |
| Macdonald, Daniel |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$9,000 |
Build a touring production of my play IAGO SPEAKS to tour to High Schools students through arts centres across the province in 2024/25. |
| Paoli, Loretta |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$9,060 |
Continuation and completion of a series of interactive installations, Take Hold. Combining painting, video projection and viewer participation, each installation provides an experience of connection. |
| 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. |
| Hobsbawn-Smith, Denise |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$9,124 |
Complete and revise collection of form poetry about essayist M.F.K. Fisher – including sonnets, villanelles, pantoums, ghazals, palindromes, abecedarians– ready for submission to publishers. |
| Sparrow, Don |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$9,200 |
I intend to create three interconnected comic book memoir stories, each with a unique visual or narrative style, to be published together in an anthology. |
Dittmann, Bethany
Spruce Ridge School |
Estevan |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2025-2026 |
$9,240 |
Provide an artist and school-collaborated theatre process creating space for students to self-express through inquiry, creativity and imagination while creating their own dramatic piece. |
| Nepjuk, Elizabeth |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$9,275 |
I will be researching and developing, and then presenting my death-centred production TEA. CAKE. DEATH. at the 2023 Saskatoon Fringe. |
Turtleford Transition School
Bonny Macnab |
Turtleford |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2021-2022 |
$9,303 |
We will investigate how people can gain a deeper understanding of their own and others' communities through practical applied arts and quilting. |
| Blom, Monique |
Waldheim |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$9,350 |
To construct a sod house for my performance "Ethics of the Dust" for Remai Modern Sustained Artist Project. |
| Bates, Steve |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$9,400 |
To create an environmentally sensitive listening station and exhibition site from my home. Artworks will be exhibited from the same site and streamed online. |
| Ferguson, Anastasia |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$9,493 |
Shoot and hand-develop a 5-minute film, using 16 and Super 8 film. Title: The Garden of Curiousities, Chapter 2: From the Dying of the Day |
| Olsen, Farideh |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$9,500 |
This project is to write 60 songs, the best 10 will be recorded and performed by Farideh. |
Han, Xiao
Riversdale Business Improvement District |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$9,508 |
Xiao Han works with Asian and non-Asian artists to create and install artwork in Riversdale's Asian restaurants to address racism toward Saskatoon Asian community. |
| Kennedy, Marsha |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$9,514 |
My proposal requests funding to produce and frame 15 works for a traveling retrospective exhibition and to support experimentation and further production of new works. |
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. |
