Project Grant Program — Individuals and Collectives: 2023 Results
The Project Grant Program for Individuals and Collectives was intended to provide one-time project funding to individual artists and artist collectives in Calgary / Mohkinsstsis working in any artistic discipline who pursue a professional practice. Projects could include research, creation, development, production, presentation or dissemination of artistic work, or the experimentation or development of new or adapted approaches to practice.
This program was supplemented by Calgary Arts Foundation through gifts from the Auxilium Foundation, Calgary Foundation, and Individual Donors.
We received 509 eligible applications requesting $7,085,175, and were able to support 163 projects to a total of $2,303,306. For information about how this program was assessed, please see the Terms of Reference for the 2023 Project Grant for Individuals and Collectives.
| Grantee | Project | Grant |
| Aaron Giovannone | Tales from the Top Rope: The World of Calgary Pro Wrestling | $7,220 |
| Ado Nkemka | “Death By Estrangement” Album Recording | $15,000 |
| Adrian Gonzalez De la Peña | Naualli Short Film | $15,000 |
| Alana Bartol | Is This For You? | $8,088.20 |
| Alex Rettie | Complete Poetry Manuscript | $10,468 |
| Alexa McGinn | Celexia | $15,000 |
| Alicia Buates McKenzie | Mestisa Shields, Mestisa Graves | $15,000 |
| Andrew Cooper | Among Us Short Film | $15,000 |
| Angela Boehm | Minus 30 Art Photobook Publication | $15,000 |
| Angela Waldie | Flyway | $12,972 |
| Anna Kinderwater | Wait for Me | $15,000 |
| Anna Shannon | The Untold Story of Mrs. Buell | $14,700 |
| Ari Agha | Reimagining Key of T: Engaging Audiences for Social Justice | $14,338.95 |
| Asim Overstands and Kiran Sthankiya | City Portraits | $20,000 |
| Asiya Iskander | Ballroom Dance After-School Program for Immigrant Kids | $15,000 |
| asmaa al-issa | Paintings for Hedayet | $14,806 |
| Belle Auld | Sandra Botting and the History of Midwifery in Alberta | $14,095 |
| Brandi Sidoryk | Songwriting and Building of a Demo Portfolio | $15,000 |
| Brandon Prince | Sunrise and Sunsets | $8,162.05 |
| Brayden Bell | Brayden Bell – Box Office Bomb | $15,000 |
| Brock Geiger | Steps Taken, Alexander – Collaborative Video Production | $14,300 |
| BrownCow Collective (Ryan Maschke) | BrownCow Collective’s Production of “Ride The Cyclone” | $20,000 |
| Bruce Miller | Conviction – Development | $15,000 |
| Bukky Wonda | 8 Week Filmmaking Workshop | $15,000 |
| Caitlind Brown & Wayne Garrett | Idle Worship: mobile art exhibition | $20,000 |
| Calgary Concert Opera (Barbara King) | Calgary Concert Opera presents Nabucco in concert by Verdi | $20,000 |
| Cameron Macgowan | SEED Completion | $15,000 |
| Carlan Hughes | Fifty Fifty Print Distro | $12,200 |
| Carly Reirson | Diary of a Beating Heart Album Recording | $15,000 |
| Carol Beecher | Songs of the Quickdraw Animation Society | $15,000 |
| Cassandra Suche | Concrete Mould Sculpture Explorations | $10,531.84 |
| Catherine Hayward | Coalescent-Contemporary Dance Production | $13,600 |
| Cecilia Alcaraz | Literary Work – contemporary novel with historical elements | $14,978.72 |
| Chad Blain | Road To The Mecca – Documentary Film – Production Phase | $14,430 |
| Cholo Cabarroguis | Tavern Trail | $14,983.94 |
| Christal Cam | Dragons and Bots Young reader Graphic Novel | $15,000 |
| Christina Krentz | Hiding & Revealing Through Abstraction | $15,000 |
| Christine Brubaker | Digital Dramaturgy and Direction for Rella’s Cambrian Dream | $15,000 |
| Cîpayak ᒌᐸᕀ (Sarah Houle-Lowry) | Cîpayak ᒌᐸᕀ Marketing and Visuals | $20,000 |
| Conscious Calligratherapy (Michelle Housley) | Calligratherapy: Mindfulness practice for you and your family. | $17,879 |
| Crystal Eyes (Erin Jenkins) | Crystal Eyes 2023 Recording Project | $10,000 |
| Daniela Szeoke | Large-Scale Mural in Downtown YYC | $15,000 |
| Deanna Witwer | Deanna Witwer choreographic commission | $12,600 |
| Dempsey Bolton | Creation of 7-Track Album | $11,500 |
| Dick Averns | Illuminating Language | $14,952.70 |
| Douglas Winnipeg | The Pendleton Man | $15,000 |
| EDJE Dance Theatre (Jocelyn Leiver) | Tempel Anneke | $5,464.00 |
| Elle McAndrews | Project Ember LP | $15,000 |
| Eric Hamelin | Writing and demo recording for upcoming Eric Hamelin collaborative project | $7,014.02 |
| Fatemeh Tara Vahab | Women! Life! Freedom! | $15,000 |
| Firuze Avci | A Reflection on Migration and Belonging | $9,032.54 |
| Geraldine Fuenmayor | Tuberose, ginger, and other essences – World Premiere | $15,000 |
| Ghoul Nexus (Taylor Nodrick) | Shattered Dreams | $20,000 |
| Gillian McKercher | Lucky Star – spring shoot and score creation | $15,000 |
| Ginger Beef (Jiajia Li) | Ginger Beef Music Video “Takeout” Production | $20,000 |
| Harpreet Dayal | Love Notes | $15,000 |
| Ingrid Vargas | Zero Hour | $15,000 |
| Isis Grace Graham | Versions Family-Friendly Patio Parties Season 10 | $10,879 |
| J Stevens | Threadbare | $7,922 |
| J.E. (Jayne) Barnard | Rooftop Scientists | $6,000 |
| Jacqueline Huskisson | Miasma- Glogauair Residency Berlin | $11,290.18 |
| Jamie Konchak | LiLuune | $15,000 |
| Jamie Tognazzini | 2 week Songwriting phase of New Interdisciplinary Musical creation | $10,621 |
| Janey Luc-German | Play With Arts | $15,000 |
| Jared Tailfeathers | Collective Unconscious | $15,000 |
| Jason Filiatrault | “Now, I Am A Bear” | $15,000 |
| Javier Vilalta | Developing The Strategy of War with Downstage | $15,000 |
| Jen Zhao | Finding Nathan (With Jen Zhao) | $15,000 |
| Jennifer Stables | Sparrow Artspace Puppetry Art Residency | $15,000 |
| Jeremy Gignoux | Violin Trio Creation with Clown | $14,800 |
| Jerome de Gourville | Losing In Vain – Rome IX Debut Album | $14,550 |
| Jessica McMann | Album Release Tour – Prairie Dusk | $15,000 |
| Jill Roberts | The Werewolf of Bowness | $5,346.08 |
| John Wayne’s Teeth (Kaytlyn Turner) | The Wild Sheriff | $19,755 |
| Jose Macasinag | Flutter | $7,107.99 |
| Jude Griebel | Revenants: New Sculptural Works | $15,000 |
| Kamran Ahamed | Kam Prada Album | $15,000 |
| Kara Bullock | Motherhood Project Residency | $14,916.66 |
| Karl Hirzer | Crystal Clear | $15,000 |
| Karolina Goldyn | Goldyn & Bespoke | $15,000 |
| Kat Simmers | Pass Me By: Lily | $14,614.52 |
| Katharina Schier | Choreographic Research | $5,500 |
| Katie Green | Family Constellation | $15,000 |
| Kayla Williams | Recording new music – Nostalgic Magic four-song EP | $15,000 |
| Kaytlyn Turner | Puddy Tat | $14,408.97 |
| Kenna Burima | Creativity and The Song | $15,000 |
| Kirti Bhadresa | Identity, Labour and Love: A Journey Through A Lifetime of Work | $10,738.95 |
| KODAE (Eric Osborne) | KODAE Debut Album Marketing Support | $20,000 |
| Kodie Rollan | One Month Writing Workshop for Act II of Little Elves the Musical (Collective application – Kodie Rollan & Alix Cowman) | $14,986.40 |
| Kyle Whitehead | Monograph Cinema – Public Screenings and Workshop 2023/2024 | $8,500 |
| Lara Schmitz | Weak Constitution | $9,450 |
| Laura O’Grady | The Thunder of Clouds | $15,000 |
| Levi Holwell | I Was Supposed To Be Happy By Now – Short Film | $15,000 |
| Lili Tayefi | Unveiled Traditions: Navigating Identity by Merging 2D/3D Artistic Practice for Feminist Exhibition | $15,000 |
| Linda Kee | Magpahayag (to usher in): a Filipinx Forum Theatre Exploration | $15,000 |
| Liquid on Stage (Fangzheng Wang) | Liquid on Stage presents: They Must Have Smoked, in Calgary Fringe | $20,000 |
| Lo-fi Spectacle Club (Marina Buston) | medicine cabinet | $19,853 |
| Lorrie Matheson | Lorrie Matheson // solo album project | $15,000 |
| Louie Fermor | The Devil Finally Gets His Rest: First Draft | $14,979.35 |
| Luis Tovar | Venezuelan-Jazz Fusion EP | $13,350 |
| Luminous (James Ziegler) | Traces of Consciousnes Immersive Events | $20,000 |
| Major Matt Mason Collective (Evan Medd) | Love & Rage – First Phase of Development | $11,700 |
| Matteo Barbi | Versvs – The Bridge | $15,000 |
| Meadowsweet (Alice Hedley) | A musical exploration of darkness and light | $16,905.80 |
| Melanie Henderson Batycky | Not Forgotten | $8,000 |
| Mercedes Webb / ma̱lidi and Kaylee Maciejko | Masus weλəɫəʔos? I hear Omhkoohkaa | $20,000 |
| Mewael Hadera | MIZAN – Debut Music Album by Moël | $15,000 |
| Mexican Women Artist Collective (Almendra Vergara) | “Be Yourself, Feel Free, Empowering Women and Children. Multidisciplinary Art project | $9,522.80 |
| Mia + Eric (Mia Rushton) | Art School | $20,000 |
| Michele Moss | Why Dance? vol. 5 – A culminating community event | $15,000 |
| Michelle Ku | Mind Body – Moving Paintings | $14,996 |
| Miesha & The Spanks (Miesha Louie) | Video Assets – “Unconditional Love In Hifi” | $20,000 |
| Molly Caldwell | On The Mend: Textiles and Healing (II) | $15,000 |
| Morgan Ermter | Crow | $15,000 |
| Mudfoot Theatre Collective (Geneviève Paré) | Bow River Boat Pageant | $6,525 |
| Muntalus Music Band (Sajith Ellepola) | CGS 2023 & 2024 | $18,565 |
| NASARIMBA (Mikhail Miller) | NASARIMBA Inglewood Mural | $19,896.82 |
| Natasha Jensen | Plant Hunter | $14,014.64 |
| Nathan Krentz | Exploring the Intersection of Traditional and Contemporary Music and Sound | $12,275 |
| Neil MacGonigill | Ian Tyson – “Payphone In Paradise” – recording project | $5,960 |
| New Blood Collective (Austin Ladouceur) | New Blood Documentary | $19,545 |
| Nia Devetzis | Percussion and Drum Institute at the Mount Royal Conservatory | $4,600 |
| Nura Ali | Exhibition Catalogue for an group exhibition of Black Prairie Artists at the Bows and Stride Gallery in September 2023 | $14,965 |
| Olamide (Mide) Kadiri | Breakthrough | $15,000 |
| Pansy Club (Cal Gibbens) | Pansy Club Collective | $20,000 |
| Paola Contreras Arreaga | Duck | $15,000 |
| Patrick Njapa | Calgary Intercultural Youth Choir | $15,000 |
| Paulo da Costa | Hummingbird Memory | $11,850 |
| Priscilla Cherry | The Oratory | $15,000 |
| Project InTandem (Sylvie Moquin) | Creation & Production of new dance work Exile by Meghann Michalsky | $20,000 |
| Randy Bradshaw | The Manifest Life of Lady Bella Lougheed | $13,011 |
| restnotatrest (Rebecca Bruton) | 100 Tiny Gestures: PHASE ONE – Development Residency | $14,936.50 |
| Sean MacAlister | project spaces publication | $15,000 |
| Sebastian Hutchings | Songs of Manyselves | $12,000 |
| Seniors Acting Lab (Louise Day) | Senior Matters III | $19,501.10 |
| Serenella Sol Argueta | Where am I from? – A Performance Creation | $15,000 |
| Sharon Stevens | Artifact? (or fiction) | $2,400 |
| Shelby Charlesworth | Create & Develop: Impacts of the Opioid Epidemic in Canada | $15,000 |
| Shivering Strings (Teresa Baird) | Shivering Strings Calgary Fiddle Workshop 2024 | $4,800 |
| Sofiya Iurkevych | Lullaby of Reeds | $15,000 |
| Spencer Burgess | The Water | $15,000 |
| Stephanie Alexandre | Kindling | $1,642.17 |
| Sub Chakra (Blaine Kingcott) | Sub Chakra Sound System | $20,000 |
| SunCross Productions (Hrachya Tokmajyan) | Mayr | $20,000 |
| Sunflower Collective Theatre (Eden Middleton) | Date Night | $14,715.70 |
| Susan Forest | First draft of a historical novel, The Shadow Spy’s Daughter | $5,000 |
| Tadpole (Isaac Szeto) | Tadpole | $20,000 |
| Tara Wilson | Exploring the interaction of dance and video projection | $15,000 |
| Tekoa Predika | The Faces of Calgary Through a Historical Lens: A Tintype exploration. | $15,000 |
| The Femme Arts (Ximena Rios) | Back Road | $13,856 |
| Trevor Solway | Tales From The Rez Season 2 | $15,000 |
| Vahe Tokmajyan | The Balance of Power | $6,850.83 |
| Val Duncan | OMG SOMEONE DIES! 2024 | $15,000 |
| Valerie Chin | Bridgeland Community Art Installation – Mandala Reflections | $14,606.46 |
| Vicki Chau | An Operatic Heart | $15,000 |
| Vikramjeet Johal | Time + Spaces | $15,000 |
| ViNa Nguyễn | A Void Filled In (novel) | $13,304.44 |
| Vivek Shraya | “Hate Club” music video | $15,000 |
| Winston Soyer | Rhydrum Drum Instructor Development | $15,000 |
| Wyatt Louis | Wyatt C. Louis Chandler Marketing 2023-24 | $15,000 |
| Yvonne Mullock | Solo interactive exhibition at FAB Gallery, University of Alberta in January 2024 | $15,000 |
| Zachary Green | Cancer Szn | $15,000 |
| Zaire Nahum Sealy | When You Meet Yourself Album | $14,475 |
Accountability Reports and Year-End Financials
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