May 1, 2023 Grant Investment Programs: 2022 Results Calgary Arts Development is pleased to release the results of its 2022 grant investment programs. A full breakdown of each of the programs can be found below: Arts Organizations Operating Grant Program The Operating Grant Program provides stable, predictable funding to arts organizations in Calgary. Operating Grants are committed on a multi-year cycle, and may directed to any area of an organization’s overall budget. The year 2022 was the final year of the 2020 – 2022 granting cycle. In addition to their annual base grant, organizations had the opportunity to apply for an optional, one-time increase of up to $25,000. Increased funds were allocated through a peer assessment process. For information about how the program was assessed, please see the Terms of Reference for the 2020 Operating Grant Program. Organization Grant One-Time Grant Total Annual Operating Grant Amount for 2020 – 2022 Acoustic Music Society of Calgary $7,500 $5,000 $7,500 Adult Recreational Choir Society of Calgary $18,200 $18,200 Alberta Ballet $407,000 $407,000 Alberta Craft Council $49,900 $20,000 $49,900 Alberta Media Arts Alliance Society $11,200 $15,000 $11,200 Alberta Playwrights’ Network $16,300 $16,300 Alberta Printmakers $17,500 $17,500 Alberta Theatre Projects $364,500 $25,000 $364,500 Alexandra Writers’ Centre Society $19,200 $19,200 Alliance Française $39,300 $39,300 Amici String Program Association $12,900 $12,900 Antyx Community Arts Society $40,700 $25,000 $40,700 Artpoint Gallery & Studios Society $4,500 $4,500 Beltline Neighbourhoods Association $16,400 $20,000 $16,400 Book Publishers Association of Alberta $29,300 $25,000 $29,300 Brazilian Community Association of Alberta $5,000 $5,000 Calgary Allied Arts Foundation $3,200 $3,200 Calgary Animated Objects Society $49,800 $49,800 Calgary Bach Festival $3,500 $3,500 Calgary Blues Music Association $43,200 $20,000 $43,200 Calgary Boys’ Choir Society $8,400 $10,000 $8,400 Calgary Centre for Global Community | Humainologie $24,000 $20,000 $24,000 Calgary Children’s Choir $3,600 $3,600 Calgary Chinese Orchestra Association $3,500 $3,500 Calgary Cinematheque $14,000 $20,000 $14,000 Calgary Concert Band Society $5,300 $5,300 Calgary Fiddlers Association $24,700 $24,700 Calgary Foothills Barbershop Chorus $9,400 $9,400 Calgary Girls Choir Society $32,500 $32,500 Calgary International Film Festival Society $95,900 $95,900 Calgary International Fringe Festival $35,000 $8,000 $35,000 Calgary Jazz Orchestra $15,000 $15,000 Calgary Men’s Chorus Society $6,000 $6,000 Calgary Multicultural Choir Society $3,500 $3,500 Calgary Opera Association $326,300 $15,000 $326,300 Calgary Performing Arts Festival Society $10,000 $10,000 Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra $435,900 $435,900 Calgary Pro Musica Society $23,700 $23,700 Calgary Protospace Ltd. $12,500 $12,500 Calgary Reggae Festival $18,810 $18,810 Calgary Renaissance Singers & Players $4,200 $10,000 $4,200 Calgary Round-Up Band $4,500 $4,500 Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers $37,500 $37,500 Calgary Underground Film Festival $38,000 $15,000 $38,000 Calgary Young People’s Theatre Society $20,300 $20,300 Calgary Youth Orchestra $12,000 $12,000 Canadian Academy of Mask and Puppetry Society (CAMP) $7,500 $25,000 $7,500 Canadian Music Centre, Prairie Region $20,600 $20,600 Cantare Children’s Choir Society $27,400 $20,000 $27,400 Caribbean Community Council of Calgary $11,400 $15,000 $11,400 Casa Mexico in Alberta Foundation $10,000 $15,000 $10,000 Chromatic Theatre $15,000 $25,000 $15,000 CJSW 90.9 FM $53,300 $20,000 $53,300 Classical Guitar Society of Calgary $7,000 $5,000 $7,000 Contemporary Calgary Arts $132,500 $20,000 $132,500 Corps Bara Dance Guild of Calgary $2,950 $2,950 Dancers’ Studio West $31,100 $12,200 $31,100 Decidedly Jazz Danceworks $194,300 $194,300 Design Talks Institute $17,000 $20,000 $17,000 Early Music Voices Concert Society $10,100 $10,100 East Side Dance Festival $10,000 $15,000 $10,000 Elephant Artist Relief $5,000 $25,000 $5,000 EMMEDIA Gallery & Production Society $40,700 $40,700 EnChor Choral Society $2,000 $2,000 Evergreen Theatre & Community Spaces $40,300 $20,000 $40,300 Exposure: Calgary Banff Photography Festival $26,900 $26,900 Femme Wave $30,000 $30,000 Fire Exit Theatre Society $4,000 $10,000 $4,000 Fish Creek Concert and Cultural Society $3,325 $10,000 $3,325 Folk Festival Society of Calgary $146,700 $20,000 $146,700 Foothills Bluegrass Music Society $2,750 $2,750 Foothills Brass Society $10,200 $10,200 Footprints Dance Project Society of Alberta $13,200 $20,000 $13,200 Forte Musical Theatre Guild $11,700 $15,000 $11,700 FreeFall Magazine $8,000 $5,000 $8,000 Ghost River Theatre Society $27,700 $20,000 $27,700 Glenbow Alberta Institute $349,000 $25,000 $349,000 Gli Azzurri – Calgary Italian Folk Dancers $9,300 $25,000 $9,300 GlobalFest Society $33,300 $33,300 Green Fools Theatre $27,100 $27,100 Handsome Alice Theatre $12,400 $20,000 $12,400 Harmony Guzheng Ensemble $5,900 $5,900 Hispanic Arts Society $33,400 $20,000 $33,400 Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta University of the Arts $12,200 $12,200 Instrumental Society of Calgary $5,200 $5,200 International Festival of Animated Objects $17,200 $15,000 $17,200 International Festival of Song and Chamber Music $10,400 $10,400 Jazz is Society of Alberta $27,200 $27,200 Jeunesse Classique Ballet $17,000 $17,000 Kantorei Choral Society $8,000 $8,000 Kensington Sinfonia Society $7,300 $14,000 $7,300 Land’s End Chamber Music Society $11,000 $11,000 Loft 112 $20,000 $20,000 Loose Moose Theatre $23,800 $23,800 Lougheed House Conservation Society $52,100 $20,000 $52,100 Luminous Voice Music Society $20,000 $20,000 Lunchbox Theatre $65,000 $65,000 Making Treaty 7 Cultural Society $30,000 $20,000 $30,000 Marda Loop Justice Film Festival $4,000 $4,000 Morpheus Theatre Society $17,700 $17,700 Mount Royal Choral $6,500 $6,500 Mountain Standard Time Performative Arts Festival $20,200 $20,000 $20,200 Music Calgary Inc. $6,750 $6,750 National accessArts Centre $77,400 $25,000 $77,400 National Music Centre $256,000 $256,000 New Works Calgary $10,300 $5,000 $10,300 Old Trout Puppet Workshop $49,900 $21,000 $49,900 One Big Jam $15,000 $15,000 One Voice Chorus Society $10,000 $10,000 One Yellow Rabbit $89,100 $25,000 $89,100 Orchestra Society of Calgary (Calgary Civic) $11,000 $11,000 ProArts Society $10,200 $15,000 $10,200 Pumphouse Theatres $43,200 $25,000 $43,200 Queer Arts Society $31,200 $25,000 $31,200 Quest Theatre Society $51,700 $20,000 $51,700 Quickdraw Animation Society $53,200 $53,200 Revv52 $31,500 $31,500 Rocky Mountain Concert Band Society $6,500 $6,500 Sarb Akal Music Society of Calgary $30,000 $25,000 $30,000 Savridi Singers Association $2,000 $2,000 Second Story Art Society (TRUCK) $50,000 $50,000 Silver Stars Musical Revue Society $5,400 $5,400 Single Onion $3,800 $3,800 Sled Island Music Festival $92,700 $20,000 $92,700 Soulocentric Performing Arts Society $7,000 $20,000 $7,000 Southern Alberta Woodworkers Society $1,250 $1,250 Spiritus Chamber Choir $9,700 $9,700 Springboard Performance $32,800 $20,000 $32,800 Stage Left Productions Theatre $17,300 $25,000 $17,300 StoryBook Theatre Society $50,300 $50,300 Stride Art Gallery $43,400 $25,000 $43,400 Studio C, Prospect Human Services $20,900 $20,900 Suzirya Ukrainian Dance Theatre $12,600 $12,600 Swallow-a-Bicycle Theatre $14,000 $20,000 $14,000 The Association of the Inside Out Integrated Theatre Project $22,200 $25,000 $22,200 The Bows $24,200 $20,000 $24,200 The Downstage Performance Society $17,500 $25,000 $17,500 The Esther Honens International Piano Competition $84,600 $84,600 The Festival Chorus $10,800 $10,800 The GRAND $77,000 $77,000 The League of Extraordinary Albertans $11,800 $11,800 The Leighton Foundation and Art Centre $39,000 $39,000 The New Gallery $43,400 $25,000 $43,400 The Shakespeare Company $22,500 $20,000 $22,500 The Society of Alberta Dance Theatre for Young $10,500 $10,500 Theatre Alberta Society $63,000 $25,000 $63,000 Theatre Calgary $410,600 $410,600 Theatre Encounter Performance Society $2,000 $2,000 Three Left Feet Movement Creations $10,200 $9,430 $10,200 Trickster Theatre Society $56,300 $56,300 Tryzub Ukrainian Dance $27,000 $25,000 $27,000 Verb Theatre Society $9,100 $9,100 Vertigo Theatre $124,600 $25,000 $124,600 W&M Dance Projects $9,700 $20,000 $9,700 West Village Theatre $10,400 $25,000 $10,400 Westwinds Music Society $18,900 $18,900 When Words Collide $3,000 $3,000 Wild Mint Arts $15,000 $15,000 Woezo Africa Music Dance Theatre Inc. $15,000 $25,000 $15,000 WordFest Society $91,400 $20,000 $91,400 WP Puppet Theatre $18,700 $18,700 Writers Guild of Alberta $38,800 $38,800 Youth Singers of Calgary $68,800 $68,800 Project Grant Program – Organizations The Project Grant for Organizations Program supported projects that reflect and contribute to the vibrancy and vitality of Calgary’s arts sector and create opportunities for Calgarians to access artistic experiences. Grant funds supported opportunities to attract, restore and retain jobs for artists and arts professionals; support organizational development, including projects related to the reopening, recovery and resiliency of the arts sector; and arts-centred projects that encourage everyday creativity, including cross-sector collaboration, creative economy and neighbourhood-level community initiatives. We received 80 applications requesting over $1.5million and were able to support 38 projects with a total of $725,700. For information about how this program was assessed, please see the Terms of Reference for the 2022 Project Grant for Organizations. Organization Name Project Name Amount CJSW 90.9 FM 2023 National Campus and Community Radio Conference $25,000.00 AUArts Students Association Show + Sale 2022: Winter Market $8,000.00 Bowness Community Association BCA Artists in Residence Talent Share (ARTS) Program $15,000.00 Calgary Animated Objects Looking Forward, Looking Back $10,000.00 Calgary Black Film Festival Calgary Black Film Festival – Stabilizing for a Sustainable Future $25,000.00 Calgary International Film Festival Society CIFF Interactive Digital Media (IDM) Programming 2023 $25,000.00 Calgary Jewish Community Campus Corporation Art for Life $15,000.00 Calgary Queer Arts Society By My Gay Audacity $25,000.00 Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers Member Film Archival project $20,000.00 Calgary Young People’s Theatre Technical Mentorship Project $24,800.00 Casa Mexico in Alberta Foundation Mexico Cultural Days/Latin America Arts and Culture Festival $10,000.00 Chromatic Theatre 2022/2023 Chromatic Theatre Playwrights Unit $20,800.00 Cirque Nuit Arts Foundation EPOQUE $25,000.00 Crescent Heights Community Association Crescent Heights Mini Galleries $22,500.00 Decidedly Jazz Danceworks Arts in Education for High-Needs/ Low Income Schools $12,000 Downstage Performance Society Stage It Festival $25,000 Echoes of Ukraine Association Calgary Ukrainian Carol Festival $7,900 Elephant Artist Relief Society Health Insurance Subsidy Research Pilot Project $23,600 Ethnik Festivals Association Ethnik Festivals Cultural Trilogy $20,000 ExpresARTe Theatre Club “Ambas Tres” $20,000 FascinAsian Film Festival FascinAsian Film Festival $25,000 FLC Acting Club Exploring and Advancing Creativity $16,100 Immigrant Council for Arts Innovation Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program 2022 $25,000 Korean Art Club Korean Art Festival 2023 $25,000 Land’s End Chamber Music Society Calgary Composers’ Commissions – 25th Anniversary Celebration $17,500 Lougheed House Conservation Society Land – Video Artist Project $20,000 Lunchbox Theatre Stage Two Festival of New Canadian Work $20,000 Midnight Taiko Association Loco Ladies Workshop $7,400 National accessArts Centre New Works & New Ways 2023 $25,000 National Music Centre New Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame and Canadian Music Hall of Fame exhibitions at Studio Bell $20,000 Prospect Human Services Society Community Connections Art Program – Road to Recovery $20,000 Quest Theatre Society Accessibility Support for the Presentation of Most Imaginary Worlds $20,000 The Festival Chorus Let the People Sing – A Community Workshop and Performance $8,000 The Kinkonauts Improv Theatre Society Kinkonauts Theatre Experience Improvement Project $7,600 W.P. Puppet Theatre Society Bakster and Bird Launch $24,500 Woezo Africa Music & Dance Theatre Inc. UNGANISHA: Explore. Connect. Dance. $25,000 Writers Guild of Alberta Writers’ Guild of Alberta 2023 Spring Conference: Back to Basics $20,000 Young Alberta Book Society Seeds of Stories $20,000 Organization Recovery Fund The Organization Recovery Fund program was intended to provide one-time unrestricted funding to non-profit arts organizations that did not receive annual operating funding from Calgary Arts Development. Funds could be directed towards almost any area of an organization’s budget, and grants were awarded to organizations who demonstrate forward-looking aspirations responding to and building upon the impacts of the pandemic to ensure a vibrant, revitalized and re-imagined arts sector for Calgarians post-pandemic. We received 29 applications requesting $648,558, and were able to support 22 organizations with $501,638. For information about how this program was assessed, please see the Terms of Reference for the 2022 Organization Recovery Fund. Organization Grant Alberta Magazine Publishers Association $16,000 Ballet Bodies YYC $24,960 Bridges Social Development $10,000 Calgary Chinese Cultural Centre Association $25,000 Calgary Game Developers Association $25,000 Canadian Artists Against Poverty $25,000 CARFAC Alberta (Visual Arts Alberta Association) $25,000 Cirque Nuit Arts Foundation $25,000 Dance YYC Community Outreach and Engagement Initiative $23,178 DIY Theatre $14,000 Edmonton Movie Club $25,000 El Sistema Calgary Multicultural Orchestra Foundation $25,000 Ethnik Festivals Association $25,000 FascinAsian Film Festival $23,500 Immigrant Council for Arts Innovation $25,000 Jupiter Theatre Society $25,000 Kiyooka Ohe Arts Centre $20,000 Rocky Mountain Symphony Orchestra $25,000 The Alcove Centre for the Arts $25,000 The SHOW $20,000 Tribe Artist Society $25,000 Western Muslim Initiative $25,000 Individual Artists & Collectives Project Grant Program – Individuals and Collectives The Project Grant for Individuals and Collectives Program was intended to provide one-time project funding to individual artists and artist collectives in Calgary working in any artistic discipline who pursue a professional practice. Projects include the creation, development, production, presentation or dissemination of artistic work. Applicants could also apply for professional or career development projects. Calgary Arts Development 2022 grant investment programs for individual artists and artist collectives were supplemented through the Cultural Vitality Fund of the Calgary Arts Foundation, with donations from individual donors, the Auxilium Foundation, and an Anonymous Donor to the Edmonton Community Foundation. We thank these donors for their generous support. We received 311 applications requesting $4,342,426, and were able to support 117 projects with $1,607,338. For information about how this program was assessed, please see the Terms of Reference for the 2022 Project Grant for Individuals and Collectives. Grantee Project Grant Abdulazeez Ojetola Potent Winter Campaign $15,000 Ado Nkemka Experimenting with my music to explore and discover new sounds, and recording an EP $15,000 Alanna Blackrider-Onespot Plants & Medicines Poetry Book $11,980 Alycia Two Bears Two Spirit; Stories, Sex and the Ceremony Behind it All $11,282.95 Alyssa Koski Pauline Film Animation Experimentation $14,967 Andrew Cooper Advent and Asunder $15,000 Ann Cooney “Dead in the Water” Novel First Draft $14,900 Annika Cheyne Stand Still: Side B (EP) $15,000 Apiew Akwai-cham First Solo Exhibition $11,725 Ash Adams Lace + Leg Hair $15,000 Athena Cooper The Extraordinary, Ordinary Nature of Interabled Love $15,000 Bari Lavy Goldstein and Chan: Distastravaganza $5,000 Bollywood Signature (Collective) Bollywood Musical Mystery $20,000 Bonspiel Games (Collective) Development of a brain-controlled video game $20,000 Calgary – Montreal (Collective) Calgary-Montréal: A musical conversation $5,800 Calgary Concert Opera (Collective) Calgary Concert Opera presents Adriana Lecouvreur by Cilea $13,568 Cecilia Barboza “Mundanities” $14,997.61 Chawna Exner Senses Cabaret $15,000 Chris Hsiung Sh*t We Use to Believe $15,000 Christina Krentz Resist & Residue – An Expanded Painting and Printmaking Practice $14,284.97 Christopher Duthie Fall 2022 IdenikitLIVE Creation and Development Period $15,000 Christopher Hunt Old School $14,897.54 Cîpayak ᒌᐸᕀ (Collective) Cîpayak ᒌᐸᕀ Full length recording and video $20,000 Col Cseke Viability Review research and development $8,750 Colin Wintz Western Bootmaking Workshop $12,335.75 Daniel Pelton and Jocelyn Mah (Collective) The Secancy Project $5,700 De-Ann Weekes Life $15,000 Debbie-Lee Miszaniec Earthly Delights – 10 Still Life Paintings in Places $14,620.93 Delirium Street Party Brass (Collective) Develop and Showcase drumline, video and choreography for Delirium Street Party Brass $17,000 Dempsey Bolton “Paranoia” EP – New 7 – track Album Creation $10,950 Ellie Stewart Pool Party $15,000 Eunice Hau “The Re-Membering” Film – Musical Composition $1,650 Eveline Kolijn Energy Futures Portfolio: two new and extended opportunities to learn and share. $5,000 Fem Assembly (Collective) Exhibition on Intersectional Feminism $19,941.30 Frederick Fernandez Natural Twenty – EP, Mahika $14,190 Geraldine Fuenmayor Phase of development of the Theatre script “Tuberose, ginger, and other essences” $12,252.17 Ginger Carlson Writing Across Disability $14,196 Gisèle Villeneuve L’imaginaire de Gisèle Villeneuve Imagined $5,969 Harvey Nichol Santos Neo Manila Anthology Graphic Novel $15,000 Jairus Sharif Freedom and Free Music in Calgary $5,995 James Ziegler Traces $14,800 Jasmine Atay Ferguson Halo Halo $11,020.16 Jennifer Illanes Pilgrimage of Stories and Stones $14,459 JJ Shiplett A Different Kind of Light (EP) $15,000 Jonelle Belcourt UCLA Film and Television Directing Summer Session Program $14,764.92 Jordan Ostrom Pinto Album $15,000 Jose Macasinag Creative Research and Video collection for “Passages” $4,650 Juanita Dawn Workshopping of ‘One for Sorrow, Two for Joy’ Puppet Play $13,957 Julya Hajnoczky It must look beautiful from up there $11,080 Justin Skrundz People of Alberta $15,000 Justine Tyrell Leach Justine Tyrell Visual EP $15,000 Karen Hines The Upper Atmosphere in Motion $15,000 Kat Simmers Pass Me By: TCAF $3,206.23 Katherine Mandolidis Embodied Dialogues – Phase 1: Discovery $15,000 Katie Green Pain Speak $14,825.33 Kawalease ACT (Collective) Interrogation, by Bassem Hafez $20,000 Keegan Havelock-Rice Play With Your Food $15,000 Keshia Cheesman The F Word World Premiere $15,000 Kevin Chow Chinese Zodiac Sculpture & Digital Media $15,000 Kunji Ikeda Crime and Punishment at the 2023 High Performance Rodeo $15,000 Kyra Newton HealingMOVES $15,000 Lael Chmelyk Quilting Exhibition Development $11,121.06 Laura Anzola Fronteras – Voices $15,000 Laura Payne Animated Light Boxes $9,096 Lili Tayefi Digital Handmade Sculptures $15,000 Many Mothers Collective (Collective) We Are Seven $20,000 Mark DeJong Mark DeJong and David Braid Orchestral Composition Project $15,000 Matt Prazak EA $15,000 Matthew Waddell C.A.R.E. – Computer Aided Resource Extraction $13,960 May Nyitrai Community Workshop Series $11,334 McKiver McMann Duo (Collective) Jerod Tate Piano/Flute Commission 2023 $19,949 Michaela Jeffery Development workshop for the new play, The Cold Daughter $2,106.50 Michelle Ku Mind Body $15,000 Mike Hooves Trans Is a Flower $8,123.86 Mike Tod Mike Tod LP $15,000 Molly Caldwell 2022 Residencies $8,413 Moni Brar First draft of a poetry collection exploring intergenerational journeys of Punjabi diaspora in Canada $15,000 (M)othering (Collective) (M)othering Anthology $14,025 Mudfoot Theatre Collective (Collective) Yabber: A Musical Junk Tale $20,000 Multivision Artist of Calgary (Collective) Rooted Presence / 扎根 $20,000 NASARIMBA (Collective) NASARIMBA 2023 Mexico Field Study $19,960.47 Nice Horse (Collective) Nice Horse – New Releases $20,000 Nick Haywood DELTA V $15,000 Nicole Charlton Goodbrand The Skin of an Octopus $2,520 Paige Feurer Picture Book Manuscript – Research, Creation, and Revision $2,750 Pansy Club (Collective) Pansy Club Collective $13,340.99 Paul Brain Brain Pieces Series $15,000 Paulo da Costa Between Night and Darkness $9,875 Priscilla Cherry DEVOLVE $13,930 Queendemme (Collective) Queendemme: Audible Video Artwork $20,000 Rami Abdelnour Rami Abdelnour artistic career development $15,000 Ramin Eshraghi-Yazdi You are Me $15,000 RAZA (Collective) Retina $4,531 Renae Reinfort Birds Idioms Series $15,000 Robert Hunter Miyo-âcimowin – Good Story $14,995 Rosanna Terracciano Production of the full version of my trilogy, PLACE/is a city written on this body? $12,000 Ryan Bourne Plant City Final Marketing/Manufacturing Phase $15,000 Ryus Twoyoungmen Iyethka Waisteyabi $15,000 Sam Hester Graphic Medicine animated explainer video: a collaboration between Sam Hester & Eric Dyck $13,200 Sanah Kadoura Sanah Kadoura – “Duality” Album $15,000 Seniors Acting Lab (Collective) More Senior Matters $19,442 Serenella Argueta “Where Am I From?” – A short film $15,000 Simon Rose An Untimely Death $14,945 Siobhan Mullaney The Eternal Express – Fantasy Animated Short $14,999.92 Sushree Mishra Establish Odissi Classical Dance as part of the Canadian Cultural Fabric $15,000 Sylvan Breaker Recording and Development of Shareable Material $15,000 Ted Stenson Foul – Short Film $12,000 The General Store (Collective) The General Store: Microeconomics Study $20,000 The Hello Darlins (Collective) The Hello Darlins Second Album & Video Assets $20,000 Thomas Geddes Dayuhang Hayop Short Film – Miniature Set Construction & finalize pre-production phase $15,000 Vanessa Porteous Greet The Dawn, a short film by Vanessa Porteous $15,000 Veronica Kunbi Olalere Mummy’s Recipe $15,000 Vince Raquel No Smoke $15,000 Warren Sulatycky Walking Home $15,000 Who Cares? (Collective) Vol.3 Record & Release Project $20,000 Wyatt Louis Wyatt C. Louis – Anyway Gang Tour and Album Preparations $11,004.50 Yanina Bilyk Living in the Shadow $15,000 Artist Development Microgrant The Artist Development Microgrant was intended to support professional and artistic skill development or business and career development activities for individual artists and artist collectives. The goal of the program was to contribute to the skills and knowledge required to advance artists’ careers and develop artistic practices in Calgary. Calgary Arts Development 2022 grant investment programs for individual artists and artist collectives were supplemented through the Cultural Vitality Fund of the Calgary Arts Foundation, with donations from individual donors, the Auxilium Foundation, and an Anonymous Donor to the Edmonton Community Foundation. We thank these donors for their generous support. We received 425 applications requesting $1,801,020, and were able to support 129 applications totalling $509,680. For information about how this program was assessed, please see the Terms of Reference for the 2022 Artist Development Microgrant. Grantee Intake Period Grant Ado Nkemka Intake 1 $3,100 Amair Javaid Intake 1 $5,000 Andrew Cooper Intake 1 $2,150 Arlyss Southin Intake 1 $5,000 Brendan James Boyd Intake 1 $4,160 Bruce Miller Intake 1 $2,700 Elizabeth Carr Intake 1 $5,000 Heather Pattengale Intake 1 $2,700 James Wade Intake 1 $2,800 Javier Vilalta Intake 1 $4,100 Jennea Frischke Intake 1 $4,700 Julya Hajnoczky Intake 1 $5,000 Kenzie Housego Intake 1 $2,450 Lindsay Bowman Intake 1 $5,000 Louise Day Intake 1 $1,000 Lo-fi Spectacle Club (Collective) Intake 1 $4,990 Megan Feniak Intake 1 $750 Milena Vasquez Intake 1 $5,000 Miriam Fabijan Intake 1 $5,000 Molly Caldwell Intake 1 $5,000 Nicole Tse Intake 1 $5,000 Nurgul Rodriguez Intake 1 $5,000 Portia Scabar Intake 1 $5,000 Priscilla Cherry Intake 1 $3,150 Rami Abdelnour Intake 1 $5,000 Ryan Bourne Intake 1 $3,700 Sandra Sutter Intake 1 $5,000 Serenella Argueta Intake 1 $5,000 Timothy Alai Intake 1 $5,000 Wunmi Idowu Intake 1 $5,000 Sweater Weather (Collective) Intake 2 $1,955.93 Andrea Greening Intake 2 $3,921.02 Ashley Johnston Intake 2 $5,000 Christopher Hunt Intake 2 $2,730.78 Claudia Chagoya Intake 2 $951 Craig Galambos Intake 2 $623.10 Darija S.Radakovic Intake 2 $4,951 Heather Leier Intake 2 $2,411.10 Hesam Ohadi Intake 2 $5,000 Jamie Tognazzini Intake 2 $2,375 Jared Herring Intake 2 $4,997.29 Kamran Ahamed Intake 2 $5,000 Kathryn Smith Intake 2 $4,530 Kayam Khalfan Intake 2 $5,000 Laura Hickli Intake 2 $5,000 Laurie Anne Fuhr Intake 2 $624.11 Lexie Angelo Intake 2 $4,740 Melissa Setiawan Intake 2 $4,050 Mercedes Webb Intake 2 $5,000 Michelle Ku Intake 2 $5,000 Miesha Louie Intake 2 $5,000 Morgan Melenka Intake 2 $5,000 Nathan Pronyshyn Intake 2 $1,540 Paige Feurer Intake 2 $4,987 Understory Collective (Collective) Intake 2 $4,166.80 Taylor Cochrane Intake 2 $5,000 Taylor Nodrick Intake 2 $1,500 Thomas Geddes Intake 2 $2,503.08 Twinkle Banerjee Intake 2 $3,485.28 Adrian Gonzalez De la Peña Intake 3 $4,970 Amanda Fabrig Intake 3 $2,300 Andrew Howell Intake 3 $5,000 Anne-Marie Hivert Intake 3 $709.70 Becky Morrison Intake 3 $5,000 Brock Geiger Intake 3 $3,630 Cali Sproule Intake 3 $1,226.94 Charlie Lee Intake 3 $3,792 Chelsea Yang-Smith Intake 3 $3,053.81 Clea Anaïs Foo Fat Intake 3 $5,000 Dave Lewis Intake 3 $5,000 Emma Rushton Intake 3 $5,000 Eveline Kolijn Intake 3 $3,000 Imoleogoluwa Lapite Intake 3 $2,548.50 Jamie Konchak Intake 3 $4,038.60 Jill Roberts Intake 3 $4,065.75 Kaitlyn Bass Intake 3 $2,550 Kay Thomas Intake 3 $1,879.32 Kelly Kaur Intake 3 $5,000 Kelsey Merkeley Intake 3 $5,000 Kenna Burima Intake 3 $5,000 Levin Ifko Intake 3 $1,415 Michael Peterson Intake 3 $3,977.14 Miranda White Intake 3 $5,000 Shumaila Hemani Intake 3 $4,800 Simon Chan Intake 3 $5,000 Vahe Tokmajyan Intake 3 $3,748.47 Zoë Arthur Intake 3 $900 Alex Rettie Intake 4 $3,243.75 Amelie Patterson Intake 4 $5,000 Andrew Leitch Intake 4 $1,360 Arturo Rondon Intake 4 $4,851 Brayden Bell Intake 4 $5,000 Christahh Ahh Intake 4 $3,928 Desiree Nault Intake 4 $4,811.98 Diane Din Ebongue Intake 4 $4,941.71 Eli Jorquera Intake 4 $4,910 Eric Rose Intake 4 $5,000 Heather Hazlett Intake 4 $4,600 Juanita Dawn Intake 4 $3,515 Immigrant Lessons (Collective) Intake 4 $4,980 Kyle Flemmer Intake 4 $3,290 Laurelle Birk Intake 4 $5,000 Lisa La Touche Intake 4 $4,647.25 The Dust Collectors (Collective) Intake 4 $5,000 Mackenzie Bedford Intake 4 $4,726.10 Mandy Morris Intake 4 $5,000 Margarita Rebetskaia Intake 4 $2,440 Mia + Eric (Collective) Intake 4 $5,000 Mike Tod Intake 4 $5,000 NASARIMBA (Collective) Intake 4 $2,283.22 Monda Mahmoud Intake 4 $4,855.14 Natalie Gauthier Intake 4 $5,000 Nawar Sahli Intake 4 $5,000 Nicole (Nicky) Markin Intake 4 $4,831.54 Onalea Gilbertson Intake 4 $5,000 Paulo da Costa Intake 4 $1,688 Raeann Cheung Intake 4 $1,030 Raghe Farah Intake 4 $5,000 Rosanna Terracciano Intake 4 $4,550 Savanna Harvey Intake 4 $5,000 Betaboys (Collective) Intake 4 $2,000 Shalom Agu Intake 4 $5,000 Shawn Petsche Intake 4 $5,000 Shea Iles Intake 4 $5,000 Skye Louis Intake 4 $2,690 Tiffany Wollman Intake 4 $5,000 Victory Myers-Agamini Intake 4 $5,000 Winner Aigbogun Intake 4 $2,429 Zoong Nguyen Intake 4 $4,981 First Nations, Métis, Inuit Artists & Organizations Original Peoples Investment Program The Original Peoples Investment Program supports the preservation and revitalization of First Nations, Métis and Inuit (FNMI) art through art-based projects that are supported and validated by FNMI artists, community, Elders and Knowledge Keepers. We recognize and support both traditional and contemporary Indigenous artists and arts practices. We received 58 applications requesting $934,320.22 and were able to support 42 applications with $665,260.22. For information about how this program was assessed, please see the Terms of Reference for the 2022 Original Peoples Investment Program. Grantee Project Grant Alex Manitopyes Nîmihitowin – Dance $20,000 Amanda Foote Dagugun Woakide Akide Hnebigan Echin Bathtabi $20,000 Autumn Whiteway Woodland Reimagined $15,000 Awoowaahkii Awoowaahkii Tipi $25,000 Bruce Miller Skylar’s Comet $15,000 Chance Bellegarde 4 Directions Deer Hide Ribbon Skirt Wraps $14,958.74 Chantelle Anderson Weaves of Blood and Bone $15,000 Chelsea Allard The Eyes of my Ancestors $7,596.37 Cody Lefthand The Front $20,000 Dan Cardinal McCartney Where the Three Rivers Meet: Painting Research + Studies $15,000 Danielle Bruno Itaopii (Be At Home) $15,000 Dawn Nagazina Directing the short narrative film, ‘The Superlative’ $15,000 Dorvina Pearline White Quills Raising Healing Vibrations – Hand Drum Collection $14,992 Drum Beat Entertainment Drum Beat Entertainment 5 Year Anniversary Celebration $25,000 Dwight Farahat Forest Lawn High School & Tribe Artist Society $25,000 Jared Tailfeathers “Traditional Methods of Making: Dog Trail (Imitáá ohtáóhsokoyi a’póóhsin)” Part 4 $15,000 Jonelle Belcourt Good Daze $20,000 Judy Everson Northern Lights Starry Night Dancer $15,000 Kay Thomas Indigenous Language Reclamation and Silkscreening on Cloth Workshop Series $8,730.85 Kayla Gale Urban Indigenous Art Space (UIAS) $15,000 Lareina Abbott Métis Elder Biography and Graphic Novel $15,000 Lesia Bear Phase 2 of Post-production for Jimmy The Bear $15,000 Lodgepole Centre Visionary Charm $20,000 Making Treaty 7 Cultural Society Treaty 7 Artist of the Month Program $25,000 Melissa Victor Phase 2 Cedar Medicine Shoes $15,000 Nakoda AV Club New Nakoda AV Club Horror $20,000 Nicolas Gibson Mammo Stories $15,000 Patricia Grimwood pē-kiwē/pē-pīhtikwē relic/reliquary $15,000 Richard Gaudio Call Me Liberté $15,000 Robert Dodginghorse Orientation $15,000 Robert Hunter Dinner Plate $12,479 Sade Auger Woman Who Stands Strong – Jewelry Collection $15,000 Sandra Sutter Sandra Sutter – Shadow Talk $15,000 Sarah Houle An Animated Exploration of Shapeshifting and Métis Motherhood $15,000 Sean Smith Reconciliation Through Art: The Indigenous Mural Project $15,000 Seth Cardinal Dodginghorse Catholic Ladders Video Project $15,000 Staci Duchene In my Kookums Hands $9,591.25 Stephanie One Spot Story Time $12,022.01 Tara Marie Beagan Nice White Lady $13,000 Tiffany Wollman Painting My Ancestors $5,000 Tracy Breaker Buffalo Spirit Expansion Project III $15,000 Wild Arts Nimihitowin! Week $16,890 Indigenous Artist Microgrant The Indigenous Artist Microgrant is intended to support artists working to preserve Indigenous culture and traditions, and artists in need of small grants to advance their practice, project or career. This program supported 11 projects in 2022 with a total funding amount of $54,406. Grantee Project Grant Amy Hill Cradle Board $5,000 Danielle Bruno Knowledge Keeper visits $5,000 Jessica Mcmann & Elijah Wells Fancy Bustle Regalia $4,800 Lareina Abbott Phase one: filming, visiting, interviewing $5,000 Leland Mitsuing Fancy Dance Regalia Creation $4,606 Marrisa Moccasin Beaded Cradleboard creation $5,000 Melissa Victor Cedar Weaving Knowledge $5,000 Patricia Grimwood Phase 1 – Norway House Revival $5,000 Sade Auger Woman Who Stands Strong – Phase one $5,000 Sandra Lamouche Red Jingle Dress $5,000 The Memphis Group Metis Fiddle Lesson $5,000 Honouring the Children Grant The Honouring the Children Grant is specifically for Indigenous artists or Indigenous arts organizations who live and work on Treaty 7 territory, to support artistic projects responding to, honouring or in memory of the loss of life, culture, ceremony and language amongst the original peoples of this land because of the residential school system. This program supported seven artists and organizations in 2022 with a total amount of funding $85,429.71 Grantee Project Grant Adam Solway Ts’oostsitsi (Years Ago) $8,600 Calvin (Tito) Gomez Quiet $19,405 CIF Reconciliation Society Pokaiks – The Children 2022 $30,000 Glenna Cardinal Documentation of Ground Penetrating Radar at Blue Quills University $5,000 Heather Morigeau The Sacred Medicine Garden for the Children $13,624.71 Melissa Victor Medicine shoes $5,000 North Haven Parents Association Learning Grounds Mural $3,800 Other Programs ArtShare Program This program supports projects by artists and arts organizations who self-identify as equity-seeking, or which are led by and serve equity-seeking communities. Calgary Arts Development staff work one on one with applicants to develop grant proposals and funding amounts. In 2022, 26 artists and organizations were funded with $280,001. Grantee Project Grant Amanda Huynh BUMP Mural Project $816.64 Carol Cowan Ukraine Art Project $5,535.89 Diane Din Ebongue I See Colours $15,663 Donald Ray Johnson Development in a Digital Age $15,000 Jeanne Kwong City Beat Poems & Photos $5,000 Jenny Li To research and develop a new body of work: A Story of Calgary’s Heritage Through Architecture $15,000 Kathleen Brown The Startle Hijack Constitutional $10,000 Latoya Powell Canada Day Panel $3,000 Luis Tovar Album Production – Part 1 $3,037 Mariana Edith Romero González The Seed $15,000 Meg Ohsada Showcase creation, training and mentorship with choreographer Kunji Ikeda $6,650 Melrene Saloy Paris Fashion Week $20,935 Paloma Negra Mi Viejita Chula – Animation Video Project $15,000 Peace Ilondior Creation and Production of Live Concert $15,000 Perpetual Atife Ije – The Album Recording $15,000 Robson Maurice (robymisterdrums) RMD and Key 30 Orchestra Present Classical Soul $25,000 Sarah Uwadiae Catharsis – premier screening event $7,005 Sargeant X Comrade (Yolanda Sargeant) Power Marketing Campaign $14,800 Sasha Spronk Marketing & promotion of first debut album Bloom $5,863 Gukie (Shalom Agu) Nights Like This – NYE show $15,000 Sreekumar Chandrasekhar Aaravam (NAMMAL) $6,000 Tara Vahab Attend Therapeutic Arts Practitioner course $4,376 Tea Fannie UK Networking and Tour Planning $1,500 Tolu Enaibe Create and present the Covenant Child Album $15,000 Zaire Sealy Album release event and performance $4,820 Zaria Rajha & Mario Lemvar 404 sign not found $20,000 Cultural Activation Fund The Cultural Activation Fund supports projects that align with civic partner and City of Calgary strategies, priority areas and initiatives such as Downtown Revitalization, Chinook Blast and Rise Up, and the Creative Economy Strategy. cSpace’s annual operating grant is also funded through the Cultural Activation Fund, as well as collaborations with other funders such as support for non-qualified donee applicants to the Rozsa Foundation Capstone Grant program. In 2022, additional funding was received from the City of Calgary to be allocated towards grants and sponsorships through the Rise Up Downtown Vibrancy program. Grantee Project Amount cSpace Annual Operating Grant $240,000 Theatre Calgary Shakespeare On The Go $50,000 Rivers Festival Feasibility Study $25,000 Jill Langer ActiveCITY – New Experience Economy Prototype Microgrants $400 Quickdraw Animation Society ActiveCITY – New Experience Economy Prototype Microgrants $400 Run Calgary ActiveCITY – New Experience Economy Prototype Microgrants $400 Quest Theatre ActiveCITY – New Experience Economy Prototype Microgrants $1,600 Recess Calgary ActiveCITY – New Experience Economy Prototype Microgrants $400 The Perlin Foundation ActiveCITY – New Experience Economy Prototype Microgrants $1,200 Authentically Indigenous Inc. 2022 Market $20,000 Casa Mexico in Alberta Foundation Dia de Muertos 2023 $30,000 cSpace Meanwhile Lease and Creative Spaces Networking Mentorship Programs $30,000 The BareHuman Project Rozsa Foundation Capstone Project – Redesigning Human Connectedness in the Digital World $5,000 Tourism Calgary Chinook Blast $150,000 Rise Up Downtown Vibrancy Program Project Grant Sponsorship Angela Smart Rise Up Presents Angela Smart at the Dark Arts Market @ Beakerhead $5,000 Bijan Maysami Rise Up Presents Be Their Voices $5,000 Diana Peng Rise Up Presents Diana Shan Peng at the Dark Arts Market @ Beakerhead $5,000 Hayden McHugh Rise Up Presents JOY YYC $5,000 Hebert Poll Gutiérrez Rise Up Presents Whispers from the Black Gods $5,000 Hoyee Graham Rise Up Presents Our Fore Elders $5,000 Jodie Minton-Dyke Rise Up Presents Contemporary Vice at Beakerhead $5,000 Kathleen Morrison & Carlos Foggin Rise Up Presents Chiaroscuro – A Contemporary Take on a Traditional Leiderabend $5,000 Kenna Burima Rise Up Presents Street Singalong Series $5,000 Sinéad Ludwig-Burgess Rise Up Presents Leaf it to Us $5,000 Tiffany Lynn Cuffley Rise Up Presents Moments in Time $4,600 Autism Aspergers Friendship Society of Calgary Rise Up Presents NeuroHilarity $5,000 Calgary Animated Objects Society Rise Up Presents Lilly Downtown Augmented Reality Adventure $5,000 Calgary Multicultural Arts Society Rise Up Presents Fiestaval Latino Festival $5,000 Calgary Underground Film Festival 10th CUFF.Docs Documentary Film Festival $5,000 Casa Mexico Foundation Rise Up Presents 80’s Dance Party – Tribute to Olivia Newton John $5,000 Cirque Nuit Arts Foundation Rise Up Presents Cirque Nuit Arts Foundation $5,000 Create Kids Arts Society Rise Up Presents Mandy Morris $5,000 Demitre Pereira Rise Up Presents The Last Heatwave $5,000 Eat North & Vicki Van Chau Rise Up Presents Prairie Grid Dinner 2022 $5,000 Music Calgary Inc. Rise Up Presents Sound Off Summit Live Showcase $5,000 Palomino Smokehouse Rise Up Presents October Crack Up $5,000 Stage West Steakhouse Ltd. Rise Up Presents Stage West Steakhouse at the Dark Arts Market @ Beakerhead $3,200 The Arab Music Collective Rise Up Presents We are Here, and We Belong $5,000 thom[n]i art & design Rise Up Presents thom[n]i art & design at the Dark Arts Market @ Beakerhead $2,210.02 Three Left Feet Movement Creations Rise Up Presents Three Left Feet $5,000 Changemakers Program The Changemakers Program invests in artists and organizations who are using their art to make change in their community and which use art for social change. Our Trico Changemaker partnership and Artist as Changemaker cohort is funded from the program. The intention of this program is to partner with the community to use art to create conversation and solutions to our communities’ most challenging problems. The grants fund both the artists as well as the projects that emerge from these initiatives. In addition, this program funded the Creative Green Tool pilot program, which provides carbon output reporting tools specific to the arts and culture sector. Grantee Project Grant Ado Nkemka Artist as Changemaker $8,400 Apiow Akwai Artist as Changemaker $8,400 Barbara Amos Artist as Changemaker $5,000 Kevin Jesuino Artist as Changemaker $5,000 Louie Fermor Artist as Changemaker $8,400 Mel Vee Hudson-Drake Artist as Changemaker $9,900 Melanee Murray-Hunt Artist as Changemaker $5,000 Shumaila Hemani Artist as Changemaker $8,400 Skye Louis Artist as Changemaker $5,000 Stephanie Banszky Artist as Changemaker $8,400 Tamara Christian Avonlea Eaker Artist as Changemaker $8,400 Tito Gomez Artist as Changemaker $9,900 Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts Creative Green Tools $27,000 Accountability Reports and Year-End Financials Stay informed. Sign up for our weekly newsletter.
