January 27, 2021 Project Grant Program – Individuals and Collectives Calgary Arts Development is pleased to release the results of the 2020 Project Grant Program for Individuals and Collectives. This program provided one-time funding to support artistic projects by individuals and artistic collectives that strengthen our artistic communities and ensure that citizens of Calgary can experience what they have to offer. In 2020, we received 171 applications requesting a total of $1,575,844.38. 94 projects were funded for a total of $850,019.51. For information about how this program was assessed, please see the Terms of Reference for the 2020 Project Grant Program for Individuals and Collectives. Artist or Collective Project Grant Amount 8ROJO Developing The Immigration Project $10,000 Ahmed Gooda Artist Professional Development $8,808 Aimee-Jo Benoit TRIPTYCH $10,000 Alex Manitopyes In the City $9,200 Ali Bryan Takedown $7,400 Allan Brent Rosales Uncomfortable Conversations from the Silence: Portraits of Racism from FilipinX who call Calgary/Moh’kinsstis Home $10,000 Andrew Cooper Frankenstein $10,000 Andrew Mohr The Road to Greathaven $10,000 Ann Mansolino The Book, the Land, and the Self: Connections Between Self and Place in the Landscapes of Alberta $9,630.73 BrownKam BrownKam Music Video Production and Distribution $5,770 Bryan Faubert NYC/MTA:YYC/LRT $10,000 Calvin Gomez Thunder Of Alberta $10,000 Claudia Chagoya A Rose for Remembrance $8,700 Clea Anaïs Foo Fat Circle Zero – Video Series $8,666 Constantine Anastasakis Imperfect Symmetry $10,000 Crystal Eyes Crystal Eyes Music Video at the ‘Castle House’ $5,000 David Sklar The Engagement $10,000 Elijah Wells Professional development and research in digital capacity – photography and video editing $8,364 Eric Stroppel & Alex Mitchel Throwback $9,900 Erna Bianca Miranda & Keshia Maria Cheesman The F Word $9,920 Flint & Feather Flint & Feather – Renaissance $10,000 Fredy Rivas Highway II $10,000 Gary Spice Gary Spice Garden of Hope Album Production $10,000 Glenna Cardinal NUWI (over there – further) $10,000 Hanne Loosen For Design’s Sake – An experiment putting scenography first $9,946.40 Heather Hazlett Adapting to the Digital World $10,000 Hernan Moreno & Germán Rodriguez Mirrors and Windows $7,000 IDGAF Theatre Losing It at the End of the World & The Face-Off: A Series of Workshops $7,113.70 Ireke Amoji Smell da coffee African Caribbean Situational Comedy Video Pilot Project $10,000 Jacqs Walker Calgary without Patriarchy: Composers’ Collective & Recording $10,000 Jacqueline Aquines kapwa people: a sci-fi musical of an Anti-Racist Future $10,000 James Ziegler Shimmering Willows $10,000 Janey Luc-German Live Figure Drawing/Painting $1,800 Jason de Haan Structure for Observing Atypical Flight $10,000 Jessica McMann Indigenous Classical Music CD $10,000 Joline Olson I Always Knew: A Mixed-Orientation Marriage Book Manuscript project $5,715 Jordan Wieben Timeline Tourism Roleplaying Game $8,986 Julya Hajnoczky Creation of body of work Bloom $10,000 Kara Bullock aux.la.more $9,706 Katharina Schier Groundwork Residency: Movement Knowledge as a Kind of Cultural Knowledge $10,000 Kenna Burima & Brianna Strong While She Sleeps Songbook and Animation Album $10,000 Kerry Maguire Resonant and Deeper – Live AV Performance by Wish Lash $8,300 Kiana Rawji ESSENTIAL – Documentary on Essential Workers & the Cargill COVID-19 Outbreak $10,000 Kiana Wu The Strid: A Stage It! Playwright/Producer Performance with Downstage Theatre $10,000 Kyra Newton-Guy Blissful Dance Class $10,000 Landon Krentz Devising Deaf Theatre Workshop Series – Seeking Planet Eyeth (Working Title) $10,000 Lara Schmitz Delayed Deliverance Workshop $2,722.50 Laura Anzola Blue Borders $10,000 Lauren Chipeur Picking up, taking and filling $700 Le Cirque de la Nuit Wondrous Theatre Production $10,000 Lili Tayefi Intelligent Artifacts $9,990 Lindsay Bowman You Are Here (And So Am I) $10,000 Lisa Lipton Soon All Your Memories Will Be With Me $10,000 Maggie MacKenzie Sh*t Happens $10,000 Malavika Venkatsubbaiah Manasi $10,000 Mandy Morris Music with Mandy $10,000 Many Mothers Collective Urgency $10,000 Mar’ce Merrell On Culture and Embodiment: Fiction and Non-Fiction Works $10,000 Mark Kunji Ikeda Crime and Punishment Technical Residency $10,000 Matthew Gigg Val-d’Or Literary Manuscript $4,813.44 Melanee Jill Murray-Hunt Short Story Series $10,000 Michael Lohaus Awesome Fun Battle Time $10,000 Miruna Dragan Hummingbird Guided Meditation $9,410 Mudfoot Theatre Collective Jabber: The Folk Opera $10,000 Nurgul Rodriguez Vessels Project: A Container, a Book, a Body $10,000 Oksana Kryzhanivska Present – Augmented Reality Interactive Spaces $5,897 Pamela Tzeng SHED / knowing each other as different and the same (working title) $10,000 Peter Tertzakian Blackfoot Co-operative Coal Mine $10,000 Project InTandem Project InTandem commissions a double-bill dance production $10,000 Rocio Graham Art residency at KOAC and the creation of The nest studio garden a legacy project $10,000 Sandra Vida Way Station $8,550 Sarah Graham Waiting for the Storm to Break $10,000 Sarah MacDonald Live-stream Flute Recital $2,500 Sasha Ivanochko The March $10,000 Savanna Harvey Wastelands Summer Workshop 2020 $10,000 Sebastian Buzzalino Little Deaths $8,461.74 Seniors’ Acting Lab Signage $10,000 Seth Cardinal Dodginghorse The Tsuut’ina War $10,000 Shaun Crawford Here & After $4,719 Simon Chan The Hare & The Hound $10,000 Stacy Da Silva Virtually Haute $10,000 Stefanie Kathleen Barnfather Scattered $10,000 Tara WIlson The Gateway Project $10,000 The Deep End Collective Bungalow $10,000 The Hello Darlins The Hello Darlins – Marketing Support $10,000 Thumbs Up Good Work Theatre The Born Again Crow Gwandaak Co-Production $10,000 to the AWE to the AWE Season #4: RAW FEST $10,000 Todd Kipp The Butcher, Short Film – Post Production Phase $10,000 Tracy Breaker BSEP – Broadening Artistic Ability $7,000 Tunnel A monument to tears $5,900 Tyler Klein Longmire Renderfam (animated short film): final production and post-production phase $10,000 Wil Knoll observationTwo $9,430 Yolkless Press Yolkless Press $10,000 Yvonne Kustec Year Long Artist Residency at Medalta $10,000 This program is supplemented through donations from: Accountability Reports and Year-End Financials
