Recovery Fund

Supported by The City of Calgary’s Emergency Resiliency Fund, Calgary Arts Development’s Recovery Fund supported organizations in developing and implementing strategic recovery and resiliency plans to ensure long-term sustainability.

We received 112 applications to this program, requesting over $3.9 million. 60 organizations were funded to a total of $1,001,400.

For information about how this program was assessed, please see the Terms of Reference for the 2020 Recovery Fund.

Organization Amount
Alberta Playwrights’ Network $10,000
Alberta Printmakers Society $25,000
Alberta Theatre Projects $20,000
Alexandra Writers’ Centre $5,000
Antyx Community Arts $10,000
Beakerhead $25,000
Binhi Ng Lahi Philippine Folk Dance Troupe $15,000
Calgary Chinese Orchestra $5,000
Calgary Girls Choir $20,000
Calgary International Film Festival $27,500
Calgary Korean Orchestra $8,000
Calgary Opera $20,000
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra $25,000
Calgary Queer Arts Society $20,000
Calgary Young People’s Theatre $8,000
Cantare Children’s Choir $8,000
CARFAC Alberta $9,900
Casa Mexico $10,000
Dancers Studio West $15,000
Design Talks Institute $20,000
Elephant Artist Relief Society $20,000
Exposure Photography Festival $10,000
Femme Wave $10,000
In-Definite Arts $25,000
Indigenous Resilience in Music $20,000
Inside Out Theatre $20,000
Kantorei Choral Society $20,000
KO Arts Centre $20,000
Land’s End Ensemble $16,000
Leighton Art Centre $10,000
Lougheed House $30,000
Luminous Voices $18,000
Making Treaty 7 $20,000
Morpheus Theatre Society $13,000
Mountain Standard Time Performative Arts Festival $25,000
New Works Calgary $9,500
Prairie Debut $10,000
Quest Theatre $20,000
Quickdraw Animation Society $8,000
Revv52 $20,000
Sage Theatre $20,000
Sankofa Arts & Music Foundation $20,000
Seities Studio $3,000
Sled Island Music Festival $20,000
SpanicArts: Hispanic Association of Professional Artists $8,000
Springboard Performance $28,000
StoryBook Theatre $10,000
Stride Gallery $10,000
The New Gallery $25,000
Theatre Alberta $12,000
THIRD ACTion Film Festival Limited $20,000
Trickster Theatre $30,000
TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary $25,000
Untitled Art Society $5,000
Verb Theatre $18,000
Vertigo Theatre $25,000
West Village Theatre $20,000
WordFest $11,500
WP Puppet Theatre $20,000
Youth Singers of Calgary $20,000

Accountability Reports and Year-End Financials