January 29, 2019 Operating Grant Program The Operating Grant Program invests annually in non-profit organizations with year-round, arts-driven operations, prioritizing organizations that demonstrate high artistic impact, public impact, and organizational resiliency. Organizations may allocate these funds to any areas of their overall budgets. The table below outlines those that applied to the 2018 Operating Grant Program, the stream into which they applied, and the amount of operational funding they received in 2018. Organization 2018/2019 Grant Stream Applied To Alberta Craft Council $8,740 Arts Services Alberta Media Arts Alliance $6,000 Alberta Playwrights’ Network $11,000 Alberta Printmakers $17,500 Book Publishers Association of Alberta $4,050 Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers $37,500 Canadian Academy of Mask and Puppetry (CAMP) $3,000 Canadian Music Centre, Prairie Region $15,500 CJSW 90.9 FM $37,500 Elephant Artist Relief (EAR) $4,000 Pumphouse Theatres $39,130 Quickdraw Animation Society $42,500 Stage Left Productions $8,550 Theatre Alberta $12,400 West Village Theatre $7,000 Writers Guild of Alberta $6,000 Alberta Dance Theatre for Young People $3,200 Community All Alexandra Writers’ Centre $5,000 Alliance Francaise $10,000 Antyx Community Arts $18,000 Artpoint Gallery & Studios Society $4,500 Brazilian Community Association of Alberta $5,000 Calgary Protospace $3,600 Calgary Young People’s Theatre $9,000 Curiously Canadian Improv Guild $3,420 Fire Exit Theatre $4,000 Footprints Dance Project $2,300 Front Row Centre Players $7,600 Gli Azzurri – Calgary Italian Dancers $1,200 Indefinite Arts Centre $20,000 Jeunesse Classique Ballet $5,700 Leighton Foundation and Art Centre $16,500 Loose Moose Theatre $12,700 Marda Loop Justice Film Festival $3,000 MoMo Multi Ability Movement Arts Society of Calgary $6,000 Morpheus Theatre Society $9,500 Silver Stars Musical Revue $2,000 Single Onion $3,800 Southern Alberta Woodworkers $1,250 Storybook Theatre $28,000 Studio C, Prospect Human Services $8,900 Suzirya Ukrainian Dance Theatre $2,000 The League of Extraordinary Albertans $2,800 Three Left Feet Movement Creations $4,500 Tryzub Ukrainian Dance $3,000 Adult Recreational Choir $6,000 Community Music Amici String Program Association $5,000 Calgary Bach Festival $3,500 Calgary Boys’ Choir $3,000 Calgary Children’s Choir $3,600 Calgary Chinese Orchestra $2,500 Calgary Concert Band $2,250 Calgary Fiddlers $6,500 Calgary Foothills Barbershop Chorus $3,600 Calgary Girls Choir $14,000 Calgary Korean Canadian Choir $2,500 Calgary Men’s Chorus Society $6,000 Calgary Multicultural Choir $3,500 Calgary Renaissance Singers & Players $4,200 Calgary Round-up Band $4,500 Calgary Youth Orchestra $12,000 Cantare Children’s Choir $5,500 EnChor Choral $2,000 The Festival Chorus $7,500 Foothills Bluegrass Music $2,750 Harmony Guzheng Ensemble $2,500 Kantorei Choral $6,000 Mount Royal Choral Association $6,500 Music Calgary $6,750 Calgary Civic Symphony $11,000 Revv52 $7,000 Rocky Mountain Concert Band $1,200 Savridi Singers Association $2,000 Spiritus Chamber Choir $5,000 Westwinds Music Society $5,000 Youth Singers of Calgary $19,500 Calgary Blues Music Association $43,200 Festivals GlobalFest $33,300 Calgary International Children’s Festival $110,000 Calgary International Film Festival $74,000 Calgary International Fringe Festival $35,000 Calgary Performing Arts Festival $10,000 Calgary Reggae Festival $18,810 Caribbean Community Council of Calgary $5,000 Exposure: Alberta’s Photography Festival $25,000 FairyTales $26,000 Hispanic Arts Society $18,000 International Festival of Animated Objects $4,100 Sled Island Music Festival $66,000 When Words Collide $3,000 Acoustic Music Society of Calgary $3,000 Professional Performing All Calgary Animated Objects $48,000 Calgary Pro Musica $15,000 Classical Guitar Society of Calgary $6,000 Corps Bara Dance Guild of Calgary $2,950 Cowtown Opera Company $5,200 Dancers’ Studio West $27,250 Decidedly Jazz Danceworks $95,000 Early Music Voices $5,800 Fish Creek Concert and Cultural Society $3,325 Foothills Brass $5,000 Instrumental Society of Calgary $3,000 International Festival of Song and Chamber Music $7,410 JazzYYC $7,000 Kensington Sinfonia $7,300 La Caravan Dance Theatre $3,000 Land’s End Chamber Music Society $9,000 Luminous Voices $10,000 New Works Calgary $7,000 ProArts $4,500 Soulocentric Performing Arts $4,600 Springboard Dance Collective $29,000 Honens International Piano Competition $65,000 W&M Dance Projects of Calgary Association (Eko Dance Projects) $7,000 Downstage Performance $15,000 Professional Performing Theatre Forte Musical Theatre Guild $6,300 Ghost River Theatre $16,500 Green Fools Theatre $13,000 Handsome Alice Theatre $10,000 Inside Out Integrated Theatre Project $12,300 Lunchbox Theatre $65,000 Old Trout Puppet Workshop $35,000 Quest Theatre $33,800 Shakespeare Company Theatre $4,800 Swallow-a-Bicycle Theatre $4,500 Theatre Encounter $2,000 Trickster Theatre $11,500 Verb Theatre $5,000 Vertigo Theatre $102,000 W.P. Puppet Theatre $5,400 Calgary Allied Arts Foundation $2,000 Professional Presenting Calgary Cinematheque $13,000 Calgary Underground Film Festival $30,500 The New Gallery $38,500 Contemporary Calgary $18,000 EMMEDIA Gallery & Production Society $38,000 FreeFall Literary Society of Calgary $7,000 Illingworth Kerr Gallery ACAD $8,550 Mountain Standard Time Performative Arts Festival $17,250 TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary $45,000 Stride Art Gallery $38,000 Untitled Art Society $17,500 WordFest $70,000 Past Results Operating Grant Program 2016 Accountability Reports and Year-End Financials