MEDIA ARTS GRANT
The Media Arts Grant is also delivered by SK Arts under the auspices of the Professional Arts Organizations Program and provides operational support to non-profit, community- based film, video and new media organizations throughout the province. In 2023/24, a total of six media arts organizations were supported.
ARTISTS IN COMMUNITIES
Artists in Communities funding provides community-based applicants with opportunities to offer arts-related activities that are linked to local community objectives through partnerships with professional artists and arts organizations. The aim of the program is to contribute to the cultural life of a community and its engagement with the arts. In 2023/24, 25 applicants were supported in the communities of Asquith, Buena Vista, Forget, Humboldt, Prince Albert, Regina, Saskatoon, Sturgeon Lake, and Willow Bunch.
SHARE AND CONNECT: INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY ARTS PROGRAM
The Share and Connect: Indigenous Community Arts program supports Indigenous artists and communities through projects that contribute to arts and cultural revitalization, the intergenerational transfer of knowledge, contemporary, traditional, and non-traditional cultural practices and art forms, as well as promoting Truth and Reconciliation. Share and Connect provides different streams of funding for planning, exhibitions, performances and presenting, mentorships, and artist and community partnership projects. In 2023/24, a total of eight applications were funded. The successful communities were Carrot River, Paynton, Punnichy, Saskatoon and Sturgeon Lake.
GALLERY GRANT PROGRAM
Resources from Sask Lotteries funding are pooled with funding in SK Arts’ Professional Arts Organizations Program to provide 14 galleries with annual funding to support both their professional arts programs and services as well as governance, management, administrative and operational functions. Community-based galleries were supported in Estevan, Moose Jaw, North Battleford, Prince Albert, Regina, Regina Beach, Saskatoon, Swift Current, Weyburn and Yorkton.
BUILDING ARTS EQUITY: BPOC PROGRAM
Launched in 2023, the Building Arts Equity: BPOC Program seeks to increase accessibility and connections to arts and cultural resources by people of colour, specifically people of African, Black, Asian, Latin American, Caribbean, and Middle Eastern descent. The fund supports BPOC artists to create and develop new work within traditional, contemporary and non-traditional art forms; connect with communities; and support the sharing of their artistic knowledge and cultural practices across generations. In 2023/24, 22 artists , from the communities of Pilot Butte, Loon Lake, Regina, Saskatoon and Willow Bunch, were supported through this new grant program.
FESTIVALS GRANT PROGRAM (SASKFESTIVALS)
The SaskFestivals program provides funding support to professional festivals organizations and presentation series across the province. The funding supports both artistic and administrative costs of a festival organization’s annual operations, as well as supporting artistic programs and/ or events that connect and engage professional artists and the community in a festival setting. In 2023/24, a total of 21 festival organizations were provided operational support and an additional 21 projects were funded. Successful communities included Big River, Forget, Loon Lake, Manitou Beach, Paynton, Regina, Saskatoon, and Waskesiu Lake.
SK ARTS PROGRAM DELIVERY
SK Arts delivers the preceding six programs through a partnership agreement with SaskCulture. An operational grant is provided to SK Arts to assist with the costs associated with the adjudication, administration and overall program delivery of these funding programs. In addition, through this partnership, SK Arts provides administration services for the Saskatoon Creative Kids Committee.
For more information on these grants, visit www.sk-arts.ca
Photo by FSI Studio (2023).
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