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MEDIA ARTS GRANT
The Media Arts Grant is also delivered by SK Arts under the auspices of the Professional Arts Organizations Program (PAOP), and provides operational support to non-profit, community-based film, video and new media organizations throughout the province. In 2025/26, a total of five media arts organizations were supported in Regina and Saskatoon.
SASKCULTURE OPERATIONS
SaskCulture receives an annual operating grant to support ongoing and new initiatives, as well as its own general operations. Creative Kids and Culture Days administration costs are covered within this area. In 2025/26, SaskCulture employed 20 full-time staff positions, with remote offices in Saskatoon and Indian Head.
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 2025/26, a total of 17 applications were funded. Successful communities were Balcarres, Big River, Ile-a-la Crosse, Maple Creek, Muskoday First Nation, North Battleford, Raymore, Regina, Regina Beach, Saskatoon, Torquay, and Yellow Quill First Nation.
GLOBAL FUNCTIONS
This fund gives SaskCulture the capacity to respond to opportunities and build partnerships that will benefit the cultural community as a whole. This past year, Global Functions provided funding to the Museums Association of Saskatchewan to support the introduction of a new Repatriation and Community Liaison position, and to Listen to Dis’ Community Arts to engage with the Districts for Sport, Culture and Recreation on community awareness, outreach and relationship-building in Saskatchewan that advances awareness of access through the lens of disability and disability culture.
BUILDING ARTS EQUITY: BPOC PROGRAM
COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST (COIs)
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 2025/26, 34 artists , from Prince Albert, Regina and Saskatoon, were supported through this grant program.
SaskCulture provides support to a variety of community partners to develop programs that support cultural activity in the province. The Saskatchewan Arts Alliance and Heritage Saskatchewan are supported as COIs who provide a collective voice for arts and heritage in Saskatchewan. Additionally, support is provided to the Office of the Treaty Commissioner, Gabriel Dumont Institute, and Métis Nation Saskatchewan to advance Indigenous-led community engagement.
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.
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