Region of Waterloo Arts Fund

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Region of Waterloo Arts Fund
150 Frederick Street, Kitchener
www.artsfund.ca

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Make Art Happen
The Region of Waterloo Arts Fund is a not-for-profit corporation established in 2002 by the Regional Municipality of Waterloo. It was created to operate at arm's length from the Region and to provide funding for the performing, visual and literary arts. It is managed by a 14 person board, representing a broad spectrum of involvment in the arts. It serves the three cities (Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo) and the four townships (Wilmot, Woolwich, North Dumfries and Wellesley) that make up the Region.
The overall intent of the Arts Fund is to "make art happen" (i.e. stimulate arts activity) in the Region. This includes projects to make art happen now (in the next 12 months) and projects that will enhance an organization or individual's ability to make even more art happen in the future. The Arts Fund typically directs its support to projects and does not generally fund capital projects or provide operating funds.

Mission
The mission of the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund (Arts Fund) is to contribute to the vibrancy of the arts and cultural sector in Waterloo Region. It does this by promoting, encouraging and providing support to arts organizations and individual artists.
The goal is to benefit the citizens of the Region of Waterloo.
Areas that the Arts Fund will support includes all performing (theatre/dance/music/opera), visual and literary arts as well as film, video, new media, etc.
The 14-member board is responsible for allocating funding provided by Regional Council on an annual basis.

Grant History
Since welcoming its first applications in 2003, the Arts Fund has made grants totalling more than $947,000 to the Regional Arts Community, both organizations and individual artists.

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Region of Waterloo Arts Fund awards $106,650 in grants to assist
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Knit Cambridge, coordinated by Sue Sturdy, fibre artist, the Main Street Bridge in Cambridge will be encased in a multi-coloured and textured layer of knitting. The work will engage knitters of all levels from the Region and will be installed during the early fall of 2010.

Our World Festival of Music, produced by Lawrence McNaught, will form part of the Tapestry Celebrations being held in Kitchener in June. Reflecting the region's rich cultural diversity, the Festival will feature world musicians as well as workshops, music video presentations and much more.

JamCycle will happen on some of the Region's trails and in Waterloo and Victoria Parks between March and June. The project will include an interactive theatre adventure with support from the Pat the Dog Playwrights' collective, inviting cycling participants to reflect on experiencing their environment.

Kitchener – (January 5, 2010) The Region of Waterloo Arts Fund has awarded grants totalling $106,650 to artists and arts organizations in response to proposals submitted from throughout Waterloo Region.

A total of 23 grants are being made in the Arts Fund's fall 2009 grants cycle providing support to projects in the visual arts, music, theatre, literature, cinema, recording and interdisciplinary concepts. The Arts Fund has awarded some $1,054,000 since its inception in 2002. The funds are generously made available through Regional Council's allocation of 40 cents per capita.

Grants approved in this round were:

$4,000 to the Multicultural Cinema Club for the Local Focus 3 Film Festival, a celebration of the work of regional film makers in Kitchener in March
$3,000 to Rufus John of Kitchener to produce a CD recording, Growing Pains, for release in the fall/winter
$6,000 to Kathryn Ladano of Cambridge to produce and distribute a CD recording of bass clarinet music for release in the fall
$6,500 to Mary Catherine Newcombe to produce an outdoor sculpture/garden entitled Product of Eden at the K-W Art Gallery this summer
$4,500 for the Latitudes Storytelling Festival, a multimedia project being produced in several schools for presentation as part of the K-W Multicultural Festival in Kitchener's Victoria Park in June
$10,000 to Sue Sturdy for involving regional knitters in enrobing the Main Street Bridge in Cambridge in the fall in a project entitled Knit CamBridge
$700 to the Rain Dance Theatre to produce Rooted, a new musical production to be produced in the Maureen Forrester theatre at WLU in January
$3,000 to Jane Hook of Cambridge to produce an exhibition of sculpture, Mother Earth, for the Cambridge Arts Centre in March-April
$4,000 to Neruda Productions of Waterloo to produce the Arpillera Book, a new Canadians' showcase of artwork and stories of immigrant women to be completed by December
$6,000 to Larry Larson and Lori Gemmell of Waterloo to produce and distribute a CD recording of music for trumpet and harp for release in the summer
$4,000 to the Lost & Found Theatre to remount the production of Falling: a wake in the new K-W Little Theatre in Waterloo in June
$5,700 to The New Quarterly magazine for assistance in their Word and Image series which explores the intersections of visual and literary arts through text and pictures
$2,000 to Irina Likholet toward producing an exhibition of paintings and drawings, Light & Life at the Homer Watson Gallery in March-April
$2,800 to Paradise Productions of Waterloo in collaboration with BraVurA, a group of rock musicians to produce a music video, Born in Prison for release later in the year
$450 to The Waterloo Chamber Players to assist with the performance of a concerto with local guitarist, Kevin Ramessar, in February
$6,000 to The Children's Museum to assist with the exhibition, Our Body: The Universe Within, including classes in life drawing for young adults, opening in January
$5,000 to the Multicultural Theatre Space to assist in mounting its production of The Last 15 Seconds at the Magnetic North Theatre Festival being held in Kitchener-Waterloo in June
$5,000 to Krzysztof Pietroszek to assist in the production of a short film, Highway of Angels
$2,000 to Ryan Leandres to assist in the production of a short film, The Quest for a Quest
$8,000 to Klaus Engel of Waterloo to produce From Page to Stage, a film documenting the production of a new play by Douglas Campbell to be completed next January
$7,000 to Wellington Winds, an inter-regional group, for production of a video dramatizing the lives of members of the ensemble in preparation for concerts, scheduled for release in September
$5,000 to Our World Festival of Music, a celebration of diversity through live music, as part of Kitchener's Tapestry Festival being held in June
$6,000 to the Warmer Project, to produce JamCycle, an interactive theatre experience being held in regional parks and trails from March to June

Created in 2002, the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund is a not-for-profit corporation which provides funding for the performing, visual and literary arts in the Region of Waterloo. The Arts Fund invites applications in the spring and fall of each year. Applicants are initially asked to submit a brief letter of intent (maximum two pages) outlining their project. Based on review of those letters, a short list of applicants is then asked to submit more detailed proposals.

The objective of the Arts Fund is to “make art happen” (i.e. stimulate arts activity), both in the next 12 months and with projects that will enhance an individual artist’s or an arts organization’s ability to make more art happen in the future.

Applicants are encouraged to create new work, to bring art to the public, to benefit the Region of Waterloo and to create projects that might not happen without Arts Fund support. Applications in all arts disciplines are welcomed from individual artists and arts organizations in the Region of Waterloo (comprising the cities of Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo; and the townships of North Dumfries, Wellesley, Wilmot and Woolwich). Adjudication of applications is done by the Arts Fund’s broadly based 14-member board.

The next deadline for applications to the Arts Fund is 4:00 pm on Friday, March 5, 2010; information is available on the website: www.artsfund.ca

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Region of Waterloo Arts Fund awards $107,950 in grants to assist

Pat the Dog Playwright Centre to develop the Barrel Project, a multimedia theatre piece that tells the stories of the barrels that used to stand at the corner of Erb and Caroline streets in Waterloo;

The Old Chestnuts Song Circle to stage two concerts at the Registry Theatre, one featuring Sylvia Tyson and the other reuniting several artists from the golden era of 1970s folk music;

Kitchener filmmaker Nathan Saliwonchyk to produce The Ikon, an animated film evoking Russian art, history and mythology.

Kitchener | June 17, 2010 | Link (http://www.region.waterloo.on.ca/web/region.nsf/$All/1C90D21559E6042785257746006B21FA?OpenDocument[)

The Region of Waterloo Arts Fund announces that it has awarded grants totaling $107,950 to artists and arts organizations in response to proposals submitted from throughout the Region of Waterloo.

A total of 20 grants are being made in the Arts Fund’s spring 2010 grants cycle, providing support to projects in the visual arts, music, theatre, cinema, community arts and multidisciplinary concepts. With the announcement of these grants, the Arts Fund has awarded more than $1,135,000 since its inception in 2002. The funds are generously made available through Regional Council’s allocation of 40 cents per capita.

Grants approved in this round were:

$10,000 to Nathan Saliwonchyk for The Ikon, an animated film evoking Russian art, history and mythology.
$4,000 to the Old Chestnuts Song Circle for two folk concerts at the Registry Theatre, one featuring Sylvia Tyson in May 2011 and the other reuniting several musicians from the “golden era” of 1970s folk music in March 2011.
$2,000 to Sarah Kernohan for photographic documentation of her drawings.
$4,000 to Cambridge Sculpture Garden to install Silver Key, a piece by Brantford sculptor David Hind, along Grand Avenue South in Cambridge.
$3,000 to Ryan Alexander for HAM – Hotel Alpha Mike, a 15-minute documentary film about HAM radio operators in Cambridge.
$3,000 to Glenn Stillar for Out of the Crying World, a short film exploring self-representation in a world of social networking instruments.
$2,000 to the Grand River Film Festival for its SHORT Shorts film competition, which allows local amateur and aspiring filmmakers to submit films for showing at the festival in October.
$1,250 to One Book, One Community for its “Take One Book to Work” program of book discussions in the workplace in the summer of 2010.
$2,500 to The Nights Below, an ensemble offering a hybrid of punk, country and folk music, for a full-length CD recording.
$9,500 to Isabella Stefanescu to develop the Euphonopen, a musical instrument based on the surface marks characteristic of drawing.
$8,000 to Pat the Dog Playwright Centre for the Barrel Project, a multimedia theatre piece that tells the stories of the barrels that used to stand in a pyramid at the corner of Erb and Caroline streets in Waterloo and have now found new homes.
$4,000 to the Waterloo Film Group for Cinematheque Waterloo’s 2010 film screenings.
$700 to the KW Expressive Collective for a series of free, community-based workshops exploring creative self-expression for youth in the summer of 2010.
$15,000 to MT Space for “Third,” a theatre workshop exploring the body as it manifests itself in the performance of sexuality and gender across diverse cultures in the fall of 2010.
$4,500 to Neruda Productions for two Global Café cabarets, “Divas of Jazz” in June and “Latin America in My Heart” in October.
$3,500 to Terre Chartrand and Zoey Heath for X+Y (Agency/Essence), a performance sculpture that will wrap a multi-angled image of a body around the subject/viewer.
$5,000 to Shadow Puppet Theatre for Beyond the Vent, an animated short film for children.
$12,000 to Chestnut Hall Camerata for The Hero’s Journey, a concert that draws on “hero stories” that have been expressed through music from medieval times to the present, with performances in November 2010 and January 2011.
$10,000 to eyeGo to the Arts for an arts education initiative that will serve as a link between the education community and the arts community.
$4,000 to James Anthony Usas for Dystopiana, a regionally based cinematic exploration that reappropriates the spirit of Kitchener’s past into a contemporary expression of cinematic video projection.

Created in 2002, the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund is a not-for-profit corporation which provides arms-length funding for the performing, visual and literary arts in the Region of Waterloo. The Arts Fund invites applications in the spring and fall of each year. Applicants are first asked to submit a brief letter of intent (maximum two pages) outlining their project. On the basis of a review of those letters, a short list of applicants is then asked to submit more detailed proposals.

The objective of the Arts Fund is to “make art happen” – stimulate arts activity – both in the next 12 months and with projects that will enhance the ability of an individual artist or arts organization’s to make more art happen in the future.

Applicants are encouraged to create new work, to bring art to the public, to benefit the Region of Waterloo and to create projects that might not happen without Arts Fund support. Applications in all arts disciplines are welcomed from individual artists and arts organizations in the Region of Waterloo (comprising the cities of Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo and the townships of Wilmot, Woolwich, Wellesley and North Dumfries). Adjudication of applications is done by the Arts Fund’s broadly based 14-member board.

The next deadline for applications to the Arts Fund is 4:00 pm on Friday, September 10, 2010; information is available on the website: www.artsfund.ca

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Region of Waterloo Arts Fund awards $113,350 in grants to assist:

New Hamburg Live! to mount a five-day festival encompassing musical performances, visual arts and literary events;
The New Quarterly to produce Quarc, a special issue on science and the arts published jointly with the poetry journal Arc;
The MT Space to stage the 2011 edition of its highly successful international theatre festival, IMPACT.

Kitchener | January 4, 2011 | Link (http://region.waterloo.on.ca/web/region.nsf/$All/571B58E6E2A4D5A18525780E0051A514?OpenDocument)

The Region of Waterloo Arts Fund announces that it has awarded grants totalling $113,350 to artists and arts organizations in response to proposals submitted from throughout the Region of Waterloo.

A total of 21 grants are being made in the Arts Fund’s fall 2010 grants cycle, providing support to projects in the visual arts, music, theatre, cinema, literature, community arts and multidisciplinary concepts. With the announcement of these grants, the Arts Fund has awarded more than $1,248,000 since its inception in 2002. The funds are generously made available through Regional Council’s allocation of 40 cents per capita.

Grants approved in this round were:

$3,000 to tri-Pride for its Live Music Festival and other performances during tri-Pride Week.
$3,000 to Lost & Found Theatre for its Young Company production of Jean Anouilh’s The Lark.
$4,000 to NUMUS for the Great Canadian Piano Summit, a three-day festival of contemporary piano work.
$4,000 to Robert Achtemichuk for Time Sensitive Urban Landscapes, a series of paintings of visual phenomena that can be seen from the artist’s window and back door.
$8,000 to New Hamburg Live! for a five-day festival encompassing musical performances, visual arts and literary events.
$5,000 to the Latitudes and Longitudes Digital Storytelling Project to facilitate the creation and presentation of personal digital stories by people living in Waterloo Region neighbourhoods.
$4,000 to Douglas Campbell for a staged reading of Little Crickets, his play about revolution set just after the overthrow of communism in Romania.
$2,000 to Benjamin Bolt-Martin for Stories from Home, a recital of music for solo cello by composers from Kitchener-Waterloo.
$7,000 to The New Quarterly to produce Quarc, a special issue on science and the arts published jointly with the poetry journal Arc.
$20,000 to the MT Space for IMPACT 11, the second edition of its highly successful international theatre festival.
$10,000 to Pat the Dog Playwright Centre for The Piece/Meal Sessions, a curated performance stage reading series open to the public.
$2,000 to Kate Cox for a project involving the re-appropriation of existing works of art as the starting point for building new narratives, culminating in two shows at local venues.
$6,000 to Nota Bene Period Orchestra for Bach’s Leipzig, a concert based on musical activity in Leipzig in the time of Johann Sebastian Bach.
$4,750 to Ken Brown to develop three lightly staged public performances of his new musical It Must Be Love.
$4,000 to Laurel Swinden for Celebrating Women, a recording of music for flute and piano by women composers.
$2,000 to Mark Walton for Shift: Time Collisions + Disappearing Landscapes Waterloo Region, a one-man photographic and multimedia show.
$3,000 to the Multicultural Cinema Club to build the capacity of the Local Focus Film Festival.
$12,000 to Chestnut Hall Camerata for its Virtual Performing Arts Festival, bringing together performances by the Region’s classical music ensembles under a “virtual roof.”
$2,000 to the alternative rock music group Vacuity to complete The Black Hour, its third album.
$2,600 to the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery for its new Community Curator Program.
$5,000 to James Anthony Usas to transfer his short film Deliveries to 35 mm format so that it can be shown at major film festivals.

Created in 2002, the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund is a not-for-profit corporation which provides arms-length funding for the performing, visual and literary arts in the Region of Waterloo. The Arts Fund invites applications in the spring and fall of each year. Applicants are first asked to submit a brief letter of intent (maximum two pages) outlining their project. On the basis of a review of those letters, a short list of applicants is then asked to submit more detailed proposals.

The objective of the Arts Fund is to “make art happen” – stimulate arts activity – both in the next 12 months through immediate projects and over the longer term through projects that will enhance the ability of an individual artist or arts organization to make more art happen in the future.

Applicants are encouraged to create new work, to bring art to the public, to benefit the Region of Waterloo and to create projects that might not happen without Arts Fund support. Applications in all arts disciplines are welcomed from individual artists and arts organizations in the Region of Waterloo (comprising the cities of Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo and the townships of Wilmot, Woolwich, Wellesley and North Dumfries). Adjudication of applications is done by the Arts Fund’s broadly based 14-member board.

The next deadline for applications to the Arts Fund is 4:00 pm on Friday, March 4, 2011; information is available on the website: www.artsfund.ca