Region of Waterloo Arts Fund

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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

[UrbanWaterloo]

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

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

[UrbanWaterloo]

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

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

[UrbanWaterloo]

Arts Fund invests $125,300 to make art happen in Waterloo Region, including:

The Jazz Room, a shared-space performance venue organized by recently-established Grand River Jazz Society;
Mobile Weaving Units for community art projects in neighbourhoods throughout Waterloo Region developed by artist Gareth Lichty;
A Journey from Alienation to Harmony, a 3-day workshop performance presented by the interdisciplinary group SlanT;
Waterloo Print Studio, a new printmaking resource centre at the Waterloo Community Arts Centre (The Button Factory).

Kitchener | June 17, 2011 | Link

The Region of Waterloo Arts Fund announces that it has awarded grants totaling $125,300 to artists and arts organizations in response to proposals submitted from throughout the Region of Waterloo.

A total of 24 grants are being made in the Arts Fund’s Spring 2011 grants cycle. The Arts Fund has invested more than $1,373,000 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:

• $1695 to the University of Waterloo Art Gallery for promoting wish you were here, an outdoor art project by Laurel Woodcock in conjunction with the opening of CAFKA 2011 and UW Homecoming.
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  $500 to Rock the Mill 2011, a youth-led Cambridge music festival now in its 14th year.
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  $8175 to YMCA Cambridge for its Newcomer Youth Theatre program.
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  $2500 to musician Nick Iden to produce a debut album for his band Factory Boy.
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  $5000 to Standard Deviation Theatre to present Picasso at the Lapin Agile (July 27-30) and La Persistencia (Oct 12-15) at The Registry Theatre as part of their 2nd season.
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  $12,000 to Inter Arts Matrix to workshop and produce three pieces for Euphonopen, an instrument for the performance of drawing that generates its own sound developed in Waterloo Region.
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  $10,000 to The Grand River Jazz Society to launch The Jazz Room, a new shared-space performing and gathering venue at the historic Heuther Hotel in Waterloo.
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  $6000 to the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony for producing a recording of 4 pieces composed for the Symphony's Intersections Series and recorded live at Centre In The Square, the River Run Centre in Guelph and Koerner Hall in Toronto.
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  $7500 to Flush Ink Productions for organizing and editing an archive of over 100 “plays on video” that have been filmed at Asphalt Jungle Shorts and other Flush Ink presentations over the years.
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  $6672 to Post-Life Productions for The Post-Lifers, a short live action “comedy/mockumentary” film that “depicts a zombie infestation from the zombies' perspective.”
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  $800 to the Waterloo Chamber Players for hiring a guest conductor for a Fall 2011 concert.
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  $3500 to screenwriter Matt Mistell for completing Bayru, a feature-length comedic screenplay.
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  $4000 to SlanT, an interdisciplinary performance group, for a 3-day workshop of a newly commissioned work by local composer Peter Skoggard at the Cambridge Centre for the Arts.
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  $2500 to MetaMedia Productions for producing Boom-de-ata (Maple Syrup Version), a music video featuring musician Sean McCammon.
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  $3000 to Qatalyst Media for Steel Rails Sessions 2011, a collaborative art event aboard the Waterloo Central Railway.
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  $5000 to musician Tim Louis for Sessions, a two-part performance and discussion forum focusing on music, songwriting and storytelling organized to coincide with the Uptown Waterloo Jazz Festival and the Kitchener Blues Festival.
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  $7000 to visual and media artist Isabella Stefanescu for producing Turncoat, a short animated film.
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  $1500 to Stephen Lavigne for Municipal Recollection Dept., a solo exhibition of new artwork to be presented at the Rotunda Gallery at Kitchener City Hall October 2011.
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  $2330 to orchestra@waterloo for performing a concert, with the University of Waterloo Chamber Choir, in the new Knox Presbyterian Church in Waterloo.
• $4000 to The Clay and Glass for an indoor fused glass public art project made by high school students guided by artist mentor Laurie Spieker.
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  $10,000 to Gareth Lichty for developing Mobile Weaving Units for community art projects in neighbourhoods throughout the region in conjunction with the Waterloo Region Crime Prevention Council.
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  $10,000 to Neruda Productions for Show the World! (A Series of Fortunate Events), including 2 visual art shows, a theatre piece and 6 concerts presented as part of Neruda's 10th anniversary celebration.
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  $5000 to the Waterloo Community Arts Centre for the Waterloo Print Project, a printmaking resource centre modeled on the “open studio” concept.
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  $5000 to Craig Musselman for a 2nd edition of Talent Next Door – Waterloo and Area, a full colour catalogue showcasing regional visual artists and their work.

Created in 2002, the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund is a not-for-profit corporation which provides armslength 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, September 9, 2011; information is available on the website: www.artsfund.ca

[UrbanWaterloo]

Arts Fund invests $134,250 to make art happen in Waterloo Region, including:

50-Year Retrospective Exhibition of Works by Ann Roberts at The Clay & Glass
Can’t Be Satisfied, a Conner Gains Band CD recording
Live Recording of “Tree” Stories, a Baden Storytellers Guild World Storytelling Day event
Artists Site Specific Exhibit led by visual artists Sheila McMath, Michael Ambedian and Nadine Badran
Mel Brown: Simply the Best, a documentary film project by the Blue Fusion film makers group

Kitchener | December 23, 2011 | Link

The Region of Waterloo Arts Fund announces that it has awarded grants totaling $134,250 to artists and arts organizations in response to proposals submitted from throughout the Region of Waterloo.

A total of 29 grants are being made in the Arts Fund’s Fall 2011 grants cycle. The Arts Fund has invested more than $1,500,000 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:

• $4000 to the Baden Storytellers' Guild for Voices in the Trees, a live recording of tree stories in conjunction with World Storytelling Day in March 2012
• $6000 to the Backyard Theatre Company for creating and producing a community play
• $8000 to the Blue Fusion film making group for Mel Brown: Simply the Best, a documentary film
• $10,000 to The Clay and Glass for a 50-Year Retrospective Exhibition of Works by Ann Roberts
• $10,000 to Chestnut Hall Camerata for the The Enchanter's Saga, a music and visual art performance event at THE MUSEUM
• $3000 to the Conor Gains Band for Can't Be Satisfied, a debut CD recording
• $5000 to The Decay for Loser Band: The Great Tour Story, a documentary film about the trials and tribulations of a Waterloo punk band on a makeshift tour of Canada and the U.S.
• $6000 to playwright Douglas Campbell for the development, workshop and staged reading of The Shakes, an ensemble play for eight actors
• $2000 to Finscott Films for The Last of Everything, a 90-minute screenplay
• $350 to visual artist Jane Hook for i face Charlotte, a sculptural work that will be presented as part of an exhibition at the Glenhyrst Gallery in Brantford March 10 - May 16 2012
• $4000 to Julius Dyen for a film portrait of a Kitchener-based visual artist born and raised in rural Cameroon
• $5000 to the Kitchener Musical Society Band to commission composer Glenn Buhr to create an original score for concert band with a theme that honours Kitchener's Cityhood Centennial
• $5000 to Krzysztof Pietroszek for 2BR02B (To Be Or Not To Be), a 20-minute film adaptation of a short story by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• $5200 to the Lutherwood Children's Mental Health Centre for Transformation, a community art project coordinated by the KW Art Gallery
• $3000 to Melissa Sky for Cherry on Top: Clits for Idiots, a comedic short film
• $8000 to the Multicultural Cinema Club at The Working Centre to launch the MCC Local Film Production Program
• $3400 to Nota Bene Baroque for a special component to An English Messiah to be presented as part of the orchestra's 10th anniversary season in March 2012
• $5000 to RainDance Theatre for Creation Story, a new play workshop at The Button Factory
• $1000 to singer songwriter Richard Garvey for Save the Arts, Cut the War, a recording of a series of four songs that explore what it means to create art and earn a living as an artist
• $4000 to visual artist Robert Achtemichuk for Documenting the Urban Portrait, a community art project that will focus on getting people to look and see anew the city around them
• $3000 to photographer Sean Puckett for Elegraphy 2012, a series of photo essays that will record the present before it fades into the past
• $4000 to visual artists Sheila McMath, Michael Ambedian and Nadine Badran for an artist-led exhibit of site-specific installations
• $2200 to visual artist Soheila Esfahani for Cultured Pallets, an exhibit at the KW Art Gallery in April 2012
• $3500 to Standard Deviation Theatre for a production of Peep Show, a new play under development in partnership with the Fall 2010 University of Waterloo Dramaturgy 101 class
• $5000 to artist Steven Tippin for Glass Photograms, a series of glass art works created in a hotglass blowing studio and a photographic darkroom
• $4000 to Tundra Filmworks for All But Forgotten: Canadian Landscape Painter Homer Watson, a half-hour broadcast documentary
• $5000 to the Virginia Woolf Collective for a production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf to be presented as part of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Conference in Waterloo in June 2012
• $6000 to the Waterloo Historic Song Cycle Collaborative to create and produce a song cycle related to the history of Waterloo Region which will premier at the 2012 New Hamburg Live! Festival of the Arts
• $3600 to artist Yin He for the Waterloo-Kitchener Chinese New Year Art Show, a month-long exhibit at the Berlin Gallery at Kitchener City Hall

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 an initial Stage 1 application outlining their project. On the basis of a review of those applications, 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 – immediately through projects that will happen next 12 months and over the longer term through projects that will enhance the ability of an 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 2, 2012; information is available on the website: www.artsfund.ca

[UrbanWaterloo]

Arts Fund invests $135,225 to make art happen in Waterloo Region.

Wild Writers Literary Festival, a project of The New Quarterly
an Online Video Channel for the DaCapo Chamber Choir
Chamber Delights, a new Cambridge Symphony Orchestra concert series
a public art initiative led by the Cherry Park Neighbourhood Association
singer-songwriter and spoken word artist Janice Lee's debut album

June 21, 2012 | Region of Waterloo | Link

The Region of Waterloo Arts Fund announces that it has awarded grants totaling $135,225 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 2012 grants cycle. The Arts Fund has invested more than $1,640,000 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:

• $12,000 to Anne-Marie Donovan to write a first draft and organize a preliminary workshop of a new opera, The Explosion of the Island Of Krakatau, with composer Tim Brady and librettist John Sobol
• $3,800 to the music group Bass Lions for Body Doubles, a short video featuring the band's music led and directed by Nathan Stretch
• $7,000 to Cambridge Sculpture Garden for the installation of Gareth Lichty’s Water Tower sculpture
• $7,500 to Cambridge Symphony Orchestra for Chamber Delights, a new concert series featuring small ensembles of the orchestra’s principal players and guest artists
• $12,000 to the Cherry Park Neighbourhood Association for the Agnes Street Public Art Installation
• $6,300 to musician Christa Mercey to record and produce Christa Mercey EP
• $5,000 to the Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area for Interventions at the Walper, a program of contemporary art installations
• $6,500.00 to the DaCapo Chamber Choir to develop an Online Video Channel
• $11,500 to filmmaker James Anthony Usas for Dystopiana: House of the Gathering
• $3,000 to singer-songwriter and spoken word artist Janice Lee to produce her debut album
• $3,000 to musician Kathryn Ladano for the Potluck Concert Series featuring improvised music across various styles and genres
• $1,000 to the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Orchestra for Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Orchestra Interactive, a new interactive concert series that will engage children and seniors
• $2,125 to KW Poetry Slam for their 2nd spoken word poetry showcase and competition season
• $4,000 to Lost&Found Theatre to workshop On the Inside, a 2-act play by Dona Massel
• $7,500 to filmmaker Melissa Sky for Rainbow Reflections, a feature length documentary
• $14,000 to The MT Space to develop Occupy Spring, a new production that will explore “recent movements of people taking to the streets”
• $10,000 to the Multicultural Cinema Club at The Working Centre for an expansion and reconfiguration of the Local Focus Film Festival
• $8,000 to media arts practitioner Tallen Kay for The TrueUNetwork, a film narrative told in the form of a social networking site

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 Stage 1 application outlining their project. On the basis of a review of those applications, 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 – immediately through projects that will happen within the next 12 months, and over the longer term through projects that will enhance the ability of an artist or arts organization to make more art happen in the future.

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, September 7, 2012; information is available on the website: www.artsfund.ca

For further information about this release, please contact Stevie Natolochny at 519-575-4450.

[UrbanWaterloo]

Arts Fund invests $128,300 to make art happen in Waterloo Region
December 21, 2012 | Region of Waterloo | Link

The Region of Waterloo Arts Fund announced that it has awarded grants totaling $128,300 to artists and arts organizations in response to proposals submitted from throughout Waterloo Region.

A total of 25 grants are being made in the Arts Fund’s Fall 2012 grants cycle. The Arts Fund has invested more than $1,768,000 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 the Grand River Jazz Society towards artist fees for Jazz Room performances;
• $1,500 to the Waterloo Chamber Players for Black Dog Variations, a March 23 concert including variations on Led Zeppelin’s Black Dog composed and orchestrated by Canadian composer Kevin Muir;
• $7,500 to Neruda Productions for Arts, Culture and Community for KW LatinFest 2013;
• $3,600 for the 2013 Procession of the Species Celebration;
• $4,000 to Carina Gaspar and Theatre Stoogette for Denmarked, a physical theatre, clown-based adaptation of Hamlet;
• $7,000 to Duncan Finnigan and Sam Varteniuk for Theatre People, a half-hour situation comedy to be filmed live at Kitchener’s Registry Theatre;
• $4,000 to Richard Garvey for The Neighbour Song, a music video;
• $4,500 to Habitat for Humanity Waterloo Region for Salvaged Art, Salvaging Families, an exhibition of artists’ work made out of materials from the ReStore;
• $5,500 to Dan Drysdale and Drywal Media for post-production work on the documentary Looking for Billy Jean: The Sarah Felker Story;
• $7,500 to Nada Humsi and the Generation to Generation collective for Generation to Generation, a film and theatre project that will lead inter-generational family groups in a personal story creation process;
• $7,500 to Isabella Stefanescu for The Lineage Machine, an interactive device and installation designed to allow a participant to experience a drawing in real time through recorded hand motion recreated with a robotic arm;
• $2,500 to Miroki Tong for The Classical Voice - From Traditional to Alternative, an “operatic metal” original music production;
• $4,600 to singer-songwriter Nicole Aube for Nicole’s Sophomore Album, a recording of 8 original songs;
• $3,500 to the Open Ears Festival of Music & Sound for two community outreach projects, Junk Percussion Parade and Inuksuit for Kids;
• $4000 to musician/selector Wayne “Jahbu” Stennett Campbell, Zion Gate Sound Crew and InSpiritUs for Foundation Roots Reggae: An Historical Exploration of Conscious Music;
• $6,000 to Shadow Puppet Theatre for Puppet Away, a show designed for local presentation and touring;
• $1,900 to Nota Bene Baroque Players for a Community Concert Series in Elmira, New Hamburg and a third location yet to be determined;
• $10,000 to Rosco Films for post-production for the feature film The Volunteer;
• $3,200 to the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery for Jane Buyers: Gather… Arrange…. Maintain, a solo 25 year retrospective exhibition;
• $4,000 to The Good For Naughts for the album No Great War;
• $5,000 to the Waterloo Community Arts Centre for Around the Block, a community art project;
• $7,000 to Chestnut Hall Music for the KxKW/KOI/CON Music and New Media Conference;
• $1,000 to Ever-Lovin' Jug Band for their debut album;
• $5,500 to Heather Majaury for This is My Drum, a one-women theatrical work about an aboriginal woman living in post-modern Ontario;
• $7500 to Bruzen vi Gada Productions for John Orpheus is Dead, a live action short film.

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 Waterloo Region. The Arts Fund invites applications in the spring and fall of each year. Applicants are first asked to submit a Stage 1 application outlining their project. On the basis of a review of those applications, 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 – immediately through projects that will happen within the next 12 months, and over the longer term through projects that will enhance the ability of an artist or arts organization to make more art happen in the future.

Applications in all arts disciplines are welcomed from individual artists and arts organizations in Waterloo Region (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 of Directors.

The next deadline for applications to the Arts Fund is 4 p.m. on Friday, March 1, 2013; information is available on the website: www.artsfund.ca.