Arts and Culture Grant Recommendations Legal

Arts and Culture Grant Recommendations
Legal Name of Organization: The Art Gallery of Sudbury
Amount Recommended: $114,500
Funding Request: Operational Funding
The Art Gallery of Sudbury is committed to providing access to, and understanding, knowledge and
appreciation of the visual arts. The Gallery is dedicated to achieving excellence in all activities, including the
collection, exhibition, preservation and promotion of art for the community of Greater Sudbury. The AGS
manages, as a municipal and regional public art gallery and places strong emphasis on local artists while
entering the community into a national dialogue. The Gallery's multiple roles in the immediate community and
beyond include exhibition venue, education centre, research facility and public forum. Programs and projects
are developed with careful attention to current visual art discourse found locally and internationally.
Legal Name of Organization: The Blue Saints Booster Club Inc.
Amount Recommended: $3,500
Funding Request: Project/Equipment
The Blue Saints Booster Club provides music and movement education in cooperation with school music
education programs. The education enhances the student's overall music education by building self-esteem,
self-confidence and self-reliance. The Club serves the citizens of Greater Sudbury by providing music suitable
for many community activities that require band music.
Legal Name of Organization: Le Carrefour francophone de Sudbury
Amount Recommended: $30,000
Funding Request: Operational Funding
Le Carrefour francophone est un centre culturel et communautaire qui, par le biais de sa programmation, ses
activités et ses partenariats, assure la vitalité, la diffusion et le renouvellement de notre culture et notre langue
française.
Legal Name of Organization: Centre franco-ontarien de folklore
Amount Recommended: $5,000
Funding Request: Operational Funding
Le mandat du Centre franco-ontarien de folklore est de promouvoir, s'engager et développer le folklore, la
littérature et la musique et d'en assurer l'étude et/ou son développement en toutes ses formes.
Legal Name of Organization: Chinese Heritage Association of Northern Ontario (CHANO)
Amount Recommended: $500
Funding Request: Operational Funding
CHANO promotes Chinese culture to both Chinese and Canadian citizens while helping new Chinese
immigrants adopt the Canadian way of living. In partnership with the City and the Canoe Club, the annual
Dragonboat Festival is organized for participants and spectators alike with the assistance of CHANO.
Legal Name of Organization: Cinéfest; The Sudbury Film Festival Inc.
Amount Recommended: $30,000
Funding Request: Operational Funding
Cinéfest Sudbury organizes and promotes an annual festival of highly acclaimed Canadian and world films, as
well as encourages film culture, education and production in Northern Ontario. Cinéfest provides education and
public awareness of the aesthetic arts and their importance to improving human condition while advancing a
greater understanding and harmony between nations, races and religions.
Legal Name of Organization: Comhaltas Ceoltóiri Éireann -Sudbury Irish Arts Association
Amount Recommended: $1,000
Funding Request: Special Event
The Irish Arts Association provides performances of an artistic nature at various locations and seminars on
topics related to their performances. Since its inception the organization has produced 23 Irish Celtic fairs, ran
a variety of weekly programs, large community shows and performed in countless venues.
Legal Name of Organization: Company g Performers
Amount Recommended: $1,500
Funding Request: Operational Funding
Company g Performers is a group of young people who perform in every discipline ranging from tap, ballet,
modern, lyrical, hip/hop and more. The mandate of the group is to perform within our community, to help raise
money for out of town competitions, productions, consuming, accommodations, workshops. The goal is to
build a strong core group of young individuals and increase their self-esteem and confidence in preparing them
for future endeavors in their career choices.
Legal Name of Organization: Contact interculturel francophone de Sudbury
Amount Recommended: $8,000
Funding Request: Operational Funding
Contact interculturel, qui est un organism d’accueil, de rencontre and d’echange s’adressant aux members des
différentes cultures francophones d’ici et d’ailleurs, ainsi qu’à ceux et celles qui partagent les valeurs
francophone, a pour objet d’acceuillir les arrivant francophones, de faciliter l’intégration des membres des
cultures francophones dans la région de Sudbury, et d’instruire les francophones de Sudbury en ce qui a trait à
l’éducation interculturel.
Legal Name of Organization: Éditions prise de parole
Amount Recommended: $35,000
Funding Request: Operational Funding
Les Éditions prise de parole appuient les auteurs et les créateurs d'expression et de culture française au
Canada, en privilégiant des oeuvres de factures contemporaine. Le mandat reflète la volonté de la maison
d'appuyer, à partir de sa situation en région, à la fois le travail de création littéraire en milieu minoritaire et celui
de réflexion en sciences humaines et sociales portant sur ce même milieu, et ce à l'échelle canadienne.
Legal Name of Organization: Fiddleworks of Rayside Balfour
Amount Recommended: $5,000
Funding Request: Project/Special Event for the annual Chelmsford Fiddle & Stepdance Festival and 10th
Anniversary celebration.
Fiddleworks exists to promote year-round fiddle and stepdance which includes the annual "Chelmsford Fiddle
& Stepdance Festival" in May of each year. The organization also preserves and promotes Canadian music
and dance heritage and provides leadership by encouraging younger citizens to participate.
Legal Name of Organization: Finnish Canadian Grand Festival
Amount Recommended: $3,000
Funding Request: Special Event
The Finnish Canadian Grand Festival is showcased in Sudbury this year and is a culmination of 21 Sudbury
organizations from the Finnish community working together to organize the festival. The festival promotes and
showcases local talent including all age groups and introduces residents to Finnish culture. The festival
attracts many out of town visitors.
Legal Name of Organization: 5-Penny New Music Concert Series
Amount Recommended: $1,500
Funding Request: Project-for organizing and promoting a concert series.
5-Penny New Music Concerts promotes and organizes concerts, lectures, workshops and seminars in
twentieth and twenty-first century music in the City of Greater Sudbury. The organization does this through the
promotion of recent compositions written by Canadian and international composers, and classic repertoire of
the twentieth century, and by educating and increasing the public's understanding and appreciation of the
twentieth and twenty-first centuries music.
Legal Name of Organization: La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario, centre d’artistes
Amount Recommended: $30,000
Funding Request: Operational Funding
La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario est un organisme qui réunit les artistes visuels francophones oeuvrant en art
actuel en Ontario. Elle se veut à l'écoute de ses membres dans le but de favoriser les échanges entre eux,
d'appuyer le développement du milieu des arts visuels en général et de stimuler les formes d'expression en art
actuel en particulier.
Legal Name of Organization: Greater Sudbury Celtic Festival and Highland Games
Amount Recommended: $3,000
Funding Request: Special Event/Seed Funding
The Greater Sudbury Celtic Festival and Highland Games is an emerging event in Greater Sudbury that
celebrates the city's Scottish and Irish communities. The goal is to celebrate and promote the Celtic Heritage in
Sudbury and Northern Ontario by offering cultural programming such as the Scottish Heavy Games and Tugof-War, music and dance performances, food fair, workshops and lectures.
Legal Name of Organization: India-Canada Association of Sudbury
Amount Recommended: $1,500
Funding Request: Special Event- For youth festival featuring East Indian Dance and music, East Indian
concert
The India-Canada Association of Sudbury promotes and preserves East Indian culture and heritage and
provides assistance to new comers from India. The organization's mandate is carried through by the promotion
of youth volunteerism and community participation in fundraising events while developing and fostering
community spirit among its members.
Legal Name of Organization: Irish Heritage Club of Sudbury
Amount Recommended: $2,000
Funding Request: Project/Special Event- For two projects, (1) Irish dance workshop and (2) Annual
Community Spudfest
The Irish Club was formed to unite fraternally and to promote the mutual interest of the club members, to
ensure the continuance of an Irish Heritage in the Sudbury area and to aid and assist people in need. This is
accomplished through participation in community and cultural events.
Legal Name of Organization: Jubilee Folk Ensemble
Amount Recommended: $1,000
Funding Request: Operational Funding
The Jubilee Folk Ensemble Advisory Board exists to support, encourage and promote the performance of
Canada's rich multicultural folk music traditions. The Ensemble provides enjoyment to audiences and an
opportunity for musicians to meet and enhance their skills.
Legal Name of Organization: Le Salon du livre du Grand Sudbury
Amount Recommended: $20,000
Funding Request: Operational Funding
Le mandat du Salon du livre du Grand Sudbury est de promouvoir l'éducation en langue française par la
lecture et l'animation à partir des produits imprimés de toutes sortes et à développer le savoir, en langue
française, par des recontres, des échanges, des conférences et des ateliers éducatifs.
Legal Name of Organization: Les Concerts La Nuit sur l’étang
Amount Recommended: $10,000
Funding Request: Operational Funding
La Nuit donne la chance aux musiciens franco-ontariens de se faire voir sur une scène professionnelle ainsi
que donner la chance au public franco-ontarien de connaître et vivre l'expérience d'une grande fête culturelle
francophone.
Legal Name of Organization: Myths and Mirrors Community Arts
Amount Recommended: $9,050
Funding Request: Operational Funding
Myths and Mirrors goal is to educate and promote the public's participation in the arts by developing and
providing the tools, resources, and support for communities to express themselves. This is done through
engaging residents in the creation of art works that explore modern myths and reflect perceptions and
experience. The vision is to work with people to create innovative experimental art, to engender a sense of
community identity, to challenge the culture industry's concept of art and culture, and to provide a forum for the
marginalized to develop a voice.
Legal Name of Organization: Nickel City Sudbury Sound Women’s Barbershop Chorus Inc.
Amount Recommended: $1,000
Funding Request: Equipment – For risers, sound system additions, training and development
Nickel City Sound is a vibrant organization of women who are dedicated to the teaching, performance,
promotion and preservation of 4-part a cappella harmony sung in the barbershop style. This is carried through
with performances, the celebration of friendship, personal growth and development through music and
leadership, education and the practice of democratic principles.
Legal Name of Organization: Northern Initiative for Social Action
Amount Recommended: $2,000
Funding Request: Project/Special Event/Equipment- For arts exhibitions
NISA offers programming and space to individuals living with mental illness so that they can identify their talent
and discover occupational opportunities. This is done by introducing individuals to the benefits of selfexpression through the arts to overcome disabilities and personal challenges and providing access to materials
and resources for artistic endeavours.
Legal Name of Organization: Northern Artist Gallery/Artists on Elgin
Amount Recommended: $8,800
Funding Request: Operational Funding
The Northern Artist Gallery increases public awareness of visual arts and craft activities in Northern
communities while supporting and encouraging public involvement in arts and crafts including the production of
arts and crafts, utilization of arts and crafts objects and sponsorship of arts and crafts activities in daily life. The
organization contributes to the development of creative communities in visual arts and crafts and thereby
contributes to the cultural and economic well being of the Northern communities in which the artists and
craftspeople live.
Legal Name of Organization: Northern Lights Festival Boreal
Amount Recommended: $18,000
Funding Request: Operational Funding
Northern Lights Festival Boreal is dedicated to the celebration of, development of, and participation in roots
music, song, dance, storytelling, visual arts, crafts and other creative and performing arts in the context of the
bilingual, aboriginal and multicultural nature of Northern Ontario. The organization is committed to cultural
diversity of northern Ontario in its operations and programming.
Legal Name of Organization: No Strings Attached Community Band
Amount Recommended: $2,000
Funding Request: Operational Funding
The No Strings Attached Community Band offers the opportunity for local, amateur musicians in Sudbury, of all
ages, to perform in a full concert band ensemble. The group offers a unique performance perspective to the
Sudbury arts community through novel repertoire and mandate. Wind instrument education and promotion is
also part of the band's mission.
Legal Name of Organization: Quilts on the Rocks
Amount Recommended: $1,000
Funding Request: Project- Portable facilities for Quilts on the Rocks display
Quilts on the Rocks, as part of the Sudbury & District Quilting and Stitchery Guild, sponsors an exhibit of works
of the members every three years to draw quilters and stitchers from across Northern Ontario. The Quilts on
the Rocks exhibit showcases the work of local guild members in the quilting and stitchery arts including
traditional, centemporary and art quilts and needlework techniques including hardanger, pulled thread, crossstitch, needlepoint, petitpoint, redwork, embroidery, canvas work and other fibre arts.
Legal Name of Organization: Rayside Balfour Whitewater Brush & Palette Art Club
Amount Recommended: $500
Funding Request: Special Event- For annual art exhibit show in areas of advertising, facility rental and
refreshments
The Rayside-Balfour Whitewater Brush & Palette Art Club fosters learning and appreciation of art in all its
forms, through informal forums in the form of group instruction by a lead artist and supporting various art
medium activities. The programming is open to students of all ages and the venues are proud to support the
transfer of knowledge and skills in the areas of arts.
Legal Name of Organization: Silver Birch Concerts
Amount Recommended: $3,500
Funding Request: Operational funding
Silver Birch Concerts, based around the Silver Birch Quartet, offers concert presentations in the chamber
music genre. Silver Birch Concerts, as a fairly new organization is committed to expanding their audience base
through innovative programming and ensuring the development of an educated audience for the future of
classical music in the City of Greater Sudbury, and beyond.
Legal Name of Organization: Sudbury Arts Council
Amount Recommended: $15,000
Funding Request: Operational Funding
The role of the Sudbury Arts Council is to promote and support the arts in the City of Greater Sudbury and
Northeastern Ontario area. SAC acts as a resource structure to promote an awareness of the arts, and the arts
organizations in the Sudbury region, while encouraging the development of arts and cultural projects and
activities, and artistic excellence.
Legal Name of Organization: Sudbury Basin Potters
Amount Recommended: $750
Funding Request: Special Event
The mandate of Sudbury Basin Potters is to promote and nurture the art of pottery in the City of Greater
Sudbury and surrounding areas. They offer classes twice a year to the community and participate in a major
event called the annual “Soup’s On”.
Legal Name of Organization: Sudbury Chamber Singers
Amount Recommended: $1,000
Funding Request: Operational Funding
The Sudbury Chamber Singers provide a venue for local citizens, both to learn to sing and appreciate chamber
music, from the renaissance to contemporary, in both secular and sacred traditions. Performances occur twice
a year, and various community groups and local musicians participate and perform as guest artists. The
organization also offers an extensive lending library to local community choirs.
Legal Name of Organization: Sudbury Craft and Arts Foundation (SCARF)
Amount Recommended: $2,000
Funding Request: Operational Funding
The Sudbury Craft and Arts Foundation promotes and supports regional artists and crafts people through
education and exhibition. The SCARF annual tour offers financial opportunities to the artists and a strong
educational component. A variety of techniques are involved in the production of their work.
Legal Name of Organization: Sudbury Dragon Boat Festival
Amount Recommended: $2,000
Funding Request: Operational Funding
The Sudbury Dragon Boat Festival shares the heritage and traditions of dragon boat racing with other
communities and promotes tourism in Sudbury by attracting visitors from all parts of Ontario and Canada. It
provides an opportunity for organizations to participate in this colourful sporting event, and to market their
products and services to the community.
Legal Name of Organization: Sudbury Finnish Male Choir
Amount Recommended: $500
Funding Request: Operational Funding
The mandate of the Finnish Male Choir is to promote and preserve Finnish culture in the male choir tradition.
The choir performs at many community events as representatives of the Finnish community.
Legal Name of Organization: Sudbury Multicultural and Folk Arts Association
Amount Recommended: $23,000
Funding Request: Special Event- for Annual Canada Day activities
The Sudbury Multicultural and Folk Arts Association’s mission is to ensure equal access and opportunity for
immigrants, refugees and racial minorities, and to facilitate their integration into Canadian society through
mutual respect and understanding of one another. The organization provides a wide variety of services to
individuals and heritage groups, and provides the means for the Canada Day celebrations at the Sudbury
Arena.
Legal Name of Organization: Sudbury Summerfest Foundation
Amount Recommended: $10,000
Funding Request: Operational Funding
Sudbury Summerfest Foundation’s mission is to increase the appreciation of the arts in our community and in
the North through the presentation of a variety of regional, Canadian, and international art forms; enhancing
opportunities to deliver professional live presentations to the public; and wherever possible, ensuring that the
opportunities are inclusive to the entire community.
Legal Name of Organization: Sudbury Symphony Orchestra
Amount Recommended: $30,000
Funding Request: Operational Funding
The Sudbury Symphony Orchestra is an organization dedicated to increasing the awareness and appreciation
of music in the Sudbury region and surrounding area by providing the opportunity for the public to attend a
stimulating program of concerts and by encouraging artistic excellence, commitment and education.
Legal Name of Organization: Sudbury Theatre Centre
Amount Recommended: $60,000
Funding Request: Operational Funding
The main purposes of the STC are to entertain, educate, enlighten, engage and invigorate its audience through
the creation and presentation of top quality professional theatrical productions from the local, national and
international repertoire. Also its mandate is to teach and develop an awareness, appreciation and practice of
the art of theatre, and to be a dynamic leader in the cultural life in Sudbury and region, as well as a leading
force in the Canadian Theatre industry.
Legal Name of Organization: Sudbury Youth Orchestra/L’Orchestre jeunesse de Sudbury
Amount Recommended: $2,500
Funding Request: Operational funding
The Sudbury Youth Orchestra provides a high standard of orchestral training to young instrumentalists, to
contribute to the artistic community with musical services, to contribute and continue to generate future
community musicians and arts supporters, to be a life-enriching, cultural option for young people.
Legal Name of Organization: Theatre Cambrian
Amount Recommended: $25,000
Funding Request: Operational Funding
Theatre Cambrian provides the people of the City of Greater Sudbury a theatrical showcase in which to
exercise their artistic or technical skills and also to encourage and enable the performing arts throughout the
region. Theatre Cambrian produces a season of quality theatrical performances, provides educational
opportunities for the enhancement of the cultural and artistic life of people in Greater Sudbury, and provides
performing artists and production technicians a venue to hone their skills.
Legal Name of Organization: Le Théâtre du Nouvel-0ntario
Amount Recommended: $37,000
Funding Request: Operational Funding
Le Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario (TNO) est une compagnie professionnelle vouée à la creation, à la dramaturgie
franco-ontarienne et à l’accueil d’oeuvres principalement canadiennes. La compagnie crée, diffuse et accueille
des oeuvres théàtrales dans le but de developer, d’enrichir et de faire rayonner la vie artistique et culturelle de
son milieu.
Legal Name of Organization: Ukrainian Senior Citizens’ Club of Sudbury Inc.
Amount Recommended: $3,000
Funding Request: Special Event- Support for the annual Original Canadian Garlic Festival
The Ukrainian Seniors Citizens Club of Sudbury promotes healthy living and involvement in social, cultural,
recreational and charitable activities in a Ukrainian ambiance. Special events and workshops are targeted to
the entire community both young and old. For the past 16 years the Garlic Festival has provided a venue for
local talent to entertain the community.
Legal Name of Organization: Valley Community Theatre Communautaire De La Vallee Inc.
Amount Recommended: $5,000
Funding Request: Operational Funding
The Valley Community Theatre Communautaire De La Vallee Inc. exists to improve the quality of life in the
community by fostering an appreciation for theatre. This is realized by providing the City of Greater Sudbury
residents with the opportunity to showcase and develop their talents, while fostering respect among the
generations through working together.
Legal Name of Organization: Walden Art Club
Amount Recommended: $900
Funding Request: Special Event/Equipment- To help advertise 2 major shows, arena rental, equipment
maintenance and children’s event.
The Walden Art Club works to encourage proficiency in the visual arts; to promote art appreciation in the
community; to maintain membership in the Northern Ontario Arts Association and Sudbury Arts Council; to
continue operating as not-for-profit and to assist other arts/cultural organizations in the Region.
Legal Name of Organization: Young Sudbury Singers
Amount Recommended: $1,500
Funding Request: Operational funding
The Young Sudbury Singers exists to provide children and youth between 7-17 years of age with the
opportunity to grow personally, musically and culturally through musical education and rewarding artistic
experiences. The community has been engaged through a wide variety of performances which has reached
out to different generations, educational institutions, individual musicians, musical groups, and other genres of
artistic expression through live and television performances.