2008 Arts Funding Recipients


Amateur Arts – Music
Amateur Arts – Community Theatre and Events

Amateur Arts – French Theatre

Amateur Arts – Visual Arts

Arts Education and Arts Training – Music

Arts Education and Arts Training – Multidisciplinary

Dance

Film and Video

Literary Arts English

Literary Arts French

Arts Services French

Music

Theatre English

Theatre French

Visual Arts

Ethno-Cultural Performing Arts and Multi-Disciplinary Events

Arts Service Agreements

Amateur Arts – Music

Three-Year Funding

Amount

Coro Vivo Ottawa

$5,000

Kiwanis Music Festival

$24,500

Annual Funding

 

Canadian Centennial Choir

$4,700

Carleton University Choir

$2,000

Les Chansonniers d’Ottawa

$2,500

University of Ottawa Choir

$2,000

Project Funding

 

Canadian Showtime Chorus

$3,500

Kanata Choral Society

$1,500

Musica Viva Singers of Ottawa

$2,800

Nepean Choir

$2,500

Strings of St John’s Chamber Music Orchestra

$3,000

Jury Members:
David MacAdam, Alan Thomas, Michael Zaugg

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Amateur Arts – Community Theatre and Events

Annual Funding

Amount

Savoy Society of Ottawa

$2,000

Project Funding

 
Crichton Cultural Community Centre

$9,000

Ladyfest Ottawa

$5,000

Tara Players Theatre of Ottawa

$4,500

Jury Members:
Kathi Langston, Robert Rooney, Emmanuelle Zeesman

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Amateur Arts – French Theatre

Project Funding

Amount

 Théâtre du village d’Orléans

$2,500

Théâtre Tremplin

$3,000

Jury Members:
Claire Faubert, Benoît Osborne, Louise Naubert

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Amateur Arts – Visual Arts

Annual Funding

Amount

Gloucester Pottery School

$20,000

Ottawa Valley Weavers and Spinners Guild

$10,500

Project Funding

 

Arteast

$3,000

Jury Members:
Gail Bourgeois, Pauline Conley, Mary Tsai-Davies

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Arts Education and Arts Training - Music

Three-Year Funding

Amount

Baobab Tree Drum Dance Community

$13,500

Ottawa Youth Orchestra Academy

$12,000

Annual Funding

 

Jazzworks

$7,500

National Capital Suzuki School of Music

$9,000

Ottawa Children’s Choir

$7,000

Ottawa Regional Youth Choir

$5,000

Project Funding

 

Leading Note Foundation

$5,000

Jury Members:
Heather Flinn, Stéphane Lemelin, Jane Perry

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Arts Education and Arts Training - Multidisciplinary

Three-Year Funding

Amount

MASC

$50,000

Orleans Young Players Theatrical School

$20,000

Ottawa School of Speech and Drama

$43,000

Salamander Theatre for Young Audiences

$31,000

The School of Dance

$74,000

Annual Funding

 

World Inter-Action Mondiale

$10,000

Jury Members:
Lynn Cox, Sonia Lismer, Michael Wilson

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Dance

Three-Year Funding

Amount

Al Arz Lebanese Art Group

$24,000

Annual Funding

 

Le Groupe Dance Lab

$125,000

Tara Luz Dance

$15 000

Project Funding

 

10 Gates Dancing

$6,000

Aroha Fine Arts

$4,000

Collective (gulp)

$2,500

House of PainT

$2,000

Propeller Dance

$7,000

Svitanok Ukrainian Dance Society

$2,000

Jury Members:
Emily Cheung, Ken Emig, Andrea Rowe, Independent Assessment: Alain Pauzé

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Individual Funding – A Grant

 

Saveeta Sharma

$5,500

Anjali Patil

$5,500

Individual Funding – B Grant

 

Andree Charlebois

$4,000

Elaine Towell

$4,000

Jury Members:
Kathy Armstrong, Emily Cheung, Ken Emig

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Film and Video

Three Year Funding

Amount

Independent Filmmakers Co-operative of Ottawa (IFCO)

$46,000

SAW Video Association

$68,383

Project Funding

 

Available Light Screening Collective

$2,500

Centretown Movies

$1,000

Inside Out Ottawa-Gatineau LGBT Film and Video Festival

$2,500

Jury Members:
Hoda Elatawi, Sabrina Mathews, John Mark Seck

Individual Funding – A Grant

 

Kelly Ann Beaton

$4,000

Edward Folger

$5,500

Laura Taler

$5,500

Roger Wilson

$5,500

Individual Funding – B Grant

 

Carmello Zucco

$4,000

Jury Members:
Linda Norstrom, Ramses Madina, Tom McSorley

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Literary Arts – English

Three-Year Funding

Amount

ARC: Poetry Society

$25,000

Project Funding

 

Bywords

$2,950

TREE Reading Series

$5,000

A B Series

$2,000

Jury Members:
Stephen Brockwell, Blaine Marchand, Jennifer Mulligan

Individual Funding – A Grant – Prose

Mary Borsky

$5,500

Stephen Dale

$5,500

John Geddes

$5,500

Elisabeth Harvor

$5,500

Nadine McInnis

$5,500

David Sacks

$5,500

Individual Funding – B Grant – Prose

Renate Mohr

$4,000

Joanne Proulx

$4,000

Sarah Waisvisz

$4,000

Nichole McGill

$4,000

Jury Members – Prose:
Kim Brunhuber, Rachna Gilmore, Heather Menzies

Individual Funding – A Grant – Poetry

John Akpata

$5,500

JW Curry

$5,500

Individual Funding – B Grant – Poetry

Karen Massey

$4,000

Paul Tyler

$4,000

Rob Winger

$4,000

Jury Members – Poetry:
Kaie Kellough, Monty Reid, Deanna Young

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Literary Arts – French

Three Year Funding

Amount

Les Éditions l’Interligne

$29,500

Les Éditions du Vermillon

$22,500

Annual Funding

 

Les Éditions David

$23,000

Project Funding

 

L’Atelier littéraire des Outaouais

$300

Jury Members:
Antonio D’Alfonso, Eddy Garnier, Gaétan Lévesque

Individual Funding – A Grant

 

Angèle Bassolé-Ouédraogo

$5,500

Maurice Henrie

$5,500

Andrée Lacelle

$5,500

Françoise Lepage

$5,500

Michel Thérien

$5,500

Jury Members:
Margaret Michèle Cook, Eddy Garnier, Gaétan Lévesque

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Arts Services – French

Annual Funding

 

L’Association des auteures et auteurs de l’Ontario français (AAOF)

$21,000

Project Funding

 

L’Association des professionnels de la chanson et de la musique

$9,000

Centre communautaire Franc-Ouest

$2,000

Société artistique rhythm ‘n’ zouk

$8,000

Cooperative Franco-Presence

$2,000

Jury Members:
Nancy Juneau, Lise Leblanc, Simone St. Pierre

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Music

Three-Year Funding

Amount

Cantata Singers of Ottawa

$17,000

Opera Lyra Ottawa

$180,000

Ottawa Choral Society

$25,000

Ottawa Symphony Orchestra

$72,000

Thirteen Strings Chamber Music Orchestra

$30,000

Annual Funding

 

Ottawa Bach Choir

$9,000

Pro Musica Ensemble of Ottawa

$3,000

Project Funding

 

Capital Brassworks

$5,000

Chamber Players of Canada

$3,000

Consort baroque d’Ottawa

$4,200

Impressions in Jazz Orchestra

$3,000

Royal Canadian College of Organists, Ottawa Centre

$3,600

Seventeen Voyces

$2,000

Jury Members:
Jean Desmarais, Robert Filion, André Massicotte

Individual Funding – A Grant

 

Jim Bryson

$5,500

Eric Eggleston

$5,500

Jan Jarvlepp

$5,500

Sodhi Kuljit

$5,500

Lynn Miles

$5,500

Mel Mrabet

$5,500

Ralitsa Tcholakova

$5,500

Individual Funding – B Grant

 

Arturo Brisindi

$4,000

Christine Fagan

$4,000

David Gaudet

$4,000

Stefani Guzman

$4,000

Moheb (Said Mohebullah) Hashimy

$4,000

Peter Hum

$4,000

Jamie Kronick

$4,000

Kyrie Kristmanson

$4,000

Meredith Luce

$4,000

Nathan Medema

$4,000

Ana Miura

$4,000

Linsey Wellman

$4,000

Jury Members:
Petr Cancura, François Dubé, Mélissa Laveaux

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Theatre – English

Three-Year Funding

Amount

A Company of Fools

$24,000

Odyssey Theatre

$72,000

 Annual Funding

 

Third Wall Theatre Company

$19,000

Project Funding

 

ImPULSE Theatre Projects

$3,500

New Theatre of Ottawa

$9,000

Pulse Theatre Collective

$2,000

Theatrophy

$2,000

The War Cabaret

$4,000

Vision Theatre Inc.

$5,000

Individual Funding – A Grant

 

Laura Astwood

$5,500

Laurie Fyffe

$5,500

Jury Members:
Pierre Brault, Mary Ellis, John P. Kelly

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Theatre - French

Three-Year Funding

Amount

Compagnie Vox Théâtre

$50,000

Théâtre de la Vieille 17

$77,000

Théâtre du Trillium

$75,000 

Théâtre la Catapulte

$68,000

Project Funding

 

Théâtre jeunesse en tête

$5,000

Individual Funding – A Grant

 

Anne Marie Riel

$5,500

Jury Members:
Claire Faubert, Benoît Osborne, Louise Naubert

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Visual Arts

Three-Year Funding

Amount

Artengine

$49,000

Gallery 101

$64,000

SAW Gallery

$65,000

 Project Funding

 

Le Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle (Bravo-Est gallery)

$2,500

X Ottawa Photography Festival

$5,000

Jury Members - Organizations:
Rachel James, Michèle Provost, Jeff Stellick

Individual Funding – A Grant

 

Karina Bergmans

$5,500

Nichola Feldman-Kiss

$5,500

Chantal Gervais

$5,500

Deborah Margo

$5,500

Cheryl Pagurek

$5,500

Su Rogers

$5,500

Cindy Stelmackowich

$5,500

Ruirong Yu

$5,500

Individual Funding – B Grant

 

Tarek Al-Zand

$4,000

Laura Eggleston

$4,000

Jennifer Foster

$4,000

Meaghan Haughian

$4,000

Andrew Hind

$4,000

Hawa Kaba

$4,000

Arvin Kovacevic

$4,000

Manon Labrosse

$4,000

Maria Lezon

$4,000

Natasha Mazurka

$4,000

Vivian Tors

$4,000

Ralph Nevins

$4,000

 Jury Members:
Anna Frlan, Vera Greenwood, Rachel James, Jinny Yu

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Ethno-Cultural Performing Arts and Multi-Disciplinary Events

Project Funding

Amount

Abezamutima et Loyal Kigabgiro

$3,500

Aboriginal Experiences Arts Culture

$8,700

Bulgarian Students’ Experimental Theatre of Ottawa

$1,000

Groupe de Danse Traditionnelle Burundaise ABEZAMUTIMA (GDTBA)

$3,000

Latin American Festival

$4,000

Loyal Kigabiro: Les Tambours Sacrés du Burundi au Canada

$4,000

Oto-Wa Taiko Group

$5,000

Ottawa Asian Heritage Month Society

$5,000

Ottawa Chinese Arts Troupe

$2,000

Ottawa Turkish Music Ensemble

$2,000

Soma Selepak Culture Association

$4,000

Vietnamese Canadian Centre

$1,800

Vietnamese Traditional Music Group “Lac Hong” Ottawa

$1,000

Jury Members:

Rochelle Hum, Louis Mbani, Noora Sagarwala

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Arts Service Agreements

Organization

Amount

Arts Ottawa East

$174,500

Council for the Arts in Ottawa

$117,000

Great Canadian Theatre Company

$309,000

La Nouvelle Scène

$161,240

Ottawa Arts Court Foundation

$155,500

The Ottawa Art Gallery

$242,500

Ottawa School of Art

$209,500

Visual Arts Centre, Orléans

$68,000

Arts Service Agreement Independent Assessors:
Alexandra Badzek, Angela Birdsell, Mireille Boudreault, Ann Brophy, Jennifer Cayley, Chuck Childs, Pat Durr, Sibyl Frei, Victoria Leblanc, Chantal Rodier

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