STAFF REPORT
July 24, 2006
To: Economic Development and Parks Committee
From: Donald G. Eastwood, General Manager Economic Development Culture and Tourism
Subject: Toronto Arts Council 2005 Annual Allocations Report All Wards
Purpose:
To report on 2005 funding activities reported to the Economic Development and Parks Committee, submitted by the Toronto Arts Council.
Financial Implications and Impact Statement:
There are no financial implications resulting from the adoption of this report.
Recommendations:
It is recommended that this report and the 2005 Annual Allocations Report submitted by the Toronto Arts Council be received for information.
Background:
At its meeting held on December 4, 5, and 6, 2001, City Council adopted Clause No. 8 of Report No. 12 as amended, of the Economic Development and Parks Committee dated November 1, 2001, from the Commissioner Economic Development, Culture and Tourism, entitled “Toronto Arts Council - Operating Principles”. By adopting the clause, City Council granted the authority to enter into a five-year agreement with the Toronto Arts Council (TAC) for the administration of the distribution of arts and culture funding on behalf of the City.
As required by the Agreement, TAC has submitted its Annual Allocations Report to the Committee, covering the period January to December 2005, reporting on financial information, grants adjudication and results, and a list of recipients. This Annual Allocations Report contains cumulative information previously in the four quarterly reports submitted by TAC. As required by the Agreement, TAC has also submitted its Audited Financial Statements to the Deputy City Manager and Chief Financial Officer, and the Executive Director of Culture.
Comments:
From the 2005 Community Partnership and Investment Program Budget, City Council has allocated $9,802,260 to the TAC, which comprised of $8,913,270 for arts and culture allocations and $888,990 for the administration of its funding activities. In the Financial Statements contained in its Annual report, TAC supplied income and expenditure information on Cultural Program, Operations Program, and Loan Program for the period January 1 to December 31, 2005.
Financial Activities:
TAC carried over from 2004 a balance of $151,788, which comprised of $151,678 in the Loan Program, $9 in the Cultural Program and $101 in the Operations Program. During 2005, TAC received $9,940,957 in total revenues, including: a total allocation of $9,802,260 from the City’s Consolidated Grants Budget, $34,013 in earned interest, $45,000 in Operations funding from the Toronto Arts Council Foundation (TACF), $29,604 in Building Renovation Grant, and $23,500 in Rescinded Allocations from previous years.
TAC showed $9,936,245 in total 2005 expenses, which comprised of $8,969,488 in allocations made under the Cultural Program and operating expenditures of $966,757 under the Operations Program. For all line items with variances, TAC has provided satisfactory budget notes denoting explanations for those items. Purchase of Service items included rent, audit, insurance, hydro, telephone, bank charges, computer support, courier and maintenance. TACF contributed $45,000 to the TAC towards shared operation costs, which included shared rent and shared administrative staff. It recorded $156,499 in total year-end balance, which comprised of $6 in the Cultural Program, $210 in the Operations Program and $156,283 in the Loan Program.
Funding Activities:
TAC reported that allocations awarded to the arts and culture organizations in 2005 resulted in an estimated 15,400 activities and events, attracting an estimated audience and public participation of 8.5 million people. TAC has submitted fulsome information on its granting activities in three categories: Annual Funding, Project Funding and Funding for Individual Artists.
For Annual Funding, 231 applications under seven disciplines were reviewed by 50 volunteer jury committee members. The disciplines included Community Arts, Dance, Large Institutions, Literary, Music, Theatre and Visual/Media Arts. The jury committees recommended 231 Annual Allocations for a total of $7,044,536. For Project Funding, 306 applications under six disciplines were reviewed by volunteer jury committee members. The disciplines included Community Arts, Dance, Literary, Music, Theatre and Visual/Media Arts. The jury committees recommended 197 Project Allocations for a total of $939,452. Out of the total 537 applications for Annual and Project Funding, 29 appealed the committees’ recommendations, of which 16 were successful. All the recommendations were approved by the TAC Board of Directors at its - 3 -
meetings. The complete list of successful applicants and their activities are listed in TAC’s Annual Allocations Report.
Under Funding for Individual Artists category, 885 applications totalling $4,329,582 in requests under five individual artist’s categories were reviewed by 31 volunteer jury committee members. The categories included Choreographers, Composers, Writers, Media Artists, and Visual Artists. The jury committees recommended 209 allocations for a total of $985,500. All recommendations were approved by the TAC Board of Directors at its meetings. The complete list of successful applicants in these categories is listed in TAC’s Annual Allocations Report.
Loans:
TAC has a City Council-approved rainy-day Loan Program intended to provide emergency bridge loans to meet unexpected financial hardship experienced by arts organizations from time to time. With a maximum limit of $10,000, these bridging loans are repayable within one year and designed to meet cash flow demands experienced by TAC client organizations. During 2004, TAC made 16 revolving loans totalling $138,300. Started in 1977, the Loan Program currently stands at $156,283, inclusive of $4,605 in interest earnings generated in 2005.
Conclusions:
City Council continues its long history in supporting arts and culture organizations and individual artists through funding administered by the Toronto Arts Council. The Annual Allocations Report for the period January 1 to December 31, 2005, submitted by the TAC advised City Council on funding activities during this period and the support City Council has provided to Toronto’s meritorious arts organizations, artists and creators.
These grants, administered by the TAC on behalf of the City of Toronto, support individual creators, small arts organizations and community arts projects in every part of the City. Combined with other City Programs in Culture, City and TAC grants to larger arts organizations and institutions, Local Arts Service Organizations and Live With Culture projects, City cultural investment provides a broad range of support that enhances cultural, economic and social opportunities for Toronto’s citizens and visitors alike.
Contact:
Rita Davies Executive Director of Culture Tel.: 416-397-5323 Fax: 416-392-5600 E-mail: [email protected]
Donald G. Eastwood General Manager, Economic Development Culture and Tourism
REPORT TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CULTURE & TOURISM COMMITTEE
TORONTO ARTS COUNCIL 2005 ALLOCATIONS REPORT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction ...... 1 2005 City of Toronto Budget Allocation ...... 1 2005 Allocations Summary ...... 1 Loan Fund ...... 2 Assessment and Allocations Process ...... 2 Supplementary Allocations...... 2 Income Statement and Program Balances for the period January 1 to December 31, 2005 ...... 3 Lists: • Annual Activity Allocations ...... 4 • Project Allocations...... 8 • Supplementary Allocations ...... 14 • Appeals Allocations...... 15 Descriptions: • Annual Activity Funding...... 16 • Project Funding ...... 40 Choreographers program...... 50 Music Creators and Composers program...... 51 Visual Artists program...... 52 Media Artists program...... 53 Writers program ...... 54 Rescinded Allocations...... 55 Board of Directors ...... 57 Committees ...... 58 Juries...... 59
1 INTRODUCTION A great city fosters a vibrant cultural scene and recognizes the importance of the arts to the quality of life of its citizens. Strategic municipal arts investment is a key factor in generating a healthy city economy, promoting cultural tourism, creating training and employment opportunities, and seeding the cultural industries. It is also an important tool for strengthening neighbourhoods through increased youth engagement, volunteer engagement and community pride. Toronto Arts Council offers funding programs to the city’s arts organizations and professional artists. These programs, funded through the City of Toronto, invest in a broad range of activities from individual creation and small start-up projects to some of Canada’s largest and most renowned arts institutions.
This report provides a summary of the City’s financial investment in its arts community for the period January 1 to December 31, 2005.
2005 CITY OF TORONTO BUDGET ALLOCATION Toronto Arts Council’s 2005 allocation from the City of Toronto’s Community Partnership and Investment Program budget was $9,802,260: $8,913,270 for funding allocations and $888,990 for operations.
2005 ALLOCATIONS SUMMARY
APPLICATIONS RECEIVED ALLOCATIONS AWARDED 2004 2005 2004 2005 ORGANIZATIONS/COLLECTIVES Annual (includes Supplementary Allocations – see page 14) Community Arts 24 $420,675 23 $422,980 24 $325,980 23 $343,010 Dance 31 $764,699 30 $899,378 31 $683,320 30 $745,818 Large Institutions 5 $1,482,865 5 $1,541,930 5 $1,315,790 5 $1,342,290 Literary 5 $93,996 5 $94,194 5 $78,000 5 $80,950 Music 84 $1,654,878 81 $1,666,793 84 $1,383,465 81 $1,423,630 Theatre 50 $2,215,225 50 $2,230,600 50 $1,971,374 50 $2,032,825 Visual/Media Arts 35 $1,129,038 37 $1,241,230 35 $1,017,263 37 $1,076,013 Sub-total - Annual 234 $7,761,376 231 $8,097,105 234 $6,775,192 231 $7,044,536
Projects Community Arts 88 $748,876 68 $610,168 53 $309,900 48 $328,920 Dance 30 $214,745 24 $209,738 20 $113,520 18 $117,635 Literary 11 $43,850 13 $67,625 10 $18,635 10 $24,985 Music 69 $439,117 51 $306,084 42 $129,150 43 $126,900 Theatre 103 $812,640 113 $894,229 54 $255,675 52 $257,012 Visual/Media Arts 28 $200,530 37 $284,160 21 $75,870 26 $84,000 Sub-total - Projects 329 $2,459,758 306 $2,372,004 200 $902,750 197 $939,452
TOTAL Organizations 563 $10,221,134 537 $10,469,109 434 $7,677,942 428 $7,983,988
INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS: Choreographers 23 $142,700 30 $170,530 13 $70,000 12 $69,150 Composers 133 $612,936 117 $540,053 28 $128,000 33 $153,150 Visual Artists 296 $1,373,000 224 $1,083,000 48 $247,000 54 $281,000 Media Artists 149 $848,244 161 $918,499 37 $159,900 33 $157,700 Writers 345 $1,614,000 353 $1,617,500 64 $293,000 77 $324,500 TOTAL Individuals 946 $4,590,880 885 $4,329,582 190 $897,900 209 $985,500
TOTAL (all programs) 1509 $14,812,014 1422 $14,798,691 624 $8,575,842 637 $8,969,488
2 This funding supported an estimated 15,400 performances, exhibitions, film and video screenings and community arts projects that generated an estimated audience and public participation of 8.5 million people.
LOAN FUND Toronto Arts Council administers a Loan Fund that provides short-term bridge financing to arts organizations. The Loan Fund made sixteen loans totaling $138,300 during 2005 through a rotating fund of $156,283. This program puts the City of Toronto in the vanguard with respect to its support of the arts. Toronto is one of only three North American cities and the only Canadian city to provide this much needed and very appreciated service to its arts community.
ASSESSMENT AND ALLOCATIONS PROCESS Funding for Organizations: Applicant organizations apply to one of seven TAC funding programs, depending on the type of activity in which the organization is engaged. Applications are reviewed first for eligibility by TAC staff. Applications are then sent for review to the appropriate committee. In some cases, applicants meet with TAC staff to discuss their applications and/or to receive help with the application procedure prior to adjudication.
TAC has seven volunteer committees reviewing applications to the seven funding programs: Community Arts, Dance, Large Institutions, Literary Arts, Music, Theatre, Visual/Media Arts. Committees are chaired by members of the TAC board; collectively the members represent a broad spectrum of artistic and cultural practices. All committee members are volunteers with extensive professional experience in their fields and are selected through a process of consultation with the arts community. All allocations are approved by TAC's Board of Directors. (Board and Committee members are listed on pages 57-58).
Project funding is zero-based, that is, past funding history is not a factor in determining whether or not funding is recommended or the level at which funding is recommended. This ensures that new applicants are not at a disadvantage when applying for funding.
Appeals are available to any applicant to whom funding was not recommended. (Appeals results are listed on page 15.)
Funding for Individual Artists: The Choreographers, Music Creators and Composers, Visual/Media Artists and Writers programs are each adjudicated by a representative independent jury of professional artists working within the respective discipline. Jury members are selected by members of the appropriate Toronto Arts Council arts discipline committee. (Jury members are listed on page59.)
Applications are reviewed by Toronto Arts Council staff for adherence to eligibility criteria and correct submission of financial, program and applicant information and are then forwarded to the appropriate adjudication body for review and recommendation. All allocations are approved by TAC's Board of Directors.
SUPPLEMENTARY ALLOCATIONS If the quality of applications submitted to a program at the first project application deadline of the year (February and March) does not warrant disbursal of the entire program budget allotted for that deadline, the balance of the budget is carried forward to the next deadline. However, if the quality of applications submitted to the final project deadline of the year (August) does not warrant disbursal of the entire program budget, the balance of the budget is allocated as supplementary allocations to select organizations that are funded on an Annual Activity basis. Selection of which organization or organizations will receive a supplementary allocation varies according to the amount of funding available, but is always limited to organizations that received a high assessment and due to budget constraints were not funded at their request level. The supplementary allocation is a one-time allocation that does not become part of the recipient’s base annual allocation because in the following year, the funds are again made available in the program’s project budget. A list of supplementary allocations is on page 15.
TORONTO ARTS COUNCIL Income Statement and Program Balances For the period ended December 31, 2005 TOTAL PROGRAMS OPERATIONS PROGRAM LOAN PROGRAM CULTURAL PROGRAM Jan - Dec 2005 Jan - Dec 2005 Jan - Dec 2005 Jan - Dec 2005 Actual Budget Actual Budget Actual Budget Actual Budget $$ $$Notes $$ $$Notes REVENUE
Allocation - City of Toronto 9,802,260 9,802,260 888,990 888,990 8,913,270 8,913,270 Interest 34,013 33,685 723 500 4,605 4,500 28,685 28,685 TACF - Operations payment 45,000 60,000 45,000 60,000 1 TACF - Other contributions 4,030 4,030 0 0 4,030 4,030 Building Renovation Grant 29,604 29,600 29,604 29,600 One time grants & Contributions 2,500 0 2,500 0 2 Rescinded Allocations - previous year 23,500 23,500 0 23,500 23,500 4 Miscellaneous 50 500 50 500 9,940,957 9,953,575 966,867 979,590 4,605 4,500 8,969,485 8,969,485
EXPENSES
Grants and Awards 8,969,488 8,969,488 8,969,488 8,969,488 Amortization expenses 8,733 8,000 8,733 8,000 - - - - Amortization - Building Renovation 29,604 29,600 29,604 29,600 - - - - Salaries & wages 567,192 565,432 567,192 565,432 - - - - Employee Benefits 108,236 108,015 108,236 108,015 - - - Materials and Supplies 64,586 72,500 64,586 72,500 3 -- -- Furniture and Equipment 2,925 1,500 2,925 1,500 3 -- -- Purchase of Services 132,454 139,600 132,454 139,600 - - - - Special Project 2,500 0 2,500 0 2 -- -- Adjudication Costs 50,527 55,000 50,527 55,000 - - - 9,936,245 9,949,135 966,756 979,647 0 0 8,969,488 8,969,488
Surplus (deficit) for period 4,712 4,440 109 (57) 4,605 4,500 (3) (3) Program Transfer Balances, beginning of year 151,787 151,788 101 101 151,678 151,678 9 9
Balance, end of period 156,499 156,227 210 44 156,283 156,178 6 6
Note 1: In 2005, costs associated with TACF were reduced; payment was therefore reduced accordingly. Note 2: A special project for which revenues offset expenses. Note 3: Increase in furniture and equipment expense offset by reduction in materials. Materials budget further reduced to balance. Note 4: Previous year allocations that are rescinded and funds reallocated through 2005 grants programs (see page 55 for details) .
3 TORONTO ARTS COUNCIL ANNUAL ACTIVITY ALLOCATIONS 2005 4
2004 2005 2005 Allocation Request Allocation COMMUNITY ARTS 1 Amicus Productions 3,000 3,000 2,500 2 ANDPVA 38,000 38,000 33,000 3 Art Starts Neighbourhood Cultural Centre 52,000 70,000 56,000 4 ArtHeart Community Art Centre 0 25,000 12,000 5 Bharathi Kala Manram 2,850 5,000 2,280 6 Cabbagetown Community Arts Centre 9,700 9,700 9,700 7 Cedar Ridge Studio Gallery 5,000 5,000 5,000 8 Chi Ping Dance Group 2,850 4,000 2,850 9 Community Folk Art Council 13,680 13,680 13,680 10 Etobicoke Handweavers & Spinners Guild 1,000 1,100 1,000 11 First Night Toronto 14,000 25,000 14,000 12 Franklin Carmichael Art Group 3,500 4,000 3,500 13 Friendly Spike Theatre Band 6,500 7,500 6,500 14 Inner City Angels 27,500 30,000 30,000 15 Jumblies Theatre 16,300 25,000 20,000 16 Mariposa in the Schools 12,000 15,000 12,000 17 Mayworks 23,500 25,000 23,500 18 Mural Routes Inc. 4,500 6,500 4,500 19 Native Women in the Arts 21,500 23,500 21,500 20 Prologue to the Performing Arts 9,000 30,000 15,000 21 Red Pepper Spectacle Arts 15,000 15,000 15,000 22 Shadowland Theatre 12,000 12,000 12,000 23 Sketch 25,000 30,000 27,500 Total Community Arts Annual 318,380 422,980 343,010
DANCE 1 Arts Inter-Media 18,500 20,000 20,000 2 Ballet Creole 8,220 28,000 15,000 3 Ballet Jorgen 33,000 100,000 40,000 4 Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists 6,000 6,000 6,000 5 Canadian Children's Dance Theatre 32,300 52,300 35,000 6 CanAsian Dance Festival 6,000 10,000 10,000 7 COBA Collective of Black Artists 12,000 15,000 14,000 8 Corpus Dance Projects 7,000 15,000 10,000 9 dance Immersion 7,000 10,000 10,000 10 Dance Ontario Association 11,000 15,000 12,000 11 Dance Umbrella of Ontario 25,000 26,500 26,500 12 Dancemakers 82,000 90,200 85,000 13 DanceWorks 45,000 48,000 46,500 14 Danny Grossman Dance Company 94,360 94,360 80,000 Danny Grossman Dance Company - supplementary 10,000 15 Dusk Dances 8,500 15,000 12,000 16 Esmeralda Enrique Dance Company 11,000 15,000 14,000 17 fFIDA 15,000 17,000 15,000 18 Fujiwara Dance Inventions 5,500 8,500 8,500 19 Kaeja d'Dance 18,000 35,000 25,000 20 Korean Dance Studies Society 6,500 10,000 8,000 21 M-DO 9,000 10,000 7,800 22 Menaka Thakkar Dance Company 14,400 25,000 20,000 23 MOonhORsE dance theatre 7,500 10,000 9,000 24 Moving Pictures 13,000 15,000 14,000 25 OMO Dance Company 6,000 7,518 7,518 26 Peggy Baker Dance Projects 8,000 9,000 9,000 27 princess productions 7,000 12,000 10,000 28 Sampradaya Dance Creations 7,000 15,000 12,000 29 Series 8:08 7,000 10,000 9,000 30 Toronto Dance Theatre 144,940 155,000 145,000 Total Dance Annual 675,720 899,378 745,818
LARGE INSTITUTIONS 1 Canadian Stage Company 777,930 843,930 788,930 2 Harbourfront Centre 102,750 175,000 104,250 3 International Readings at Harbourfront 102,990 113,000 102,990 4 Power Plant 104,890 150,000 109,890 5 Toronto International Film Festival Group 227,230 260,000 236,230 Total Large Institutions Annual 1,315,790 1,541,930 1,342,290 TORONTO ARTS COUNCIL ANNUAL ACTIVITY ALLOCATIONS 2005 5
2004 2005 2005 Allocation Request Allocation
LITERARY 1 Art Bar Poetry Series 7,000 10,000 7,000 2 League of Canadian Poets 20,000 19,100 19,100 3 Salon du Livre de Toronto 3,000 5,000 3,000 4 Storytellers School of Toronto 15,000 20,000 18,850 5 Toronto Book and Magazine Fair 33,000 40,094 33,000 Total Literary Annual 78,000 94,194 80,950
MUSIC 1 Aldeburgh Connection 8,060 8,060 8,060 2 All The Kings Voices 3,000 3,000 3,000 3 Alliance Cdn New Music Projects 15,000 20,000 15,000 4 Amadeus Choir of Greater Toronto 24,000 24,000 24,000 5 Amici Chamber Ensemble 6,600 8,000 7,000 6 Aradia Ensemble 4,975 5,000 4,500 7 Arraymusic 38,090 46,000 38,090 8 Art of Time Ensemble 0 5,000 4,000 9 Ashkenaz Foundation 0 20,000 15,000 10 Bach Children's Chorus of Scarborough 9,240 15,000 12,000 11 Baroque Music Beside Grange 3,780 4,000 3,500 12 Beaches Jazz Festival Society 8,873 10,000 8,873 13 Bell'Arte Singers 1,900 2,500 1,900 14 Canadian Contemporary Music Workshop 6,460 8,000 3,230 15 Canadian Music Centre 56,790 68,790 56,790 16 Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra 8,250 10,500 8,250 17 Cdn Children's Opera Chorus 18,000 18,000 18,000 18 Chinese Artists Society of Toronto 6,100 7,600 7,000 19 Chinese Opera Group of Toronto 4,500 4,500 4,500 20 Continuum 10,000 14,000 10,000 21 Dixon Hall Music School 17,000 17,000 17,000 22 Echo Women's Choir 2,750 2,750 2,750 23 Elmer Iseler Singers 29,146 34,280 29,146 24 Esprit Orchestra 68,250 80,000 73,000 25 Etobicoke Centennial Choir 4,750 4,750 4,750 26 Etobicoke Community Concert Band 6,000 8,500 6,000 27 Etobicoke Musical Productions 4,600 4,600 4,600 28 Etobicoke Philharmonic Orchestra 7,600 7,600 7,600 29 Evergreen Club Gamelan Ensemble 8,000 9,000 8,000 30 Exultate Chamber Singers 4,800 5,000 5,000 31 Glass Orchestra 2,800 2,900 2,240 32 Hannaford Street Silver Band 18,000 24,000 20,000 33 Jeunesses Musicales of Ontario 22,000 26,000 17,600 34 Jubilate Singers 3,555 4,000 3,555 35 Korean Canadian Symphony Orchestra 5,000 14,600 5,000 36 Les Amis Concerts 4,028 4,028 4,028 37 Mooredale Concerts 8,540 14,000 8,540 38 Music Africa of Canada Inc. 15,000 15,000 15,000 39 Music Gallery 60,000 65,000 60,000 40 Music Mondays 3,000 3,000 3,000 41 Music Toronto 86,585 86,585 86,585 42 Nathaniel Dett Chorale 12,825 25,000 20,000 43 National Shevchenko Musical Ensemble 4,500 5,000 5,000 44 New Music Concerts 46,500 56,500 46,500 45 North York Concert Orchestra 2,000 2,500 2,000 46 Off Centre Music Series 2,375 2,500 2,375 47 Opera Atelier 50,000 55,000 52,000 48 Opera In Concert 21,000 22,000 21,000 49 Orchestra Toronto 14,725 20,000 16,000 50 Oriana Women's Choir 6,000 8,000 7,000 51 Orpheus Choir of Toronto 8,617 10,000 8,617 52 Pan Trinbago Steelband Assoc. of Ontario 9,000 9,000 9,000 53 Pax Christi Chorale 4,000 5,000 5,000 54 Queen Of Puddings Music Theatre Co. 21,000 21,000 21,000 55 Regent Park School of Music 12,000 15,000 15,000 56 Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra 16,650 23,000 16,650 57 Scarborough Sweet Adelines 1,350 2,000 1,350 TORONTO ARTS COUNCIL ANNUAL ACTIVITY ALLOCATIONS 2005 6
2004 2005 2005 Allocation Request Allocation 58 Small World Music Society 10,000 15,000 15,000 59 Soundstreams Canada 55,000 60,000 55,000 60 St. Christopher House Music School 20,000 22,000 22,000 61 Tafelmusik 120,000 150,000 120,000 62 Tapestry New Opera Works 35,000 37,500 35,000 63 Toronto Blues Society 20,000 24,000 24,000 64 Toronto Chamber Choir 6,600 7,200 6,600 65 Toronto Children's Chorus 28,000 35,000 28,000 66 Toronto Consort 13,310 16,000 13,310 67 Toronto Downtown Jazz 2,200 15,000 2,200 68 Toronto Early Music Centre 5,250 5,250 5,250 69 Toronto Jewish Folk Choir 5,600 5,600 5,600 70 Toronto Mendelssohn Choir 67,545 70,000 67,545 71 Toronto Opera Repertoire 3,000 6,000 4,000 72 Toronto Operetta Theatre 18,346 20,000 18,346 73 Toronto Philharmonia 37,600 50,000 37,600 74 Toronto Sinfonietta 9,000 12,000 8,100 75 Toronto Tabla Ensemble 12,000 14,000 13,000 76 University Settlement Music School 18,590 42,700 20,000 77 Vesnivka Choir Inc. 5,000 10,000 6,000 78 Via Salzburg 10,000 12,000 11,000 79 Victoria Scholars 4,000 4,000 4,000 80 Women's Musical Club of Toronto 2,500 2,500 2,500 81 Worlds of Music Toronto 13,500 15,000 15,000 Total Music Annual 1,369,605 1,666,793 1,423,630
THEATRE 1 Alianak Theatre Productions 8,500 15,000 8,500 2 b current 13,500 15,000 15,000 3 Brookstone Performing Arts 6,650 8,000 5,320 4 Buddies In Bad Times Theatre 105,000 130,000 112,000 5 Cabaret Theatre Company 11,000 12,300 11,500 6 Cahoots Theatre Projects 22,300 24,500 23,000 7 Canadia dell'Arte Theatre 10,000 15,000 10,000 8 Centre for Indigenous Theatre 28,000 35,000 28,000 9 Clay and Paper Theatre 11,000 18,000 13,000 10 Crow's Theatre Company 20,000 25,000 20,000 11 Da Da Kamera 23,000 25,000 25,000 12 DNA Theatre 23,000 23,000 23,000 13 Equity Showcase Theatre 33,000 36,000 33,000 14 Factory Theatre 145,000 155,000 149,000 15 Fringe of Toronto 60,000 70,000 60,000 16 Le Theatre francais de Toronto 97,500 102,375 97,500 17 Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People 278,000 300,000 278,000 18 Mammalian Diving Reflex 11,500 18,000 14,500 19 Mixed Company 16,000 20,000 18,000 20 Modern Times Stage Company 10,000 13,000 11,500 21 Native Earth Performing Arts 53,450 60,000 56,500 22 Necessary Angel Theatre Company 48,500 50,925 50,925 23 Nightswimming 7,500 10,000 9,000 24 Nightwood Theatre 52,000 64,000 55,350 25 Obsidian Theatre Company 29,000 38,000 33,000 26 PACT 3,500 5,000 3,500 27 Paprika Festival 0 7,000 6,000 28 Playwrights Guild of Canada 20,000 25,000 20,000 29 Pleiades Theatre 10,000 10,000 10,000 30 Puppetmongers 11,500 15,000 13,000 31 Roseneath Theatre 24,500 35,000 31,000 32 Shakespeare in the Rough 12,500 13,500 13,500 33 Small Theatre Administrative Facility 16,000 17,500 17,500 34 Smile Company 21,480 25,000 19,250 35 Solar Stage 10,260 15,000 5,130 36 Soulpepper Theatre Company 29,000 45,000 34,000 37 SummerWorks Theatre Festival 22,000 25,000 24,000 38 Tarragon Theatre 175,000 178,000 175,000 39 Theatre Asylum 10,000 14,000 10,000 40 Theatre Centre 65,000 68,000 68,000 TORONTO ARTS COUNCIL ANNUAL ACTIVITY ALLOCATIONS 2005 7
2004 2005 2005 Allocation Request Allocation 41 Theatre Columbus 41,000 41,000 41,000 42 Theatre Direct Canada 54,000 59,000 55,350 43 Theatre Gargantua 6,175 12,000 9,000 44 Theatre Ontario 7,000 12,500 10,000 45 Theatre Passe Muraille 137,000 150,000 141,000 46 Theatre Smith-Gilmour 33,000 34,000 34,000 47 Topological Theatre 9,000 15,000 11,000 48 Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts 57,000 57,000 57,000 49 VideoCabaret International 48,000 53,000 48,000 50 Volcano 14,000 16,000 16,000 Total Theatre Annual 1,960,315 2,230,600 2,032,825
VISUAL/MEDIA ARTS 1 A Space Gallery 59,740 69,740 59,740 2 Art Gallery of York University 13,000 25,000 16,000 3 Art Metropole 27,172 32,000 27,172 4 Artists Film Exhibition Group 21,980 24,000 22,000 5 Canadian Film Centre 0 15,000 3,000 6 Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre 33,000 48,000 36,000 7 CARFAC Ontario 21,640 26,000 17,312 8 Centre for Aboriginal Media 4,628 12,000 10,000 9 Charles Street Video 53,500 53,500 53,500 10 Doris McCarthy Gallery 6,700 10,000 10,000 11 FADO Performance Inc. 12,000 15,000 15,000 12 Gallery 44 67,000 75,500 67,000 13 Hot Docs Documentary Festival 18,000 26,000 21,000 14 Images Festival of Independent Film & Vid 37,000 42,000 40,000 15 Inside Out Film & Video Festival 23,500 27,500 26,000 16 InterAccess 33,000 55,000 40,000 17 Koffler Gallery 45,500 51,000 50,000 18 LIFT 53,000 55,000 53,000 19 Mercer Union 62,000 65,000 62,000 20 Ontario Association of Art Galleries 6,500 10,000 9,000 21 Open Studio 63,000 65,000 65,000 22 Planet in Focus 0 18,000 8,193 23 South Asian Visual Arts Collective 12,000 15,000 15,000 24 Southern Currents / Corrientes Del Sur 0 9,000 9,000 25 Splice This! 5,000 5,000 5,000 26 Subtle Technologies 8,000 10,000 10,000 27 Textile Museum of Canada 27,000 37,000 30,000 28 Toronto Jewish Film Festival 5,000 25,000 9,000 29 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition 4,500 6,500 4,500 30 Toronto Photographers Workshop 59,000 65,000 60,000 31 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Fest 14,000 15,000 15,000 32 Trinity Square Video 50,000 55,000 50,000 33 V Tape 45,150 46,000 46,000 34 Visual Arts Ontario 6,970 6,970 5,576 35 Women's Art Resource Centre 36,020 47,020 36,020 36 Workman Theatre Project 4,513 5,500 5,000 37 YYZ Artists' Outlet 64,750 73,000 65,000 Total Visual/Media Arts Annual 1,003,763 1,241,230 1,076,013
TOTAL ANNUAL ALLOCATIONS 6,721,573 8,097,105 7,044,536 TORONTO ARTS COUNCIL PROJECT ALLOCATIONS - February 1 and March 1, 2005 deadlines 8
2005 2005 Request Allocation COMMUNITY ARTS 1 519 Community Centre 15,000 9,000 2 Afrihili Cultural Association of Ontario 8,000 0 3 Alexander Singers 3,300 2,500 4 Applegrove Community Complex 7,971 5,500 5 Black Cultural Arts Project of Ontario 4,000 0 6 Bleecker Street Co-operative Homes 4,150 0 7 Bleecker Street Co-operative Homes 5,000 3,500 8 Bloorview MacMillan Children's Centre Spiral Garden 11,965 10,500 9 Buffalo Jump Artists Collective 4,000 3,000 10 C3 (Creative Collaborative Communities) 4,070 0 11 Canadian Abilities Foundation - Abilities Festival 15,000 5,000 12 Cdn Cultural Society of the Deaf 7,305 2,800 13 Central Neighbourhood House 7,500 7,000 14 Central Toronto Youth Services 15,000 9,000 15 Children's Peace Theatre 7,500 7,500 16 Chinese Cultural Centre/Greater Toronto 4,000 3,500 17 Colibri Collective 10,000 0 18 Culture Fest Inc. 5,075 3,000 19 CultureLink Settlement Services 12,321 12,300 20 Davenport Perth Neighbourhood Centre 6,500 6,500 21 Design Exchange 5,000 0 22 Drum Artz Community Centre 6,000 6,000 23 Expect Theatre Inc. 10,000 9,000 24 Face In the Crowd 15,000 3,500 25 For Youth Initiative 13,000 10,000 26 Friends of Dufferin Grove Park 15,000 13,000 27 Gerrard India Bazaar BIA 5,000 2,000 28 Gilda's Club Greater Toronto 15,000 14,000 29 Griffin Centre 15,000 11,000 30 Heritage Skills Development Centre 14,982 0 31 It's In Me Education and Training Programs 15,000 9,000 32 Junction Forum for Arts and Culture 15,000 10,000 33 Korean Senior Citizens Society of Toronto 15,000 0 34 LAMP Community Health Centre 10,000 8,000 35 Laser Eagles 10,000 0 36 Lawrence Heights Community Health Centre 15,000 12,880 37 Literature for Life 3,000 3,000 38 Lunar Festivals of the Arts 5,000 0 39 Medina Collective 6,995 0 40 METRAC 5,000 5,000 41 murmur 10,000 8,000 42 North Toronto Players 4,000 3,000 43 Parkdale Community Health Centre 13,335 10,000 44 Rainbow Seniors Support 3,800 3,000 45 Regent Park Neighbourhood Initiative 15,000 15,000 46 Rexdale Women's Centre 14,100 12,000 47 Roncesvalles Village BIA 3,000 0 48 Sherbourne Health Centre: SOY 7,100 2,940 49 St. Bernadette's Family Resource Centre 10,000 5,000 50 St. Christopher House - The Meeting Place 7,000 7,000 51 St. Clair Arts Festival and Studio Tour 6,000 3,500 52 St. Clair West Services for Seniors 15,000 8,000 53 Style in Progress Events 10,000 0 54 Tamil Paa Paa Bharathi 3,000 0 55 Thai Culture Centre 3,500 0 56 Theatre Flash Bantou 8,000 0 57 Toronto African Dance Festival 8,000 4,000 TORONTO ARTS COUNCIL PROJECT ALLOCATIONS - February 1 and March 1, 2005 deadlines 9
2005 2005 Request Allocation 58 Toronto Artscape Inc. 8,000 5,500 59 Toronto Christian Resource Centre 4,699 2,000 60 Toronto Entertainment District Assoc. 5,000 0 61 Toronto Environmental Alliance 3,000 0 62 Turning Point Youth Services 10,000 8,000 63 Ukrainian Culture Festival 15,000 0 64 Upwards Art 5,000 5,000 65 UrbanNOISE Group 15,000 13,000 66 Waterfront Trail Artists 15,000 5,000 67 Weston BIA 2,000 2,000 68 World Literacy of Canada 15,000 0 Total Community Arts Projects 610,168 328,920
DANCE 1 3M Dances 6,000 6,000 2 Bia Collective 8,000 0 3 Chartier Danse 15,000 9,000 4 Chimera Project 4,000 4,000 5 Dance Creation Group 10,000 7,000 6 Festival of Interactive Physics 10,808 6,500 7 First Things First 12,630 0 8 Four Horsemen Collective 8,000 5,000 9 Green Tea 10,000 7,760 10 Gunaseelan Dance Company 10,000 4,000 11 Hub 14 10,000 8,000 12 Janak Khendry Dance Company 7,000 0 13 Janak Khendry Dance Company 8,000 0 14 Kala Nidhi Fine Arts 15,000 15,000 15 King & Dace Collective 4,000 4,000 16 Larchaud Dance Project 4,000 4,000 17 Little Pear Garden Collective 4,800 4,800 18 Moving Company 10,000 0 19 Newton Moraes Dance Theatre 12,000 9,000 20 Pocket Alchemy 7,000 0 21 Pro Arte Danza 6,000 6,000 22 Tribal Crackling Wind for the Arts 8,000 7,000 23 Up Darling 7,500 4,000 24 Visus Foundation 12,000 6,575 Total Dance Projects 209,738 117,635
LITERARY 1 Bloody Words Mystery Conference 1,500 0 2 Bloody Words Mystery Conference 2,500 2,385 3 Box Collective 2,500 2,500 4 brownstargirl productions 2,000 1,500 5 Canzine Festival of Independent Culture 2,600 2,600 6 Dub Poets Collective 5,000 3,500 7 Korean Canadian Literary Forum - 21 6,800 1,000 8 Maytree Foundation 28,000 1,000 9 Moosemeat Writers Group 975 0 10 Moosemeat Writers Group 750 0 11 Scream Literary Festival 7,000 6,000 12 Tamil Literary Garden 5,500 2,000 13 Toronto Small Press Group 2,500 2,500 Total Literary Projects 67,625 24,985 TORONTO ARTS COUNCIL PROJECT ALLOCATIONS - February 1 and March 1, 2005 deadlines 10
2005 2005 Request Allocation MUSIC 1 Academy Concert Series 1,500 1,000 2 AIMT 7,250 2,000 3 Beyond the Pale 2,000 2,000 4 Canadian Electronic Ensemble 1,600 0 5 Chris Langan Weekend 5,000 4,000 6 Common Thread: Community Chorus 6,500 4,000 7 Contact Contemporary Music 8,000 6,000 8 Counterpoint Community Orchestra 2,500 2,000 9 Earshot Concerts 2,000 1,000 10 Earwitness Productions 3,500 3,500 11 Ensemble Noir Incorporated 8,000 2,500 12 Franco Donatoni Project 6,500 5,000 13 I Furiosi Baroque Ensemble 5,842 1,000 14 Jeng Yi 3,000 3,000 15 Kiyoshi Nagata Ensemble 3,000 3,000 16 Lachan, Toronto Jewish Chamber Choir 5,000 2,000 17 Laudamus Chorus 4,000 0 18 Maryem Tollar Ensemble 6,000 3,000 19 Maza Meze 3,000 3,000 20 Moka 5,000 2,000 21 Muhtadi International Drumming 10,000 7,000 22 Music on the Hill 3,500 2,000 23 Music Picnic 6,000 3,000 24 Musica Vivace 3,000 1,000 25 Musicians In Ordinary 4,700 1,000 26 neither/nor 4,627 0 27 New Adventures In Sound Art 10,000 4,500 28 New Music Arts Projects 6,500 3,000 29 Nubian Messengers 12,000 5,000 30 Ondes Africaines 7,000 3,000 31 Organix 6,000 3,500 32 Penthelia Singers 4,800 2,400 33 Proteus 3,000 0 34 Rainbow Voices of Toronto 6,060 2,500 35 Royal Conservatory of Music 10,000 0 36 Salvador Allende Arts Festival for Peace 11,800 5,000 37 Samba Squad 4,000 4,000 38 San Lorenzo Latin American Comm. Ctre. 8,000 3,000 39 Sinfonia Toronto 15,000 3,000 40 Syrinx Concerts Toronto 5,000 2,000 41 Talisker Players Chamber Music 5,000 3,000 42 Toca Loca 5,605 4,000 43 Toronto All-Star Big Band 10,000 0 44 Toronto Masque Theatre 7,500 2,500 45 Toronto Wind Orchestra 4,000 4,000 46 TrypTych Productions 18,000 2,000 47 Upper Canada Choristers 3,000 0 48 Urban Vessel.Org 10,800 3,500 49 VIVA! Youth Singers of Toronto 4,000 0 50 VocalPoint Chamber Choir 4,000 2,000 51 Weston Silver Band 4,000 1,000 Total Music Projects 306,084 126,900
THEATRE 1 Acanthus Theatre 7,612 0 2 African Theatre Ensemble 9,000 0 3 Alchemy Theatre 3,500 0 TORONTO ARTS COUNCIL PROJECT ALLOCATIONS - February 1 and March 1, 2005 deadlines 11
2005 2005 Request Allocation 4 Aluna Theatre Collective 10,000 5,000 5 Anandam Performance Group 3,000 2,000 6 April Productions 12,000 0 7 Atrium Players Theatre Company 4,000 2,000 8 Beggarly Productions 5,000 2,000 9 Belltower Theatre 2,162 2,162 10 Candid Stammer Theatre 7,000 2,000 11 Cascade Theatre 7,454 4,000 12 Coeur De Lion Company 15,000 0 13 Collective for Living Theatre 5,000 0 14 coloUred girls collective 10,305 6,000 Rescinded; see page 55. 15 Dareden Theatre 15,000 3,000 16 DOA Productions 5,000 0 17 Excellence, Ontario Project 7,000 3,000 18 Fifth Sun Theatre Company 8,000 1,000 19 Figaro Project 8,000 0 20 Four Directions Productions 10,000 5,000 21 fu-GEN Theatre Company 4,350 4,350 22 Gravy Boy 10,000 0 23 Hand Made Theatre 4,500 0 24 Hardworkin' Homosexuals 6,500 4,000 25 Independent Auntie Productions 6,000 4,000 26 Kaboodle Productions 4,000 0 27 Kwazar Theatre 5,000 1,500 28 Le Theatre La Tangente 12,000 6,000 29 LMDA Canada 2,000 0 30 LVR Productions 1,214 0 31 Madhouse Theatre 6,000 2,500 32 Magpye Theatre 4,500 3,500 33 Mere Act Theatre Productions 4,395 0 34 Moving Company 14,500 0 35 Not In London Productions 15,000 0 36 Number Eleven Theatre 4,300 4,300 37 One Big Umbrella 10,000 0 38 Pea Green Theatre Group 10,000 5,000 39 Planet 88 Productions 10,000 5,000 40 Preface Theatre 4,000 3,500 41 Red Dress Productions 10,000 6,500 42 Red Red Rose 3,700 3,200 43 Red Sky 10,000 0 44 Shadowpath Theatre Productions 3,000 0 45 ShakespeareWorks 3,000 0 46 Shrimp Magnet Theatre Company 10,000 8,000 47 St. Imelda's Players 10,000 0 48 Stranger Theatre 5,000 3,500 49 TAGLARC 10,000 0 50 Tarantella Theatre 11,730 0 51 The Co. Theatre 12,000 0 52 Theatre Anon 3,700 0 53 Theatre Arts Generator Society 5,000 0 54 Theatre Panik 14,000 14,000 55 Theatrefront 12,000 5,000 56 Threshold Theatre 3,000 0 57 Toronto Dome Theatre Company 8,000 0 58 Total Performance Toronto 12,000 0 59 Tova Entertainment 12,000 0 60 Trellaborg Project Group 14,175 0 61 Troubled Souls 6,500 4,500 TORONTO ARTS COUNCIL PROJECT ALLOCATIONS - February 1 and March 1, 2005 deadlines 12
2005 2005 Request Allocation 62 Urban Spine 6,000 0 63 3TW Productions 5,000 0 64 AfriCan Theatre Ensemble 9,000 0 65 AfriCanadian Playwrights Festival 15,000 11,000 66 Alchemy Theatre 3,500 0 67 April Productions 12,000 7,500 68 Canadian Rep Theatre 15,000 0 69 Caribbean Tales 5,000 0 70 Cinnabar Productions 10,000 0 71 Collective for Living Theatre 15,000 0 72 Cooking Fire Committee 12,000 10,000 73 Da Capo Productions 8,000 0 74 Dark Horse Theatre 10,000 7,000 75 Diwata Works 4,000 0 76 Dodo Collective 3,050 2,000 77 DVXT Theatre Company 3,000 0 78 emergency.exit 3,500 3,000 79 Foo Productions 6,000 4,500 80 FU SHA Theatrical Projects 12,000 0 81 Gravy Boy 10,000 0 82 Housebound 8,000 6,000 83 Kaboodle Productions 4,000 0 84 Kanaki Productions 8,000 5,000 85 Kitchen Sink Shakes Collective 9,000 0 86 Little Red Theatre 10,000 2,500 87 MacKenzieRo Productions 10,000 0 88 Moleman Productions 7,000 5,000 89 Movement Theatre International 11,000 0 90 Mump & Smoot 10,000 0 91 Noah Counting Collective 5,000 0 92 Phyzikal Theatre 4,000 3,500 93 Red Brick Historical Society Collective 6,000 0 94 Red Sky 10,000 5,000 95 Renaissance Collective 10,000 6,000 96 Shakespeare In Action 10,000 7,000 97 Showing Pink Productions 5,000 0 98 Singing Ant-Hill Collective 5,000 0 99 Skazmos Theatre 6,000 0 100 Solo Chicken Productions 4,550 3,500 101 Spark Productions 10,000 6,000 102 Springboard Productions 3,000 0 103 Stori Ya Collective 4,500 4,000 104 Studio 180 Theatre Company 12,000 8,000 105 The Co. Theatre 12,000 0 106 Theatre Archipelago 10,000 9,000 107 Theatre Extasis 15,000 10,000 108 Theatre Smash 7,000 6,000 109 Thistle Project 12,000 0 110 Tribal Productions Theatre Company Inc. 9,000 0 111 UnSpun Theatre 8,432 6,000 112 Words in Motion 5,600 0 113 wordmachine 5,000 0 Total Theatre Projects 894,229 257,012
VISUAL/MEDIA ARTS 1 Alley Jaunt Collective 8,000 4,000 2 Alphabet City Media Inc. 15,000 4,000 3 Canadian Art Foundation 7,160 0 TORONTO ARTS COUNCIL PROJECT ALLOCATIONS - February 1 and March 1, 2005 deadlines 13
2005 2005 Request Allocation 4 Canadian Bookbinders/Book Artists' Guild 2,500 2,500 5 Collection of Foreign Objects 5,000 0 6 Fame Fame 4,185 0 7 Homemade Movies 5,000 0 8 Latino Canadian Cultural Association 4,500 2,000 9 McLuhan Global Network Conferences 8,000 4,000 Rescinded; see page 55 10 One Minute Film and Video Festival 3,000 2,000 11 Planet in Focus - Project 10,000 5,000 12 Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art 6,000 3,500 13 Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts 1,000 1,000 14 Reel World 20,000 3,000 15 Regent Park Film Festival Inc. 10,000 5,000 16 REHAB 4,000 2,000 17 Rejewvenation Org Cttee 8,000 3,500 18 Rogue Wave 2,000 2,000 19 Toronto Animated Image Society 15,000 4,000 20 Autumn Leaf Performance 10,000 2,500 21 Bravo-sud 6,000 0 22 Contact 10,000 5,000 23 Gendai Gallery 5,000 4,000 24 Good Medicine Group of Independent Artists 7,500 1,500 25 Hart House Installation Collective 8,000 4,000 26 Impulse Society for Cultural Presentations 8,000 0 27 Magenta Publishing for the Arts 10,000 1,700 28 May 17th Photo Collective 3,815 3,800 29 Offset Collective 4,500 0 30 TAAFI Collective 8,000 4,000 31 Toronto Arab Film Festival 10,000 4,000 32 Toronto Urban Beautification Alliance 7,000 0 33 Triple Happiness 7,000 0 34 University of Toronto Art Centre 8,000 0 35 Wade Collective 20,000 6,000 36 Women of Colour Film and Media Collective 5,000 0 37 Toronto Free Gallery 8,000 4,000 Total Visual/Media Arts Projects 284,160 84,000
TOTAL PROJECT ALLOCATIONS 2,372,004 939,452 15
APPEALS (The allocations listed on this page are also included in the complete list of allocations, pages 4-14.)
2004 2005 Pre-Appeal Appeal 2005 February 1 / March 1, 2005 Annual Activity Deadlines Allocation Request Recommendation Recommendation Total Allocation 1 ANDPVA 38,000 38,000 33,000 0 33,000 2 CARFAC Ontario 21,640 26,000 17,312 0 17,312 3 Danny Grossman Dance Company 94,360 94,360 80,000 10,000 90,000 4 Jeunesses Musicales 22,000 26,000 17,600 0 17,600 5 Smile Theatre 21,480 25,000 17,250 2,000 19,250 6 Toronto Downtown Jazz 2,200 15,000 1,760 440 2,200 7 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition 4,500 6,500 3,600 900 4,500 TOTAL 204,180 230,860 170,522 13,340 183,862
February 1 and March 1, 2005 Project Deadlines 1 AfriCan Theatre Ensemble 9,000 0 0 0 2 April Productions 12,000 0 0 0 3 Beggarly Productions 5,000 0 2,000 2,000 4 Candid Stammer Theatre 7,000 0 2,000 2,000 5 Coeur de Leon Company 15,000 0 0 0 6 Colibri Collective 10,000 0 0 0 7 Collective for Living Theatre 5,000 0 0 0 8 Dareden Theatre 15,000 0 3,000 3,000 9 Fifth Sun Theatre Company 8,000 0 1,000 1,000 10 Kwazar Theatre 6,500 0 1,500 1,500 11 Urban Spine 6,000 0 0 0 TOTAL 98,500 0 9,500 9,500
August 1, 2005 Project deadline 1 Autumn Leaf Performance 10,000 0 2,500 2,500 2 Green Tea 10,000 0 7,760 7,760 3 Gunaseelan Dance Company 10,000 0 4,000 4,000 4 Laudamus Chorus 4,000 0 0 0 5 Little Red Theatre 10,000 0 2,500 2,500 6 Magenta Publishing for the Arts 10,000 0 1,700 1,700 7 Movement Theatre International 11,000 0 0 0 8 Music Picnic 6,000 0 3,000 3,000 9 Royal Conservatory of Music 10,000 0 0 0 10 The Co. Theatre 12,000 0 0 0 11 Up Darling 7,500 0 4,000 4,000 TOTAL 100,500 0 25,460 25,460 16 2005 ANNUAL ACTIVITY FUNDING
A Space is an artist-run centre with a mandate to be politically engaged, issue/community based, technically innovative, anti-racist, anti-censorship and accessible. The gallery develops programs that support emerging artists, new artistic practices and work that is informed by a culturally specific aesthetic. It is one of a few galleries in Canada exploring community art as a defined artistic practice. $59,740
Aldeburgh Connection encourages the performance of artsong repertoire, presenting Canadian vocalists in programs that use narration to set the music in its historical or literary context. Its 2005/06 season will feature Sunday series, Young Artists Recitals in collaboration with the University of Toronto's Vocal Performance Department and an annual Schubertiad. $8,060
Alianak Productions provides opportunities for playwrights and directors. In 2005/06 they will stage Wreckage by Sally Stubbs, Richard Feren's Reading and The Gambler by Ronald Weihs. They will continue to develop new works that will be produced in upcoming seasons. $8,500
All the Kings Voices will present a three concert subscription series for the 2005/06 season as well as a family concert. $3,000
The Alliance for Canadian New Music Projects promotes contemporary Canadian music to music students and educators. It presents Contemporary Showcase, an annual festival of performances, master classes and adjudication. It also publishes a syllabus of contemporary Canadian music, selected and graded for music students. $15,000
The Amadeus Choir of Greater Toronto, conducted by Lydia Adams, will present its 2005/06 five- concert subscription series at the George Weston Concert Hall and other Toronto venues. $24,000
Amici Chamber Ensemble will present its 2005/06 four-concert series at CBC's Glenn Gould Studio. $7,000
Amicus Productions, a community theatre group established in 1978, will produce three shows in their 2005/06 season. Their professional development activities will include a workshop on physical comedy. $2,500
Association for Native Development in the Performing and Visual Arts (ANDPVA) is a membership- based organization that promotes creativity and provides access in the arts for artists of Aboriginal ancestory working in any medium. It facilitates the programming of events, provides information on and access to exhibition and performance venues, and offers mentoring and training for Aboriginal artists. $33,000
Aradia Ensemble specializes in period instrument performance, giving a 20th century perspective to early music. Their 2005/06 season will comprise four concerts in various Toronto venues. $4,500
Arraymusic commissions and performs contemporary Canadian and international music, especially the work of emerging composers. The 2005/06 season will include Scratch!, the Young Composer's Workshop Concert, the Composer Conducts concert as well as run out concerts. $38,090
Art Bar Poetry Series presents weekly poetry readings at the Victory Café on Markham Street. Each installment features three invited poets followed by an open stage. $7,000
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Art Gallery of York University is a university-affiliated public art gallery that provides exhibitions, programs and related activities focusing on contemporary art. Its aim is to enrich the cultural and intellectual environment of York University and the surrounding regions. On behalf of the University, the gallery maintains a permanent collection and outdoor sculpture garden. The gallery generates circulating exhibitions and undertakes an extensive publishing program. $16,000
Art Metropole is a contemporary visual arts centre dedicated to a non-geographical notion of community. The organization is committed to representing both local and international artists at varying stages of their career. The distribution of artists' multiples and publications in a fashion that bypasses the museum and gallery system is a prominant feature of the operations. They wholesale and retail artists' products, represent artists' products at contemporary art fairs, in publications and on the web. $27,172
Art of Time Ensemble combines traditional and contemporary classical music often presented in collaboration with artists from other disciplines. The 2005/06 season will comprise four programs of two or three evenings each. $4,000
Art Starts is a community-based storefront arts centre operating in the Oakwood-Vaughan neighbourhood. It brings together professional artists with people from the neighbourhood to create projects and programs in all artistic media, serving all ages with participants from diverse ethnic backgrounds. All of its programs are free or low cost. The upcoming season proposes both the core program - workshops, youth projects, open mic evenings, festivals, multi-media projects, community collaborations, open studios - and new projects in partnership with neighbourhood groups in high-needs areas of the city. $56,000
ArtHeart Community Art Centre (formerly Home for Creative Opportunity), located in the Regent Park area, uses art to build bridges between the individual and the community by providing access to studio space, field trips, instruction, art supplies and links with similar organizations. ArtHeart's programs for adults, children and youth include instruction in a variety of forms and techniques including painting and drawing, carpentry and sculpture, batik, tie-dye, silk-screening, print-making, paper-making, mural making, ceramics and more. $12,000
Artists Film Exhibition Group presents a unique screening program of experimental film and video by local, national and international artists under the name Pleasure Dome. At the core of its mandate is the intention to make time based work accessible to as many sectors of the public as possible. The curated programs feature both established and emerging creators working in shorter length or small format pieces, non-traditional media and projects that bring together film and video with performance and installation components. An emphasis is placed on seeking out work created by those in under- represented groups - people of colour, gay/lesbian, women and younger producers. $22,000
Arts Inter-Media/Dance Collection Danse is dedicated to preserving, generating and disseminating documentation in various media forms pertaining to the creation and performance of Canadian dance. It operates an archives, and strives to maintain high standards of stewardship of these collections while making them available to the dance community and the public. $20,000
Ashkenaz Foundation is dedicated to fostering an increased awareness in Yiddish culture through the cultural arts. It produces the biennial Ashkenaz festival celebrating over 100 years of Jewish creativity in the Diaspora and featuring Yiddish artists from all over the world. Musically, its roots are in traditional Klezmer music, but it has successfully melded with urban influences of modern jazz, the influences of Spain, and hip hop. The 2006 festival will be mounted at Harbourfront Centre $15,000 b current presents works from the Black Diaspora, focusing on alternative pop cultural productions and arts education programs. The 2005/06 season includes rock.paper.seriez of original one act plays, 18 staging of Donald Carr's Autobiography of an IBM at the Theatre Centre in May 2006 and and youth and mentoring programs. $15,000
Bach Children's Chorus of Scarborough, under the direction of founding conductor Linda Beaupre, is dedicated to developing a love of music and singing in children through enjoyable learning and performing experiences. The choir presents two annual concerts at the George Weston Recital Hall in the Toronto Centre for the Arts as well as offering training and touring opportunities to their members. $12,000
Ballet Creole is dedicated to the preservation and perpetuation of traditional and contemporary African culture, and to establish a new Canadian tradition based on a fusion of diverse artistic practices. The 2005/06 season includes the presentation of Soulful Messiah, and a home season program featuring choreographic works by Patrick Parson, Gabby Kamino, mentors and peers. $15,000
Ballet Jorgen is dedicated to developing new creations in classical ballet technique. Its 2005/06 plans include: the development of a new children's ballet by Allison Denham; the presentation of The Emperor's New Clothes; the presentation of four new commissions, developed last season; five new commissions; a choreographic workshop for four emerging choreographers, and the presentation of their repertoire ballets in Toronto. $40,000
Baroque Music Beside the Grange presents early chamber music on period instruments. In 2005/06, it will present a six concert series at the historic St. George the Martyr Church. $3,500
The Beaches Jazz Festival Society produced the annual celebration of jazz along the Queen Street strip in the Beaches and Parti Gras at the Distillery, a 3-day event that acts as a prelude, leading up the main event in the Beach. Both events take place between July 15 and 26, 2005. $8,873
The Bell'Arte Singers have been an active choral group since 1988. They continue to present a three concert subscription series and accept invitations to perform as guests with other ensembles. $1,900
Bharathi Kala Manram is dedicated to the preservation, promotion and presentation of Indian heritage. It offers Indian classical music concerts, dance performances and film screenings on the campus of York University, at Yorkwoods Library Theatre, Leah Posluns Theatre and other venues in Toronto. $2,280
Brookstone Performing Arts’s mandate is to re-connect theatre and spirit - both human spirit and Divine Spirit. Their 2005/06 season includes mainstage productions of The Sacred Diary of Adrian Pass, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, God's Man in Texas and Firewalking, as well as play development, touring within Toronto and a summer drama camp for children. $5,320
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is a professional queer theatre company committed to the development and production of queer theatrical expression. In 2005/06 they will stage R.M. Vaughan’s The Monster Trilogy, Jimmy by Marie Brassard, Salvatore Antonio’s In Gabriel's Kitchen, organ-ized crime by d'bi.young and provide production support for five more plays in cooperation with Nightwood Theatre, Topological Theatre, da da kamera, Cabaret Theatre and Crow's Theatre. They will continue playwright development programs and activities for youth plus two full facility festivals: Rhubarb Festival and Hysteria: A Festival of Women. $112,000
Cabaret Company was founded in 1997 to produce the works of Sky Gilbert and associate artists. The 2005/06 season will develop and produce Conversations with Joe and run the Free Jane reading series. $11,500
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The Cabbagetown Community Arts Centre offers instruction in drama, sculpture, painting and music to children and youth from Regent Park and Cabbagetown. $9,700
Cahoots Theatre Projects develops and presents new Canadian work that reflects Canada's cultural diversity. The 2005/06 season will include: the premiere of Anosh Irani’s Bombay Talkie, touring Ali & Ali and the Axes of Evil to British Columbia and continued development of other works, including laying groundwork for a large cast production of The Sheep and the Whale by Ahmed Ghazali in 2006/07. $23,000
Canadia dell'Arte Theatre develops theatre "without limitations" with a core group of artists. In 2005/06 they will stage a full length remount of Wheelwright: a cosmic documentary at the Theatre Centre and continue development on My Love No More. $10,000
The Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists is a professional association dedicated to improving the social status and working conditions of dance artists in Canada. Programs and services include the publication of Professional Standards for Dance, templates for Letters of Agreement, delivery of the Training Subsidy Program, and Group Accident Insurance Policy for members. $6,000
Canadian Children’s Dance Theatre develops and maintains a contemporary dance repertory company of children and young adults performing the works of local, national and international choreographers. The 2005/06 season includes the commission and creation of new works by resident choreographer Deborah Lundmark and Lesandra Dodson, as well as guests such as Paul-Andre Fortier and Sasha Ivanochko; and the presentation of the TILT choreographic workshop and performance. $35,000
Canadian Contemporary Music Workshop promotes the creation and performance of works by young, emerging composers alongside established composers. In the 2005/06 season, CCMW will present three concerts with readings and workshops open to the public. $3,230
The Canadian Film Centre produces the annual Worldwide Short Film Festival which showcases the best works in short film by a breadth of international filmmakers. All genres are eligible for presentation and awards, including fiction, documentary, live action, animated and experimental. A program of workshops and lectures compliment the screenings. The festival takes place in June. $3,000
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC) is an artist-run centre with a mandate to distribute and promote the work of independent filmmakers. The centre deals with animation, drama, documentary and experimental work, and holds a collection of over 1,576 titles. These are marketed worldwide to educational institutions, community groups, festivals, cinematheques, repertory theaters, and broadcasters. CFMDC provides financial return to artists through the sale and rental of their work, and seeks to broaden the audience for Canadian independent film. $36,000
The Canadian Music Centre promotes the works of Canadian composers and encourages the performance and appreciation of Canadian music by maintaining a comprehensive library of published and unpublished scores, tapes, CDs and books; offering educational programs to students and teachers; and providing promotional and advocacy services. $56,790
Canadian Stage Company's mandate is to produce a wide range of relevant, entertaining work from the Canadian and international contemporary theatre repertoire. Its 2005/06 mainstage season includes Habeas Corpus by Alan Bennett, Edward Albee's The Goat or Who is Sylvia?, the musical Crowns by Regina Taylor, Joan MacLeod's Homechild and Caryl Churchill's A Number. The Berkeley Street season includes Richard Greenblatt's Letters From Lehrer, I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright, and Ronnie Burkett's 10 Days On Earth. For its 22nd annual Dream in High Park, the company will present Much Ado About Nothing. 20
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The CanAsian Dance Festival fosters and promotes diverse expressions of Asian aesthetics through dance in Canada, through a biennial festival and annual artistic and professional development activities. In 2005/06, CanAsian will co-present a festival of Female Impersonation in Asian Dance/Theatre Traditions; offer intensive workshops and master classes in classical Indonesian dance and South Indian court dance; offer Asian-based dance educational programs; and prepare for the 2007 CanAsian Dance Festival. $10,000
CARFAC Ontario (Canadian Artist Representation Ontario) acts as a professional body for artists for the advancement of their common interest and assists in their negotiations with individuals and institutions. Initiatives and core services include publications, professional development and consultations, legal advice, a relief fund and a resource centre. $17,312
The Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra presents a five concert subscription series at Stephen Leacock Collegiate in Scarborough, free youth programs, a pops concert and ensemble engagements in the community. Ticket prices are made affordable to youth and seniors. $8,250
Canadian Children's Opera Chorus performs operatic and choral repertoire. The 2005/06 season will consist of a number of CCOC productions, participation in a Canadian Opera Company production and a number of other engagements with other performing arts organizations. $18,000
Cedar Ridge Studio Gallery is dedicated to the promotion and support of visual arts and crafts. Each year it organizes juried exhibitions of contemporary art, offers rental space to local artists, operates a pottery studio, and exhibits its permanent collection. They also collaborate on arts programming for youth at East Scarborough Boys and Girls Club. $5,000
The Centre for Aboriginal Media produces the annual imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival, which focuses on new film, video, radio, and new media works by emerging and established Aboriginal artists. Programming includes annual retrospectives, curated programmes, and showing of significant groundbreaking and legacy works. The festival will take place October 19-23, 2005. $10,000
The Centre for Indigenous Theatre is committed to the training and professional development of Native performing artists from across Canada. In 2005/06 they will produce Dead White Writer on the Floor by Drew Hayden Taylor, present play creation projects, offer training workshops in artistic and production area and continue to promote the idea of theatre training for aboriginal youth in Toronto and nationally. $28,000
Charles Street Video is a video production/post production facility for artists, and is dedicated to providing its members with affordable access to a range of electronic media production tools, technical support and training. The centre provides opportunities through residencies and a youth production program. It also supports opportunities through workshops, orientations, scholarships, a newsletter, the C$V program and sponsorship of screenings. $53,500
Chi Ping Dance Group promotes the richness of Chinese cultural heritage through the art of Chinese dance. They do so through a training program and performances in Toronto and elsewhere, including international festivals. $2,850
Chinese Artists Society of Toronto promotes Chinese artists and cultures through an annual concert series that provides young local artists with the opportunity to perform, preserves traditional Chinese art forms and supports new compositions by Chinese Canadian composers. The 2005/06 season will offer a three concert subscription series at the Chinese United Church as well as nine other concerts at various 21 venues in Toronto. $7,000
The Chinese Opera Group of Toronto preserves the traditional performing arts of Beijing Opera in Canada. The group will offer educational activities and performances in Toronto by providing two fully staged Beijing opera performances and several smaller lecture demonstrations. $4,500
Clay and Paper Theatre employs the elements of commedia dell'arte, pantomime, mask, puppetry and pageantry to develop popular and processional theatre in public places. Its 2005/06 season includes new portable shows called Evoking Now, the production of a new work, The Spaces Between, and involvement in a variety of community events and festivals. $13,000
COBA (Collective of Black Artists) is dedicated to preserving and promoting traditions of African, Caribbean and contemporary dance and music through research, education and performance. The 2005/06 season includes a 12-week professional development period with South African dancer, choreographer and mentor Vincent Sekwati Matsoe, and a tour of the COBA's repertoire. $14,000
The Community Folk Art Council promotes the preservation, development and advancement of the cultural and artistic heritage of the people of Toronto. CFAC serves its members through organization of showcase events; publicity and marketing services; publication of a newsletter and provision of networking opportunities. $13,680
Continuum presents concerts of contemporary chamber music featuring works by young Canadian composers as well as more established national and international composers. Its 2005/06 season includes a series of Toronto concerts and a symposium. $10,000
Corpus Dance Projects, established by David Danzon and Sylvie Bouchard, creates works combining dance, theatre and a sense of humour and whimsy, and presents them in traditional and nontraditional environments. 2005/06 activities will focus on working with a full-time company for an eight-month season to enhance their presence at home and internationally, develop new audiences, and develop their repertoire and new creations. $10,000
Crow's Theatre produces new works with a sense of social criticism expressed through a strongly personal and theatrical voice. Their 2005/06 season includes the production of a new work, Director's Cut by A. Shay Hahn and Jim Millan, a co-pro with National Arts Centre of Earshot by Morris Panych and continued play development on In the Garden, Two Suns and Resistance. $20,000
Da Da Kamera creates new work that maintains traditional ideas of character while pushing beyond the limits of narrative. The 2005/06 season includes the premiere of Beautiful View, further development of How It Works and touring of Cul de Sac. $25,000 dance Immersion promotes, cultivates and preserves dances of the African Diaspora through presentations, forums, residencies and youth programs. The 2005/06 season includes the annual Showcase and the Sanae Dance Project, a project for dance artists who want to learn all aspects of dance for stage, including administration, creation and production. $10,000
Dance Ontario Association is a membership based service organization dedicated to the advancement of dance in Ontario. Services and activities include the Hotline, headlines, a bimonthly newsletter, the DANCEONtario Directory, the DANCEONtario Award, DanceWeekend and the 3 x 3 x 3 Dance/Dance Animation Ontario touring project. $12,000 22
The Dance Umbrella of Ontario (DUO) assists and supports professional dance creators in Ontario, providing arts management services on a fee-for-service basis, a resource centre and advocacy. It also acts as an animateur, facilitator and advocate in the professional dance community. $26,500
Dancemakers is a professional contemporary dance company that brings to its audiences dance of "challenging physicality and emotional impact." 2005/06 season will include the creation and production of Les Grandes Absences, in collaboration with composer Bertrand Chenier and pianist Eve Egoyan; the Dancemakers Presents series: a residency by Peter Chin/Tribal Crackling Wind; a choreographic lab, master classes, and a youth program in underserved communities. $85,000
DanceWorks, a presenter of contemporary dance, supports the creation, production and dissemination of choreography by independent dance artists and small-scale companies. The 2005/06 season includes: the Mainstage Series, presentations by national and international dance artists/companies; CoWorks, supported self-presentation by Toronto artists/companies. $46,500
The Danny Grossman Dance Company is dedicated to the creation, production and preservation of choreographic works by founding artistic director Danny Grossman and choreographers who share his vision. In 2005/06, the company has refocused its mandate on preservation of Grossman's works. Activities include the development of The Human Family etudes collection; The Grossman Cycle, works that will be documented, notated and filmed; ChoreoLegacy, an immersion program for five dance students in Grossman's repertoire; and a National Forum on Dance Preservation in Canada. $80,000 Annual Activity + $10,000 Supplementary
Dixon Hall Music School introduces the children of Toronto's Regent Park area to the enjoyment of music by providing them the instruments, lessons and encouragement needed to develop their musical abilities. In addition to lessons in piano (classical and blues), guitar (classical and folk), percussion, violin, saxophone and other orchestral instruments, the organization operates an overnight summer music camp, a summer music day camp and a Listening Library. $17,000
DNA Theatre strives to create a "unique theatre experience, using new theatre languages and offering performances that are "deeply affecting." In 2005/06, they will begin development of a new work of balletic movement, Bagatelle, and work on the development of She Alone. $23,000
The Doris McCarthy Gallery (formerly The Gallery) at U of T is the only exhibition space in Scarborough dedicated to contemporary art. The program includes exhibitions of local, national and international artists. Four exhibitions and two student-centred exhibitions are presented from September through May. The gallery also houses a permanent collection and archives from Doris McCarthy and Cold City. $10,000
Dusk Dance Festival is a curated dance event that brings contemporary and traditional dance to urban and public parks. The festival features an array of choreographic works presented every night at sunset for a two to three-week period. Their plans for the 2005/06 season include the Dufferin Grove Park program, focusing on the commissioning of new works; and a new program in Driftwood Park in the Jane/Finch neighbourhood to foster creative relationships. $12,000
Echo: A Choir of Women's Voices performs contemporary and traditional choral music from Canada and abroad and commissions new works by Canadian composers. During their 2005/06 season, they will present two concerts at Church of the Holy Trinity, hold music workshops and participate in a number of community events. $2,750
The Elmer Iseler Singers is a professional 20 voice chamber choir with a repertoire that spans 500 years of choral music. Its 2005/06 Toronto season includes a series of concerts at St. James Cathedral and 23
Convocation Hall, a tour and many other performances. $29,146
Equity Showcase Theatre provides opportunities for theatre professionals to further develop their skills through its professional development program and specialized workshops. Activities include a Showcase Production program that enables directors to develop skills plus extensive classes for all level for actors, directors, stage managers and technical personnel. This season they will initiate two new programs aimed at the deaf and disabled artist communities. $33,000
Esmeralda Enrique Spanish Dance Company produces innovative dance fusing flamenco, Spanish classical dance, and contemporary dance. The 2005/06 season includes the production Mundo Flamenco and professional development workshops with guest artists from Spain. $14,000
Esprit Orchestra commissions, performs and promotes new music by Canadian composers. Its 2005/06 season will include a subscription series, four school concerts and the second Young Composers Festival. $73,000
Etobicoke Centennial Choir will present three concerts for its 2005/06 season as well as participating in community activities and accepting invitations to perform at events and concerts with other choirs. $4,750
Etobicoke Community Concert Band is a unique ensemble of amateur community musicians under the musical direction of John Liddle. The ECCB presents up to 20 concerts a season, accepts invitations for other engagements and participates in a number of outreach activities. $6,000
Etobicoke Handweavers & Spinners Guild was established in 1981 to encourage an interest in handweaving, spinning and dyeing. The Guild provides opportunities for its members to increase skills and artistry with guest speakers, mini-workshops and access to equipment. Beyond their membership, many more people enjoy and participate in the work of the guild through their public events, demonstrations, and workshops. $1,000
Etobicoke Musical Productions is a community music theatre group that formed in 1965 and presents two annual musical theatre or operetta presentations. In 2005/06, EMP will present two full scale musicals: Into The Woods and Chicago. $4,600
Etobicoke Philharmonic Orchestra provides programs of popular 18th and 19th century repertoire as well as new works by Canadian composers. They present five concerts in their 2005/06 season in Etobicoke high school auditoriums and churches. $7,600
Evergreen Club Gamelan Ensemble is an eight-member ensemble that performs on a collection of bronze and wooden instruments indigenous to Indonesia, collectively known as a gamelan. Their 2005/06 performances include four Toronto concerts at Harbourfront Centre, Lu Lu Lounge and other Toronto venues. $8,000
Exultate Chamber Singers, a chamber choir with a repertoire of sacred and secular music spanning five centuries, will present a four-concert subscription series at St. Thomas' Church for its 2005/06 season. $5,000
Factory Theatre develops, produces and promotes original Canadian theatre. The 2005/06 mainstage season includes remounts of Rick Miller’s Bigger Than Jesus and Banana Boys by Leon Aureus and mainstage pesentations of George F. Walker’s Problem Child/Featuring Loretta, Insomnia by Daniel Brooks, Anosh Irani’s The Matka King, The Morning Bird by Colleen Wagner, and The 24
Ventriloquist/Dragonfly of Chicoutimi by Larry Tremblay. They will continue development work through the Cross Currents Festival and Playwrights Lab. $149,000
FADO Performance Inc. is the only artist-run centre in English Canada dedicated specifically to performance art. The organization's mandate is to advance the knowledge and appreciation of performance art and to support the development and production of the art form through residencies, lectures, discussion, exchanges, festivals, conferences, publications, workshops and classes. $15,000 fFIDA (fringe Festival of Independent Dance Artists), offers curated and non-curated performance opportunities to independent dance artists. The festival will be held at site specific locations and mainstage venues in the Distillery District, August 10-21, 2005. $15,000
First Night Toronto provides an alternative to traditional New Year's Eve revelry by bringing people together to mark the passage of time through the arts. It produces a multicultural New Year's Eve arts festival that is family-oriented, alcohol-free, community-based and features a wide range of artists and arts forms. The 2005 festival will take place at the Distillery District. $14,000
The Franklin Carmichael Art Group promotes the visual arts by providing art classes for adults and children, supporting art exhibitions, and sponsoring juried art shows for its members and the north Etobicoke community. $3,500
Friendly Spike Theatre Band, an artist-run community theatre group that supports the psychiatric survivor community, mount the annual Mad Pride Festival in July, featuring theatre, cabaret, and music. $6,500
The Fringe of Toronto will present the annual 12-day fringe theatre festival at over 18 venues in the Annex neighbourhood in July 2006. $60,000
Fujiwara Dance Inventions is a repertory dance company devoted to the creation, production and touring of new dance works under the artistic direction of Denise Fujiwara. Activities for the 2005/06 season include the development of a new solo and new ensemble creation, Internal Memos from the Ministry, and remounts of Flight and Ophelia by Judy Jarvis and Water by Fujiwara at the 4 Women Project. $8,500
Gallery 44 is an artist-run centre committed to the advancement of contemporary Canadian photography. The gallery maintains a number of major program areas: a main gallery, member's gallery and exhibition vitrines, photographic production facilities, and services to artists and young people through workshops and education in the schools program. $67,000
Glass Orchestra is a contemporary music ensemble that explores the tonal qualities of glass on instruments of its own invention. It is the only contemporary glass music ensemble in the world. Its 2005/06 season will include three Toronto concerts. $2,240
The Hannaford Street Silver Band is a professional brass band. The 2005/06 season will consist of a six concert subscription series at the Jane Mallet Theatre, educational activities with the youth bands and guest appearances. $20,000
Harbourfront Centre's primary mandate is to showcase the work of contemporary Canadian artists in all creative disciplines and to place those achievements within a broad international context. It is also committed to working with artists from diverse cultural communities who have not yet worked with a 25 mainstream organization. 2005/06 programs include the annual Milk International Children's Festival of the Arts and Summer Festivals program, Flying Solo, a festival of solo performance, Culture Shock: Voices of an Emerging Generation, an international youth arts festival and symposium, and Dim Sum, a festival exploring contemporary Chinese identities and artistic expressions. $104,250
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is an annual film festival that celebrates Canadian and international documentary film and video. The program features over one hundred public screening programs and a conference comprised of workshops and panel discussions, forums, awards and a videoteque. In addition to the festival, the organization presents Doc Soup, which is a year round monthly screening and discussion series, and an international filmmakers exchange. $21,000
Images Festival of Independent Film & Video is the most established and comprehensive festival for independent media artists in Canada. The festival includes programs of mixed international and Canadian short films and videos, feature-length screening programs, media-based performances, guest curated programs, commissioned works, a spotlight Canadian artist project, a book publication, a Canadian tour, a symposium, and a curated city-wide exhibition of approximately thirty installation and new media artworks. $40,000
Inner City Angels provides quality arts education opportunities to Toronto's children, youth and their families who might not otherwise have access to such activities. Each year, the organization provides art education programs to schools and corporations and offers member agencies access to tickets to professional theatre, music and dance events. $30,000
Inside Out Film & Video Festival presents the annual Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival, with a mandate to advance cultural production, primarily in film and video by and/or about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people of all races, classes, creeds and abilities, in order to represent, support and develop these identities and sexualities. The ten-day festival held in May has grown exponentially over its history and has become a model for other like organizations around the world. $26,000
InterAccess is an artist-run centre for electronic media arts. It explores the intersection of culture and technology through the creation, exhibition and critique of electronic art forms and new communications media. The centre's mission is to expand the cultural space of technology with extensive program activities that support curated exhibitions, production projects, user groups, workshops, artist' talks, seminars, conferences, consulting services and the weekly Axon electronic newsletter. In addition to presentation and office space, the organization makes available a creation venue and resource centre. $40,000
International Readings at Harbourfront is dedicated to the promotion of literature by contemporary writers of fiction, poetry and drama, from Canada and around the world. In 2005, International Readings will host the 26th annual International Festival of Authors, October 19-29, 2005, launch a new festival, ALOUD: A Celebration for Young Readers, and present its ongoing program of weekly readings. $102,990
Jeunesses Musicales of Ontario encourages the pursuit of music among young people and assists emerging performers and composers to develop their careers. The 2005/06 season includes its regular 8-concert family-oriented Music with Bite series at du Maurier Theatre. $17,600
The Jubilate Singers, a 30 voice chamber choir, performs choral music from the medieval period to the present day. In the 2005/06 season they will present a three concert subscription series and engage in community outreach activities. $3,555
Jumblies Theatre, under the artistic direction of Ruth Howard, does collaborative theatre/art work with community groups. It follows principles of inclusiveness, high artistic standards, collaboration, 26 unconventional staging, and a balancing of process and product. It works in the community through a variety of forms, including long-term residencies, workshops, mentoring volunteers and apprentices, and participation in seminars and conferences. In 2004/05 they will be working intensively in the south Etobicoke area in collaboration with Montgomery's Inn. $20,000
Kaeja d'Dance is a contemporary dance company whose choreography is characterized by its intense physicality and imagistic approach. The 2005/06 season includes: Coffee Shop, a new full-length, multi- disciplinary program by Allen Kaeja; A Solo/Duet Concert featuring new and remounted works by the Kaejas and guests; commissions and the continued production of dance films; and the Community Leaps program, an arts enrichment program for students and teachers of schools "in need." $25,000
The Koffler Gallery is a public art gallery located at the Bathurst Jewish Community Centre. The gallery exhibits, interprets and documents works of contemporary Canadian artists and programs of special interest to the Jewish community. The gallery also organizes a program of public projects and site-works throughout the BJCC. $50,000
Korean Canadian Symphony Orchestra, a semi-professional orchestra, will present two concerts at the George Weston Recital Hall for their 2005/06 season. The Youth Orchestra will present two concerts at Briton House concert hall as well as perform as part of KCSO's concerts. $5,000
Korean Dance Studies Society's vision is to enrich Canadian society through the promotion, creation and production of traditional dance forms from Korea and other culturally diverse communities. The 2005/06 season includes the Sooryu Dance Festival: Roots Revitalized, and performances at various dance and community events/festivals. $8,000
Le Théâtre francais de Toronto is the only professional French-language theatre company in Toronto producing plays from the Canadian and international French-language repertoire. In 2005/06 it will include Visites a Monsieur Green by Jeff Baron, a collage of plays entitled L'Amour et la Folie d'apres Feydeau- Guitry, La Societe de Metis by Normand Chaurette, Bang et Confiance by Luc Moquin, Moliere’s L'Avare, tours in Ontario and Quebec and productions for young audiences. $97,500
The League of Canadian Poets is a non-profit arts service organization for professional publishing and performing poets in Canada. With more than 500 members, the League advocates on many issues such as freedom of expression, public lending right, and CANCOPY. It also untertakes marketing aimed at increasing awareness of Canadian poetry. The League coordinates Poets in the Classroom, National Poetry Month and two awards programs. $19,100
Les Amis Concerts promotes, sponsors and encourages interest in the performance of Canadian music, particularly young Canadian artists, through the presentation of an annual concert series. Six subscription concerts are planned for the 2005/06 season at the Heliconian Hall, plus one educational outreach concert and four reading chamber music sessions. $4,028
Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) supports and encourages alternative and independent filmmakers by providing affordable access to equipment and post production facilities, discounted rates at labs and supply houses, production grants, workshops, seminars, artist talks, public exhibitions and discussions, publication of a newsletter, crew location services and information services on a variety of film production topics. $53,000
Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People provides entertainment for young people and their families. The 2005/06 season includes premieres of Glenda MacFarlane’s Duel at Dawn, Bunnicula by Jon Klein and Chris Jeffries, Paula Wing’s The Man Whose Mother Was A Pirate and Hana's Suitcase by Emil 27
Sher. Co-productions include Ed Roy’s Other Side of the Closet with Youtheatre of Montreal, Dennis Foon’s See Saw with Green Thumb Theatre, David Craig’s Smokescreen with Roseneath Theatre and Herbie Barnes’ Russell's World with Manitoba Theatre for Young People. $278,000
M-DO is committed to fostering creative cross-cultural connections through music and dance performances, workshops and other projects. The 2005/06 season includes workshops and the Intimate Music & Dance Concert Series. $7,800
Mammalian Diving Reflex strives to create intellectually challenging and theatrically rich presentations. In 2005/06 it will tour A Suicide-Site Guide To The City and develop Diplomatic Immunity and The Encyclopedia of Us. $14,500
Mariposa in the Schools (MITS) provides programming in schools and community venues that reflects Ontario's diverse cultural heritage, nurtures creativity, and celebrates both traditional and original dance, music, theatre, puppetry, and storytelling. MITS offers training to teachers to make the arts part of the curriculum. $12,000
The Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts is an annual multidisciplinary festival of theatre, music, film and video, literary and performance art, spoken word and visual art. The festival seeks to celebrate the culture of working people, forge new links between professional artists and workers, showcase the art produced by innovative and emerging artists, and provide a positive image of labour. They present culturally diverse artforms. $23,500
Menaka Thakkar Dance Company is committed to bringing an authentic tradition of Indian dance and its contemporary works to Canadian audiences. Their 2005/06 season includes the commission of a company work from Natasha Bakht; the creation and production of Chitrangada and Yayati and the Natasha Bakht commission at the Toronto home season production at the Premiere Dance Theatre. $20,000
Mercer Union, A Centre for Contemporary Art, is committed to supporting artists through the presentation and examination of Canadian and international contemporary visual art and related cultural and critical practices. It provides exhibition spaces and programs for the presentation, interpretation, documentation and promotion of current artistic production. It programs a front and back gallery space, the Peep Hole space and Platform projects -an invitation program that occurs outside the gallery. $62,000
Mixed Company develops and produces innovative and socially relevant forum-style theatre and makes custom-created theatre projects for the broader community. The 2005/06 season includes the development of a new work, touring of How Can You Tell and Showdown to schools, support for two troupes working out of the homeless community plus provide workshops and training in forum theatre. $18,000
Modern Times Stage Company produces new and classic plays with an emphasis on performance style and a focus on theatrical traditions of the Middle East. The 2005/06 season includes the premiere of Bloom in thy Spite by Guillermo Verdecchia and further development on an adaptation of Brecht's A Man's A Man. $11,500
MOonhORse Dance Theatre supports Claudia Moore in the pursuit of her artistic journey, including creation, interpretation and commission of works. The 2005/06 season includes the premiere of The Castle, the development of a solo project with James Kudelka and Tedd Robinson, and Older & Reckless. $9,000
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Mooredale Concerts presents a unique combination of professional and youth concerts designed to attract families, students and senior citizens. In 2005/06, Mooredale Concerts will present professional concerts at Willowdale United Church and Walter Hall, U of T, Youth Orchestra Concerts at Rosedale Heights School and five children's concerts titled Music & Truffles. $8,540
Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film and Video is dedicated to exploring the cross-polination of dance and media arts through its annual festival of dancefilm. The festival features screenings, public events and forums that feature national and international developments in dancefilm. The 14th annual Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film and Video will take place in November 2005. $14,000
Mural Routes works with artists, communities, and government agencies to encourage, promote, and create public art murals. It acts as a service organization for mural artists and organizations interested in the creation of mural art. Their program includes commissioning murals in the Scarborough area, training young artists, co-hosting forums/conferences devoted to mural art, serving as an information clearinghouse for muralists and community groups, and raising funds to support this art. $4,500
Music Africa presents the annual Afrofest Festival of African Music featuring local and international performers. Concerts are presented in July at an outdoor concert in Queen's Park as well as a variety of venues throughout Toronto. $15,000
The Music Gallery is a unique space for the performance and creation of new music and music-related arts. It plays an important role as catalyst and animator for Toronto's music community. In its 2005/06 season, the Music Gallery will offer the core series of concerts and undertake special projects and outreach events. $60,000
Music Mondays Community Series is an annual summer series of free noon-hour concerts at Church of the Holy Trinity, running from May to September. The weekly summer music program presents a diverse repertoire of music by established and upcoming talents. $3,000
Music Toronto presents classical chamber music at the Jane Mallet Theatre. Its 2005/06 season offers audiences numerous concerts comprising five series: Quartets, Piano, Ensembles-In-Residence, Discovery (young artists) and Contemporary Classics. $86,585
Nathaniel Dett Chorale is a professional vocal ensemble with a mandate to foster and promote awareness of and interest in Afrocentric vocal music in the spirit of African-Canadian composer R. Nathaniel Dett. Their 2005/06 activities include three Toronto concerts and outreach as well as touring. $20,000
National Shevchenko Musical Ensemble comprises four performing groups, the Shevchenko Choir, the Shevchenko Male Chorus, the Toronto Mandolin Orchestra and the Kaniv Ukrainian Dancers. Its 2005/06 season marks the 50th anniversary of the Toronto Mandolin Orchestra. The season will comprise a series of concerts at Leah Posluns Theatre, Betty Oliphant Theatre and the Glenn Gould Studio. $5,000
Native Earth Performing Arts is dedicated to the creation, development and production of professional artistic performance that expresses the Aboriginal experience. Activities for 2005/06 season include: 18th annual play development festival Weesageechak Begins To Dance, production of Dreary and Izzy and Bunk # 7 at Factory Theatre, touring of Tales of An Urban Indian, plus development work on new scripts. $56,500
Native Women in the Arts encourages and promotes the artistic and cultural expression of First Nations, Metis and Inuit women. For 2005/06 they will continue to commission original work, provide arts training, 29 produce Catalyst Cafe, and work in partnership with a variety of arts and aboriginal groups. $21,500
Necessary Angel Theatre Company works collaboratively with an ensemble of theatre artists to create challenging new plays. The 2005/06 season includes a tour of John Mighton’s Half Life to Scotland and other locations in Europe and a tour of Rick Miller’s Bigger Than Jesus to Germany and possibly the US. They will develop Hard Sell by Daniel Brooks and Rick Miller, The Eco Show by Guillermo Verdecchia and Daniel Brooks and The Musical by Morwyn Brebner, plus host community forums on politics and theatre. $50,925
New Music Concerts programs contemporary music featuring works by Canadian and international composers. Its 2005/06 season will consist of ten concerts at the Glenn Gould Studio, Robert Gill Theatre, U of T and The Music Gallery. Other activities include Music Speaks pre-concert chats and educational programs. $46,500
Nightswimming is a dramaturgical company founded in 1994 that commissions and develops new works of theatre, dance and music. Their 2005/06 activities include : final development work and production of Julia Sasso’s The Betrayal Project, workshop presentations of work by Anosh Irani, Richard Sanger, Judith Thompson, Don Druick and Brian Quirt, Pure Research - a program that offers artists a forum to conduct experiments in performance research and the ongoing development and commissioning of new works. $9,000
Nightwood Theatre forges creative alliances among women of diverse backgrounds in order to develop and produce innovative Canadian theatre. Their 2005/06 season includes productions of Bear With Me by Diane Flacks and Mathilde by Veronique Olmi, plus the annual Groundswell Festival of new work, development of commissioned works and mentoring programs. $55,350
North York Concert Orchestra provides opportunities for amateur and professional musicians who wish to practice and perform at the community level. The orchestra offers special opportunities for young musicians to perform as soloists with a full orchestra. NYCO offers a three concert subscription series as community concerts each season. $2,000
Obsidian Theatre Company focuses primarily on plays by playwrights of AfriCanadian descent but also produces works from the African Diaspora canon. The 2005/06 season includes a mainstage production of The Monument by Colleen Wagner and the presentation, with Theatre Passe Muraille, of an 8-week fully produced festival of new works by young black writers. They will work on the development of The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke, The Real McCoy by Andrew Moodie and the universally comic memories of a long time actor. $33,000
Off Centre Music Series will present a series of five concerts recreating the intimate atmosphere of the 19th Century salons at the Glenn Gould Studio for their 2005/06 season. These concerts, under the artistic direction of Boris Zarankin and Inna Perkis, are a unique presentation featuring internationally acclaimed Canadian artists and young performers in the intimate spirit of the 19th Century salon. $2,375
OMO Dance Company presents contemporary dance programs that exemplify the current social environment and engages in education and community development activities. Activities in 2005/06 include the creation of new work, A Dozen Ways to Say I Love You. $7,518
The Ontario Association of Art Galleries (OAAG) encourages the ongoing development of public non- profit art galleries, art museums, artist-run centres and community galleries in Ontario. OAAG maintains a resource centre, provides advisory services for its members, publishes reports and reference guides, hosts an annual series of professional development workshops, two annual conferences and an awards 30 program. $9,000
Open Studio is an artist-run centre that supports and facilitates professional artists in the production of print media projects and in the development of their professional endeavours. The centre's multifaceted programming include a studio facility rental, visiting artists, scholarships, exhibitions, education activities, collaborative printing, portfolio reviews, outreach tours, international perspectives, print sales and archives. $65,000
Opera Atelier presents a highly diversified repertoire, interpreting opera, ballet and drama of the 17th and 18th centuries in an historically informed manner. In 2005/06, its 20th anniversary season, Opera Atelier will present Lully's Armide and Orfeo by Monteverdi at the Elgin Theatre. $52,000
Opera in Concert presents rarely-performed operas using the talents of young Canadian singers while developing an audience for opera. Its 2005/06 season will include a series of operas in concert at the Jane Mallett Theatre. $21,000
Orchestra Toronto provides musicians with an opportunity to perform symphonic music under the direction of a professional conductor and with professional soloists and guest artists. The 2005/06 will consist of a series of family concerts at the George Weston Recital Hall. $16,000
Oriana Singers, an all-female choir, presents an annual three-concert subscription series at Grace Church-on-the Hill and performs benefit concerts for charitable organizations and seniors' residences. $7,000
The Orpheus Choir of Toronto performs a wide-ranging repertoire of sacred and secular works from the Renaissance through the 20th century. Its 2005/06 season will consist of four concerts in various Toronto locations. $8,617
PACT (Professional Association of Canadian Theatres) is a national trade and service organization representing professional Anglophone theatre across the country. In 2005/06 they will continue their work with members in four areas: advocacy and information, labour relations, communications, and professional development. $3,500
Pan Trinbago's 2005/06 activities include the presentation of Pan Jazz as part of the Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival, the annual Panorama Steelband Festival, the annual Pan Is Beautiful Christmas concert, and the annual summer Steelband camp for youth. $9,000
The Paprika Festival is an annual juried festival featuring new theatre works by young artists. The sixth festival will be staged at Tarragon Theatre, March 16-26, 2006. $6,000
Pax Christi Chorale, a community-based choir, will present for its 2005/06 season, Christmas and Spring concerts at Grace Church on-the-Hill. $5,000
Peggy Baker Dance Projects serves as a vehicle for Peggy Baker to explore and develop her artistry as a dancer, choreographer, teacher and presenter. The 2005/06 activities include the PBDP dance intensive, a Toronto production including new and repertoire works by Paul-Andre Fortier, Doug Varone and Peggy Baker, and Phase 2 of the Choreographer's Trust: the development of documentation of Baker's choreography. $9,000
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Planet in Focus: International Environmental Film & Video Festival promotes the use of film and video as a catalyst for public awareness, discussion and appropriate action on the environmental health of the plant. This is the only festival in Canada devoted to the aesthetic and thematic exploration of environmental films and videos. The festival includes screenings, panel discussions, workshops, programs for school children and youth. The festival is held annually in September/October. $8,193
Playwrights Guild of Canada provides a national voice for Canadian playwrights, promoting their interests and professional development. Activities include administration of a public reading program for playwrights, workshops on contracts and copyright, promotion of Canadian plays at festivals and events, nationally and internationally. They also provide reading room facilities, coordinate reading tours and act as a resource centre. $20,000
Pleiades Theatre creates new Canadian translations of works from the national and international repertoire, with special attention given to works in the French language. In 2005/06 they plan to produce La Serva Amorasa by Carlo Goldini and Hosanna by Michel Tremblay, plus outreach work with youth. $10,000
The Power Plant is a public gallery dedicated to contemporary visual art. The gallery pursues its activities through exhibitions, publications and public programming and is committed to the dissemination of Canadian artworks in a national and international context. Exhibitions in 2005/06 include: Dedicated to you, but you weren't listening, a group show curated by Reid Shier; Glow House #3, an off-site installation by Toronto artist Kelly Mark; Glenn Ligon - Some Changes, a mid-career survey of this influential American artist; the Sissons/Morrow Carving Collection, a collection of Inuit soapstone carvings; two site- specific works by Vancouver artist Geoffrey Farmer and Brussels artist Joelle Tuerlinckx; The Welfare Show, an installation by Scadinavian artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset; and the premiere of a new work by British artist Simon Starling. $109,890 princess productions promotes the artistic vision and creations of dancer and choreographer Yvonne Ng. The 2005/06 season includes the production of Paper Women and Women 2, a project for seven dancers; the presentation of two emerging artists and two established artists through dance made in canada/fait au Canada; and the international co-creation and production of Scarlet's Room with Arts Fission Company from Singapore. $10,000
Prologue to the Performing Arts is dedicated to ensuring access to the performing arts for all of Ontario's young people. It organizes tours across the province for Ontario-based artists and companies, with performances in schools and other community venues. $15,000
Puppetmongers creates work that draws on puppetry and storytelling traditions from around the world and places the work in a contemporary context. In 2005/06 they will remount Cinderella in Muddy York and continue to develop new works - Tales of Mystery and Terror, Hard Times (an adaptation of the Dickens novel) and a yet to be named new piece with Yvonne Ng. They will tour works from their repertoire, hold studio performances and offer puppetry workshops for children and adults. $13,000
Queen of Puddings is a music theatre company dedicated to the development of new Canadian works. In its 2005/06 season, Queen of Puddings will workshop The Vanity and Goddess Sarasvati, commission and begin development of a new opera, plan an international tour to London, and produce Pudding Preps and other educational programs. $21,000
Redpepper Spectacle Arts encourages, recognizes, initiates and supports the production of cultural works at the community level. They produce a Harvest Festival and the Festival of Lights annually; they work in partnership with the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto and many other community groups; they produce arts residencies in Toronto and around Ontario. $15,000 32
The Regent Park School of Music offers affordable music lessons to youth resident in the Regent Park area. The school is located in St. Paul's Church and offers weekly lessons in piano, voice, guitar, violin and choir. $15,000
Roseneath Theatre creates, produces and tours family theatre productions. In 2005/06 they will premiere The Spirit Horse, adapted by Drew Hayden Taylor, and Wrecked by Chris Craddock for elementary and teen audiences. They will present Smokescreen as part of LKTYP season and tour Danny, King of the Basement. $31,000
Salon du Livre de Toronto produces an annual exhibition of French-language books from Canada and around the world along with a festival for francophone writers. This year the activities take place September 29 to October 2, 2005. The organization facilitates exchange among French-language writers, publishers and distributors while providing francophone readers the opportunity to increase their knowledge of francophone literary creation. $3,000
Sampradaya Dance Creations showcases a repertoire of dance works ranging from classical Bharatanatyam to interpretations of contemporary themes and intercultural collaborations. The 2005/06 season includes Sanchari, a classical bharatanatyam recital by principal dancer Prabha Raghavan, Samhita, the home season production at the Premiere Dance Theatre featuring choreography by Lata Pada; and a residency for bharatanatyam and ballet dancers in collaboration with Ballet Jorgen. $12,000
Scarborough Philharmonic presents an annual concert series at Birchmount Collegiate featuring a diversity of symphonic music that appeals to a broad audience. As well as the Masters series of concerts, the orchestra presents educational concerts, provides scholarships to young musicians, has a composer- in-residence program and forms partnerships with other organizations in the community. $16,650
Scarborough Sweet Adelines is committed to advancing the musical art form of barbershop harmony through education and performances. The 2005/06 season will include sing-outs on request and workshops on vocal production. $1,350
Series 8:08 supports individual, community and audience development through the programming of works in progress, new works and professional development. The 2005/06 season includes the Choreographic Performance Workshop Series, the Season Finale and Alternative Technique Classes. $9,000
Shadowland Theatre creates community-based theatre with a distinct visual style, using puppetry, mask and animated sculpture. $12,000
Shakespeare in the Rough presents Shakespeare's works in an outdoor environment using natural lighting and minimal sets. In 2005/06 they will stage The Merchant of Venice, offer workshops for actors and training for youth. $13,500
Sketch provides arts programming conducted by professional artists for street-involved and homeless youth as an avenue for creating opportunities, community connections, job and life-skills development. $27,500
Small Theatre Administrative Facility (STAF) is an arts service organization that offers affordable, professional, administration and promotion services to small not-for-profit theatre ventures and independent artists on a fee-for-service basis. $17,500
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Small World Music Society, under the direction of Alan Davis, is dedicated to providing increased performance opportunities to local performers of traditional and world music. The 2005/06 season will comprise several festivals and workshops in a variety of Toronto venues. $15,000
Smile Company brings professional Canadian musical theatrical productions to seniors who are unable to attend regular presentations due to financial or physical limitations. In the 2005/06 season they will tour - Girl Crazy, Through the Gable Window, Goodmorning, Cottage Country! Popcorn Princess, How To Get Rid of A Monster. They will develop new works, Annie Taylor Project by Lezlie Wade and The Story of Pawpine by Carol Norskey, and sponsor Round Table discussions between emerging performers and seniors who were performers. $19,250
Solar Stage Theatre produces and presents theatre for children at the Madison Centre in North York. The 2005/06 season will include a premiere of The Stone Princess by Zoe Henderson and productions of Cinderella, Grandma and the Pirates and The Gypsy Princess, Rumpelstiltskin; The Emperor's New Clothes, The Really Real Adventures of Scott Free and Will Do, Munsch Munchies, Little Red Riding Hood. The season will be rounded out by presentations from other companies, including Alistar Ant Puppets and DuffleBag Theatre. $5,130
Soulpepper Theatre Company is dedicated to the performance of and training for the classical masterpieces. The 2005 season includes Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love, Ibsen’s Wild Duck, a new adaptation of Ferenc Molnar’s Olympia by Michael Healy, an adaptation of Steinbeck’s The Long Valley by This Is A Bird, and Hamlet by William Shakespeare. The 2006 season will feature performances at Young Centre of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, Gogol’s The Government Inspector and American Buffalo by David Mamet. Mainstage productions include Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing, Tis Pity She's A Whore by John Ford, Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, and Lysistrata by Aristophanes. $34,000
Soundstreams Canada fosters the development of contemporary Canadian creation in the performing arts through a variety of programming. Its 2005/06 season will present the Encounter Series, Choral Series and a concert titled Steve Reich & Friends which will combine both choral and instrumental music. $55,000
The South Asian Visual Arts Collective (SAVAC) facilitates year-round programming on behalf of emerging and established South Asian visual artists. The organization is committed to the professional development of contemporary visual artists by providing research opportunities, presentation, promotion and dissemination of works of local and international scope through exhibitions, public programs and publications. $15,000
Southern Currents is dedicated to the development and presentation of contemporary works by local artists of Latin American origin or heritage; the presentation of Canadian works in Latin America and elsewhere and international Latin works in Canada. It produces the Alucine Toronto Latino Film and Video Festival annually in April/May, featuring national and international films and videos including fiction, documentaries and experimental works, video installations, and workshops. $9,000
Splice This! is the annual Super 8 Film Festival, the only festival of its kind in North America. The primary goals of this festival are to provide a venue for artists working with super 8 film and to encourage new Canadian, small gauge film production. The programs range in content and include documentary, experimental, narrative and animation films, as well as live performances and installations. $5,000
St. Christopher House Music School provides high quality, affordable music instruction to students of all ages in the west-central core of Toronto. The school offers lessons in piano, violin, viola, voice, guitar, flute, accordion, clarinet and recorder, runs a weekly Introduction to Music program for preschoolers and supports a community choir for children and adults. $22,000 34
Storytellers' School of Toronto was founded in 1979 to promote the art of storytelling through courses, workshops, and community events. At the core of its activities, the organization presents the annual Toronto Festival of Storytelling, the largest event of its kind in North America. The organization also develops three 'gatherings' each year that function as professional development for storytellers. Activities include special performances and oral culture presentations by preeminent tellers, collectors and scholars. $18,850
Subtle Technologies produces an annual multidisciplinary festival that explores the relationships between art, science and technology. The festival provides a forum for artists and scientists to discuss, demonstrate and exhibit their work. Programming is developed using an open call for proposals and through the research work of a hired, professional curator. The festival comprises interdisciplinary performances, multimedia installation, mentoring demonstrations and a diverse lecture series featuring scientists and artists presenting in one-hour segments. $10,000
SummerWorks Theatre Festival is an annual juried festival with a "fringe" format. The 2005 festival will feature 40 companies on stage at Factory Theatre and Theatre Passe Muraille. The festival also encourages play development through their Youth Play Reading Series and festival prizes. $24,000
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra is a professional chamber orchestra dedicated to performance on period instruments. Its 2005/06 season will include the subscription series at Trinity St. Paul's Centre, concerts at Toronto Centre for the Arts, presentations with Opera Atelier at the Elgin Theatre and a number of outreach and educational concerts. $120,000 tapestry new opera works is dedicated to the development and production of new and original works of Canadian music theatre and opera. Its 2005/06 season will feature the production of A Chair in Love and short scenes of Opera Briefs, Opera To Go workshops and the Composer-Libretto Laboratory and Director's Laboratory as well as educational and outreach activities. $35,000
Tarragon Theatre develops and produces new theatrical work from across Canada. The 2005/06 season includes mainstage productions of The Optimists by Morwyn Brebner, The Dishwashers by Morris Panych, Humble Boy by Charlotte Jones, Past Perfect by Michel Tremblay, and Care by Diane Flacks and Richard Greenblatt. The Extra Space season will include Leo by Rosa Larborde, a co-production with Volcano of Michael Redhill’s Goodness, and the Crow’s Theatre/NAC touring production of Earshot by Morris Panych. The theatre will continue their commitment to play development through Playwrights Unit, Playwrights-in-residence program and WorkSpace workshops. $175,000
The Textile Museum of Canada is devoted to collecting, exhibiting and documenting ethnographic textiles, and contemporary textiles in all media. It has a collection of 9,000 artifacts and is the foremost museum in Canada specializing in textiles. The Museum develops and presents curated exhibitions of the work of contemporary artists as well as comprehensive programs to augment the exhibitions. $30,000
Theatre Asylum creates Jewish-themed, feminist work developed through long rehearsal periods with an emphasis on research and dramaturgy. In 2005/06, they will work on the development of Bella, based on Burning Lights by Bella Chagall, in cooperation with Tova Productions. $10,000
The Theatre Centre is dedicated to developing and producing original, innovative Canadian theatre and supporting artists. In 2005/06, they will present their own production of Enoch Arden on Sorauren by Judith Thompson and continue their support for the development of new work through programs such as BANG!, Scratch, company residences and the Free Fall Festival. $68,000
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Theatre Columbus is committed to creating original shows combining a physical theatre tradition with issues relevant to our time and place. The 2005/06 season includes a presentation of the Ibsen Project at the Theatre Centre, development of two new works, Flight and Geriatrics. They will present Mayhem Cabaret, works in progress by a variety of artists and offer masterclasses in clown work. $41,000
Theatre Direct Canada presents compelling, inventive and uncompromising theatre for young audiences. In addition to its development and commission work, their 2005/06 season includes production of The Demonstration and touring of Beneath the Banyan Tree by Emil Sher with choreography by Lata Pada. $55,350
Theatre Gargantua is an artist-driven company that creates and produces new works with a multidisciplinary focus. In 2005/06 they will remount nod, start development on a new work and offer student workshops. $9,000
Theatre Ontario is an association of community, educational and professional theatre organizations and individuals who are dedicated to the development and maintenance of high quality theatre throughout the province. Its ongoing activities include training and providing information resources and a central communications network. $10,000
Theatre Passe Muraille seeks to develop and produce innovative and provocative Canadian theatre and to nurture new artists and theatre companies. The 2005/06 season includes the Rochdale Project, Sparta by Sarah Martyn, Peggy's Song by Jim Gerrard, Alex Poch Goldin's Cringeworthy as a co-pro with Planet 88, Asian Festival as a co-pro with Fu-Gen Theatre, and Niki Landau's Territories as a co-pro with Theatre Panik. The season will also include the Urban Festival with Obsidian Theatre and the Tom Walmsely Festival. $141,000
Theatre Smith-Gilmour is dedicated to the development and production of new original Canadian works and adaptations of existing texts. In the 2005/06 season, they will present three works in rep from the Chekhov Cycle, tour in Canada and Asia and begin research on the development of a new production cycle. $34,000
Topological Theatre is dedicated to the development and production of innovative new work that addresses universal issues and places the diverse Canadian cultural experience in a global context. In the 2005/06 season it will present Ed Roy’s The Golden Thug in cooperation with Buddies in Bad Times and work on the development of This Not For You. $11,000
Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (formerly Toronto Theatre Alliance) undertakes promotion and advocacy work on behalf of Canadian theatre and dance, and provides services to enhance the development of theatre, opera and dance professionals in Toronto. TAPA also manages T.O.TIX, a central access point for the sale and promotion of half-price tickets and supports the production of the Dora Mavor Moore Awards. $57,000
Toronto Blues Society promotes and presents blues in all its diverse styles to a wide audience. The 2005/06 season will include a variety of workshops, performances and educational and outreach programs. The organization also offers a wide range of services to blues musicians. $24,000
The Toronto Book and Magazine Fair's mandate is to unite the country in a national, annual celebration of reading and writing, and to highlight the importance of literacy in the lives of all Canadians. It produces the annual Word on the Street festival which focuses on books and magazines from around the world but also includes live events and activities featuring authors, actors, poets and playwrights. $33,000 36
The Toronto Chamber Choir (formerly known as the Toronto Chamber Society) is a community choir that presents choral music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods with the assistance of professional soloists and instrumentalists. Its 2005/06 season will feature two evening concerts and two afternoon concert/lectures. $6,600
Toronto Children's Chorus, one of the finest treble voice choirs in the world, provides musical training for children between the ages of seven and seventeen in a five-tiered choir system. The 2005/06 season includes self-presented concerts, school concerts, performances at festivals and conferences. $28,000
Toronto Consort recreates the music of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, performing on a unique collection of reproduction period instruments. Its 2005/06 season will include a five-program series, each performed on two nights at Trinity-St. Paul's Centre, educational programs, tour and recording projects. $13,310
Toronto Dance Theatre, under the artistic direction of principal choreographer Christopher House, is a contemporary dance ensemble dedicated to the creation and performance of original Canadian choreography. The 2005/06 season includes Four in the Fall, TDT's choreographic showcase; Life and Death, with the Hidden Cameras; and a remount of Sly Verb at Premiere Dance Theatre. $145,000
Toronto Downtown Jazz Society presents the annual Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival which attracts artists and visitors from around the world. The 2005 festival will take place between June 24 and July 3 at over 40 venues throughout downtown Toronto. $2,200
Toronto Early Music Centre promotes the performance and appreciation of medieval, renaissance and baroque music through a variety of programs and member services. Its 2005/06 activities include the ROM concert series, Musically Speaking, a pre-concert lecture series, music circles and workshops, and a variety of services for the early music community. $5,250
The Toronto International Film Festival Group's mandate is to cultivate an appreciation and understanding of film and the moving image. Its divisions include the Toronto International Film Festival, Sprockets: Toronto International Film Festival for Children, Cinematheque Ontario and the Film Reference Library. $236,230
Toronto Jewish Film Festival features films that celebrate the diversity and history of the Jewish experience around the world and strives to break down stereotypes and racial barriers. Both feature length and shorts are presented. An itinerary of panel discussions and professional forums are offered in conjunction with the screenings. The festival takes place annually in May at multiple locations. $9,000
Toronto Jewish Folk Choir performs a repertoire of traditional Yiddish music and regularly commissions new works by Jewish-Canadian composers. It presents an annual spring concert, participates in events produced by other organizations and gives community outreach performances. $5,600
The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, established in 1894, maintains a tradition of choral music through its repertoire which includes early Baroque masterpieces, large-scale oratorios, choral/orchestral works and commissioned pieces, usually accompanied by full orchestra. The TMC offers a four concert subscription series, three Toronto Mendelssohn Youth Choir concerts, makes guest appearances and maintains outreach activities. $67,545
Toronto Opera Repertoire provides opportunities for professional singers, young vocalists and the general public to participate in full opera productions. Each year they present two full operas and two 37 opera excerpts under the artistic direction of Guiseppe Macina. $4,000
Toronto Operetta Theatre presents classical operetta and light opera featuring Canadian artists. Its 2005/06 season will feature the productions of Savoyard Madness, Wiener Blut (Vienna Blood), Lady in the Dark and Kismet at the Jane Mallett Theatre. $18,346
Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition presents the annual juried showcase of original works of art from a variety of visual arts and fine craft media that takes place at Nathan Phillips Square. Approximately five hundred artists exhibit each year, including recognized professionals, emerging artists and students. It is the largest outdoor art exhibition in North America with free visitor admission. $4,500
Toronto Philharmonia (formerly North York Symphony Association) presents an annual 7-concert subscription series at the George Weston Concert Hall, operates a youth orchestra and works closely with the Board of Education providing music programs for students. $37,600
Toronto Photographers Workshop (TPW) is an artist-run centre dedicated to promoting and supporting photo-based artists' work through exhibitions and publications. TPW is committed to producing catalogues for all exhibitions and to publish books on significant Canadian artists. The gallery houses an important Resource Centre representing twenty-five years of archival collection and documentation of photographic activity in Canada. $60,000
Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival is a festival that promotes the integrity and diversity of Asian Canadian and Diasporic film culture, and nurtures the talent of new and emerging independent Asian directors from Canada and around the world. The festival takes place annually in November. $15,000
Toronto Sinfonietta (formerly the Polish Canadian Society of Music) promotes Polish culture and music through concerts by orchestra and choral ensembles. Its 2005/06 season will comprise 10 concerts. $8,100
Toronto Tabla Ensemble will present their annual mainstage concert at the du Maurier Theatre at Harbourfront Centre, collaborate with other artists and present a series in their studio. Activities outside of their main concerts include tabla classes and workshops, an archiving project and instructional DVD project. $13,000
Trinity Square Video is an artist-run centre that provides access to production and post-production facilities for individual artists and community organizations working on non-commercial video projects. TSV supports the independent video community through subsidized equipment rentals, workshops, artist- in-residency programs, and the presentation of artists' work. $50,000
University Settlement Music School provides quality, affordable music lessons to children and adults in the downtown area. The school offers a wide range of instrumental and vocal lessons from classical, jazz, popular and world traditions. $20,000
V Tape was founded in 1980 and is Canada's largest distributor of video art. The organization has developed into an information and distribution system for mediaworks by artists and independents committed to the cataloguing, exhibition, distribution, preservation and the future of media artworks. A number of exhibition/presentation, curatorial development and educational programs are also presented. $46,000
Vesnivka Choir, a 50-member, all female community-based choir, promotes Ukrainian choral and liturgical traditions and highlights Canadian Ukrainian composers. In the 2005/06 season, the choir will 38 present a three concert subscription series as well as outreach and community concerts. $6,000
Via Salzburg, a chamber orchestra, will present ten concerts at the Glenn Gould Studio in 2005/06. $11,000
Victoria Scholars, a men's choral ensemble specializing in music from renaissance as well medieval, classical and romantic era, will present a series of concerts at Our Lady of Sorrows and appear as guest artists. $4,000
VideoCabaret International brings Canadian history, tradition and contemporary times to life on the stage through works that are music/video/theatre hybrids. In 2005/06, they will remount CPR or City for Sale, present a showcase production of Cowboys and Indians by Ananad Rajaram and support work of artists in residence. $48,000
Visual Arts Ontario was established in 1974 as an association of working visual artists. All VAO programs fall into one of three areas: training, opportunities for artists and awareness. The organization offers special certificate training courses through universities and colleges, artists business workshops, a colour reprography and computer centre, trade periodicals and other services. $5,576
Volcano creates original theatre that combines the strengths of live performance with elements from traditions of other theatre cultures and other media. The 2005/06 season includes a production of Goodness by Michael Redhill as a co-pro with Tarragon and production of The Four Horseman Project at the Theatre Centre. They will continue development work on Enduring Freedom by Judith Thompson and Zarmeeneh Rahi, present Wrecking Ball and continue cooperation with Goethe Institut on the readings of German drama. $16,000
Women's Art Resource Centre (WARC) was established in 1984 as an artist-run centre dedicated to the advancement of artistic practice by contemporary Canadian women artists. WARC activities include an exhibition program, publishing MATRIART, maintaining a Curatorial Research Centre containing 2,600 artist slides and files, organizing professional development workshops, conferences and seminars, developing educational curriculum resource and outreach projects. $36,020
The Women's Musical Club of Toronto presents an afternoon concert series at Walter Hall, University of Toronto, provides scholarships to music students and presents an annual Career Development Award. $2,500
Workman Theatre Project produces the Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival, an annual film festival that presents features and shorts about the facts and mythology surrounding mental health/illness and addiction. Each film program focuses on different themes and includes panel discussions with filmmakers, artists and people sharing professional and personal experience with mental illness and addiction. $5,000
Worlds of Music Toronto is devoted to the teaching of traditionally-based musical art forms from cultures throughout the world. Their 2005/06 activities will include a series of two workshops encompassing a wide range of music practices at Hart House, U of T between September 2005 and May 2006 as well as a youth-oriented project and Professional Development seminar. $15,000
YYZ Artists' Outlet is an artist-run centre for the exhibition and dissemination of contemporary art. The centre is mandated to support and develop audiences for the most challenging ideas in current art practice by presenting a diverse program of exhibitions, art books and special events. The gallery features two exhibition spaces, one of which is currently devoted to the time-based arts, and a publication lounge where books, catalogues and historical archives are made available to visitors for purchase and/or 39 research. $65,000 40 2005 PROJECT FUNDING
3M Dances is a company of three emerging male dancers and choreographers who aim to highlight the male presence in the contemporary dance world. 3M Dances will present new works by Louis Laberge- Cote, Hiroshi Miyamoto, Lincoln Shand, Serge Bennathan and Shawn Newman at the Winchester Street Theatre, January 13-15, 2006. $6,000
The Association of Improvising Musicians Toronto (AIMT) will present a series of concerts and education workshops at the Tranzac Club in September 2005. $2,000
Alley Jaunt Collective will mount the third annual Alley Jaunt exhibition, a weekend event where local artists create specific installations responding to the environment of the garage, the alley and the local urban community. It will feature the work of 20 artists in 8 participating garages in alleys in the Trinity Bellwoods Park neighbourhood, August 13-14, 2005. $4,000
Alphabet City Media Inc. will produce Suspect, a festival that will take place at various locations along Queen Street West, October 21-30, 2005. This arts and ideas street festival will feature readings, exhibitions, screenings, performances, debates, panels and installations commissioned for the festival. $4,000
Aluna Theatre Collective will workshop Madre, Mama, mami, a new play by Beatriz Pizano, between October 2005 and January 2006. The play examines the immigrant experience in relation to aging parents left behind; a story of a mother and daughter and the problems of loss of memory. $5,000
Anandam Performance Group will undertake a workshop production of Frida and Herself. Based on the famous Mexican painter, Frida Kahlo, the piece is described as a visual work that combines puppetry, movement, live performers, images and text. $2,000
Atrium Players Theatre will hold a workshop of Invisible Tears, an adaptation of twelve short stories by Chekhov adapted for the stage by Tatiana Chouljenko and Jurjica Grgar. $2,000
Beggarly Theatre will produce The Gambler by Ronald Weihs as a co-pro with Artword Theatre and Alianak Productions. It will be mounted at Artword Theatre, January 25 to February 19, 2006. $2,000
Belltower Theatre will present a workshop production of The Unforgetting Act Two at the Workshop Series of the 2005 Summerworks Festival. The play, written in a poetic narrative style, is an exploration of memory, denial and repressive religion as seen through the eyes of people living in small community in BC and the arrival of a mysterious hobo. $2,162
Bloorview MacMillan Children's Centre Spiral Garden will host ceramic artist Daniela Pulida as artist in residence in its new Open Studio facility from June 15 to December 10, 2005. She will work with the population of children and young adults who take part in the Spiral Garden's program. $10,500
Buffalo Jump Artists' Collective is a group of artists working to support First Nations and social justice issues through theatre, spectacle, visual arts, and storytelling. Their main program is an annual parade/festival. The 2005 Buffalo Jump Festival will take place June 7-21, 2005 and includes a Peace Walk, Expanding the Circle Storytelling, and Buffalo Building workshops. $3,000
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The Canadian Abilities Foundation will mount the Abilities Festival - A Celebration of Disability Art and Culture at the Columbus Centre and its Joseph D. Carrier Gallery, October 27-30, 2005. The festival will include several exhibition and performance programs, including an international juried exhibition, master classes and workshops, a video library featuring films from the previous year's disability film festival and a children's art show. Two gala concerts will also be held at the Glenn Gould Studio. $5,000
Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists' Guild will present the Book Arts Fair and Gathering, June 2- 5, 2005. The initiative is aimed at raising awareness of the book arts and will comprise lectures, demonstrations, workshops and an exhibition. The workshops will take place at the CBBAG bindery and the Ontario College of Art. The Book Arts Fair will take place at St. Barnabus Church. $2,500
Candid Stammer Theatre will workshop Perhaps in A Hundred Years in July-August, 2005. The work is a dance theatre collective creation that explores the ways in which we regard the future through our understanding of the present and our past. $2,000
The Canzine Festival of Independent Culture, the world's largest festival of alternative culture and publications, includes a reading series, workshops, panel discussions, film screenings and musical performances. This event brings together creators working in a variety of media and promotes the exchange of ideas and products. The heart of this initiative is a large zine fair with more than 150 exhibitors in attendance. The 2005 festival will be held in October at The Gladstone Hotel. $2,600
Cascade Theatre will tour Something from Nothing by Allen Merovitz and Chris Bryden, in collaboration with Jerry Silverberg, from March to May, 2006. The play uses music, puppetry and acting and is the retelling of an old Jewish folk tale about a special relationship between a boy and his grandfather. $4,000
Central Neighbourhood House, a multi-service agency based in the downtown lower east end, an area of the City with a high proportion of low-income families, will host media artist Camille Turner as artist in residence for its Women's Program, August 2005 to June 2006. Her project, Community Stories Through Media, will include 3 digital storytelling explorations in the Central Neighbourhood House community. $7,000
The Children's Peace Theatre will host its annual Peace Camp in the Dawes Road/Danforth area, July 4-30, 2005. Eight professional theatre artists, led by Robert Morgan and Leah Cherniak, will work with children, youth, and adults, using workshops, play creation, and a public celebration to teach participants how to deal with conflict and violence. $7,500
The Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto was established to promote Chinese culture within the context of Canadian society. Their mid-Autumn Harvest Moon Festival will take place September 18, 2005 and will include crafts, concerts, an arts exhibition, and other events. $3,500
CONTACT contemporary music is dedicated to the creation and performance of contemporary music, with a focus on emerging Canadian composers and performers. It will present four concerts in the 2005/06 season. $6,000
Counterpoint Community Orchestra, a 40 musician orchestra, will present three concerts at St. Lukes' United Church as part of the 2005/06 season. $2,000
Culture Fest Inc. will present a summer festival featuring music and dance performances at Neilson Park on August 7, 2005. This is a part of the city that has few cultural resources and the festival plays an important role in bringing professional arts activities to new audiences. $3,000 42
CultureLink Settlement Services will produce another season of their Newcomer Theatre Project, employing a group of youth to learn theatre skills and develop their self-expression. The ensemble creates and rehearses an original piece, and tours it to community venues. For 2005, they plan to offer this program in St. James Town as well as in Parkdale. $12,300
Dareden Theatre will present a production of The Merry Wives of Windsor in St. Andrew's United Church on Bloor Street East, June 13 to July 31, 2005. $3,000
Drum Artz Cultural Centre, home of percussionist Rick Lazar's Samba Squad, will host a two-week summer arts camp for children from St. James Town, July 4-15, 2005. $6,000
Ensemble Noir is a professional music group that promotes contemporary classical music, especially works by African composers. It will present The Echo of Colours comprising three events at Winchester Street Theatre between November 2005 and April 2006. $2,500
Excellence Ontario Project will produce Excellence Ontario by Emma C. Robarts in the fall of 2006. The work, set on a small island in Northern Ontario, is an intimate portrait of one man's struggle with death with a black absurdist twist. $3,000
ExPect Theatre will run year-round arts workshops for youth in the Jamestown area, and will produce UrbanNOISE, a festival of urban arts in June 2006 at the Woodbine Entertainment Complex. $9,000
The Face In the Crowd collective will produce ARC Fest, an arts celebration with the theme of human rights, in the Parkdale neighbourhood, October 26-30, 2005. $3,500
The Fifth Sun Theatre Company will develop The Sorrowkeeper by Catherine Curtin from June 17 to July 11, 2005, culminating in showings at Harbourfront Centre. This multidisciplinary work, based on the playwright's personal experience, uses puppetry, music and story telling to examine the "beauty of grief's alchemy." $1,000
Four Directions Productions will present a three week run of Four Directions at Artword Theatre from November 24 to December 11, 2005. This is a memory play that takes place on a reserve in Saskatchewan and tackles the problem of youth suicide in Aboriginal communities. $5,000
Friends of Dufferin Grove Park will host visual artist Kristen Fahrig as a community artist in residence at nearby Macgregor Park, from September 2005 to August 2006. With a permanent base in the MacGregor Park fieldhouse, the artist will offer a range of arts activities that will gradually transform this under-serviced park into a family-friendly, creative space. $13,000 fu-GEN Theatre Company will workshop Singkil by Catherine Hernandez at Factory Theatre from September 19 to October 1, 2005. Using a traditional Filipino dance as reference point, the play looks at a woman trapped in a dead end job and how like the dancer she must navigate her way through issues of fidelity, history and loyalty. $4,350
The Gerrard India Bazaar BIA will mount the Festival of South Asia on Gerrard Street, August 20-21, 2005, featuring a range of South Asian cultures and art-forms. $2,000 43
Gilda's Club of Greater Toronto, an organization that supports men, women, and children with cancer, will host author/storyteller Michelle Tocher as artist in residence from June 2005 to April 2006 to work with members of the Gilda's Club community on storytelling, creative writing, and presentation of their work. $14,000
Hardworkin' Homosexuals will produce the 10th anniversary edition of the cabaret series Cheap Queers at Buddies in Bad Times, June 22-24, 2005. $4,000
Hub 14 will present Pick 7, a presentation series running from September 2005 to April 2006 at the Hub 14 Studio. The series pairs choreographers and artists from other disciplines to engage in discussions about choreographic and artistic practice. $8,000
I Furiosi Baroque Ensemble presents music from the Baroque era that stretches the boundaries of traditional performance practice and presentation. Its 2005/06 season comprises a five concert series at Calvin Presbyterian Church. $1,000
Independent Auntie Productions will present Clean Irene and Dirty Maxine by Anna Chatterton and Evalyn Parry at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. The play uses a cautionary children's tale approach to create a modern morality tale of obsession and demise, in which a procession of distressed damsels all meet their untimely end as victims of their own fixations $4,000
The Junction Forum for Arts & Culture is producing the 13th annual Junction Arts Festival, September 8-11, 2005, in venues throughout the Junction area. $10,000
Kala Nidhi Fine Arts nurtures Indian dance forms in their traditional, contemporary and diasporic context. It will present the Kala Nidhi International Festival and Conference: A Century of Indian Dance, Part II in March 2006, presenting companies from India, Australia, Japan, the UK and USA as well as Canada. $15,000
King & Dace will develop, create and produce a hybrid dance/theatre/cabaret duet for Moynan King and Eryn Dace Trudell to be presented at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre during Pride Week in June 2005. They will also seek further presentation opportunities at women's festivals and venues. $4,000
Kiyoshi Nagata Ensemble, a professional taiko drum group based in Toronto will present three concerts at the George Ignatieff Theatre, September 15-17, 2005. $3,000
Kwazar Theatre will workshop La danse des sept voiles from September to December, 2005. This is a play for youth that explores Middle Eastern culture and will be presented in French. $1,500
Lachan, Toronto Jewish Chamber Choir is committed to the performance of Jewish and Jewish- influenced music in both the liturgical and secular traditions, from the twelfth to the twenty-first century. The 25-voice choir is also recognized for its unique repertoire of Jewish-Canadian composers. A concert will be presented at Leah Posluns Theatre on June 22, 2005. $2,000
The Latino Canadian Cultural Association will mount an exhibition entitled Beyond Our Roots at Gallery 1313, June 9-23, 2005. The exhibition will illustrate the fusion between the different cultures and roots of the Latin American artists involved and the influence of the multicultural society in which they work and reside. Approximately 20 multidisciplinary artists will participate in the project. $2,000 44
Le Theatre La Tangente, Toronto's only professional theatre company dedicated to producing and touring original works in French, will present a new play, Requiem pour un trompettiste, in October 2005. An interaction between music and text overrides a story of a small town, corrupt municipal politics and murder. $6,000
Madhouse Theatre will adapt stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses into a theatrical performance entitled, Seamless Stories. The company will tour the work to indoor and outdoor performance sites throughout the City of Toronto with specific focus on reaching culturally diverse audiences. $2,500
Maypye Theatre will carry out a three week workshop in June/July 2005 to discover innovative, physical ways to present a two-person King Lear. $3,500
Maytree Foundation is launching a program called Diaspora Dialogues to encourage established and emerging writers from immigrant communities to explore Toronto as sense of "place" in their fiction and poetry. One component of the project is a series of four reading events at community centres and libraries in Malvern, Jane/Finch, Thorncliffe and Kensington or Davenport/Perth. $1,000
METRAC (Metropolitan Action Committee on Violence Against Women and Children) is a non-profit organization that does educational, counseling, and advocacy work. The Rise Project is an arts-based project for young women in Rexdale, Malvern, and Jane-Finch, bringing professional artists together with community members to create and present original performances that explore the theme of violence. They will present these at high school assemblies and at a special showcase. The project will run from July to December, 2005. $5,000
Muhtadi International Drumming Festival will be staged at Queens Park, June 3-5, 2005. The festival will feature 30 to 40 Toronto-based drumming groups that represent cultural traditions from around the world and feature a range of percussion forms, including steel pan, kit drums, djembe, congas, taiko, and others. $7,000
[murmur] is an innovative approach to oral history and urban geography that uses stories told by citizens, both famous and ordinary, to help passersby re-imagine and reconnect to the city. The [murmur] phone number is posted at the location of the story and when you dial the number, you hear the story of something that occurred on that very spot. The [murmur] project will expand to three neighbourhoods in 2005: Malvern, St. Lawrence Market, and Spadina Avenue. $8,000
Music on the Hill, an organization established to promote arts in the Yonge and York Mills area of Toronto, will present a series of twelve free lunchtime concerts at St. John's Anglican Church in 2005. $2,000
Musica Vivace will present Early Music of the Court of Alfonso II in Ferrara at Helcionian Hall on October 14, 2005. This concert of Early Music will celebrate the achievements of women singers in late 16th century Italy. $1,000
Musicians In Ordinary, specializing in the earlier song and small ensemble repertoire of chamber music of the 16th and 17th centuries, will present a series of four concerts at Heliconian Hall, at York University and at the Bata Shoe Museum during its 2005/06 season. $1,000
New Adventures in Sound Art fosters awareness and understanding of experimental sound art in its myriad forms of expression. Its 2005/06 season will include the following programs: SoundTravels, Deep 45
Wireless Festival , SOUNDplay and Sign Waves Series. $4,500
Newton Moraes Dance, dedicated to the exploration of Brazilian dance and culture, will create The City of Gold and present it at Harbourfront Centre, November 16-19, 2005. $9,000
North Toronto Players, a community music-theatre group that focuses primarily on contemporary interpretations of the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, has hired musician and choral director David McCartney to provide special training in choral performance from September 2005 to August 2006. $3,000
Number Eleven Theatre will produce The Stolen Child in Dufferin Grove Park as part of the Cooking Fire Festival, in June 2005. Based on the myth of children taken by fairies, the work will bridge ancient and contemporary narratives and will involve 15 children and company members. $4,300
Ondes Africaines will present a music event at Dundas Square, August 13, 2005, showcasing French- speaking African music artists. $3,000
The One Minute Film and Video Festival will be presented on November 17, 2005 at the Bloor Cinema, screening film and video works that are under one minute in length. The program features a combination of established and emerging artists from the local and international communities. $2,000
Pea Green Productions will stage Medici Slot Machine by Mark Brownell at the Tarragon Extra Space in May 2006. The play is a fictionalized biography of American visual artist Joseph Cornell, an artist with no formal training best known for his collaged boxes of dime-store objects. $5,000
Planet 88 Productions, in association with Theatre Passe Muraille, will present Alex Poch-Goldin's Cringeworthy as part of TPM's 2005/06 season. Set in 1912 London and written in the style of melodrama, the piece explores debt and fear through the story of an young Italian couple and opium merchant, Mr. Cringeworthy. $5,000
Preface Theatre will workshop The Box Social in November 2005. Collaboratively crafted and employing the use of multimedia, the work is based on a short story of the same name by James Reaney and depicts ordinary life in a small Ontario town in an extraordinary manner. $3,500
Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art will present the Visible City speaker series. This initiative seeks to understand how artists have changed the look and feel of the city, and how creative practice might be used to better transform the experience of urban dwelling and planning. Participating speakers and moderators include artists, architects, critical theorists, cultural historians and designers. $3,500
ProArteDanza aims to develop creation and performance opportunities for choreographers and dancers from ballet and contemporary dance. It will present a mixed program of ballet and dance, including a new creation, for three nights in October 2005 at the Betty Oliphant Theatre. $6,000
Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts will present an exhibition titled Refuse to Die from October 26 to November 13, 2005. Curated by Olga Korper, the exhibition will address notions of sustenance, hope and healing with respect to the careers of artists. $1,000
Rainbow Voices, a mixed community choir of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered individuals, will 46 present two concerts at St. Luke's Church, on December 10, 2005 and May 27, 2006. $2,500
Red Dress Productions will present Sounds Siren Red by Anna Camilleri at Artword Theatre in October 2005. This is a nonlinear, one-woman show blending storytelling, poetry and performance that explores the idea of sexual violence and redress inside a family. $6,500
Red Red Rose will remount Sarah Phillip's Joan as part of the Cooking Fire Festival in Dufferin Grove Park from June 22-26, 2005. The work is an eclectic and curious retelling of the story of Joan of Arc using puppetry, live music and storytelling. $3,200
Reel World Film Festival is dedicated to nurturing, promoting and celebrating the full spectrum of racially and culturally diverse film and video. It features a wide range of work, including feature and short films, documentaries, animation, and music videos. The 2006 festival will be held in April. $3,000
Regent Park Film Festival is a multi-day festival designed to promote an 'active multiculturalism' and encourage cross-cultural exchange. All films screened deal with issues of immigrant experience, class, race and gender, inner city problems, questions of cultural identity and sexuality. Presented at Nelson Mandela School, November 9-13, 2005, the festival will include ten screening programs plus workshops and panel discussions. Other components will include short performances, spoken word and music. $5,000
REHAB collective will present the annual REHAB: Parkdale Film & Video Festival at Club OV's, June 10- 12, 2005. The festival will feature seven distinct programs, including new works by neighbourhood youth through 4Unity, a Parkdale-based new media project, and new works in Super8 by artists living and working in the Parkdale area. A media-based installation will be exhibited in the Parkdale Library in the weeks leading up to the festival. $2,000
Rejewvenation Organizing Committee will mount a curated exhibition titled Command J: Jewish Laws, Digital Arts at X-pace in Kensington Market from October 16 to November 16, 2005. The exhibition will include works by four artists using technologically-based media (digital photography, digital video, installation and interactive computer animation). Each of the artists will focus on a different commandment and biblical injunction. The exhibition is being mounted in conjunction with a large international, interdisciplinary conference, The Futures of Jewish Culture, at the University of Toronto. $3,500
Rogue Wave will mount an exhibition of outdoor art installations on the Toronto Islands, September 24 to November 20, 2005, featuring the work of more than 25 island and city-based artists. In addition to visual art, a series of performance and Rogue Radio initiatives are planned. $2,000
The Salvador Allende Arts Festival for Peace will feature two music concerts at the Bickford Centre, September 9-10, 2005. The festival commemorates the be held at the Bickford Centre with two music concerts featuring a number of local Latin artists, September 9-10, 2005. $5,000
Samba Squad is a thirty-plus member drum group that performs a variety of samba-based West African, Caribbean and Afro-Cuban styles of Carnival rhythms. Samba Squad will undertake a weekend blitz bus tour of Toronto neighbourhoods in the Spring and Fall of 2005, playing in such neighbourhoods as Regent Park, St. Jamestown, Jane and Finch and Christie Pits. At each stop, a variety of music shakers will be available and audience members will be invited to participate. $4,000
San Lorenzo Latin American Community Centre will produce the Inti Raymi Festival of Andean Culture in Christie Pits Park, June 25-26, 2005, featuring the music of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. $3,000 47
The Scream Literary Festival is a carnival of contemporary Canadian literature hosted in Toronto's High Park and several downtown locations, June 27 to July 11, 2005. Presenting international creators alongside local talents, the event is dedicated to readings and presentations by those working outside the mainstream. The program will include a diversity of participants, literary genres and other disciplines. $6,000
Shrimp Magnet Theatre Company will create and perform The Really Real Adventures of Scott Free and Will Do for young audiences, from June to September 2005 on Centre Island. Created by Kate Keenan and Lesley Halferty, the play explores the idea of imaginary friends and uses audience interaction. $8,000
Sinfonia Toronto is a professional chamber orchestra under the musical direction of Nurhan Arman. The orchestra will present seven Main Series Concerts at the Glenn Gould Studio and Young People's Concert series at Lawrence Park Community Church for its 2005/06 season. $3,000
St. Bernadette's Family Resource Centre, through their St. Jude's Academy of the Arts program, will offer a series of theatre workshops from fall 2004 to summer 2005, for able and special needs youth with developmental and/or physical challenges. The training, which focuses on improvisation, storytelling and movement, develops the participants' self-esteem as well as communication, problem-solving and inter- personal skills. The workshops will take place at the Humber Sheppard Community Centre. $5,000
St. Christopher House - The Meeting Place will host community artist Phil Sarazen as artist in residence to work with members of the Parkdale community as well as other neighbourhoods and social service agencies to design, build, and place bicycle-rack sculptures. West Queen West BIA and Parkdale Activity-Recreational Centre are collaborating organizations. The project will take place from June 2005 to June 2006. $7,000
The St. Clair Arts Festival and Studio Tour will produce an arts celebration in the St. Clair Avenue West area, September 26 to October 2, 2005. It will include performances, exhibitions and studio shows in venues throughout the neighbourhood. $3,500
Stranger Theatre will develop and present The Diggers, adapted by Kate Cayley at The Cooking Fire Festival in Dufferin Grove Park in June 2005. The work raises questions about use of public space and is named after a group in 17th Century England that took over common land for communal food production. $3,500
Talisker Players Chamber Music will present three vocal chamber music concerts at Trinity St. Paul's Centre during its 2005/06 season. $3,000
The Tamil Literary Garden will undertake a two-phase project: workshops on the translation of literary and technical material from Tamil to English and a lecture series on the place of Tamil literature in the 21st century. Only contemporary literature will be included and examined. The initiative is aimed at a broad audience of professionals and students and will provide a combination of presentations, seminars and hands-on practice sessions. The project will take place on June 5 and 16, 2005. $2,000
Theatre Panik will produce Territories by Niki Landau in association with Theatre Passe Muraille in March 2006 as part of Passe Muraille’s 2005/06 season. The play explores the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as two characters, Sara, a Canadian Jewish woman and Hishram, a Palestinian man, battle for control over the narrative of the play and in so doing illustrate the larger political battle for land and sovereignty in the Middle East. $14,000 48
Theatrefront will develop and produce The Sarajevo Project , a multilingual collaboration with theatre artists from Bosnia-Herzegovina. $5,000
The Toronto African Dance Festival will take place at Nathan Philips Square and the Rotunda Room at City Hall, July 21-23, 2005. $4,000
Toronto Animated Image Society shares an enthusiasm for the art of animation by presenting exhibitions, screenings, workshops and lectures. In 2005/06 it will offer a series of 8 lectures geared towards students, artists and professionals, which focus on the development of the craft of animation. The workshop series is geared to the first time or novice animator and present the fundamentals of animation from concept to completion. $4,000
Toronto Artscape Inc. will produce the Queen West Art Crawl, September 16-18, 2005. It will include an open studio tour, exhibitions in local galleries, a juried outdoor art show/sale, exhibitions and performances in local businesses, a performance art "krawl" in a series of galleries, and a young artists' showcase/competition. $5,500
Toronto Christian Resource Centre will host professional theatre artists to work with Regent Park youth, September 2005 to June 2006. This is the beginning of what they plan to be a long-term youth theatre program in the Regent Park area. The artists will train local youth in theatre skills and mount two productions. $2,000
Toronto Free Gallery, in collaboration with The Latino Canadian Cultural Association, will host La Pocha Nostra, a collective formed by Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artists Guillermo Gomez Pena and Roberta Sifuentes to challenge contemporary artistic practices in an effort to cross boundaries and borders. La Pocha Nostra will conduct a 10 day workshop with 10 Toronto artists. The workshop will culminate in a performance at Toronto Free Gallery. Lectures and readings are also being scheduled. The project will take place in July/August 2005. $4,000
Troubled Souls will produce More Haunted Masters by Gene Franklin Smith at the Spadina Museum from October 13 to November 12, 2005. The work is adapted from supernatural stories of thwarted love by Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens and will be staged inside the museum and on museum grounds. $4,500
Upwards Art collective will work with residents of Fudger House Home for the Aged and members of the surrounding St. James Town community on a variety of creative art projects that will engage the seniors with community members. $5,000
Waterfront Trail Artists will host theatre artists Pat Lewis and Kate O'Neill in a community arts residency from July 2005 to July 2006 to teach workshops, animate youth-based art projects, work with local businesses and agencies to develop site-specific performances and art projects. $5,000
Weston BIA will produce Art in the Park, a community arts festival at Little Avenue Memorial Park on August 27, 2005. $2,000
Weston Silver Band will present a series of concerts at Little Avenue Memorial Park and Central United Church in Weston between June and December 2005. $1,000 49
CHOREOGRAPHERS (August 8, 2005 deadline)
Level 1 (up to $5,000) Valerie Calam $2,420 Louis Laberge Côté $5,000 Elena Mamais $3,300 Malgorzata Nowacka $3,000 Bageshree Vaze $3,500 Claudia Wittman $5,000
Total Level 1 (6 allocations): $22,220
Level 2 (up to $8,000) Sasha Ivanochko $8,000 Learie McNicolls $8,000 Sharon Moore $6,930 Michelle Silagy $8,000 Heidi Strauss $8,000 Michael Trent $8,000
Total Level 2 (6 allocations): $46,930
TOTAL (both levels – 13 allocations): $69,150 50
MUSIC CREATORS AND COMPOSERS (October 3, 2005 deadline)
Jack Breakfast $4,800 David Buchbinder $4,325 Andrew Collins $5,000 Chris Coole $3,500 Eliana Cuevas $5,000 Jason Fowler $5,000 Dan Goldman $2,400 Larry Graves $5,000 Luis Guerra $5,000 Alice Ho $5,000 Reena Katz $5,000 Rosina Kazi $5,000 Charlie Kert $5,000 Kevin Lacroix $5,000 Raymond Luedeke $4,300 Chris McKhool $5,000 Jorge Miguel $5,000 Luis M. Ochoa $5,000 Juliet Palmer $5,000 Lee Pui Ming $5,000 Micheline Roi $5,000 James Rolfe $5,000 Barry Romberg $5,000 Erik Ross $5,000 Justin Rutledge $3,625 Mia Sheard $4,000 Lilia Silveira $5,000 Linda Smith $3,800 Andrew Staniland $5,000 Eric Stein $3,400 Kurt Swinghammer $5,000 Vineet Vyas $5,000 Geoff Young $4,000
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VISUAL ARTISTS (September 6, 2005 deadline)
Level 1 ($3,000) Level 2 ($5,000 or $8,000) Michelle Allard $3 000 Lois Andison $8 000 Dean Baldwin $3 000 Sara Angelucci $8 000 Michael Bayne $3 000 Diane Borsato $5 000 Michael Brown $3 000 Scott Carruthers $5 000 Ying-Yueh Chuang $3 000 Carlo Cesta $8 000 Dave Dyment $3 000 Sarindar Dhaliwal $8 000 Oscar Flores $3 000 John Dickson $8 000 Peter Gazendam $3 000 Gomo George $8 000 Paige Gratland $3 000 Sadko Hadzihasanovic $5 000 Allison Hrabluik $3 000 Libby Hague $8 000 Erik Jerezano $3 000 Anitra Hamilton $5 000 Kristiina Lahde $3 000 Andrew Harwood $5 000 Chak Man Lei $3 000 Iris Haussler $8 000 John Monteith $3 000 Marla Hlady $8 000 Nick Ostoff $3 000 Bruce LaBruce $8 000 Raffaela Prencipe $3 000 Suzy Lake $8 000 Evan Quigley $3 000 Angela Leach $5 000 Shelly Rahme $3 000 Ritian Lee $5 000 Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo $3 000 Arnaud Maggs $8 000 Kathryn Ruppert-Dazai $3 000 John Marriott $8 000 Srdjan Segan $3 000 Louise Noguchi $8 000 Matthew Sweig $3 000 Vessna Perunovich $8 000 Daryl Vocat $3 000 Paulette Phillips $8 000 Sau Wai Tai $3 000 Lyla Rye $8 000 Margaux Williamson $3 000 Greg Staats $8 000 Daniel Young $3 000 Saedgh Tirafkan $8 000 Julie Voyce $8 000 Total Level 1 (26 allocations): $78,000 Johannes Zits $8 000
Total Level 2 (28 allocations): $203,000
TOTAL (both levels – 54 allocations): $281,000 53
MEDIA ARTISTS (November 15, 2005 deadline)
Level One (up to $4,000) Raigan Burns 2,000 Maryanne Casasanta 3,000 Douglas Church 2,000 Dougals Crawford 3,500 Christina Eichman 3,350 Gilbert Kwong 3,500 Amos Latteier 2,500 Pamila Matharu 2,000 Sarah Gregg Millman 2,000 Pat Mills 3,500 Donna Mobbs 3,500 Sharon Moore 3,500 Tony Romano 2,000 Michael Steckly 3,000 Siu Ta 3,500 Bill Taylor 3,350 Allan Tong 3,500 Khanhthuan Tran 2,000 Ingrid Veniger 3,500
Total Level One (19 allocations) $55,200
Level Two (up to $10,000) Peggy Anne Berton 7,000 David Birnbaum 8,000 Marek Colek 5,000 Nick Fairhead 5,000 Jay Field 9,500 Andrea Gutsche 4,000 Aeyliya Husain 7,500 Ali Kazimi 9,500 Bruce McDonald 7,500 Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay 8,000 Judith Norris 8,000 Arturo Perez Torres 9,500 Brian Stockton 5,000 Robert Swartz 9,000
Total Level Two (14 allocations) $102,500
TOTAL (both levels – 33 allocations): $157,700
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WRITERS (June 20, 2005 deadline)
Level One ($2,000) Level Two ($7,500) Rose Bianchini Jim Bartley Lori Bloomfield Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall Katie Brown Ronna Bloom Kyle Buckley Heather Cadsby Hon-Yee Choi Lena Coakley Rose Cullis Beverley Daurio Jessica Derynck Claire R. Dunn Maxime Desmons Chris Eaton Mary Jane Fairburn Jane Finlay-Young Desmond Frimpong Elyse Friedman Julia Gonsalves Susanne Hancock David Hull Sandra Kasturi John Ide Joseph Kertes Marlon Lo Simon Leigh Monique Macleod Steve McOrmond Anand Mahadevan Pamela Mordecai Daniel Maratta Jeff Musgrave Timber Masterson Edward O'Connor Jason McBride Brian Panhuyzen Mary Jennifer Payne Emily Pohl-Weary Erica Polius Aurelie Resch Richard Poplak K.G. Sambrano Suzanne Robertson Mark J. Smith Rico Rodriguez Karen Solie Mark Rogers Priscila Uppal Lisa Rundle Eileen Whitfield Jena Schmitt Sarah Selecky Level 2 Playwrights Dianah Smith Marjorie Chan Amy Spurway Sean Dixon Jen Tindall Christian Lloyd David Whitton Martha Ross Emil Sher Level 1 Playwrights David Egan Total Level 2 (31 allocations): $232,500 Blair Francey Brendan Gall Ed Gass-Donnelly Kate Hewlett Jody Hewston Christina Jol Andrew Kushnir Alison McElwain Thelon Oeming Toby Rodin Adrienne Rogers Michael Rubenfeld Diana Tso
Total Level 1 (46 allocations): $92,000
TOTAL (both levels – 77 allocations): $324,500 55
RESCINDED ALLOCATIONS When an organization is unable to comply with conditions on its allocation or is unable to proceed with the project for which it received funding, the allocation is rescinded and the funds added to the current year’s allocations budget for disbursement. If the rescinded allocations were awarded in previous years, these funds become added revenue for the current year allocations budget. If the rescinded allocations are part of the current year allocations budget in the first place, there is no increase to the budget when the allocations are rescinded.
Allocation Year – 2004 Cleopatra Conspiracy $5,000 La Petite Musicale of Toronto $2,000 Praxis Theatre $1,500 Pretty Porky and Pissed Off $4,500 Theatre Impossible $5,000 Whetstone Productions $5,500
Subtotal – Previous Year Rescindments: $23,500
Allocation Year – 2005 coloUred girls collective $6,000 McLuhan Global Network Conferences $4,000
Subtotal – Current Year Rescindments: $10,000
TOTAL ALLOCATIONS RESCINDED $33,500
Cleopatra Conspiracy was awarded 2004 funding in the amount of $5,000 in support of its production of Laurie Fyffe’s Malaysia Hotel in the spring of 2005. The company subsequently informed TAC that the project was cancelled. The TAC Board of Directors rescinded the allocation and added the funds to the 2005 budget. La Petite Musicale of Toronto was awarded 2004 funding in the amount of $2,000 in support of its Christmas concert at Canada Christian College Auditorium on December 11, 2004. The organization subsequently informed TAC that the project was cancelled. The TAC Board of Directors rescinded the allocation and added the funds to the 2005 budget. Praxis Theatre was awarded 2004 funding in the amount of $4,000 in support of a production of The Master and Margarita in the fall of 2005. The company was unable to raise sufficient funds to mount a full production and sought permission to redirect the funding to a workshop to further develop the play. The Theatre Committee recommended a reduced allocation of $2,500 for the workshop; the TAC Board of Directors rescinded the balance of $1,500 and added the funds to the 2005 budget. Pretty Porky and Pissed Off was awarded 2004 funding in the amount of $4,500 in support of Big Judy, to be mounted at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in 2005. The group subsequently informed TAC that the project was cancelled. The TAC Board of Directors rescinded the allocation and added the funds to the 2005 budget. Theatre Impossible was awarded 2004 funding in the amount of $5,000 in support of the production of Dig by Glenda Stirling in the fall of 2005. The company was offered the opportunity to co-produce with a theatre in Calgary, cancelled plans for a Toronto production and was no longer eligible for TAC funding. The TAC Board of Directors rescinded the allocation and added the funds to the 2005 budget. Whetstone Productions was awarded 2004 funding in the amount of $5,500 in support of the production of Goodnight Ladies by Diana Kolpak and Stephanie Lalor in the fall of 2005. The group informed TAC that, due to creative differences amongst company members, the project was cancelled. The TAC Board of Directors rescinded the allocation and added the funds to the 2005 budget. coloUred girls collective was recommended 2005 funding in the amount of $6,000 in support of a full production of Five Women Wearing the Same Dress by Alan Ball in June 2005. The group subsequently informed TAC that the project has been cancelled. The TAC Board of Directors rescinded the grant and added the funds back into the 2005 grants budget. 56
McLuhan Global Network Conferences was awarded 2005 funding in the amount of $4,000 in support of the Hot and Cool component of the McLuhan International Festival of the Future which ran September 23 to October 1, 2005. The organization did not meet the conditions required to release the cheque. The TAC Board of Directors rescinded the allocation and added the funds back into the 2005 budget.
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President Don Moffat Past President Kim Tomczak President Emeritus Margo Bindhardt Vice Presidents Jonathan Barker (to November 7) Karen Tisch Secretary Mark Opashinov Treasurer Gabriel Nachman (to November 7) Randal Levine (from November 7)
David Baile Diana Bennett Councillor Shelley Carroll (to June 16) Councillor Gay Cowbourne (to June 16) Andrew Craig Christopher Dewdney (to April 24) Richard Fung André Galipeault Councillor Adam Giambrone Kamala-Jean Gopie Katherine Govier (from November 7) Joy Hughes Meirion Kelly (from November 7) Councillor Norm Kelly (from June 16) William Lau (from November 7) Councillor Pam McConnell Councillor Joe Mihevc Andrew Moro Robin Pacific (to November 7) Teresa Przybylski Edward Roy Kerri Sakamoto Richard Shoichet Yvonne Singer Rina Singha (to November 7) Jini Stolk (from November 7) Cyrus Sundar Singh Tina VanderHeyden Councillor Sylvia Watson (from June 16)
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COMMITTEES
Community Arts Music Andrew Moro Chair Andrew Craig Co-Chair Laila O. Binbrek Cyrus Sundar Singh Co-Chair Cathy Capes Derek Andrews Marie Gaudet Shelley Brown Jie Hong Brian Current Dominique Prevost Catherine Emes Andrea Raymond Sharyn Goldberg John Wylie Becca Whitla
Dance Theatre Rina Singha Chair Teresa Przybylski Co-Chair Darcy Callison Edward Roy Co-Chair Lee Li-Hsuan Huang Nina Lee Aquino Allen Kaeja Rick Banville Susan Macpherson Paul Lampert Rebecca Mendoza Eric Peterson Viv Moore Rhoma Spencer Patrick Parson Michelle St. John George C. Randolph Sanjay Talwar Sashar Zarif Visual Arts/Media Arts Large Institutions Yvonne Singer Co-Chair David Baile Chair Karen Tisch Co-Chair Heather Clark Melanie Egan Jennifer Ginder Andy Fabo Robert Sirman Simon Glass Camille Turner Literary Christopher Dewdney Co-Chair (to April 24) Katherine Govier Co-Chair (from Nov 7) Kerri Sakamoto Co-Chair Louise Bak Don Hannah 59 2005 JURIES
Choreographers Marie-Josée Chartier Deva Sigamani Gunaseelan William Lau Naoko Murakoshi Alejandro Ronceria
Music Creators and Composers Adam Faux Parmela Attariwala Amanda Martinez Roger Perryman Abigail Richardson
Visual Artists: Level 1 Jason Gringler Mona Kamal Kelly McCray Dionne Simpson
Visual Artists: Level 2 Shelly Bahl Michael Chambers Jessica Rose Lorna Simpson
Media Artists Danis Goulet Karin Haze Andrew Hull Su Rynard
Writers: Level One1 Laure Baudot Victoria Freeman Kevin Irie Writers: Level Two1 Nalo Hopkinson Paul Savoie Ann Silversides 1 French-language applications were also assessed by Gerry Shikatani.
Playwrights (levels One and Two) Sky Gilbert Colleen Murphy Yvette Nolan