annual report 2 011 arts council

A non-profit society and charitable organization that supports and promotes the arts community in Edmonton. The EAC works to increase the profile and involvement of arts and culture in all aspects of our community life through activities that:

Invest in Edmonton festivals, arts organizations and individual artists through municipal, corporate and private funding.

Represent Edmonton’s arts community to government and other agencies and provide expert advice on issues that affect the arts.

Build partnerships and initiate projects that strengthen our community.

Create awareness of the quality, variety and value of artistic work produced in Edmonton. board of directors executive John Hudson - Chair, Nicole Reeves - Vice Chair, Mary Phillips-Rickey - Treasurer-Secretary Marsh Murphy - Past Chair members-at-large Wayne Arthurson, Amber Borotsik, Jenifer Christenson (appointed by Edmonton Economic Development), Christine Sokaymoh Frederick, Darrin Hagen, Cadence Konopaki, Heather McRae (appointed by the City of Edmonton), Gina Moe, Tim Paetkau, Aidan Rowe, Anne Ferguson Switzer, Richard Tosczak, Brian Webb

edmonton arts council 1 executive director report john mahon

The sixteenth year of the Edmonton Arts Council, 2011, was an important year in the implementation of the Art of Living plan for the city of Edmonton. It was definitely a year of expansion for the EAC.

With the vast majority of our operating funding coming from the City of Edmonton, their increase to us of $2 million opened many opportunities and responsibilities. Our Service Agreement with the City was also renewed for another 5 years with the next renewal scheduled for 2016.

Some 2011 highlights include:

The EAC directed City of Edmonton community on-going support to the poet laureate, and the EAC investment grants to the arts increased by $1.1 worked with Douglas Barbour to curate a collection million or 23% over 2010. of the writings of the Poets Laureate of Edmonton, 2005-2012, released April 2012. Our stewardship of the City of Edmonton Public Art Collection continued with 3 completed installations, The EAC supported the Living Local arts and concurrent to managing another 37 projects in heritage neighbourhood grant program. This is a production. This year major communications partnership with the Edmonton Heritage Council development occurred with creating an interactive and Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues. online gallery featuring various works of the It is a new program intended to connect artists collection (to be launched in spring 2012). With our within and to their neighbourhood, develop conservation efforts, appraisals were coordinated artworks that express a shared sense of place for for 65 artworks in the collection, and major an Edmonton neighbourhood, or an aspect of conservation work was completed on ten artworks. neighbourhood heritage.

The EAC funded a six-month artist residency at We were in partnership with Grant MacEwan Boyle Street Community Services and is planning University (Arts and Cultural Management to fund three more in 2012. program), Museum Association, and Edmonton Heritage Council with presenting In partnership with Edmonton Public Library and high profile guest speakers to Edmonton for the the City of Edmonton, the EAC organized the three lecture series Percolate…brewing ideas with selection of our fourth poet laureate Anna Marie leading minds in the fields of arts, heritage & cultural Sewell. The EPL and EAC continue to provide management.

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The Edmonton Book Prize was raised from $2,000 many local performing artists. We commissioned to $10,000 and re-named the Robert Kroetsch City of a marketing survey and communications strategy Edmonton Book Prize. to support these new initiatives and will begin the implementation in 2012. Based on the logic of the Book Prize, and working with the film and video arts community and the Edmonton We also started a long term; intensive strategy to Film Commission, we developed a $10,000 prize for ensure the EAC is relevant to all artists in Edmonton, film and video that will have its first award in 2012. and specifically for artists from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds. This is a suitably ambitious TIX on the Square expanded from a community commitment and we are beginning by focusing on box office to a box office and retail store selling ethnic diversity. an assortment of locally made arts and heritage products ranging from CDs, books, garments, The EAC continued to provide major support to Arts fine craft to archival photographs of our city. We Habitat Association whose 2011 activities included also assumed the responsibility of programming two buildings in operation, two more buildings under Churchill Square in between festivals and civic development, and the near completion of the first and events–programming that aims to help animate the most substantial part of the City zoning and bylaw Square as place making for the city, while utilizing review that impact the arts.

The year 2011 also saw the work of a Mayor appointed task force to, in the words of Mayor Mandel “…build on our arts plan – The Art of Living – which started to frame some bolder thinking about the arts. It asks how we can ensure our arts industry is more fundamental to our core.

The vision is to establish Edmonton one of Canada’s clear cultural hubs, supporting excellence across all mediums with arts as an economic driver for our region.

And from the efforts of these community thinkers, we will consider how we can help our arts community thrive as part of our overall mosaic of business and creative industry.”1

I believe we are clearly part of larger civic movement towards an energetic, authentic, creative city. It is an invigorating time.

I thank the talented staff at the EAC and the dedicated Board of Directors. They all provide so much support to the arts in our city.

1 Mayor Stephen Mandel - State of the City April 5, 2011 Edmonton Chamber of Commerce luncheon

executive director report 3 guest article valerie mason-john

Valerie Mason-John, past Cultural Diversity in the Arts Award recipient, shares her story about her artistic path after receiving this EAC grant support.

New African Canadian

I didn’t have to flee England through fear of death like many refugees. And I wasn’t pulled to Canada like most immigrants in search of a better life. I fell in love with a Canadian and Canada was the most supportive place to live, openly in a cross-cultural lesbian relationship.

When I immigrated to Canada, I was no longer at the bottom of the pile. I might be the oppressor of First Nations peoples. However, I was still oppressed in a country that claims to have no racism. I was apprehensive of my survival as a black, queer, artist in Canada.

To my delight Edmonton had a thriving arts scene, though I felt isolated. I often found myself being the only black person at writing events, unless there was food being served by black people. I wondered how I would establish myself in this city, and make connections into the black community. As luck would have it, a friend forwarded me the application for a cultural diversity grant. Instantly I thought, I’m not First Nations, a refugee, asylum seeker or a French speaker—this does not apply to me. As I read the application criteria I realized it did. Ironically I felt excited about being called an immigrant.

The grant opened up a gateway to the vibrant black community that was missing in my life. While the white artist community was so much easier to access, the multicultural artist environment I was used to was not available.

The grant provided me the possibility to rewrite my British box office sell out show Brown Girl In The Ring for a Canadian audience and the possibility to premier it at the Edmonton Fringe Festival. The show opened up new possibilities for me as an artist in Edmonton. Black audiences came to my show, and shortly after I was invited by the Centre for Race and Culture to work with the Keshotu Leadership academy, dramaturgy and directing their annual 2011 show, A Better Tomorrow.

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Concrete Theatre also commissioned me to write a short play for their sprouts season 2011. Breath in Poetry Collective slam team contacted me to coach and direct them for the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, now 2011 national champions.

Since the grant, I have most definitely established myself as a black artist in Alberta. I co-organized Africa on the Ave at the Carrot Cafe for Black History month in 2011. I am now currently co- editing a National Anthology of Black Canadian Poetry published by Frontenac in 2013. I have recently written a new piece called Deviant, based on the real life story of a black woman in Yellow Knife during the 1950s. She was the first woman to be tried in a Canadian courts for a same sex, lesbian sexual assault charge. I’m currently looking for a Canadian publisher for my second novel The War Done Done, a family saga that takes place in War torn Sierra Leone and High Society England.

While the grant has helped to establish me on the performance circuit, it cannot give me the life experience of living in Canada. Most publishers are looking for work that is specific to Canadian life. I have yet for a Canadian publisher to take my personal work seriously.

Dr. Valerie Mason-John Aka Queenie Dr. Valerie Mason-John aka Queenie www.valeriemason-john.com Author, playwright, performer, professional www.bullyvictimbystander.com anger management and self-awareness trainer and recipient of a 2009 Cultural Diversity in the Arts Award. Photo supplied

guest article 5 Concrete Theatre Andrea Jorawsky in Concrete Theatre’s production of Under Cover by Mark Haroun Photo by EPIC Photography message from the chair john hudson

It has been such a pleasure to be a part of The Edmonton Arts Council this past year. I want to thank everyone on the board for their unflagging dedication to the arts community, the staff of the Council for their hard work and diligence and John Mahon for his thoughtful guidance and leadership. I especially want to thank Mayor Mandel and the City Councillors for their vision and their understanding of the value the arts community has in this city. The money they added to our budget this year will be of great benefit to the arts community and I believe it will play a big part in strengthening the cultural fabric of the city and allow artists to be at the forefront of building a truly dynamic and economically diverse city.

After our visioning session in the spring, the board was charged with implementing some exciting developments to the EAC. First among these is developing a cultural diversity strategy. We are working towards being a more inclusive organization and have taken some concrete steps to see that our organization is open to all Edmontonians. We have begun a journey to recognize the nature of risk in art and are working towards developing a guideline to help juries assess and evaluate risk when reviewing grant applications. Finally, we are reviewing our operating grant program to try and simplify and clarify the process for both the juries and our operating clients.

One of the most exciting developments in the past year was the implementation of our MircoGrant program, which enables artists to apply for small amounts of money, which they need on a timely basis, potentially to see a project to completion. Having sat on this jury for the past year, I can say it has been used in the most exciting and unexpected ways and I think is one of the truly unique grant programs that we have implemented.

It has been an inspiring adventure to work with the EAC at a time when everything seems to be aligning for the organization. With the passion and vision I see, the future is very promising for artists, the Edmonton Arts Council, and especially the City of Edmonton.

message from the chair 7 Vinok World Dance Vinok Worldance, Chinese Fan Dance, a part of Vinok’s show Christmas Around the World, featuring music, dance and stories about holiday traditions from different countries. Photo by Doyle C. Marko eac membership: strength through community

Interested citizens, artists, administrators, cultural workers, arts and festivals organizations, corporate businesses — the Edmonton Arts Council’s membership reflects the diverse, committed and profoundly creative community that we serve. It is this community that makes the arts in Edmonton strong, and an enduring part of what shapes and defines our city.

In 2011 nearly 250 individuals, and just over 80 organizations (and the many people who they represent) became EAC members. Our members lend their weight to the work we do and the role we play in Edmonton. They believe in what the EAC stands for, and our relevance in supporting and promoting the arts in Edmonton.

EAC Members can vote in board elections, run for board positions, keep up with arts-related news and opportunities through EAC communications, and network with other artists and arts supporters at member social mixers. Members can now manage their EAC membership directly on-line from the EAC website.

Featured in this report: The images and captions included in the 2011 annual report represent a sampling of the diverse arts offerings and the creative process of our vibrant arts community, and are examples of the many successful outcomes from the support provided by Edmonton Arts Council operations.

edmonton arts council 9 Colour Alley Transitory Art Project This transitory topographical mural was designed by a team of three local artists at the intersection between 104 & 103 Streets, and 102 & Jasper Ave. The project is in support of the community group, Alley of Light committee, drawing attention to ‘lost spaces’ in urban environment. Photo by Fish Griwkowsky public art

The Edmonton Arts Council directs the Percent for Art policy, and provides and vision for stewardship of public art on behalf of the City of Edmonton. Public artworks accessioned by the City of Edmonton are part of the City of Edmonton Public Art Collection.

Public Art Committee The Public Art Committee (PAC) members serve as leaders and stewards of Edmonton’s public art program. The Public Art Committee is comprised of, but not limited to, such individuals as artists, curators, architects, civil engineers and community representatives. PAC is tasked with setting a vision and objectives for the Percent for Art program; periodically reviewing the City of Edmonton’s Public Art collection; advising on de-accession of public art, and making recommendations regarding the City’s public art.

2011 PAC Members: Aidan Rowe (Chair), Catherine Crowston (Vice-Chair), Shafraaz Kaba, Ernst von Meijenfeldt, Andrej Culen, Michael Phair, Catherine Burgess, Allen Ball, Royden Mills, Will Bauer, Ken Cantor, Kira Hunt, Linda Wedman, Brian Van Sickle (City of Edmonton Percent for Art - advisory member), Kristy Trinier (EAC director of Public Art - advisory member).

public art 11 percent for art program

Installation of three (3) Percent for Art projects were completed, with thirty-seven (37) projects in development or production.

Percent for Art Projects Completed or In Progress

1 2007 6

2 2008 11

9 2009 17

7 2010 31 Total: 40 - 5% increase from 2010 3 2011 37

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40

Completed Production/Development

12 public art 2011 projects in production

Project Name Artist Name Alberta Avenue Streetscape Images Various Boyle Street Renaissance Phase 1 TBD Borden Park Public Artwork Volkan Alkanoglu & Marc Fornes Borden Park Pavilion Artwork TBD Beverly Streetscape Claude Boullevraye de Passille Capitol Boulevard TBD Clareview Library Coryn Kempster & Julia Jamrozik Clareview Recreation Centre TBD Clareview Multicultural Centre TBD Commonwealth Community Recreation Centre #1 Laurent Grasso Commonwealth Community Recreation Centre #2 Instant Coffee Eaux Claires Transit Centre Gabe Wong EPS Southwest Police Station Carl Tacon Engineering Services Building Cecil Balmond Ellerslie Fire Station spmb (Eduardo Aquino & Karen Shanski) Fred Broadstock Leisure Centre Stephanie Davidson & Georg Rafailidis Hardisty Fitness and Leisure Centre Jeff Kulak Highlands Library Becki Chan Jasper Place Library Negar Seyfollahy & Alisdair MacRae Streetscape TBD Kennedale Transportation Facility Buildings TBD Kennedale Waste Treatment Building TBD Kingsway LRT Chris Doyle MacEwan LRT Studio F-Minus (Brad Hindson & Mitchell Chan) Meadows Library Cliff Eyland Meadows Recreation Centre #1 Konstantin Dimopoulos Meadows Recreation Centre #2 France Dubois Military Commemoration Public Artwork TBD Millwoods Multicultural Facility & Seniors Centre TBD Millwoods Library Realities United Northgate Transit Station TBD Quesnell Bridge/ Whitemud Drive Ball Nogues (Benjamin Ball & Gaston Nogues) South LRT Monuments Jason Carter, Aaron Paquette, Chloe Mustooch Valley Zoo – Arctic Exhibit Phase 1 TBD Valley Zoo – Entry and Wander Thomas Druggan & Laura Haddad Walterdale Bridge Ken Lum Whitemud Park Trailhead Building Alexandra Haeseker public art 13 Henri Craig LeBlanc, 2011 Terwillegar Recreation Centre Henri is a sculpture of large white cat sleeping on a black net, suspended above a community gathering space in the Terwillegar Recreation Centre. Photo by Raffaella Loro

14 2011 projects in production

Project Name Artist Name Queen Elizabeth Pool Andreas Kahre & Darren Copeland Terwilliger Recreation Centre Project #2 Craig LeBlanc John Janzen Nature Centre Genevieve Simms transitory public art

The EAC facilitated the production of the Colour Alley project, in collaboration with the Edmonton on the Edge - Alley of Light community group. Conservation Appraisals were coordinated for 65 artworks in the collection and major conservation work was completed on ten artworks. Major conservation projects included, but were not limited to, Convergence by Tony Bloom, Passengers by Ray McAdam, and Ultima Thule (Farthest North) by Glenn Guillett. Consultation work began with Capital City Cleanup on existing and upcoming public mural projects.

Conservation work continues to be completed as needed and is prioritized on a triage basis. Existing artworks in the Public Art Collection are assessed yearly (or more frequently if needed) for conservation and maintenance needs. Conservation staff works with various city departments to develop maintenance schedules and procedures and is active with new projects at various stages of design development, fabrication and installation. Outreach Public Art presentations were provided to the following organizations: Municipality of Wood Buffalo, City of Lethbridge, and to the surrounding community through first Alberta Public Art Coalition meeting.

The 2011 a Public Art Lecture Series was presented by the and MADE with support form the EAC, with the intent to introduce artists with recent public art commissions to an Edmonton audience, and widen the public’s understanding of the possibilities of art in shared spaces. Three lectures were held at the AGA by artists Ken Lum, Axel Leiber of inges idee, and Benjamin Ball of Ball Nogues Studio.

public art 15 SNAP Gallery High Art, Community Event, Society of Northern Print-Artists In photo: Anna Szul, Executive Director, SNAP Gallery Photo supplied grant programs

community investment program funds

The Edmonton Arts Council manages grant and award programs on behalf of The City of Edmonton -- Community Investment Program for arts and festival organizations and individual artists. Funding for these programs is derived from the municipal tax base, and makes up more than 95% of the EAC granting budget. For these programs, the EAC is guided by the City of Edmonton Bylaw 14157 and Policy C211F on community investment grants.

In 2011, the EAC also ran grant and award programs on behalf of TransAlta, and in partnership with the Edmonton Community Foundation.

In total, the Edmonton Arts Council managed more than $6,000,000 in grant funds in 2011.

grant programs 17 festival operating: $1,409,000 Funds from the City of Edmonton

Edmonton’s residents and visitors alike gather, participate and celebrate at Festivals year-round. The purpose of this grant is to help create a stable funding base and enhance the ability of organizations to produce and present a Festival celebration with a theme of interest and appeal to the general public.

The EAC received 35 eligible applications for Festival Operating funding in 2011, all of which were supported. Jury Gina Moe - Chair Brandy Dominelli Sheila Hallett Michael Hamm Michelle Hayduk Craig Stumpf-Allen Murray Utas Prathavan Venkatraman

Silver Skate Festival Lantern Procession; part of festival celebrating the cultural and aesthetic beauty of winter, art, culture, recreation and sports programming. Photo by Marc Chalifoux Photography

18 grant programs Event Grant A Taste of Edmonton Festival 95,000 Accordion Extravaganza 3,000 Bikeology 10,000 Canoe Theatre Festival 15,000 Cariwest: Edmonton Caribbean Arts Festival 25,000 Creative Age Festival 6,500 Dreamspeakers International Aboriginal Film Festival 15,000 Edmonton Chante 11,000 Edmonton Dragon Boat Festival 8,000 Edmonton Folk Music Festival 200,000 Edmonton International Film Festival 70,000 Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival 165,000 Edmonton International Jazz Festival 85,000 Edmonton International Street Performers Festival 100,000 Edmonton Poetry Festival 10,000 Edmonton Pride Festival 17,000 Exposure: Edmonton’s Queer Arts & Culture Festival 10,000 feats Festival of Dance 22,000 Freewill Shakespeare Festival 77,000 Global Visions Film Festival 15,000 Ice on Whyte Festival 6,000 Improvaganza International Improv Festival 12,000 Kaleido Family Arts Festival 25,000 LitFest: Edmonton’s Nonfiction Festival 15,000 Next Generation Arts Festival (Nextfest) 41,500 Realtors Expanse Movement Arts Festival 15,000 Serca Festival of Irish Theatre 5,500 Servus Heritage Festival 75,000 Silver Skate Festival 28,000 Sprouts New Play Festival for Kids 7,500 Symphony Under the Sky 50,000 The Works Art & Design Festival 140,000 Visualeyez… Canada’s Annual Festival of Performance Art 10,000 Vocal Arts Festival 15,000 Wildfire Highschool Improv Festival 4,500 grant programs 19 Neurotic by Sofia Cristanti, recipient of a 2011 Cultural Diversity in the Arts Award Media: oil pastel on paper Photo supplied cultural diversity in the arts awards: $67,500 Funds from the City of Edmonton

The City of Edmonton through the Edmonton Arts Council established the Cultural Jury Diversity in the Arts Program to recognize that artists from all parts of the world Christine Frederick - Chair enrich Edmonton’s cultural scene. Sebastian Barrera de la Torre Elsa Robinson These awards recognize and support individual artists who, due to their cultural background and relatively recent arrival in our city find themselves in artistic isolation. The intent is to help these artists pursue their artistic work and connect with the more mainstream institutions and support networks taken for granted by most Edmonton artists.

The EAC received 16 Nominations for the Cultural Diversity in the Arts Awards in 2011.

Recipient Award Sofia Cristanti 7,50 0 Achol Dau Bileu 7,50 0 Oleksiy Karpenko 7,50 0 Aasttha Khajuria 7,50 0 Litza Periera Dias 7,50 0 Amson Saintime 7,50 0 Jianping Shao 7,50 0 Misook Song 7,50 0 Alfredo Villanueva 7,50 0

The recipients of the 2011 Cultural Diversity in the Arts Awards, honored at a reception in City Hall on March 6, 2012. Photo by Meryl Smith Lawton

grant programs 21 festival seed: $174,500 Funds from the City of Edmonton

Edmonton’s residents and visitors celebrate at festivals year-round, and new festival events are welcomed in our community. The purpose of this grant is to support new or emerging festival celebrations. Applicants may be considered for a Festival Seed grant for up to two consecutive years.

The EAC received 9 applications for Festival Seed funding in 2011, all of which were supported.

Jury Amber Borotsik - Chair Linda Frena Sound Columns Russ Mann Darren Copeland and Andreas Kahre, 2011 Heather Zwicker Queen Elizabeth Pool Sound Columns is an audio installation whereby visitors can experience water Festival Grant themed soundtracks. Deep Freeze: A Byzantine Winter Festival 24,000 Photo by Sean Borchert Edmonton Comedy Festival 25,000 Heart of the City 8,500 Lunar New Year Extravaganza 6,500 River City Roundup 50,000 The Rubaboo Arts Festival 18,000 The Sounds of 30,000 Stripped Down Festival of Dramatic Writing 5,000 The Thousand Faces Festival of Mythic Art 7,50 0

22 grant programs arts and museums building operating: $988,800 Funds from the City of Edmonton

The City of Edmonton and the Edmonton Arts Council recognize that arts and museum facilities are an important part of the community. The Arts and Museum Building Operating program will invest in a portion of the costs associated with maintaining clean, well-lighted, heated and secure arts and museum facilities that are regularly accessible by the public, whose use is of interest to the public and community groups.

The EAC received 21 applications for Arts and Museums Building Operating funding in 2011, all of which were supported.

This grant is based on a formula calculation and is not assessed by jury.

Organization Grant Edmonton Poet Laureate Alberta Craft Council 14,000 Roland Pemberton (aka Cadence Weapon) Alberta Pioneer Railway Association 7,500 and Anna Marie Sewell at City Hall for the Arts Habitat Association of Edmonton 10,000 announcement of Anna Marie Sewell’s Arts on the Ave Edmonton Society 9,200 appointment as Edmonton’s fourth Poet Catalyst Theatre Society of Alberta 19,500 Laureate, June 2011 Edmonton Aviation Heritage Society 20,500 Photo by Fish Griwkowsky Edmonton Jazz Society (1973) 12,000 Edmonton Telephone Historical Information 4,100 Centre Foundation Film and Video Arts Society Alberta 6,600 Francis Winspear Centre for Music 285,000 Fringe Theatre Adventures Society 76,500 La Cite Francophone 47,000 Latitude 53 Society of Artists 20,000 Nina Haggerty Centre for Arts 24,500 Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre Society 7,900 Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists 14,500 The 344,000 Theatre Network Society 23,500 Varscona Theatre Alliance Society 20,000 W.E.C.A.N. Society / Harcourt House 11,000 Walterdale Theatre Associates 11,500

grant programs 23 Ruth DyckFehderau Ruth DyckFehderau was awarded a Travel Grant toward a trip to Nairobi, Kenya, to research a creative non-fiction piece about Kenya’s violent election in 2007. Photo supplied travel grants: $69,525 Funds from the City of Edmonton

Travel Grants through the Edmonton Arts Council assist Edmonton residents Jury active in the arts and festival communities with travel costs. Traveling to perform, Tim Paetkau - Chair research, attend conferences and exhibitions offers those individuals professional Kyle Armstrong and creative opportunities that do not exist locally, and yet are vital to the continued Marie Gynane-Willis advancement and growth of Edmonton’s arts community. Dawn Saunders-Dahl Kathleen Weiss The EAC received more than 140 travel grant requests in 2011, 112 of which were supported.

Chloe Albert Alexandra Felicitas Dale Ladoucer Karen Redford Rebecca Anderson Kathy Fisher Matthew Latimer Tom Roschkov Ryan Anderson David Foster Christine Lesiak Bev Ross Trevor Anderson Dawn Friesen David Letersky Esperanza Santander John Armstrong M. Jennie Frost Mathew Letersky (Linares) Alison Balcetis Bretta Gerecke Annette Loiselle Nicole Schafenacker Donna Marie Baratta Carlo Ghioni Warren Mack (United Emily Schultz Marc Beaudin Genenne Gilliard Voices) Clayton Shea Patrick Bensen Matthew Gooding Kath MacLean Tyler Sherard Don Berner Beth Graham Erin Madsen Heather Shillinglaw John Blerot Fish Griwkowsky Dr. Valerie Mason-John Haley Simons Arden Burnett Usha Gupta Jacinda Maxwell Nikolai Smith Jenna Butler Darrin Hagen Drew McIntosh Rachel Soong Vedashree (Shreela Kristi Hansen Jessica McMillan Joe Stagliano Chakrabartty Allan Harding Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail James Stewart Michael Clark Shane Hauser William Mitchell Kevin Sutley Eva Colmers Mark Hayes Terry Morrison Rob Thompson Ian Crutchley Gerald Hewko Heather Morrow Dallas Thompson Nathan Cuckow Ainsley Hillyard Brendan Nearey Anya Tonkonogy Ryan Cunningham William Hobson Matt Nickel Linda Turnbull Brett Dahl Canda Kristen Hutchinson Alida Nyquist-Schultz Raena Waddell Jane Dorsey Matt Jaffray Audrey Ochoa Caitlin Wells Maria Dunn Aliya Jamal Kathleen Ochoa Christine Wiesenthal Stefan Duret Kathy Jessup Leif Oleson-Cormack Gillian Willans Ruth Dyck Fehderau Paul (James) Joosse Lyndal Osborne Vasiios Yiannakoulios Benjamin Eastep Ava Karvonen Jon Paterson Lester Yong-Jiung Lee Trisia Eddy Jenny Keith Michael Peng Gordana Zivkovic Casey Edmunds Lee Klippenstein Dr. Eila Peterson Frank Zotter Abby Espejo Katherine Koller Karen Porkka grant programs 25 microgrants: $22,850 Funds from the City of Edmonton

New in 2011, the MicroGrant program gives the EAC a novel Tania Alvarado Salem Jones Mollerup way to invest in the success of Edmonton artists. With no set Trevor Anderson Therezinha Kennedy deadlines for applications and amounts up to $1,000 available, Pamela Anthony Kenya Kondo the intent of the MicroGrant program is to support the hard- Nathan Brown John Leppard costs associated with timely, short-term projects that might James Cadden Kath MacLean otherwise falter for want of a small investment. Sara Campos-Silvius Jonathan Martin- Ellen Chorley DeMoor The EAC received nearly 50 applications for MicroGrants, Liam Copeland Patti Matty 30 of which were supported. Ian Crutchley Graham Nichol Zdenka Urmila Das Lyndal Osborne Applications to this program are reviewed directly by EAC Amy DeFelice Darcia Parada Board members. Renee Englot Mitchell Reynaud Carlo Ghioni Don Ross Darrin Hagen Wenda Solomons Michael Hardy Josephine Van Lier Ainsley Hillyard Raena Waddell

Crash A workshop of a new work co-created by Linda Turnbull and Tania Alvarado In photo: Tania Alvarado, Amber Borotsik and Linda Turnbull at the Banff Centre for the Arts Photo by aAron Munson

26 grant programs one day celebratory events and major parades: $31,500 Funds from the City of Edmonton

This program is intended to assist, through limited financial assistance, with the Jury production of one-day celebratory events and/or major parades within the City Eva Cairns - Chair of Edmonton. David Prodan Rick Ireland The EAC received 5 eligible applications for Celebrations and Major Parade funding in 2011, four of which were supported

Organization Grant Celebrate Canada Day in Mill Woods 10,000 Designing the Canvas of our Lives (2011 Aborignal Day) 5,000 Jingle On Indoor Santa Claus Parade 6,500 Silly Summer Parade 10,000

Eva Colmers A still from The Weightless Traveller, a short film by Eva Colmers (performer Anne-Marie Felicitas). The film was nominated in the Best Innovation category, Shanghai International Film Festival, July 2011 Photo supplied

grant programs 27 organizational support: $4,500 Funds from the City of Edmonton

The Organizational Support Grant is intended for organizations currently experiencing a challenge that may require additional resources and expertise. The program will support the cost of hiring a consultant or specialist to develop a plan to address the issue or need of the organization.

The EAC received 3 eligible applications for Organizational Support funding in 2011, all of which were supported.

Applications to this program are reviewed directly by EAC Board members.

Organization Grant Latitude 53 Gallery Society 1500 Rapid Fire Theatre 1500 Western Carnival Development Association 1500

Creative Age Festival A member of the Edmonton School Boys Alumni Band performs during the 2011 Creative Age Festival launch event at City Hall. Photo by EPIC Photography

28 grant programs community arts: $87,400 Funds from the City of Edmonton and the Edmonton Community Foundation through the Lee Fund for the Arts

Community Arts is valued for its ability to bring people together in shared, Jury collaborative, creative experiences to express the things that have meaning to Cadence Konopaki - Chair us. The EAC supports Community Arts projects that allow a community and a Heather Bedford-Cloony professional artist to work together. Josh Langudoc The EAC received 19 Community Arts applications. Melissa Milakovic

Organization Grant Arts on the Ave Edmonton Society 10,000 Concrete Theatre and the Centre for Race and Culture 10,000 Crystal Kids 7, 20 0 Mile Zero Dance 10,000 Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts 15,000 Rising Sun Theatre Society 13,500 The Learning Centre Literary Association 14,800 Young Alberta Book Society 6,900

Alberta Opera Madelaine Knight in Alberta Opera’s production of Pinocchio, adapted by Jeff Unger and Farren Timoteo Photo by Steve Knight

grant programs 29 arts operating: $2,467,000 Funds from the City of Edmonton

Edmonton’s arts organizations range from the smallest community groups to the Jury largest flagships. Together they provide creative, supportive infrastructure to the arts Wayne Arthurson - Chair community. The purpose of this program is to provide limited operating assistance Francois Chevennement to those organizations to enhance their ability to produce and perform artistic works Jim Visser for the benefit of all Edmontonians. Sarah Lieb Kim Mattice-Wanat The EAC received 105 eligible applications for Arts Operating funding in 2011, Tim Marriott 101 of which were supported. Sharon Busby Barbara Dacks Joel Maendel Annie Dugan

Tweet the Arts Meetup Hosted by EAC and artsScene Edmonton at The Artery, was an event to socialize, discuss and meet people (rookie and seasoned tweeters alike) who are actively tweeting about the arts in Edmonton, held May 2011. Photo by Fish Griwkowsky

30 grant programs Organization Grant A Joyful Noise Choir Association of Edmonton 500 Alberta Baroque Music Society 20,000 Cantilon Choral Society 8,850 Christian Music Society Concordia 1,000 Cosmopolitan Music Society 11,000 Da Camera Singers 4,000 Edmonton Chamber Music Society 7,50 0 Edmonton Classical Guitar Society 1,500 EAC Happenings on Edmonton Columbian Choirs 4,850 Churchill Square Edmonton Concert Hall Foundation 7,850 Edmonton Arts Council programmer Edmonton Jazz Society (1973) 33,000 Bob Rasko directs diverse activity Edmonton Kiwanis Music Festival Association 8,500 and event Happenings open to the Edmonton Metropolitan Chorus Society 1,500 public on Sir Winston Churchill Square Edmonton Philharmonic Society 1,000 for casual and day-to-day public use between major festivals and civic Edmonton Vocal Minority Music Society 1,500 events, in partnership with the City Edmonton Youth Choir Association 5,500 of Edmonton. Edmonton Youth Orchestra Association 20,000 Photo by Anthony P. Jones Greenwood Chamber Singers Society 2,000 I Coristi Chamber Choir Society 4,000 Kita No Taiko 2,000 Kiwanis Singers Association of Edmonton 2,500 Kokopelli Choir Association 24,000 The Lynne Singers 850 Mill Creek Colliery Band 1,250 New Edmonton Wind Sinfonia 2,000 Nova Musica Society 500 Pro Coro Society Edmonton 28,000 Richard Eaton Singers 15,000 Ritchie Trombone Choir Society 800 St. David’s Welsh Male Voice Choir 500

grant programs 31 Organization Grant Today’s Innovative Music Edmonton (TIME) 1,500 Association Arts on the Ave Edmonton Society 6,000 Edmonton Small Press Association 7,50 0 FAVA Film and Video Arts Society Alberta 60,000 Metro Cinema Society 40,100 Alberta Choral Federation 13,500 Alberta Council for the Ukranian Arts 1,500 Alberta Craft Council 50,000 Alberta Dance Alliance 12,000 Alberta Media Arts Alliance Society (AMAAS) 1,000 Alberta Motion Picture Industries Association 10,500 Alberta Music Industry Association 1,000 Alberta Playwrights’ Network 5,000 Alberta Ukrainian Dance Association 2,350 Book Publishers Association of Alberta 6,000 Canadian Authors Association, Alberta Branch 5,000 (Edmonton) Regroupement artistique francophone de l’Alberta 1,500 Theatre Alberta Society 25,000 Visual Arts Alberta Association 17,000 Writers Guild of Alberta 15,000 Young Alberta Book Society 15,000 Edmonton Story Slam Society 500 NeWest Publishers Ltd. 26,000 Thom Golub Other Voices Publishing Society 1,500 Recipient of a 2011 Edmonton Artists’ Stroll of Poets Society 3,500 Trust Fund Award TALES Edmonton Chapter 2,000 Photo by Brian Zahorodniuk Alberta Ballet 175,000 Edmonton Opera Association 250,000 Edmonton Symphony Society 400,000 The Citadel Theatre 375,000 Alberta Opera Touring Association 8,500 Association franco-albertaine de L’UniTheatre 30,000 Azimuth Theatre Association 20,000 Catalyst Theatre 40,000 Concrete Theatre Society 20,000

32 grant programs Organization Grant Edmonton Musical Theatre 1,850 Edmonton New Shadow Theatre Society 25,000 Firefly Theatre and Circus Society 25,000 Fringe Theatre Adventures Society 30,000 Ground Zero Productions 6,500 Kompany! Dance & Affiliated Artists Society (KDAAS) 1,500 Northern Light Theatre 21,000 Opera Nuova 22,000 Rapid Fire Theatre Society 18,000 Teatro La Quindicina 14,000 Theatre Network Society 45,000 Theatre Yes 1,000 Walterdale Theatre Associates 15,000 Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre 20,000 L’Association La Girandole 12,000 Brian Webb Dance Company 32,500 Citie Ballet Society 25,000 Edmonton Festival Ballet Society 3,000 Good Women Dance Society 500 KYKLOS Hellenic Performing and Literary Arts Group 3,000 Mile Zero Dance Society 25,000 Polonez Polish Folk Arts Ensemble 2,000 Sadhana Music and Dance Society 850 Ukrainian Cheremosh Society 15,000 Ukrainian Shumka Dancers 60,000 Departures and Arrivals Vinok Folkdance Society (Vinok Worldance) 25,000 by Lindsay Knox, recipient of a 2011 Viter Ukrainian Dancers Society 6,000 Edmonton Artists’ Trust Fund Award Alberta Society of Artists’ Edmonton Branch 3,400 Photo by Craig Knox Edmonton Potter’s Guild 5,000 Edmonton Weavers’ Guild 4,500 Latitude 53 Contemporary Visual Culture 32,000 Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts 15,000 Sculptors Association of Alberta 4,000 Société Francophone des Arts Visuels de l’Alberta 1,500 Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists (SNAP) 40,000 WECAN Society (Harcourt House Artists’ Run Centre) 34,000

grant programs 33 individual artists: $460,000 Funds from the City of Edmonton

Individual artists and their work are the foundation of our arts community. Their projects are the research and development activity of the creative sector, feeding the greater arts ecosystem locally and for export.

The EAC received 127 applications for Individual Artist Projects totaling more than $1,900,000 in Grant requests.

Jury Richard Tosczak - Chair Kimmy Beach Ryan Cunningham William Dimmer Laura O’Connor Katalin Szonyi Jeannie Vandekerkhove

Wishbone Theatre Michael Peng in Wishbone Theatre’s production of Bashir Lazhar. Playwright: Evelyne de la Chenelière, Director: Piet Defraeye European Tour, summer 2011 (Antwerp, Kiev, London, Edinburgh); remount, Edmonton, fall 2011. Photo by Matthew Barker

34 grant programs Teatro la Quindicina Amber Bissonnette and Jeff Haslam in Recipient Discipline Grant Stewart Lemoine’s comedy The Scent of Compulsion, July 2011. Tania Alvarado Dance 19,000 Photo by Justin Gambin Trevor Anderson Media-FIlm 10,500 Chenoa Anderson Music 5,994 Kyle Armstrong Media-FIlm 14,700 Jalal Barzangi Literary Arts 23,800 Tim Bowling Literary Arts 6,350 Jeff Carpenter Visual Arts 20,900 Eva Colmers Media-FIlm 16,600 Ruth Dyckfedherau Literary Arts 7, 60 0 Beth Graham Theatre 6,100 Darrin Hagen Theatre 20,000 Kristi Hansen Theatre 12,000 Don Hill Multi-disciplinary 16,000 Liz Ingram Visual Arts 14,000 Gary James Joynes Visual Arts 14,004 Michelle Kennedy Theatre 2,900 Shawna Lemay Literary Arts 12,500 Lynn Malin Visual Arts 25,000 Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail Literary Arts 17,50 0 Jay Murphy (Sparrow) Music 25,000 Holly Newman Visual Arts 7, 820 Kathleen Ochoa Dance 19,000 Leif Oleson-Cormack Theatre 13,600 Lyndal Osborne Visual Arts 19,840 Michael Peng Theatre 8,300 Scott Portingale Media-FIlm 25,000 Tim Rechner Visual Arts 6,350 Robyn Nigel Slack Music 8,250 Jennifer Spencer Theatre 25,000 Mark Stubbings Theatre 4,400 Raena Waddell Dance 8,720 Clint Wilson Visual Arts 15,272 Chris Wynters Theatre 8,000

grant programs 35 edmonton artist trust fund: $75,000 Funds held by the Edmoton Community Foundation

The Edmonton Artists’ Trust Fund (EATF) is a joint project of the Edmonton Arts Jury Council and the Edmonton Community Foundation. The EATF is designed to Mary Phillips-Rickey - Chair invest in Edmonton’s creative community and to encourage artists to stay in Trevor Anderson our community. The funds are intended to offset living and working expenses, Agnieszka Matejko allowing the artist to devote a concentrated period of time to his/her artistic Karen Porkka activities, career enhancement and/or development. Pierrette Requier Thomas Scott The EAC received more than 50 nominations for Edmonton Artists’ Trust Fund Awards in 2011.

Recipient Award Kyle Armstrong 7,50 0 Nathan Cuckow 7,50 0 Thom Golub 7,50 0 Beth Graham 7,50 0 Gary James Joynes 7,50 0 Lindsay Knox 7,50 0 Amy Loewan 7,50 0 Mieko Ouchi 7,50 0 Josee Thibeault 7,50 0 Amy Van Keeken 7,50 0

The recipients of the 2011 Edmonton Artist’s Trust Fund Awards, honored at a reception in City Hall on March 6, 2012. Photo by Meryl Smith Lawton

36 grant programs TransAlta festival city grant program: $177,577 Funds from TransAlta

These grants are intended to support on-going production, operations and/or Jury marketing for Festivals that take place in the Greater Edmonton region. The intent Gina Moe - Chair is to enhance the capacity of the festival to achieve, in the immediate future, a Randall Fraser recognizably higher level of accomplishment. Lawrie Seligman Terry Wickham This is the final round for this grant program following a generous six-year Aura Leigh Anscombe commitment by the TransAlta corporation.

The EAC received 22 applications for TransAlta Festival City funding in 2011, eight of which were supported.

Organization Grant Northern Alberta International Children’s Festival 26,516.00 Litfest 18,000.00 Edmonton Poetry Festival 18,000.00 Edmonton Pride Festival 35,000.00 Ice on Whyte 30,000.00 Kaleido Family Arts Festival 20,000.00 Silver Skate Festival 21,640.00 TALES Fort Edmonton Storytelling Festival 8,421.00

grant programs 37 Firefly Theatre Kristi Wade performs with Firefly Theatre and Circus as part of EAC Happenings on Churchill Square, New Year’s Eve Celebrations. Photo by Myka Jakoubek financial statements Independant Auditor’s Report | December 31, 2011

To the Members of: The Edmonton Arts Council Society to the entity’s preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements in order to design audit procedures Report on the Financial Statements that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the I have audited the accompanying financial statements purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of The Edmonton Arts Council Society, which comprise of the entity’s internal control. An audit also includes the statement of financial position at December 31, 2011, evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the statement of receipts and disbursements and net and the reasonableness of accounting estimates made by assets, and cash flow statement for the year then ended, management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation and a summary of significant accounting policies and other of the financial statements. explanatory information. I believe that the audit evidence I have obtained is sufficient Management’s Responsibility for the and appropriate to provide a basis for my audit opinion. Financial Statements Management is responsible for the preparation and fair Basis for Qualified Opinion presentation of these financial statements in accordance In common with many charitable organizations, the Society with Canadian generally accepted accounting principles, derives receipts from donations, the completeness of and for such internal control as management determines is which is not susceptible to satisfactory audit verification. necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements Accordingly, my verification of these revenues was limited that are free from material misstatement, whether due to to the amounts recorded in the records of the Society and I fraud or error. was not able to determine whether any adjustments might be necessary to donation receipts, excess of receipts over Auditor’s Responsibility disbursements, assets and surplus. My responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit. Except as explained Qualified Opinion in the following paragraph, I conducted my audit in In my opinion, except for the effect of adjustments, if any, accordance with Canadian generally accepted auditing which I might have determined to be necessary had I standards. Those standards require that we comply with been able to satisfy myself concerning the completeness ethical requirements and plan and perform the audit to of the donations referred to in a preceding paragraph, the obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the statements are free from material misstatement. financial position of The Edmonton Arts Council Society as at December 31, 2011, and its financial performance and An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit its cash flows for the year then ended in accordance with evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the Canadian generally accepted accounting principles. financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditor’s judgment, including the assessment of the Edmonton, Alberta risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, Chartered Accountant whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal control relevant

financial statements 39 The Edmonton Arts Council Society: Statement of Financial Position December 31, 2011

Assets 2011 2010 General Fund Cash $ 26,626 $ 28,108 Accounts receivable 174,576 104,176 Prepaid expenses 3,000 - 204,202 132,284 TIX on the Square Fund Accounts receivable 53,348 35,854

Casino Fund Cash 47,453 32,093

Program Fund Cash 299,577 156,258 Accounts receivable 67,967 230,000 367,544 386,258 Public Art Fund Cash 659,731 799,584 Accounts receivable 3,462,240 2,095,338 4,121,971 2,894,922 Community Investment Grants Fund - Cash 21,145 203,321 Prepaid expenses 150,000 - 171,145 203,321 Property and Equipment Fund Property and equipment (Note 3) 141,837 94,547 Total Assets $ 5,107,500 $ 3,779,279

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Liabilities 2011 2010 General Fund Accounts payable $ 68,953 $ 74,358

TIX on the Square Fund Bank Indebtedness 20,514 12,765 Accounts payable 3,163 20,095 Unearned revenue (Note 6) 16,638 14,664 40,315 47,524 Program Fund Accounts payable 120,568 51,421

Public Art Fund Accounts payable 2,414,759 2,412,152

Community Investment Grants Fund Accounts payable 138,918 171,334

Total Liabilities 2,783,513 2,756,789

Net Assets 2011 2010 General Fund 135,249 57,926 TIX on the Square Fund 13,033 (11,670) Casino Fund 47,453 32,093 Program Fund 246,976 334,837 Public Art Fund 1,707,212 482,770 Community Investment Grants Fund Restricted 12,227 11,987 Unrestricted 20,000 20,000 Property and Equipment Fund 141,837 94,547 Net Assets 2,323,987 1,022,490

Total Liabilities and Net Assets $ 5,107,500 $ 3,779,279

financial statements 41 The Edmonton Arts Council Society: Statement of Receipts, Disbursements, and Fund Balance For the year ended December 31, 2011

General Fund 2011 2010 Receipts City of Edmonton service contract $ 882,880 $ 542,428 Grant - administration 39,624 35,908 Investment income 8,326 4,233 Memberships 8,850 11,300 Other income 57,451 133,218 997,131 727,087 Disbursements Bank charges and interest 814 1,203 Board of Directors costs and Annual General Meeting 7,738 7,327 Conferences and travel 10,991 3,202 Consulting fees 1,575 500 Equipment lease 25,041 27,219 Insurance 3,803 4,527 Jury and honorariums 29,293 9,072 Marketing and promotion 67,877 17,625 Office costs 42,390 49,780 Publications 2,890 3,220 Professional fees 14,751 5,435 Rent 47,635 41,130 Staffing costs and benefits 643,469 458,184 Telephone, internet and website 22,651 21,881 920,918 650,305

Excess of Receipts over Disbursements 76,213 76,782 Transfer to Property and Equipment Fund (33,624) (20,504) Transfer to TIX on the Square Fund - (1,190) Transfer from Casino Fund 34,734 31,836 Net increase (decrease) in Fund balance 77,323 86,924 Fund balance, beginning of year 57,926 (28,998) Fund balance, end of year $ 135,249 $ 57,926

42 financial statements The Edmonton Arts Council Society: Statement of Receipts, Disbursements, and Fund Balance For the year ended December 31, 2011

Tix on the Square Fund 2011 2010 Receipts Operating income $ 95,000 $ 35,854 Commissions 142,223 130,119 Credit card charges recovered 26,022 22,684 Gift certificates 3,684 2,836 Miscellaneous income 1,000 - Sales for distribution 1,166,708 1,096,509 1,434,637 1,288,002 Disbursements Advertising and promotion 16,238 2,664 Bank charges and interest 6,104 882 Credit card charges 25,947 30,584 E-Commerce 2,501 2,679 Office expenses 11,597 7,709 Purchases 8,072 - Rent 3,082 2,347 Sales reimbursement 1,151,928 1,099,345 Staffing costs and benefits 178,617 138,438 Telephone 4,549 3,354 1,408,635 1,288,002

Excess of Receipts over Disbursements 26,002 - Fund balance, beginning of year (11,670) (12,860) Transfer from General Fund - 1,190 Transfer from (to) Property and Equipment Fund (1,299) - Fund balance, end of year $ 13,033 $ (11,670)

financial statements 43 The Edmonton Arts Council Society: Statement of Receipts, Disbursements, and Fund Balance For the year ended December 31, 2011

Casino Fund 2011 2010 Receipts Casino revenue $ 76,343 $ - Investment income 69 59 76,412 59 Disbursements Casino wages 1,985 - Interest and bank charges 68 76 2,053 76 Excess (Deficiency) of Receipts over Disbursements 74,359 (17) Transfers to general fund (34,734) (31,836) Transfer to property and equipment fund (24,265) (6,275) Fund balance, beginning of year 32,093 70,221 Fund balance, end of year $ 47,453 $ 32,093

44 financial statements The Edmonton Arts Council Society: Statement of Receipts, Disbursements, and Fund Balance For the year ended December 31, 2011

Program Fund

2011 2010 Receipts City of Edmonton - Alberta Avenue $ 53,600 $ 67,000 City of Edmonton - Winter Light Festival 315,781 796,912 Edmonton Artists Trust Fund 75,000 67,500 Lee Fund Grant 34,126 35,500 Living Local 50,000 - Mayors Task Force 46,757 - Other Programs 248,450 3,000 Sir W inston Churchill Square 225,000 - TransAlta 180,000 180,000 1,228,714 1,149,912 Disbursements City of Edmonton - Alberta Avenue 61,107 51,673 City of Edmonton - Winter Light Festival 438,284 831,495 Edmonton Artists Trust Fund 75,000 67,500 Edmonton Heritage Council (Note 10) - 91,854 Lee Fund Grant 34,126 35,500 Living Local 50,000 - Mayors Task Force 46,757 - Other Programs 248,450 6,351 Sir Winston Churchill Square 152,351 - TransAlta 210,500 179,928 1,316,575 1,264,301 Excess (Deficiency) of Receipts over Disbursements (87,861) (114,389) Fund balance, beginning of year 334,837 449,226 Fund balance, end of year $ 246,976 $334,837

financial statements 45 The Edmonton Arts Council Society: Statement of Receipts, Disbursements, and Fund Balance For the year ended December 31, 2011

Property and Equipment Fund 2011 2010 Receipts $ - $ - Disbursements Amortization 40,640 30,677 Excess (Deficiency) of Receipts over Disbursements (40,640) (30,677) Transfer from Casino Fund 24,265 6,275 Transfer from General Fund 33,624 20,504 Transfer from TIX on the Square Fund 1,299 - Transfer from Public Art Fund 28,742 14,170 Fund balance, beginning of year 94,547 84,275 Fund balance, end of year $ 141,837 $ 94,547

Public Art Fund 2011 2010 Receipts Public Art Funds Received 3,077,542 $1,730,069 Disbursements Public Art Projects Disbursements 1,824,358 1,802,306 Excess (Deficiency) of Receipts over Disbursements 1,253,184 (72,237) Transfer to Property and Equipment Fund (28,742) (14,170) Fund balance, beginning of year 482,770 569,177 Fund balance, end of year $ 1,707,212 $ 482,770

46 financial statements The Edmonton Arts Council Society: Statement of Receipts, Disbursements, and Fund Balance For the year ended December 31, 2011

Community Investment Grants Fund

2011 2010 Receipts City of Edmonton Community Investment Grants $ 5,777,500 $ 4,716,000 Investment income 30,875 21,231 5,808,375 4,737,231 Disbursements Administration 72,760 154,527 Arts Operating Grant 2,467,000 1,962,992 Community Public Art - 100,000 Cultural Diversity Grants 67,500 72,500 Edmonton Artists Individual Grants 449,500 204,050 Emergency Grant 5,000 - Facility Grants 988,800 955,123 Festival Operating Grant 1,409,500 1,125,100 Festival Seed Grants 174,500 60,000 Lee Fund Grant 50,400 - Major Parade and Celebration Grants 31,500 51,075 Microgrants 22,850 - Travel Grants 68,825 31,629 5,808,135 4,716,996 Excess of Receipts over Disbursements 240 20,235 Fund balance, beginning of year 31,987 11,752 Fund balance, end of year $ 32,227 $ 31,987

financial statements 47 The Edmonton Arts Council Society: Statement of Cash Flows For the year ended December 31, 2011

General Fund

2011 2010 Net inflow (outflow) of cash related to the following activities: Operating activities Net increase (decrease) in surplus $ 76,213 $ 76,782 Change in non-cash balances relating to operations Accounts receivable (70,400) (23,005) Accounts payable (5,405) 5,798 Prepaid expenses (3,000) - (2,592) 59,575 Financing activities Transfer to Property and Equipment Fund (33,624) (20,504) Transfer to TIX on the Square Fund - (1,190) Transfer from Casino Fund 34,734 31,836 1,110 10,142 Net inflow (outflow) of cash (1,482) 69,717 Cash (deficiency), beginning of year 28,108 (41,609) Cash, end of year $ 26,626 $ 28,108

48 financial statements The Edmonton Arts Council Society: Notes to Financial Statements For the year ended December 31, 2011

Note 1: Nature of Operations account to receive proceeds from casinos managed by the Society. Funds from this account can only be spent The Edmonton Arts Council Society (EAC) exists to in areas designated in each casino application. Proceeds support and promote the arts community in Edmonton. are used mainly for community programs as well as The EAC meets the needs of its members and the arts EAC and TIX on the Square website development and community as a whole though activities that: updates. The Society currently holds a fundraising casino every two years. • help provide financial support to festivals, arts organizations and individual artists; Program Fund • educate those who play a role in the success of the When requested by the City of Edmonton, the EAC arts community about the quality of artistic work produces special projects. These projects have produced here, its importance to the city, and its needs; included Churchill Square Programming, revitalization • advise decision makers on specific issues that affect projects on Alberta Avenue and others. In addition, the arts; the EAC develops grant programs with the Edmonton • nurture the quality of artistic work produced here. Community Foundation and corporate partners including TransAlta. The EAC was incorporated on April 19, 1995 under the Societies Act of the Province of Alberta and was Public Art Fund registered as a charity effective August 1, 1997 under The Service Agreement between the City of Edmonton the Income Tax Act. and the EAC identifies support for the City’s public art program as a core duty of the EAC. This involves creation The operations of the Society are organized into project of master plans for public art, policy development, and funds. A summary of each of the funds is as follows: production of specific public art projects generated by the Percent for Art program or from other sources. General Fund Donations which have not been designated by the Community Investment Grants (CIG) donor for one of the other funds are placed in the Service Agreement between the City of Edmonton General Fund. The costs of administering the Society and the EAC identifies responsibility for the City’s and the costs of improving or expanding the Society Community Investment Grants program in the arts are recorded in this fund. and festivals as a core duty of the EAC. This involves administration of all relevant existing CIG grant TIX on the Square Fund programs as well as development of new CIG grant TIX on the Square is a community box office, retail store, programs in arts and festivals. and information booth. It is also a Ticketmaster outlet. It is owned and operated by the Edmonton Arts Council Property and Equipment Fund and serves the entire arts and cultural community in the The Property and Equipment Fund was established greater Edmonton region. to collect and disburse funds on capital projects undertaken by the EAC and to maintain the assets, Casino Fund liabilities, revenues and expenses related to the The Casino Fund was set up in response to the Alberta Society’s property and equipment. Gaming Commission’s requirement to have a separate

financial statements 49 The Edmonton Arts Council Society: Notes to Financial Statements For the year ended December 31, 2011

Note 2: Significant Accounting Policies Income Taxes The EAC is a non profit organization incorporated under These financial statements have been prepared the Societies Act of the Province of Alberta and as such is in accordance with Canadian generally accepted exempt from income taxes. accounting principles for non-profit organizations and within the framework of the significant accounting Use of Estimates policies summarized below: The preparation of financial statements in accordance with Canadian generally accepted accounting principles Cash (Bank Indebtedness) requires management to make estimates and assumptions Cash (bank indebtedness) includes bank deposits, that affect the reported amount of assets and liabilities cheques issued in excess of bank balance and term and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at investments with maturities less than one year. the date of the financial statements and the reported amount of revenues and expenses during the reporting Property and Equipment period. These estimates are reviewed periodically and, Property and Equipment are recorded at cost. as adjustments become necessary, they are reported in Amortization is calculated on the declining balance earnings in the period in which they become known. basis over the assets estimated useful life at the following annual rates: Financial Instruments Computer equipment and website 30% The Society as part of its operations carries a number of Ticket booth 30% financial instruments. It is management’s opinion that the Office equipment 20% Society is not exposed to significant interest, currency or credit risks arising from these financial instruments, Volunteer Services except as otherwise disclosed. During the year certain services were provided to the Society by volunteers. These volunteer services have Long-lived Assets not been recognized in the financial statements. Long-lived assets consist of property and equipment. Long-lived assets held for use are measured and Donations amortized as described in the applicable accounting With the establishment of the Edmonton Artists policies. Trust Fund (Note 4), donations that are not restricted are forwarded directly to the Trust Fund held by the The Society performs impairment testing on long-lived Edmonton Community Foundation. assets held for use whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value of an asset, Non-Cash Donations or group of assets, may not be recoverable. Impairment The EAC only records non-cash donations when a losses are recognized when undiscounted future cash charitable receipt is issued. These donations are flows from its use and disposal are less than the asset’s recorded at the fair value of the items received. carrying amount. Impairment is measured as the amount by which the asset’s carrying value exceeds its fair value. Any impairment is included in earnings for the year.

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Note 3: Property and Equipment

Cost Accumulated 2011 2010 Amortization Net Book Value Net Book Value Computer equipment and website $ 246,835 $ 114,548 $ 132,287 $ 87,308 Ticket booth 16,674 16,536 138 198 Office equipment 19,881 10,469 9,412 7,0 41 $ 283,390 $ 141,553 $ 141,837 $ 94,547

Note 4: Edmonton Artists Trust Fund Note 7: Financial instruments The Edmonton Artists Trust Fund is a joint project of Credit Risk the EAC and the Edmonton Community Foundation Financial instruments held by the Society expose it to (ECF). The purpose of the fund is to invest in Edmonton’s credit risk. As at December 31, 2011, the Society’s financial creative community by providing grants to individual instrument that is exposed to concentration of credit risk is artists who are living and working in Edmonton. An open- cash. The Society at times maintains cash with Canadian ended endowment fund has been established with ECF chartered banks in excess of federally insured limits and is to which anyone can make tax deductible donations. exposed to the credit risk from this concentration of cash. The EAC will annually receive contributions equal to 3.5% (2010 - 3.5%) of the asset base in the fund which will be Fair value used to support local artists. The fair value of cash, accounts receivable, bank indebtedness, unearned revenue, and accounts payable During the year the EAC received $93,896 (2010 - $79,515) is approximately equal to their carrying value due to their of which $75,000 (2010 - $67,500) was for grants to short-term maturity dates. approved artists and $18,896 (2010 - $12,015) was for administration costs. Note 8: Comparative Financial Statement Certain comparative figures have been reclassified to Note 5: Commitments confirm with current year presentation. The EAC has committed to minimum monthly lease payments of $2,846 per month until December 2020 for Note 9: Economic Dependence the office space they currently occupy. Ongoing operations of the EAC are dependent upon receiving continuing funding from the City of Edmonton. Note 6: Unearned Revenue The current service agreement is in effect until December Unearned revenue of the TIX on the Square Fund is 31, 2016. comprised of gift certificates sold that have not been redeemed.

financial statements 51 The Edmonton Arts Council Society: Notes to Financial Statements For the year ended December 31, 2011

Note 10: Edmonton Heritage Council Note 12: Capital Management The Edmonton Heritage Council (EHC) was housed in the The Society considers its capital to be the balance EAC from April to December 2009. During the 2009 year maintained in its Unrestricted Net Asset accounts. The the EHC took steps to establish itself as an incorporated primary objective of the Society is to invest its Capital business and was incorporated under the Society’s in a manner that will allow it to continue as a going Act of Alberta on November 6, 2009 and commenced concern and comply with its stated objectives. Capital is operations in the newly incorporated Society on January invested under the direction of the Board of Directors of 1, 2010. The EAC transferred the funds it had related to the Society with the objective of providing a reasonable the EHC programs to the EHC to continue the operations rate of return, minimizing risk and ensuring adequate in the new Society. liquid investments are on hand for current cash flow requirements. The Society is not subject to any externally Note 11: Future Accounting Changes imposed requirements of its Capital. In December of 2010, the Accounting Standards Board of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants approved the adoption of new accounting standards for not-for-profit organizations, to be effective for fiscal years commencing on or after January 1, 2012. Management and the Board will ensure the Society complies with the new standards.

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