Touring Artist Fund 2021

# Recipient name Project description Amount March 1 Lorène Charmetant Tour of multidisciplinary performance Veridis and Orée. $10,000 Larrikin Entertainment 2 Community tour of professional play. $10,000 Ensemble

3 Colin Dorward Online and in-person concert series of new LP. $2,802

TOTAL $22,802 June A 12+ member string section will perform in Dawson, Haines Jct., and 1 Longest Night Society Whitehorse in the summer/fall 2021 $10,000

A Yukon based promotional tour in support of Pick's newly released 2 Pick Sophomore record "Hope for the Best" $8,407 An exhibition of beaded photographs on canvas with wearable art at two 3 Patricia Bragg Manitoba galleries $4,171 TOTAL $22,578 September

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This document is updated quarterly as recipients are announced.

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# Recipient name Project description Amount March 1 Dennis Shorty Dena Zagi to perform @ We Are One concert and in schools in Victoria, BC. $4,854

TOTAL $4,854 June 1 Paris Pick Focus Wales - 2021 International Showcase $10,000 2 Erin Dixon Art International Art Fair $6,000 TOTAL $16,000 September 0 No applications received TOTAL $0 December 1 Kim Beggs Kim Beggs Tour 2021 $10,000 2 Brigitte Desjardins Brigitte Jardins Tour $10,000 3 Gordie Tentrees Yukon & BC Tour $9,100 4 Joey O'Neil Cross Canada Dog Park Tour $7,500 5 Victoria Parker Dawson Winter Concert Series & Whitehorse $3,820 6 Annie Kierans Slow Time: Scenes from Quarantine $1,970 7 John Dagostin Dawson Winter Concert Series & Yukon tour $1,500 TOTAL $43,890

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# Recipient name Project description Amount March Exhibiting "The Chilkoot Trail" series of paintings at the USA National Park Service 1 Daphne Mennell Museum in , Washington. $10,000 Performing poetry readings at the Association for the Study of Literature and 2 Clea Roberts Environment events in Sacramento, California and Tokyo, Japan as well as book $10,000 readings at universities and bookshops. 3 Louisette Boudreau A fashion collection to be shown at Fashion Art . $7,000 Open studio opportunities alongside (2) 1 month artist residencies in Santa Fe, New 4 Doug Smarch Jr. Mexico. $7,000 TOTAL $34,000 June 1 Driftwood Holly Germany Budenzauber Tour (Cabin Magic Tour) $8,000 2 The Lucky Ones Peterborough Folk Festival and Summer Tour $8,000 Open Pit Theatre 3 Busted Up: A Yukon Story at the Spark Festival, Victoria, BC. $8,000 Society 4 Lulu Keating Film Festival Tour $5,000 TOTAL $29,000 September 1 Ryan McNally Ryan McNally Fall & Winter Tour $10,000 2 Brigitte Desjardins Tournée Brigitte Jardin $8,000 Borealis Soul Urban 3 100Lux 2020 Dance Festival $5,000 Dance Theatre Alliance

4 Gordie Tentrees Gordie Tentrees New Zealand Tour $5,000 5 Scott Price Penticton Art Gallery $2,000 TOTAL $30,000 December 1 David Curtis 3 film festivals in Europe, BC and Ontario. $4,000

2 Kimberley Beggs Performance at music festival on Vancouver Island and touring Western Canada. $3,104

3 Joanna Lilley Book tour in Canada and the UK. $3,104 4 Paris Pick Music festival in Calgary, Alberta $3,000 Interactive light installation for the grand opening exhibition of Contemporary Calgary 5 Michel Gignac and Glow Festival. $2,000 TOTAL $15,208

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# Recipient name Project description Amount March Summer Festival Tour: Orangeville Blues & Jazz Festival, 40th Annual Harrison 1 Ryan McNally Festival, Markham Jazz Festival. $10,000 Performances at Harbourfront Canada Weekend in Toronto, Northern Lights Music 2 Kim Beggs Festival in Sudbury, and Wide Cut Weekend Festival in Calgary. $8,000 TOTAL $18,000 June 1 Lulu Keating Film exhibitions in Canada, Australia, and Zimbabwe. $10,000 2 Declan O'Donovan Summer 2018 Canadian Tour including Jazz Festival. $10,000 Exhibit and present work at Olga Korper Gallery and participate on a panel at Art 3 Veronica Verkley Gallery of Ontario $6,000

4 Dan Sokolowski Screening and presentations at Northwest Film Centre, Portland, OR. $2,100

5 Virginie Hamel Artist residency and exhibition at KIAR Art Center in Andhra Pradesh, India. $2,000

TOTAL $30,100 September Artist talks and demonstrations at venues presenting the national group exhibition Art 1 Helen O'Connor of the Book. $9,000 A gallery tour in Rajasthan, India showing several multimedia artworks, giving artist 2 Monique Romeiko talks and dance workshops. $8,100

3 Borealis Soul Four performances in 100Lux Dance Festival, Montreal. $7,016

TOTAL $24,116 December Gwaandak Theatre 1 Touring The Unplugging to Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario in April 2019. $10,000 Society Diyet and the 2 Touring UK rural venues in 2019. $7,500 Love Soldiers

A tour of an extended and conceptually reframed version of Get There From Here to 3 3 Nicole Bauberger Ontario galleries including a collaborative installation with Teresa Vander Meer- $6,500 Chassé. A western Canadian book tour to launch, celebrate and promote a debut poetry 4 kjmunro collection, contractions, with Red Moon Press. $4,275

5 Barbara Chamberlin Barbara Chamberlin to play with her blues band in Germany. $3,577

Performing original poetry from new book, Downtown Flirt, at spoken word events in 6 Peter Jickling Southern Ontario. $2,642 Team Yukon tour Winnipeg and Yellowknife to showcase and compete in snow 7 Joshua Lesage carving. $1,390

TOTAL $35,884

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# Recipient name Project description Amount March Kim Beggs will perform and promote her 5th solo album through central and western 1 Kim Beggs Canada as well as Nashville, Tenessee. $10,000 Gwaandak Theatre Touring Map of the Land, Map of the Stars to IMPACT 17 in Kitchener, ON and Talking 2 $10,000 Society Stick Festival in Vancouver, BC. Touring as the opening act for the Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer in 14 shows 3 Ryan McNally across Canada. $10,000 TOTAL $30,000 June To perform a new full length album, Broken Sky,at the Fuji Rock festival in Japan and 1 Declan O'Donovan the Western Canadian Music Awards in Edmonton. $10,000 To support the release of a second book of poetry by reading at various festivals and 2 Clea Roberts reading series in Canada and Europe. $9,600 3 Lulu Keating To screen new films in film festivals across Canada. $9,546 To present and perform dance and dance arts at dance: made in canada festival and at 4 Monique Romeiko a residency in India. $8,000 5 Heather Dickson To attend and present original beadwork at the Santa Fe Indian Market. $5,000 Lillian Nakamura To attend public readings by professional actors of the play Hidden Memories at the 6 Ruby Slippers Theatre in Vancouver and at the National Association of Japanese $2,000 Maguire Canadians conference in Ottawa.

TOTAL $44,146

September A music collaboration between Diyet and BC's Ken Lavigne and Tiller's Folly that 1 Diyet van Lieshout showcases original songs and Canadian songwriters. $5,900 Teresa Earle & Fritz To screen the recent documentary Journeys to Adäka in Yellowknife, Ottawa, 2 $4,400 Mueller Vancouver, Banff, Missoula, Norway and Australia. To screen recent artistic film works in British Columbia and Ontario with public 3 Christopher Healey presentations, discussions and workshops. $3,900 To perform "Susie and Charlie" with Sharon Shorty at the 2018 Toronto International 4 Duane Aucoin Storytelling Festival. $2,200 To perform "Susie and Charlie" with Duane Aucoin at the 2018 Toronto International 5 Sharon Shorty Storytelling Festival. $2,200 To screen a recent film and participate in a talk and media salon at Antimatter [Media 6 Jeffrey Langille Art] festival in Victoria, BC. $1,900 TOTAL $20,500 December

1 Joanna Lilley If There Were Roads International Book Tour $6,565

TOTAL $6,565

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# Recipient name Project description Amount March 1 Jona Barr Saturn Return Release Tour $10,000 2 Sarah MacDougall Grand Canyon' Euro Release Tour & JunoFest 2016 $10,000 3 Nicole Bauberger Get There From Here, Western Canadian Tour $6,500 4 Sandra Storey Three Yukon Artists $5,800 TOTAL $32,300 June To perform at the Reeperbahn Festival in and tour Canadian and European 1 Declan O'Donovan cities. $9,750 2 Lulu Keating To screen films at the Atlantic Film Festival and the Charlottetown Film Festival. $6,578 TOTAL $16,328 September 1 New North Collective A five concert tour in Alberta. $10,000 Donald Watt and Ken 2 Yukon Canada International Snow Sculpture Touring Team 2017. $9,620 Anderson 3 Ukjese van Kampen Art Exhibition and talks in Poznan, Poland. $2,500 TOTAL $22,120 December To present an original cardboard puppet show for 4 performances at the rEvolver 1 Brian Fidler Festival in Vancouver. $7,000 2 Gordie Tentrees To tour Western Australia, performing 17 concerts including the Nannup Festival. $7,000

Presenting a solo exhibition of 38 paintings, drawings and a soundsdcape at the Haida 3 Neil Graham Gwaii Museum in Skidgate, Haida Gwaii. $6,500

4 Kelly Milner To present the film SHIFT at various film festivals and public screenings. $5,000

To perform an upcoming EP, Academically Stacked, at 14 shows across Canada 5 Amelia Merhar including headlining at a festival. $1,958 6 Leslie Leong Attend the SubARCCtic exhibition of an outdoor sculpture in Yellowknife, NWT. $1,500 TOTAL $28,958

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# Recipient name Project description Amount March 1 Joyce Majiski Exhibition and tour at The Braid, a Museum & Art Gallery in Ireland, December 2015. $9,060 TOTAL $9,060 June Gwaandak Theatre 1 Paradise Tour at IMPACT 15 Theatre Festival, Kitchener, ON. $10,000 Society 2 Diyet van Lieshout Diyet: Saskatchewan Tour. $5,743 The Midnight Sons 3 Sunfest Music Festival, BC. $5,430 Band Vision Quest - Nick 4 Johnson and Yudii Vision Quest / Warrior Sun National Tour. $4,000 Mercredi Remote Sensibility: the ecology of perception at International Symposium of Electronic 5 Marten Berkman Arts 2015, Vancouver. $1,790 TOTAL $26,963 September 1 Gordie Tentrees To perform 7 concerts in Ireland amidst 19 dates in the UK. $10,000 To tour an original play, "Sci Fi Double Feature," to Fredericton, Saint John and 2 Brian Fidler Windsor, NS. $9,000 Donald Watt and Michael 3 To craft 5 different snow sculptures on tour in Canada, USA, and Japan. $8,000 Lane To perform music from a new CD, "Aura Borealis" at a film and music festival and then 4 Driftwood Holly tour the album in Germany. $5,000

5 Lulu Keating To exhibit four recent films at film festivals in Halifax and St. John's Newfoundland. $1,005

TOTAL $33,005 December To perform contemporary dance in Agropoli, Italy and attend a week-long 1 Mellisa Murray contemporary dance workshop. $9,400 TOTAL $9,400

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# Recipient name Project description Amount March 1 Daniel Ashley Daniel Ashley performs as a solo artist at national and international venues. $7,333 TOTAL $7,333 June Performance tour in Nunavut, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Atlantic 1 Speed Control Canada. $10,000 2 Brandon Isaak Perfomances at 2014 Nanjing International Jazz Festival. $9,850 Performing at Peterborough Folk Festival (ON), and Sappyfest (Sackville, NS) and 3 The Naysayers other points East in Quebec and the Maritimes. $7,000 Exhibiting original fashion designs at 2014 National Aboriginal Fashion Week in Brenda Lee Asp 4 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. $2,300 Presenting artwork and hosting workshop at Great Northern Arts Festival in Inuvik, July 5 Sarah McHugh 11-20, 2014. $800 TOTAL $29,950 September Performance tour to BC, AB, SK, MB, ON, NS, NB, PEI, NL including the Red Square 1 Kim Beggs Homeroutes House circuit. $10,000

TOTAL $10,000 December To tour the feature documentary All The Time In The World to eight film festivals in 1 Suzanne Crocker Canada, USA, and South Africa. $10,000 To perform at the National Art Centre, CAPACOA, the Canada Games, and on tour as 2 Sarah MacDougall an opening act for The Once. $10,000 To tour carving exhibitions, provide workshops, and give artist talks at the Shurniak 3 Dennis Shorty Gallery in Assiniboia and the Illingworth Gallery in Calgary. $10,000 4 Gordie Tentrees To perform at the Cobargo Folk Festival and tour other venues in Australia. $10,000 5 Brian Fidler To tour the production of Sci-Fi Double Feature in Nelson, B. C. $7,275 To perform poetry readings from The Fleece Era in Edmonton, Yellowknife, and the 6 Joanna Lilley UK, and fiction from The Birthday Books in Saskatchewan. $6,820

TOTAL $54,095

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# Recipient name Project description Amount March To tour five cities in China for the 2013 10th anniversary of the Nanjing International 1 Grant Simpson Quintet Jazz Festival. $10,000 To perform in two theatre festivals in BC in August 2 Peter Jickling 2013. $9,675 Drea and the To perform in Peterborough, Ontario and at the Paulusfeestan Festival in Ostund, 3 $4,000 Naysayers Belgium in August 2013. To tour schools and libraries in association with the Ontario Library Association's 4 Claire Eamer Forest of Reading Festival. $1,930 Presenting artwork and hosting workshop at GNAF (Great Northern Arts Festival) in 5 Lena White Inuvik, July 12-21, 2013. $1,000

Presenting artwork and hosting workshop at GNAF (Great Northern Arts Festival) in 6 Marie-Hélène Comeau Inuvik, July 12-21, 2013. $500

Presenting artwork and hosting workshop at GNAF (Great Northern Arts Festival) in 7 Blair Thorson Inuvik, July 12-21, 2013. $500

TOTAL $27,605 June 1 Sarah MacDougall Performing with her band in Scandinavia, and a showcase at Iceland Ariwaves Festival. $10,000

Presenting Lucille's Ball, a new feature film in Sydney, Australia and St. John's, 2 Lulu Keating Newfoundland. $6,300 3 Kim Beggs Performing original music at Manitoba CONTACT and in venues in 6 other provinces. $5,145 Presenting Broken by Brian Fidler at the Summerworks Theatre Festival in Toronto, Brian Fidler 4 Ontario. $2,800 TOTAL $24,245 September Donald Watt and 1 To compete and exhibit snow sculpting in Italy, Sweden, USA, and Canada. $7,000 Michael Lane To perform songs from Gordie's albums with Fabian Brook and Aiden Tentrees at the 2 Gordie Tentrees Walkabout Festival in the Netherlands and tour in 6 other European Countries. $7,000 Gwaandak Theatre 3 Performing The Hours That Remain at the 2014 Talking Stick Festival in Vancouver. $7,000 Society To exhibit sculptures at the Reynolds-Alberta Museum and meet 2 Alberta gallery 4 Paul Baker representatives. $2,000 To exhibit as a finalist for the Kingston Prize Portrait competition in Gananoque, ON 5 Suzanne Paleczny and Calgary, AB. $1,000 TOTAL $24,000 December 1 Joanna Lilley A Trans-Canada multi-event reading tour to promote Joanna Lilley's poetry collection. $3,870 2 Brenda-Lee Asp To showcase First Nation cultural design garments in two fashion shows. $3,412 TOTAL $7,282

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# Recipient name Project description Amount March

1 Clea Roberts Poetry readings and artist talks in BC, Ontario and Nova Scotia $8,889

2 Elizabeth Kolb Exhibitions, demonstrations and workshops of woven artwork in , England $6,000 3 Amy Tessaro 2012 SeAlaska Juried Art Show $1,825 4 Nicole Bauberger A solo touring exhibition to the Art Gallery of St. Albert, Alberta $1,685 5 Brian James Francis To demonstrate and give workshops at the 2012 Great Northern Arts Festival $1,000 6 George Roberts To demonstrate and give workshops at the 2012 Great Northern Arts Festival $1,000 7 Fred Stick Jr. To demonstrate and give workshops at the 2012 Great Northern Arts Festival $1,000 8 Twyla Wheeler To demonstrate and give workshops at the 2012 Great Northern Arts Festival $1,000 TOTAL $22,399 June 1 Gwaandak Theatre Theatre performance tour to Toronto, Thunder Bay and Vancouver. $10,000 2 Kim Beggs To tour Denmark with Danish band, The Sentimentals, and tour solo in the UK. $7,000 3 Speed Control A five province tour in theatres, festivals, clubs, and communities. $7,000 4 Veronica Verkley Film screenings at festivals in Halifax, Iqaluit, . $6,000 5 Rosemary Scanlon A two stage tour to present a new body of work. $2,460 TOTAL $32,460 September Donald C. Watt, Michael 1 To tour 6 major snow sculpture exhibitions/competitions in Italy, Canada and the U.S.A. $10,000 Lane Four comedians to perform an original variety/stand-up comedy show in Adelaide, 2 Yukon Gold Comics Australia. $10,000 To present original works in 3 exhibitions, attend workshops, and write reviews at Helen O'Connor 3 Watermarks 2012 in Cleveland. $2,515 TOTAL $22,515 December

Dakhká Khwáan To perform two new choreographies with a mixed age traditional dance group, in 1 $5,600 Dancers Vancouver, BC. 2 Sarah MacDougall To tour in United Kingdom, Netherlands, and Germany with a full band. $5,000 3 Joseph Tisiga To present and exhibit in 4 visual art galleries in Massachusetts, Ottawa, and Montreal. $5,000

4 Sharon Shorty To present a workshop on traditional Canadian First Nations story-telling and perform. $4,000

Present Lucille's Ball, a new feature film at the Vancouver International Women in Film 5 Lulu Keating Festival. $1,400 To exhibit, demonstrate, and present a workshop of the visual art show Get There From 6 Nicole Bauberger Here in the Dawson Creek Art Gallery. $1,000

7 Kim Hudson To deliver a workshop and seminar based on $1,000 TOTAL $23,000

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# Recipient name Project description Amount March 1 Rosemary Scanlon Exhibition at Bedford Gallery, Lesher Centre for the Arts, California $3,000

2 Olivier Pellegrin Story-telling tour dates in Quebec $2,200 3 Cécile Girard Showcase works at Great Northern Arts Festival $1,000 4 Leslie Leong Showcase works at Great Northern Arts Festival $1,000 5 Jessica Vellenga Showcase works at Great Northern Arts Festival $1,000 6 Kara Went Showcase works at Great Northern Arts Festival $1,000 7 Brian James Francis Showcase works at Great Northern Arts Festival $951 8 Benjamin Gribben Showcase works at Great Northern Arts Festival $951 TOTAL $11,102 June 1 Barbara Chamberlin To tour in Germany, Switzerland & Ireland with Terry Robb and Annie Avery. $10,000 To play in the Nanjing International Jazz and World Music Festival, China with a blues 2 Ryan McNally ensemble $10,000

3 Erin Corbett To present a short film in the curated collection Canadian Cameras at Work in China. $3,400

4 Sharon Shorty To perform at a storytelling festival in Hawaii as Gramma Susie and herself. $2,500

Dieter Weise & Elizabeth To present birchbark weaving and textile arts and both will host workshops at GNAF 5 $2,000 Kolb (Great Northern Arts Festival) in Inuvik, July 15-24, 2011. TOTAL $27,900 September To tour Germany, Holland, UK & Sweden accompanied by Bob Hamilton and Tim 1 Sarah MacDougall Tweedale. $10,000 Donald C. Watt, To tour a 5 member snow sculpting team and exhibit and compete in four major events 2 $10,000 Michael Lane in Italy (2), Japan, and the USA. To tour the 6 member breakdancing crew to bboy competitions in Orlando and San Groundwork Sessions 3 Francisco. $9,952 To tour the duo Kim Barlow and Mathias Korn (Spring Breakup) in Germany and 4 Kim Barlow Switzerland, December 2011. $5,500 TOTAL $35,452 December To perform at 18 venues across the USA on Route 66 with the Tin Can Caravan, Sept 1 Gordie Tentrees 2012. $10,000

2 Soir de Semaine To tour eight venues in Québec and Ontario in July 2012. $9,254

3 Speed Control To perform in 24 venues in BC & Alberta schools and showcases, Feb-Mar 2012. $6,170

4 Jamella Hagen To present poetry in Toronto, Niagara Falls, and Cobourg Ontario in May 2012. $2,510 To hang two works in the Nook Group show for illustrators in Toronto, May 2012 and 5 Monika Melnychuk give an artist talk. $2,460 TOTAL $30,394

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# Recipient name Project description Amount March 1 Done Gone String Band Tour & Teach in Saskatchewan $10,000 2 Charles Stankievech Eastern Canada & European Tour, various works $5,775 3 Jessica Simon Toronto-area reading tour & Bloody Words Mystery Convention $2,000 4 Amy Tessaro Travel and shipping to the SeAlaska Celebration 2010 $1,200 5 Brian "Bud" Young Travel and shipping to the Great Northern Arts Festival in Inuvik, NWT July, 2010 $1,000 TOTAL $19,975 June Whitehorse Theatre Whitehorse Theatre Ensemble's new production of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow at 1 $10,000 Ensemble Presentation House, North Vancouver. 2 Five Finger Rapids Four performances at the Nanjing International Jazz & World Music Festival $10,000 3 Suzanne Crocker Film festival presentations at Norway, Oregon, California $9,500 4 Kim Barlow Wise and Weathered Collaboration Tour, Alberta-B.C. Winter 2010 $7,000 5 Jane Isakson Painting, research & exhibition at Haida Gwaii Museum in Skidegate, BC $2,500 TOTAL $39,000 September 1 Dakhká Khwáan Dancers 10 day performance tour and cultural/art exchange in New Zealand $10,000 Donald C Watt, Michael 2 4 major snow sculpture festivals in Italy, Switzerland, USA, and Japan. $10,000 Lane, Gisli Balzer

Paul Baker & Jeanine 3 A visual art collaboration workshop in New Zealand $4,875 Baker

TOTAL $24,875 December 1 Annie Lou Canadian Folk Festival Tour $10,000

2 Gordie Tentrees Showcase and International Tour in Europe $10,000

3 Doug Smarch Jr. Exhibition at Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg $1,230

TOTAL $21,230

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# Recipient name Project description Amount March

1 Annie Lou Tour of BC and Alberta during May and June, 2009 $8,000

2 Done Gone String Band California Worldfest Tour and perfomances en route July, 2009 $8,000

Northern Lights Dance Performing Raven Steals the Sun at Dance and the Child International, Kingston, Fraze - NLSD performing 3 Jamaica $8,000 group 4 Sour Brides Theatre National tour of So Many Doors to NWT and BC. $8,000 To exhibit work and demonstrate at the Parallel Worlds exhibition at the Portland 5 Ann Smith Oregon Japanese Garden, June 2009 $2,500

Two visual art exhibitions in galleries in Vernon and Campbell River, B.C., mid August - 6 Philomena Carroll October, 2009 $1,878

7 Jackie Dowell-Irvine Travel and shipping to the Great Northern Arts Festival in Inuvik, NWT July, 2009 $1,000

8 George Roberts Travel and shipping to the Great Northern Arts Festival in Inuvik, NWT July, 2009 $1,000

9 Dennis Shorty Travel and shipping to the Great Northern Arts Festival in Inuvik, NWT July, 2009 $1,000

10 Harreson Tanner Travel and shipping to the Great Northern Arts Festival in Inuvik, NWT July, 2009 $1,000

11 Lena White Travel and shipping to the Great Northern Arts Festival in Inuvik, NWT July, 2009 $1,000

12 Wendy Whitemore Travel and shipping to the Great Northern Arts Festival in Inuvik, NWT July, 2009 $1,000

13 Brian (Bud) Young Travel and shipping to the Great Northern Arts Festival in Inuvik, NWT July, 2009 $1,000 TOTAL $43,378 June Tour to perform at three summer music festivals and various small venues across 1 Root Sellers Canada, June - August 2009 $7,600 Travel to South Korea for participation in the Cheongju International Craft Biennale, 2 Lyn Fabio October 2009 $5,040 Tour to three Canadian film festivals to show and promote new projects, September - 3 Lulu Keating October 2009 $5,000 Travel to South Korea for participation in the Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Sheila Alexandrovich 4 October 2009 $4,440 5 Jean Taylor Travel to Italy for participation in the Biennale of Chianciano, September 2009 $3,725 Travel to Oregon for participation in Saqra's Showcase Dance Festival and Competition 6 Nita Collins Middle Eastern dance event in November 2009 $1,278 TOTAL $27,083 September Gordie Tentrees spring European Tour including the Great Escape Festival in Brighton, Gordie Tentrees 1 UK $10,000 Yukon Canada International Snow Sculpture Touring Team 2010 Tour to Italy, Donald Watt 2 Switzerland and Quebec City $10,000 For information about the Touring Artist Fund, contact an arts advisor. Phone: 867-667-8789 or toll free: 1-800-661-0408 ext. 8789 Email: [email protected] Gramma Susie and Cash Creek Charlie tour to New Zealand with Maori Arts Sharon Shorty 3 organization $9,950 4 Amy Tessaro Travel to Vancouver to participate in the Artisan Village at the 2010 Winter Olympics $2,000 Travel to Vancouver to take part in the Craft Council of British Columbia's 2010 Paul Gort 5 Olympics Exhibition: By Hand BC & Yukon $1,475 Travel to Vancouver to take part in the Craft Council of British Columbia's 2010 Helen O'Connor 6 Olympics Exhibition: By Hand BC & Yukon $1,345 TOTAL $34,770 December Tour through Southern Manitoba, Ontario, Alberta and BC promoting 3rd album 1 Kim Beggs Mama's Dress $10,000 2 Anne Louise Genest Tour to four major Canadian folk festivals in the summer of 2010 $10,000 3 Dennis Shorty A solo show with artist talks and guided tours $5,000 4 Jerome Stueart A reading in Brighton England as part of a book launch of Evolve $3,000 5 Lance Blomgren Three writer/curator projects in Montreal $2,500 A two person art exhibit at the Kootenay Public Art Gallery with Jane Isakson and 6 Catherine Deer Cathy Deer $1,300 7 Brian J. Francis Gallery exhibition in Castlegar BC $1,300 A two person art exhibit at the Kootenay Public Art Gallery with Jane Isakson and 8 Jane Isakson Cathy Deer $1,300 9 Calvin Morberg Gallery exhibition in Castlegar BC $1,300 TOTAL $35,700

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# Recipient name Project description Amount March 1 Sour Brides Theatre Sour Brides Theatre Tour to Magnetic North Festival $10,000 To tour of a new body of work to Laurier Gallery in Toronto, Ont for exhibition and to 2 Emma Barr promote the exhibit and her artwork in a new and larger market. $5,100 3 Hungry Hill Hungry Hill Summer Tour 2008 $5,000 Nicole Edwards Jazz Ensemble - concert in Haines Alaska to promote recent CD 4 Nicole Edwards release in Alaskan market. $1,960 5 Sheila Alexandrovich Explorations in Felt Vessels and Wands' tour to Yellowknife $900 To offer readings plus fiction and self-editing workshops at the Great Northern Arts 6 Eleanor Millard Festival in Inuvik, NWT July 11-20, 2008. $500 TOTAL $23,460 June 1 Kim Barlow Pan-Canadian New Folk Ensemble $10,000 2 Gordie Tentrees Gordie Tentrees European Tour $10,000 3 North To play at the Jazz and World Music Festival in China, November 2008 $7,500 4 Candice Tarnowski The Meeting - a Travelling Art Exhibition $4,500 5 Eugene Alfred Legends of the North - 3rd International Wooden Sculpture Festival $3,810 6 Sharone Maldaver Sharone Maldaver 2008 Femfest Tour $2,800 TOTAL $38,610 September Kim Beggs Canada/U.S. Tour - four consecutive legs in British Columbia, Ontario and 1 Kim Beggs gigs in ten states with Penny Lang, the Echo Hunters, the Creaking Tree String Quartet $10,000 and Todd Livingston. Tour of the original play So Many Doors to Ontario and New Brunswick for seven Sour Brides Theatre 2 shows in January/ February 2009. $10,000 Yukon International Snow Yukon International Snow Sculpture Tour 2009 - established and some emerging 3 Sculpture Touring Team Yukon snow carvers will tour to China, Colorado, and Quebec to participate in four $10,000 2009 major snow sculpture events. TOTAL $30,000 December

First People's 2009 Cultural Olympiad Festival Tour - First People's Performances has been invited to 1 $10,000 Performances perform at the Weyahaninah Coastal First Nations Dance Festival. Breakdancing Yukon Groundwork Sessions invited to Toronto to participate in a hip-hop showcase and a 2 $9,910 Society break-dance battle. Hungry Hill February 2009 tour throughout Alberta to promote their newest recording, 3 Hungry Hill Ride. $8,865 Reach Gallery in Abbotsford will curate a show in June 2009 featuring the work of 20 Yukon Artists @ Work 4 artists from the Yukon Artists @ Work collective; 8 members will travel to attend the $6,635 Cooperative opening, provide artist talks and interactive demos. Nicole Bauberger Spring Tour to showcase artwork in Montreal, Peterborough and 5 Nicole Bauberger Calgary and expanding her market base. $4,430 To participate in the visual art exhibition Cut to the Drummer and to schedule in person 6 Monika Melnychuk meetings with potential clients and organisers of the ICON illustration conference to $4,000 explore career development options.

For information about the Touring Artist Fund, contact an arts advisor. Phone: 867-667-8789 or toll free: 1-800-661-0408 ext. 8789 Email: [email protected] To present his solo art exhibition and artist talk Plus qu'une surface, less than a volume 7 Charles Stankievech at University of Laval, cd release and concert in Montreal and several studio visits. $2,500 TOTAL $46,340

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