Ministry of Heritage, Sport, Tourism and Culture 2021 Reconnect Festival Industries and Event Program Successful Applicants From Ontario With Love Event Name Location* Funding "Canada On Stage" webseries Provincewide $202,100 #SaveOurStages: 2021 Summer Stages London $247,500 #StayHome with #BollywoodMonster Mashup Mississauga $70,000 “Music in the air” - The VPP outdoor concert series Enniskillen $116,725 10th annual Human Rights Film Festival (HRFF+) Provincewide $55,000 13th Annual Telling Tales (Virtual )Festival Provincewide $30,500 167th Lindsay Exhibition Kawartha Lakes $170,850 1851 Anti-Slavery Convention Provincewide $83,250 20/21 International Plowing Match & Rural Expo Kawartha Lakes $250,000 2021 Capital Pride Festival Provincewide $65,000 2021 Forest City Film Festival London $72,070 2021 Newmarket Summer Fun Days Festival Newmarket $60,467 2021 Newmarket Winter Fun Days Festival Newmarket $44,693 2021 Nostalgia Music Festival Ottawa $224,000 2021 Oh Canada Comeback EH!? Dinner Musical Event Ottawa $191,590 2021 Paris Fair Brant $134,500 2021 Portugal Week Festival Toronto $102,750 2021 Reconnect Season Kawartha Lakes $167,194 2021 Rock on The River Timmins $250,000 2021 TorOntario 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival and Drive-ins Toronto $97,500 2021 Toronto International Film Festival Toronto $250,000 2021 Vaughan Latin Festival Vaughan $63,773 2021 Virtual Kensington Market Jazz Festival Provincewide $36,100 2021 Virtual Pride Toronto Festival Provincewide $205,950 2021 World Junior A Hockey Challenge Cornwall $93,000 2021 YES Theatre Summer Festival Greater Sudbury $30,000 2021-22 OttScot Festival Ottawa $55,000 2022 Kingston Canadian Film Festival Kingston $50,000 2022 ReFrame Film Festival Peterborough $49,800 24th Annual Barrie Film Festival Oro-Medonte $23,500 27th Annual Kerr Village Christmas Tree Lighting & Holiday Market Oakville $55,100 2SLGBTQ+ Community Connect 2021 Toronto $166,000 2 Event Name Location* Funding 42 Annual Festival of the Sound Parry Sound $172,000 4th Line Theatre's 2021 Season Cavan Monaghan $92,842 74th Winterama Penetanguishene $21,500 90's Nostalgia Presents: Canada Rocks Vaughan $250,000 99.3 County FM 2021 Radiothon Prince Edward $4,965 County A Celebration of the Four Elements of Hip Hop Ottawa $66,515 A Country Christmas at Saunders Farm Ottawa $97,750 A Taste of Oakville Oakville $63,000 A Virtual Taste of Mississauga Italfest: Celebrating Italian Heritage Provincewide $10,160 A Weekend of Audio Tourism: Hillside Homeside 2021 Guelph $152,025 Afro Carib Fest Online Provincewide $49,880 AGH Film Festival Hamilton $75,000 Airshow London presents SkyDrive 2021 London $180,000 Anne and Maud Tourism Route Pickering $60,000 Art & Water 100 Days of Summer Toronto $99,250 ArtScape Smiths Falls Smiths Falls $20,000 Asialicious "Asialicious Carnival" Toronto $104,000 Audio Visual Presents Hamilton $48,174 Aurora's Welcome Back event series Aurora $52,425 Aurora's Welcome Winter event series Aurora $48,275 Awesome Arts en folie Ottawa $47,065 Back To Burl's Creek Summer Concert Series, presented by Boots and Oro-Medonte $250,000 Hearts Back to Werk Toronto $64,637 Bala Cranberry Festival Muskoka Lakes $82,881 Ball's Falls Holiday Trail Lincoln $61,500 Because Beer Craft Beer Festival Hamilton $30,000 Bees in the Bush Festival Barrie $95,000 Bees, Butterflies & Blooms Festival Malahide $31,200 Being Scene Exhibition Toronto $32,000 Bentway Bash Toronto $116,700 Bentway Frost Fair Toronto $90,000 3 Event Name Location* Funding Best of #TheBridge Bracebridge $6,325 Beyond Van Gogh Ottawa Ottawa $250,000 BIPOC International Film Festival Mississauga $19,750 Black Creek Rodeo North Dundas $17,250 Bloom: Revival Greater Sudbury $64,100 Bloor West Village Toronto Ukrainian Festival (25th Anniversary Edition) Toronto $248,200 Bluffs Winter Wonderland Toronto $90,000 Brantford LIVE!! Brantford $30,000 Bridges Festival - International Puppetry Festival Mississauga $34,350 Brott In The Park: a Symphonic Concert Series. Hamilton $60,000 Budweiser Stage Reunited Toronto $250,000 Cabaret Ottawa $130,000 Canada Day House Party 2021 Provincewide $91,500 Canada Diwali Razzmatazz Niagara Falls $245,000 Canada Online Jazz Festival (COJAZZ Festival) Provincewide $15,150 Canadian International Air Show Toronto $204,394 Canadian Music Week's Virtual Warm-Up Provincewide $73,750 Capitol Centre Bluesfest North Bay $24,377 Carivibe Festival Ottawa $53,125 Carnaval des Compagnons 2022 North Bay $21,000 Carrot Fest Bradford West $5,000 Gwillimbury Casa Loma Holiday Lights Toronto $250,000 Cavalcade of Lights & The 12 Days of Christmas Toronto $10,000 Celebrate Cambridge Winter Festival Cambridge $70,562 Celebrate the Seasons with Huron Waves Music Festival South Huron $42,500 Celebrating the World: Carassauga Drive-In and Virtual Festival Mississauga $38,475 CFTF Food Truck Market Toronto $106,050 Chateau De Glace Toronto $250,000 Christkindl Market Kitchener $140,750 Christmas Cheer Event Provincewide $14,525 Christmas in Pelham Pelham $15,500 4 Event Name Location* Funding Christmas with the Ennis Sisters Perth $6,142 Cinefest Sudbury International Film Festival Greater Sudbury $76,000 City of Thunder Bay Live on the Waterfront- Parkade Sessions Thunder Bay $35,950 City View Drive-In Concert Series Toronto $250,000 Clarington- Movies in the Lot Clarington $22,500 ClearWater Farm Family Outdoor Excursions Georgina $25,000 Clink & Drink Pink - Ontario Rose Wine Festival Provincewide $43,300 CNE Virtual Fare Provincewide $104,750 COME TOGETHER, an on-line concert series Provincewide $55,000 COMEBACK Toronto $134,000 Comedy Country 2021 Prince Edward $14,225 County Cornwall Art Walk Cornwall $8,000 Country Music Week London $149,881 Crackup Comedy Festival Ottawa $50,000 Crafted @ Bench Festival Lincoln $144,299 CreateSpace Toronto $99,710 Creative Collingwood – Unusual Passageways Collingwood $88,750 Crowsnest Corner Toronto $143,214 Dare to Share: Arts in Wide Open Spaces Trent Hills $70,000 Dave Hodge's Chatroom Toronto $78,075 Deadwood Haunted Drive Ottawa $99,750 Decade of Celebrat10n Mississauga $250,000 Derailed: The History of Black Railway Porters in Canada Provincewide $59,275 DesignTO Festival Toronto $25,150 Dinner a La Art (DALA) Oro-Medonte $95,000 Dinner and a Movie Series Magnetawan $6,000 Dino Holiday Toronto $92,500 Dino's & Friends Pickering $90,000 Diversity Series Toronto $28,350 Downey's Christmas at the Farm Caledon $39,250 Downey's Sunflower Trail Caledon $22,000 5 Event Name Location* Funding Downtown Milton HolidayFest Milton $23,425 Drayton Entertainment's Digital Series Provincewide $76,225 Dream in High Park Toronto $60,617 Drive Festival Clarington $243,900 DRIVE'n'DRAG Toronto $92,500 Dryden Fall Fest 2021 Dryden $5,350 East York JAMFEST Toronto $120,000 Elevate Presents: The Tech for Good Expo Toronto $250,000 Emancipation Day Weekend and Picnic St. Catharines $39,700 Enchanted Holiday Drive Ottawa $139,550 Energizing Toronto’s Green Spaces: Toronto Bird Celebration 5th Toronto $10,888 edition Escapade Music Festival Ottawa $250,000 Ever After Music Festival Kitchener $250,000 Explore Blue Summer Event Series The Blue $244,500 Mountains Fall for Dance North Festival 2021 Lincoln $99,690 Festival de la Curd 2021 The Nation $92,000 Festival des Sucres 2022 Ottawa $43,000 Festival Of Colours ( HOLI) Thunder Bay $16,750 Festival of Friends Hamilton $45,000 Festival Of INDIA Thunder Bay $58,275 Festival of Live Digital Art Provincewide $65,000 Field Trip Life Launch 2021 Toronto $158,000 Filipinos Making Waves 2021 Provincewide $224,950 Film x Design Kingston $20,000 Fire and Ice Festival Bracebridge $23,550 Fire, Ice & Lights The Blue $250,000 Mountains Fixer Upper Central Elgin $40,015 Fleurs de Villes en Route Niagara Falls Floral Trail Niagara Falls $149,830 Four in Algonquin Ottawa $118,500 FrancoFEST 2021 Hamilton $34,540 Francophonie En Fête Toronto $54,000 6 Event Name Location* Funding Fringe On Demand & Fringe Primetime Provincewide $82,000 Front Road Family Day Extravaganza Lasalle $40,000 Gardiner Goes Outside Toronto $75,000 Geary Ave. Art Crawl Toronto $99,890 Georgina Winter Classic - A series of Community Events Georgina $61,780 Greater Sudbury Digital Earth Festival Provincewide $9,213 Guelph Jazz Festival "Neighbourhood Connections" Guelph $39,690 Guild Festival Theatre's 2021 Season Toronto $64,558 GWN Dragon Boat Challenge Toronto $25,000 Halloween Nights of Lights Vaughan $125,000 Hamilton Fringe Festival Hamilton $75,452 Hamilton Winterfest 2022 Hamilton $35,000 Harbourfront Centre’s Year-Round Public Programming Toronto $250,000 Haunted Cinema Toronto $155,180 Haunted Walk Adapted Tour Programs and Virtual Events Ottawa $80,000 Haunting Season at Saunders Farm Ottawa $96,750 Hello Winter Barrie $120,000 Here For Now 2021 New Works Festival Stratford $55,000 Heritage Sounds Music Festival 2021 Provincewide $58,500 Hibernate Port Hope $18,500 Hogs for Hospice Leamington $89,400 Holiday Fair in the Square Toronto $110,000 Holiday in the Park Toronto $250,000 Hops and Harvest Festival Milton $36,750 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival Provincewide $111,520 Huntsville Festival of the Arts 2021/22 Huntsville $140,000 Huntsville SnowFest Huntsville $54,575 I HeART Main Street: Culture and Community in Ontario’s Business Toronto $98,500 Districts ICE BOX: Art in the Heart of Winter Prince Edward $23,730 County ICFF Film Festival - Celebrating Canadian Multiculturalism Toronto $218,000 IF 2021 Guelph $30,000 7 Event Name Location* Funding IFFO: The International