RELEASE — The Kingston Arts Council (KAC) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2022 City of Kingston Arts Fund (CKAF). CKAF is an annual fund administered by the KAC on behalf of the City of Kingston and it provides Operating and Project Grants to local arts organizations, collectives, and artists to foster creativity at all levels and enrich how Kingston residents experience and engage with the arts.
Operating Grants foster sustainability among leading arts organizations by providing funding for operations and programming and Project Grants fund the creation and presentation of arts projects that engage the community and professional artists. For the first time, individual professional artists were eligible to apply to CKAF Project Grants, in addition to non-profit organizations and collectives.
This year, the total CKAF amount available was $613,503 with $429,451 available for Operating Grants and $184,052 available for Project Grants. Applications were reviewed by the Grants Committee jury that was comprised of artists and arts professionals with high standing and expertise of the arts and the Kingston community. Ex-officio members of the Grants Committee support the work of the jury and bring forward broad community perspectives, provide information on the City of Kingston objectives for the CKAF program, and are present to ensure transparency and fairness in the process. Adjudication meetings were hosted on 17 May (Operating Grants) and 19 May (Project Grants).
“The City of Kingston Arts Fund is essential funding, now more than ever, to support Kingston’s arts and culture sector and increase quality of life for our community,” says Felix Lee, Executive Director, Kingston Arts Council. “Despite the challenges of the pandemic, local artists and arts organizations have continued to do innovative work that uplifts and engages us.”
Operating Grants
Jurors:
Kimberly Dolan
Kemi King
Jane Kirby
Denis Leroux
Katy Littlejohn
Ex-officio:
Felix Lee, Executive Director, Kingston Arts Council
Violet Tang, Grants and Programs Coordinator, Kingston Arts Council
Jeff McGilton, Administrative Assistant, Kingston Arts Council
Danika Lochhead, Manager, Arts and Sector Development, City of Kingston
Jim Neill, City Councillor, City of Kingston.
Number of Applications: 12
Total Requested: $492,500
Number of Grants Awarded: 11
Total Awarded: $429,451
Recipients:
- Agnes Etherington Art Centre, $75,000
- Cantabile Choirs of Kingston, $29,329
- Centre culturel Frontenac, $15,300
- H’art Centre, $13,059
- Kingston Canadian Film Festival, $47,046
- Kingston Symphony Association, $75,000
- Kingston WritersFest, $44,370
- Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, $51,500
- Reelout Queer Film Festival, $23,232
- Theatre Kingston, $42,230
- Union Gallery, $13,385
Project Grants
Jurors:
David Archibald
Kristen Leboeuf
Bethany Garner
Danuta Sierhuis
Ex-officio:
Felix Lee, Executive Director, Kingston Arts Council
Violet Tang, Grants and Programs Coordinator, Kingston Arts Council
Jeff McGilton, Administrative Assistant, Kingston Arts Council
Danika Lochhead, Manager, Arts and Sector Development, City of Kingston
Peter Stroud, City Councillor, City of Kingston
Number of Applications: 22
Total Requested: $287,932
Number of Grants Awarded: 17
Total Awarded: $184,052
Recipients:
- Concert and Workshop Series, Kingston Improvising Musicians Collective, $12,000
- Electric Circuits Festival of Electronic Music, Performance, & Digital Art, Electric Circuits, $11,000
- Festival of Live Digital Art, Spiderwebshow Performance, $12,750
- HARMONIA, Salon Theatre, $11,000
- HYDRA: A Story on Water, Calliope Collective, $14,250
- Kingston: A Guidebook from Memory, Amanda Baker, $9,258
- Make It Local, Orchestra Kingston, $5,000
- Phantom Bodies: Invisible Pain & Ghostly Intimacies, Stéfy McKnight, $7,240
- Shortwave Radio Theatre Camp, CFRC 101.9FM, $14,250
- Skeleton Park Arts Festival, Skeleton Park Arts Festival, $13,500
- Sounding Board: A Community Conversation, Heather Poechman, $10,366
- Soundscapes, Sistema Kingston, $11,664
- Spring Reverb 2023, KPP Concerts, $8,000
- The Bourgeois Gentleman, Kingston Baroque Consort, $7,327
- The GroudUP Dance Festival, Movement Market Collective, $12,267
- The Juvenis Festival 2023, Blue Canoe, $12,000
- Uncovering Canada, anARC Theatre, $12,000
Learn more about the Operating and Project Grant recipients and read detailed descriptions of the organizations and projects funded here.
View the 2022 CKAF Report to Council
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