APPLICANT

PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS

FUNDING AWARDED

1

Alsek Music Festival

Blue Feather Music Festival – Secondary Venues Project
To present family and cabaret stages and Sunday programming at the Alsek Music Festival.

               $7,500

2

Arts in Motion

Flamenco Workshop
To present a comprehensive Flamenco Dance workshop that will cover technique, choreography, palmas, compass and history.

               $750

3

Association Franco-Yukonnaise

La Culture a Tout Vent
To present a series of public arts events in the visual, literary, and performing arts.

                 $7,000

4

Barlow, Tentrees, Beggs Collective

North American Folk Alliance Music Conference
For Kim Barlow, Gordie Tentrees, and Kim Beggs to attend the North American Folk Alliance music conference to promote their music and network with industry professionals.

               $16,000

5

Beggs, Edelson, Hamilton Collective

Northeast Regional Folk Alliance Conference Showcase
For Kim Beggs, Natalie Edelson, and Bob Hamilton to attend Northeast Regional Folk Alliance music conference to promote their music and network with industry professionals.

$7,000

6

Bringing Youth Towards Equality

10^th Annual Yukon Youth Conference
To present a 3 day conference in January 2008 for youth from across Yukon, BC, NWT & Nunavut, providing youth with the opportunity to discover the artist within themselves.

               $15,000

7

Caribou River Originals

Timber Rabbits: Page to Stage
To workshop and develop a new Yukon play by Joseph Graham and Norm Easton to be ready for the stage.

            $6,000

8

Carmacks Library Board

North Klondyke Highway Children’s CD Project
To produce a 16 track CD of original songs co-written by young people in Mayo, Carmacks, Pelly Crossing, and Dawson, in collaboration with local songwriter Steve Slade.

               $9,200

9

Dawson City Arts Society

9^th Annual Dawson City International Short Film Festival
To present the 8^th Annual Dawson City International Short Film Festival – screenings, workshops, panel discussions and special events.

              $20,000

10

Frostbite Music Society

Haines Junction and Dawson City Tour
A tour with Carolyn Mark, NQ Arbuckle, Rochelle van Zanten, and a selected Yukon group to bring a performance tour to Haines Junction and Dawson.

               $9,000

11

Learning Disabilities Association of Yukon

The Filmmaker in You

To present a film production project for youth with learning disabilities.

$3,300

12

Suzuki Strings Association Yukon

Suzuki String Camp and Mentorship Program

To foster Suzuki education for young musicians and families with a three day camp and mentorship program that supports the Yukon music community.

$5,000

13

Yukon Bluegrass Music Society

Kluane Bluegrass Music Camp 2008

A three day camp for beginner to advanced guitar, mandolin, fiddle, banjo, and bass players in rural Yukon.

$10,500

14

Yukon Bluegrass Music Society

Kluane Mountain Bluegrass Festival

To present a festival that will showcase professional bluegrass bands and regional bands with workshops and performances.

$11,800

15

Yukon Conservation Society

Stories for Change

To facilitate, through a series of workshops, the creation of two original songs, artwork, and stories by Yukon school children for use in an on-line interactive environmental story book called Stories for Change.

$17,400

16

Yukon Council on disABILITY

CP Salon – Access to the Arts

Music-driven theatre pieces and workshops by classically trained artists that challenge “able-centric” notions within the performing arts.

$16,000

17

Yukon Educational Theatre Society

Inzanity! Community Celebration Projects

To produce two annual community celebration events – Burning Away the Winter Blues and A Celebration of the Harvest – that build community through ritual and folk arts.

$10,000

18

Yukon Women in Music

Compilation CD

To record, produce, and manufacture a compilation CD of original music written and performed by diverse Yukon women, produced by a female artist with professional production credits who will provide mentorship and training to participants.

$17,600

TOTAL:

      $189,050