2024 Activating Community Micro-Grant Phase 4 recipients

Arts recipients

Amount awarded How funds will be used
$1000 Wild Plum Arts Residency (WPAR), which provides LGBTQIA2S artists with access to resources.
$1000 Analog Animation Studio, a six-week drop-in program providing a welcoming space for participants of all skill levels.
$500 Six-week singing and ukelele music program for the Guelph CHC shower program.
$1000 A2A: Collaborative Printmaking Project, a free 3-month program for local artists with developmental and intellectual disabilities.
$1000 Inaugural Somali Community Culture Day in Guelph, an event celebrating traditions, arts, music, and poetry.
$1000 Empowering Newcomer Women: Healing through Art workshops will space for newcomer women to share their settlement stories through art.
$1000 Author readings in Guelph as part of the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival children’s program.
$800 Access to space and supplies through the Guelph Absolute Beginners Djembe Drum Circle.
$1000 Free outdoor circus performances featuring aerial silks, trapeze, and acrobatics.
$1000 Performances and celebrations through the annual Guelph and District Multicultural Festival.
$1000 Two-day Broken Film Festival (BFF) to showcase experimental and alternative filmmaking in Guelph.
$950 Two-week public experiment that explores the intersection of gallery installation and audience interaction, through sound art.
$900 Building community connection through the Creativity through Art Making series for Arab women and children.
$850 Public art exhibition that explores memory and perceptions of the past.

Neighbourhood recipients

Amount awarded How funds will be used
$750 Gatherings for the Ghanaian Group of Guelph.
$500 A drag fundraiser event and a make-up school for new participants.
$750 PD day Camps for families in the Onward Willow neighbourhood.
$500 Gatherings for the Brant Ave Tenants Association.
$500 Workshops, book swap and networking event for Black women and women of colour.
$500 Representation of the Indigenous Council at Multicultural fairs and events.
$750 Mindfulness mentoring for youth through events and new group.