BadAss Muslimah Web Series | Muslimahs Making Media
Location: Toronto, Ontario
$10,000
This project is a series of workshops and public panel events that will support 7-10 young Muslim women to create a 3-part web series. The series will launch through an online media campaign and mini screenings around the country with the support of national partners.

Connect the Land | Inuvik Youth Centre Society
Location: Inuvik, Northwest Territories
$10,000
Connect the Land participants will engage in a process of self-discovery, reconciliation and land-awareness in the arctic. This process will feed into the creation of a community mural representing how the land connects us across cultures.

Freedom School | Black Lives Matter
Location: Toronto, Ontario
$10,000
Inspired by the Oakland Community School, Freedom School is a 3-week youth-led arts and media-based program for Black children. It aims to foster their intellectual development and address the root causes of high TDSB dropout and suspension rates by creating opportunities, developing educational resources and advocating for Black-affirmative education

Healing our heARTs: Racialized Resistance & Resilience | Vancouver Status of Women
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia
$10,000
This initiative seeks to create safe and accessible space for racialized youth to connect, learn, heal, and build solidarities by developing a collective zine of art, poetry and other various creative forms of expression. The project will include facilitating workshops, storytelling events, and grassroots arts-based healing efforts led by, with and for racialized women.

Honouring Two-Spirit Resilience | Springtide Resources Inc.
Location: Toronto, Ontario
$10,000
Focused on two-spirit youth and elders, this project will centralize community-building, community-healing, knowledge-reclaiming, and resource development project. Participants will craft their stories and produce a community colouring book of narratives and images of two-spirit people, history, tradition, knowledge, and resilience.

Medicine Wheel Warriors: Creating Indigenous Superhero Action Figures | Urban Society for Aboriginal Youth (USAY)
Location: Calgary, Alberta
$10,000
Indigenous participants aged 18 to 25 years will research heroes in their community, reinvent themselves as superheroes, and then use 3D/laser scanning and printing to make an action figure based on their image, superhero traits and personal identity.

pakeshnamohk | Sparking Language Revival
Location: Edmonton, Alberta
$10,000
The paksehnamohk: Sparking Language Revival project will bring back pride in Cree language and identity in Edmonton and surrounding area. Through the creation of digital media and student workshops, the project will connect teachers and students in schools inspiring people to reclaim Indigenous language rights.

Project Heartwork: Critical Arts Engagement and Wellness for Muslimahs | Oxam Creative Collective
Location: Toronto, Ontario
$10,000
This critical arts engagement series explores mixed-media arts for Muslimah change-makers to connect communities with their stories, inspiring cross-cultural/inter-faith understanding. Participants will attend a retreat exploring artistic engagement and wellness, building foundations in multidisciplinary arts, community organizing, and self-care, which will lead to a showcase tour mapping Muslimah lived experiences through storytelling.

Project Reclaim | Victoria Sexual Assault Centre
Location: Victoria, British Columbia
$10,000
Project Reclaim is a youth-driven, land-based project that will engage Tsartlip Nation youth to lead their community in healing, resisting, and preventing violence through two key, interconnected program components: 1) youth-led land restoration to create healthier community spaces, and 2) youth-led, culturally-relevant sexualized violence prevention curricula in schools.

Race Talks, Eh? Deconstructing Race and Racism in Canada Film Series | Anti-Racism Online Coalition
Location: Toronto, Ontario
$10,000
This project aims to explore and deconstruct aspects and themes of race and racism by creating a series of short, engaging, funny, and thought-provoking videos. These videos can be used as teaching tools in classrooms, shared on social media, etc. and will feature young racialized organizers and advocates.

Repainting Perceptions | Art Ignite/ North York Arts
Location: Toronto, Ontario
$10,000
This project will consist of a series of portraiture/narrative painting workshops, culminating in an exhibit and public engagement piece. These workshops will provide space for Muslims and non-Muslims living in Flemingdon and Thorncliffe Park to share their stories, challenge religious stereotyping, and break through social isolation.

Showing Our True Colors | Waywayseecappo First Nation
Location: Waywayseecappo First Nation, Manitoba
$10,000
Youth from Wawayseecappo will collaborate in producing a video featuring Indigenous leaders and role models in their community and across the province. The video will be shared through social media platforms and Waywayseecappo youth will deliver presentations in community schools as well as in non-Indigenous schools attended Waywayseecapo youth. Participants will be able to deepen their leadership skills, particularly around asserting their voices, raising awareness on anti-Indigenous micro-aggressions by leading discussions about racism and fostering accountability in their schools.

The Gathering | Black Girl Magic
Location: Edmonton, Alberta
$10,000
The Gathering” is a multidisciplinary performance art piece that explores staple themes that arise when Black women/femmes gather. In this piece, intersections of spirituality, indigineity, sexuality, racism are brought to the forefront through dance, poetry, music and theatre.

The Rivers Speak Community Play | Thinking Rock Community Arts
Location: Thessalon, Ontario
$10,000
This community play is the first project in rural Thessalon to use theatre to bring together people of Indigenous and settler descent to hear one another’s stories and create bridges of understanding across difference. It will be performed by a cast of 50-100 community members in Mississauga First Nation.

The Young Queens Effect (YQ Effect) | Young Queens Collective
Location: Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario
$10,000
The YQ Effect cultivates an intentional community for female youth of colour to express their experiences of systematic marginalization, isolation, perpetuated inequality and identity crises, while developing personal and professional networks needed to overcome these social barriers. This project will promote confidence and skills development.

Walking Gottingen | North End Community Health Centre
Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia
$10,000
Walking Gottingen will use storytelling and natural sound to provide a complete immersive experience for listeners as they walk down Gottingen Street in Halifax’s north end. Listeners will hear stories from residents who have experienced anti-black racism, Islamophobia, and postcolonial attitudes in a neighbourhood that is undergoing gentrification.

Reclaiming Place, A Squamish Media Arts Project: “Wenaxws ten Syawan” | Kwi Awt Stelmexw Cultural Society
Location: Vancouver. British Columbia
$60,000
Reclaiming Place is a three-year interactive art project designed to engage the public in investigating & re-examining their own relationship to Sḵwxw̱ ú7mesh (Squamish), Coast Salish territory through the creation and sharing of innovative art practices. The process for creating the work is led by Indigenous artists and Sḵwxw̱ ú7mesh people.

šxʷʔam̓ət (home) | Theatre of the Living
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia
$40,000
šxʷʔam̓ət (home) uses theatre and multimedia to engage audiences around themes of truth and reconciliation. After an initial 10 show run in Vancouver in March 2017, Theatre for Living seeks to tour the play in 22 communities across BC and Alberta in early 2018. In each community, the play will engage Indigenous and non-Indigenous organizations and audiences. The tour will culminate with a week of performances in Vancouver and a television broadcast of one of the performances.

This is WorldTown
Location: Toronto, Ontario
$40,000
This is WorldTown will support six Muslim women media makers to present a photo and video series that dig into the experience of being a Muslim in Canada. TIWT will host and amplify the content produced by the media makers via its online platform and live events. TIWT will also facilitate mentorship opportunities between the media makers and established professionals in the field.

Colonization Road
Location: National
$25,000
Michelle St. John’s Colonization Road explores the historical impact of ‘Colonization Roads’ built by European settlers across Ontario and Manitoba in the mid 1800s. With host Ryan McMahon’s humorous and biting guidance, we see how the negative effects of this history reverberate today.

The Long Way Home
Type Of Grant: Doc Impact Fund
Location: National
$25,000
Aisha Jamal and Ariel Nasr’s short film, The Long Way Home (Playing as part of In the Name of All Canadians), is a poignant reminder about the fragility of citizenship rights that many Canadians take for granted, and dives into issues of race, Islamophobia, and state security.

Waniska
Type Of Grant: Doc Impact Fund
Location: National
$25,000
Co-directed by the Kehte-ayak Council of First Nations University and Andree Cazabon, Waniska is an inspiring reminder of the resilience of Indigenous peoples on Turtle Island. The resurgence of Indigenous cultures depicted is a testament to resistance and survival in the face of cultural genocide, as well as the hope and strength of spirit necessary to walk the path of reconciliation.