Funded 2018-2019
Research project.
From Funding Recipient:
"I am so appreciative for the funding that APIRG provided for my doctoral research. This funding enabled me to offer grocery store gift cards and transit tickets that made participation in my study more accessible for transmasculine young adult participants, who often face financial barriers, and to recognize in a material way the generous amount of time and expertise they contributed to my study. On a broader level, APIRG funding supported me in conducting research that I hope can help change the challenging mental health landscape that many transmasculine young adults experience due to transgender stigma and other significant life challenges they face. Through my research, I am working to shed light on how transmasculine young adults use the arts to sustain resilience against these challenges. Thank you APIRG for supporting my capacity to do research that strives towards creating arts-based supports that can bolster the resilience of transmasculine young adults and help them push back against trans stigma."
Funded 2018-2019
Blackout, a Black History Month Gala, was a collaboration between the Somali Students’ Association (SSA), Nigerian Students Association (NSA), Black Students Association (BSA) and Eritrean and Ethiopian Students Association (EESA), with sponsorship from APIRG and the Africa Centre. The event, held on February 22, 2019, featured food, performances from local Black artists, a dance tutorial from La Connexional, a fashion show, and speeches from local Black political candidates running in the upcoming municipal and federal elections. The gala was an incredible event, offering Black artists and politicians new audiences and support, empowering attendees to engage in politics, art, fashion and community organizing, and allowing the SSA and its partners to build community among Black youth across and beyond University of Alberta campus.
Funded 2018-2019
From Event Organizer:
"Thank you for supporting our event and in turn allowing us to support local artists for their time and talents. Your team was amazing and held our hand throughout your processes and helped us with other areas of our event."
Funded 2018-2019
From Event Organizer:
"ImagiNation Miscellany would like to extend our most gratitude for the opportunity APRIG has extended to our community. The workshops leading to our opening show were a success and the event on April 23rd was a glimpse of what the Edmonton community consist off. Thanks to your sponsorship and publicity extended to us, IM organizers were able to work with confidence, knowing that the work we are doing is valid and an important one to create an inclusive, safe and equitable community not only within the arts, but as a community as a whole.
The workshops were of great education and it gave our participants a safe place to discuss topics such as: identity, discrimination, belonging, and stigma, among many other topics. The workshops were also lead by experienced artist whom participants could learn new skills to help with their artistic practice moving forward. Workshops were a great way for participants to meet artists from different communities and find similarities within their artistic practice, collaborate and get to know each other on a more personal level.
The night of the showcase was full of visual art, performing arts, music and food. Folks were able to again, come together to explore topics that make our community diverse but with the intention of bringing people together, share that individuality yet celebrate those similarities.
IM witnessed that with the support of APRIG, artists and supporters felt confident to continue to work on their crafts but most importantly they have gained the confidence that they are talented, needed, and part of this community we call Edmonton. "
Funded 2018-2019
Last Days on Krypton was a one-person comedy show created and performed by Mav Adecer, directed and managed by Linh Lu, presented as part of the 2019 Edmonton Fringe Theatre Festival. The show explored the climate crisis, and the collective and very personal anxiety it produces, through children’s cartoons and other pop culture figures. The show was a community effort to create, with Mav testing out the show at friends’ houses, community centers and open mic nights for months before the Fringe. The work paid off. The production was a resounding success, bringing a no-name comedian from the “lonely task of crafting jokes within a swirling vortex of racism” to a near full house and a hold-over at the Grindstone. Joy and laughter are critical to surviving climate anxiety and the crisis itself, and Last Days on Krypton delivered.
Funded 2018-2019
Research-creation Project.
From Organizer:
"I am indebted to the funding generously granted by APIRG that allowed for the collaborators to see their visions through. Without this funding, we would not have been able to secure a central location for the performance; and a spacious space where we could dream without boundaries. Thank you very much APIRG."
