MicroGrant Success: Heather Christine 2020
Heather Christine used her 2020 Matchmaker MicroGrant to record a holiday single and music video. Two years later the song is still decking the halls – featured on 14 playlists!
MicroGrant Winners
MicroGrant Success: Anna Yin 2022
Anna Yin used her 2022 MicroGrant to develop a series of workshops incorporating Haiku writing and nature walks. The poetry was combined into an anthology that is free to download!
MicroGrant Success: Za Hughes 2022
Za Hughes used their Theatre in the Park MicroGrant to develop an immersive, site-specific play
at J.C. Saddington Park. Ghost Light ran for 3 sold-out shows!
MicroGrant Success: Alison Syer 2021
Alison Syer used her 2021 Matchmaker MicroGrant to tell the story of her garden through images and words.
MicroGrant Success: Anna Wojcik 2022
Anna Wojcik used her 2022 MicroGrant to develop an opera recital held at the Art Gallery of Mississauga in August 2022.
MicroGrant Success: Emily Ryder 2020
Emily Ryder used her 2020 MicroGrant to create Alfie, a 12 minute film.
MicroGrant Success: Feel It! Fusion MicroGrant 2019
In 2021, the Feel It! exhibit (2019 MAC Fusion MicroGrant winning project) was remounted at the Joshua Creek Heritage Arts Centre, and the project continues to delight audiences, and inspire creatives.
MicroGrant Success: Fusion MicroGrant 2021
MAC’s Fusion MicroGrant aimed to grow partnerships between musicians and visual/digital artists or illustrators to collaborate and produce an animated music video. Congratulations to Mauve and Matthew Salisbury who won this grant!
MicroGrant Success: Matt Zaddy 2021
Mississauga Musician, Matt Zaddy, received a Matchmaker MicroGrant from MAC for his #TogetherAtHome #OpenMic series. The weekly event was a way for local musicians/music fans to stay connected. #TogetherAtHome featured local performers and event saw performers from Texas, New York, British Columbia, and Quebec participate.
MicroGrant Success: Anna Wojcik 2021
Matchmaker MicroGrant winner Anna Wojcik’s group Nóżki Opera successfully put on two garden performances of Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro”.