Creative Industries
The Saskatchewan Arts Board's Creative Industries programs focus on investing in creativity: in people, businesses and organizations. The program's vision is a thriving, valued and connected creative economy in Saskatchewan; its mission is to support and stimulate the development and growth of the creative industries to enhance their contributions to the economy and vitality of the province of Saskatchewan; and its goals are:
- to create broad public awareness and recognition of Saskatchewan's Creative Industries and their positive impacts
- to develop and support creative enterprise and innovation
- to enable conditions in which Saskatchewan 's creative industries reach their full potential.
Flexible Loan Program
In March 2010, the Saskatchewan Arts Board announced the Flexible Loan Program, a $1.15 million initiative of the Arts Board and the Saskatchewan Ministry of Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport. This new financial resource will increase the entrepreneurial and economic capacity of artists, businesses and non-profits in the craft, music and sound recording, publishing, and visual arts sectors. The loan program offers short-term, low-interest, demand loans of up to $25,000 for eligible commercial sector activity. Loans are approved based on a viable business plan/proposal.
Entrepreneurial Training Program (Pilot, 2010)
In 2010, the Saskatchewan Arts Board launched the Entrepreneurial Training Program, a pilot based on the Cultural Human Resources Council curriculum, The Art of Managing Your Career. The program provided self-employed artists with skills, tools, self-awareness and networking resources to help them turn their art practices into sustainable, revenue-generating businesses. This project was funded by the Saskatchewan Ministry of Advanced Education, Employment and Labour.
Creative Industries Entrepreneurship Training Course
Based on the success of the 2010 Entrepreneurial Training Program pilot project, the Arts Board launched the Creative Industries Entrepreneurship Training Course in 2012. Offered in partnership with ideas inc, the course is based on the Cultural Human Resources Council curriculum, The Art of Managing Your Career, as well as the book, Business Model Generation, by Alex Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur. The course assists Saskatchewan artists and creative industries entrepreneurs to develop sustainable, careers or creative industries ventures in the province of Saskatchewan.
Creative Industries Sector Organizations Contribution
Through a negotiated, partnership-driven process, annual contributions are provided to the identified Creative Industries Sector Organizations (CISOs) for operations and program activities that align with the aims of the Creative Industries Growth and Sustainability Program agreement.
Click here for a list of CISOs.
Creative Industries Transition Fund
This short-term fund provides project support to Saskatchewan artists, professional arts organizations, companies, producers and creative industry sector organizations so they may pursue strategic initiatives that advance clearly-defined market development and distribution goals and objectives for Saskatchewan commercial cultural products. It also provides support for screen-based media productions that demonstrate market interest. The fund is a one-time resource available during the period of transition to a proposed new agency that will serve the creative industries in Saskatchewan. The Creative Industries Transition Fund is administered by the Saskatchewan Arts Board and funded by the Government of Saskatchewan through an agreement with the Ministry of Parks, Culture and Sport.
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