The vision of SFU Woodward’s Cultural Programs’ is to enable and promote creativity and leading edge practices in the contemporary arts as well as public community discourse. By supporting professional activities through partnerships, SFUW engages the community through unique cultural, employment, and public initiatives.

Founded in 1993, New Works is an innovative organization that exists to support dance artists, cultivate audience, and provide and promote diverse and accessible performance experiences. New Works strives to remove systemic barriers positioned against Equity seeking practices and practitioners, including Indigenous artists.

With roots as a dance collective, Company 605 was founded in 2009, and now has an expanding repertoire of diverse works and interdisciplinary collaborations. Valuing collaboration as an essential tool for new directions in dance, Company 605 continues to awaken a fresh and ever-evolving aesthetic, together building a high athletic art form derived from the human experience.

Wild Mint Arts delivers workshops, performances, and classes with Indigenous performing artists locally and from around the world. Wild Mint values and supports the diversity of Indigenous performing arts, recognizing its inherent inter-disciplinary elements. Empowering Indigenous people of all ages, abilities, and genders, Wild Mint strives to offer inclusive programming, respectful of everyone.

Founded by choreographer and dancer Alvin Erasga Tolentino in 2000, Co.ERASGA has a distinguished international reputation with its vision of hybrid dance, diversity and collaborations with other artistic practices and multimedia. Co.ERASGA’s purpose and goal is to expand to a wider demographic through their creations, dance performances, training, development activities, and community outreach.

Artistic Director Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg creates and performs kinetic theatrical expressions of the ever strange and wonderful human experience. Through exquisitely realized characters, a healthy dose of comedy, and lashings of tragedy, Friedenberg works to reveal and connect. TCP’s vision is to create works that speak to people on the levels of common human experience, our own comic-tragic behavior, and our lives in movement.

Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers (CSIF) was founded in 1978 by a collective of 12 filmmakers; Now in our 40th year of operation, the Society exists to fuel filmmakers, support storytellers, and connect the cinematic community by providing equipment and resources for independent filmmakers in Calgary.

Charles Street Video (CSV) is a non-profit production organization established in 1981 to help support media artists. We provide affordable access to equipment and post-production editing facilities for creating videos, films, installations and other media art forms. We offer regular workshops, training sessions and residencies.

VIVO Media Arts Centre is a steward of critical history and an agent for emergent experimental media arts practices. Our programs foster formal and critical approaches to media arts, and VIVO’s mission is to nurture past, present and future media arts discourses and communities through equitable and public access to resources for preservation, production and dissemination.

Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society is a non-profit Artist-Run Centre, supporting independent filmmakers, media artists and arts audiences through facilities and initiatives encompassing production, exhibition, consultation, outreach and advocacy. We engage our membership and wider communities in the investigative, expressive and transformative powers of the moving image.