ArtsNL has awarded over $1.2-million to various professional arts organizations across the province.

In total, 26 companies will receive funding through the Sustaining Program for Professional Arts Organizations program, which is in its second year of a three-year cycle.

The money given ranges from $20,000 for some organizations to $80,000 for others.

The organizations are:

Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland

$65,000

Eastern Edge Gallery

$75,000

Friends of Writers at Woody Point

$20,000

Gros Morne Summer Music

$40,250

Kittiwake Dance Theatre

$20,000

Lawnya Vawnya

$20,000

Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Arts Society

$52,750

Newfoundland Dance Presenters (Neighbourhood Dance Works)

$68,000

Newfoundland Independent Filmmakers Co-operative

$70,000

Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra Association

$80,000

Nickel Film Festival

$45,000

Opera on the Avalon

$65,000

Perchance Theatre at Cupids

$55,000

PerSIStence Theatre Company Inc.

$20,000

RCA Theatre Company

$65,000

Riddle Fence Publishing

$20,000

Rising Tide Association

$75,000

Sound Arts Initiatives (Sound Symposium)

$45,000

Soundbone Traditional Arts Foundation

$50,000

St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival

$45,000

St. Michael’s Printshop

$50,000

Stephenville Festival

$20,000

TNL (Theatre Newfoundland Labrador)

$75,000

Tuckamore Festival

$45,000

White Rooster Theatre

$20,000

Wonderbolt Productions

$60,000