What is Culture Days?
Culture Days is an annual national celebration of arts, culture, and creativity!
Find out more here: Culture Days
Every year, thousands of free events are connected under a three-week national campaign to encourage people across Canada to engage with, participate in, and support arts and culture in their communities. Culture Days will take place September 20th through October 13th, 2024.
In Wynyard we are in planning stages and looking for Cultural Organizations and Individuals to participate in creating a Culture Hub.
Creating a Culture Days hub
Culture Days hubs are collections of events and programs that are connected geographically or thematically where audiences can expect to easily find various arts and culture-themed activities and experiences in a concentrated area. Through the hub registration system, individual events can be linked to one another to form a hub with its own web page.
Some examples of Culture Days hubs include:
- A public library hosting many different types of events
- A Main Street or downtown public plaza that’s hosting various events along a walkable corridor
- A Nuit Blanche-style event with installations covering a large footprint across downtown
- An arts organization presenting a series of online events centered around the same theme
Why create a hub?
Creating a Culture Days hub is a great strategy to increase awareness, attendance, and participation while:
- Forming new partnerships with other community organizers
- Optimizing how you showcase the varied arts and cultural activity in your area
- Developing networking opportunities and strengthening long-term partnerships with fellow arts and culture organizations, artists, community members, and advocates
- Increasing the likelihood of attracting additional media coverage, VIP guests, and cultural influencers
How can I get involved?
If you are an individual who is interested in participating and promoting Cultural Activity you can sign up to volunteer on our planning committee or to help at various events during our celebration.
If you want to know more or want to help out sign up here: Volunteer Sign up
If you are an arts or culture organization and your group would like to offer an activity, performance, workshop, education session, etc. Please let us know what your plans are so we can work together to make it happen!
If you have an event or activity idea that you would like to share with the committee please sign up here: Event Sign Up
There is an opportunity to apply for funding starting March 11 so please meet with your group in the coming days to brainstorm ideas and share them with us.
Here is a document that outlines what we will need to know to apply for funding: Culture Days Application Information
