About Culture Days
Culture Days is a collaborative pan-Canadian volunteer movement to raise the awareness, accessibility, participation and engagement of all Canadians in the arts and cultural life of their communities. A national Steering Committee, together with provincial committees (known as Provincial Task Forces) self-mobilize at the grassroots level to implement concurrent, annual, province-wide public participation events that take place throughout the country over the last weekend of September. The first annual Culture Days event was held in September 2010 in over 700 Canadian cities and towns and, by all accounts, was a great success. The 2012 Culture Days weekend will take place September 28, 29 & 30, 2012. Annual, Canada-wide Culture Days events feature free, hands-on, interactive activities that invite the public to participate “behind the scenes,” to discover the world of artists, creators, historians, architects, curators, and designers at work in their community.
In support of these annual events, Culture Days drives a large-scale,multi-layered, annual,national communications and public relations campaign designed to help inspire and catalyze greater public participation in the arts and cultural life of our communities.
Culture Days is a collaborative movement that relies on your participation. Everyone has a role they can play; as an artist, a cultural professional, on behalf of an arts organization or a municipality, as a business person, as a member of the public…etc. everyone can contribute to the Culture Days movement. Join this exciting cross-country network and invite your friends, family and colleagues to do so too!. Browse 2011 Activities to find out about activities already planned in your neighbourhood and learn more about what to expect as Canadians from coast to coast to coast prepare for the second annual Culture Days event this fall.
If you are interested in making your audience outreach activities part of Culture Days...
If you would like to organize an activity for Culture Days...
If you'd like to volunteer to help with Culture Days...
If you love arts and culture and want to see the Culture Days movement grow and thrive...
…subscribe to the Culture Days Newsletter to receive email updates; read the Culture Days blog; follow Culture Days on Twitter; “Like” Culture Days on Facebook; check out the Culture Days Flickr page and YouTube channel.
And last but not least, share your stories about how Culture Days activity organizers and Canadians are engaging in the artistic and cultural life of communities across the country – email them to stories[at]culturedays[dot]ca or share them via any of the social media channels listed above.