Start Planning Your Culture Days Activities!

Culture Days is a coast-to-coast, Canadian celebration of arts, culture, and heritage, with the goal of transforming the way Canadians view and engage in the cultural life of their community. For the third year in a row, Culture Days will be extended beyond just a weekend and delivered for three whole weeks! Start scheduling your Culture Days activities now from September 23 to October 16, 2022!

Culture Days features thousands of free, hands-on, interactive activities in 150+ communities across the province. The delivery model this year will be partially in-person and partially online, so you’ll have the opportunity to explore even more cultural activities beyond your region as well.

Culture Days doesn’t restrict its definition of culture! Anyone working in heritage, TV/film, new media, design, sport, recreation, architecture, culinary, or anything else they deem to be “cultural” are welcome to participate. Host a movie in the park and invite children to participate in a paper mural! Offer a craft beer tasting to drive new business to your restaurant! Teach a new audience how to do some of the dance steps you have learned! The options are endless.

Offering your own Culture Days activity is easy; events that you have offered in the past, or are planning to offer may even fulfill the simple criteria needed to participate:

1. The event must be free, so you cannot charge for participation. That said, you can always sell things at your event, or put out a voluntary donation box, or collect donations online. Online events could collect donations digitally even.

2. The event must be participatory in some way. You want people to try something new, so think of offering activities like behind-the-scenes tours, show visitors how things work, or do a demo or workshop.

3. The event must take place over the Culture Days period (September 23 to October 16, 2022). It does not have to run every day, or all day, but it must take place on one of those days. There is no minimum or maximum time to commit.

4. The event must be registered on the Culture Days website.

Do you need assistance planning your event? Do you have a venue you’d like to offer for a Culture Days activity? If you would like to run your own activity or assist others, but are not quite sure who to link up with, contact the City of Brantford and we would be happy to connect you to local resources.

For more information about Culture Days in Brantford, please contact: Kara Davey, Arts & Culture Development Officer at kdavey@brantford.ca or 519-759-4150 x5567.

Culture Days Event Registration will open in May! Visit the Culture Days website to register and for more information.