View the Inspire St. Catharines: Culture Plan 2020, which identifies the many cultural assets we enjoy and recommends priorities for the future. Culture helps make St. Catharines a distinct and vibrant place providing us with:
The Culture Plan is designed to inform City decision-makers when considering investments, programming, facilities and policies that affect the creative sector, our built heritage and our urban fabric.
We've identified the following priorities to allow for future opportunities:
The City of St. Catharines boasts a dynamic and robust cultural sector, and values the arts, heritage and culture as essential to community building and sustainability. St. Catharines supports and promotes culture to enrich the lives of its residents, attract new people and ideas, bolster economic development and social inclusion and celebrate its unique identity. The City will nurture, support and celebrate St. Catharines distinct identity, creativity and diversity through the promotion and advancement of a wide range of cultural activities, events, facilities, programs and services that serve all citizens of St. Catharines regardless of age, ethnicity or income.
We used a three-phased approach to develop the Culture Plan. This includes: