About Alberta Culture Days

Alberta Culture Days began in 2008 as Alberta Arts Day, a one-day event to recognize the value of Alberta's arts and cultural communities. Since then, it has expanded into a vibrant, three day, province-wide celebration that has helped inspire the creation of Culture Days - a pan-Canadian movement to raise the awareness, accessibility, participation and engagement of all Canadians in the arts and cultural life of their communities.

In 2011, thousands of Albertans discovered, experienced and celebrated our artistic sector, heritage, cultural diversity and provincial pride through 1,046 events in 93 communities. Alberta Culture Days 2012, September 28 to 30, will continue to showcase the province's arts, multicultural, heritage and nonprofit/voluntary organizations; creative industries and individual artists, while encouraging all Albertans to discover the important contributions of culture to a prosperous, vibrant society.

Alberta Culture Days is helping to achieve the goals of our province’s cultural policy, The Spirit of Alberta