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The Ontario Arts Council and the Ontario Women’s Directorate have launched a $2.25 million, multi-year funding program to help develop relationships between the arts and social services sectors in the area of sexual violence and harassment prevention. Artists and arts organizations will have the opportunity to collaborate with organizations or experts working to prevent sexual violence and harassment.  For more […]

In October of this year, The Province of Ontario, through the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport, began developing its first-ever cultural strategy.  Entitled Telling Our Stories, Growing Our Economy: Developing a Culture Strategy for Ontario, it contains a number of ways that Ontarians can contribute their voices to this development process in order that […]

On Monday, September 28, 2015 the Electric City Culture Council, Artspace and Showplace Performance Centre hosted Peterborough Artsvote, an all-candidates debate with a focus on questions that matter to the city’s arts, culture, and heritage community. If you missed the debate you can listen to Trent Radios recording of the debate here. Participants included: Toban Leckie […]

LOCAL CANDIDATES DEBATE ARTS, CULTURE AND HERITAGE ISSUES AT SHOWPLACE PERFORMANCE CENTRE Monday September 28, 2015Nexicom Lounge at Showplace Peterborough290 George Street North Doors Open 7:00 pmDebate starts 7:30 pm  The 2015 Federal Election is upon us. Do you want to know where the city’s Federal election candidates stand on arts and culture issues? Then Artsvote Peterborough is […]

This September, Artsweek Peterborough kicks off its 11th anniversary with a dynamite mix of programming by 60 new and established artists, presenting work in every artistic genre imaginable: visual art, theatre, dance, music, film, photography and literature, both written and spoken word. The locations for these activities are literally all over the Peterborough map: from […]

The EC3 is pleased to announce the appointment of three new Board members.  Sue McGregor-Hunter, Michael Gallant and Jonathan Bennett will join the EC3 Board effective September 1, 2015.  This brings the Board complement to nine members and these new appointments bring a wealth of experience to EC3’s work in the areas of heritage, architecture, […]

September 18 – 27 2015This year Artsweek is being produced and presented by EC3 and its crack team of producers, curators, media coordinators and designers, not to mention more than 40 artists and dozens of volunteers, sponsors and supporters in the business community. Artsweek is in its 11th year.  Launched as a legacy project in 2005 as part […]

We received a $10,000 grant in July from the Ontario Arts Council to support The Jackson Creek Project, a special initiative of Artsweek 2015.  This project explores the social, cultural, political, historical and environmental impact and significance of the Creek in Peterborough.  EC3 has commissioned a number of new works from artists that will appear in Jackson Park and […]

In June, EC3 was the proud recipient of a $2,000 grant from the CFGP’s Bierk Art Fund to support the start up of the EC3 Arts Awards program.  This program will recognize the achievements of and provide cash prizes to distinguished local artists and arts champions.  The Awards will be given at the inaugural Mayor’s Luncheon for the Arts […]

In July, EC3 received a $3,000 grant from the Peterborough Foundation to support the development of a new knowledge and information resource-sharing project.  CULTURE LAB, is an on-line professional development and organizational capacity building tool kit for arts, culture and heritage organizations that will launch in 2016.  Many thanks to the Peterborough Foundation for supporting this important organizational development initiative.