Volume 8 - Issue 9

Monday, October 21, 2019
Hello

ARTS & CULTURE FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

St. Catharines Cultural Investment Program (SCCIP)  Upcoming Deadline!
 
Application materials are available on the City's website for the following programs:
 
DEADLINE: Friday October 25, 2019
Applications must be received no later than 4:30 p.m. on deadline day. No late applications will be accepted.
 
IMPORTANT!  Before you apply: Please contact Ashley Judd-Rifkin, Culture Coordinator, at [email protected] or 905-688-5601 ext 5229 to discuss your plans. 
 
For more information on these programs, as well as eligibility requirements, please visit:   www.stcatharines.ca/SCCIP
ARTS & CULTURE IN ST. CATHARINES


CULTURE DAYS IN ST. CATHARINES
 
Thanks for joining us on September 27, 28 & 29, 2019

We are excited to share that in 2019:
  • 70 activities were offered at 14 venues across St. Catharines
  • 5 100 community members were actively involved in activities
  • 200 Artists and Volunteers were involved in facilitating these activities
Culture Days is a Canada-wide celebration that is the largest-ever public participation campaign undertaken by the arts and cultural community in this country. Culture Days features FREE hands-on family-friendly activities that invite the public to participate in the "behind-the-scenes" experiences. 

Many of these activities were funded by the SCCIP Culture Days Activity Program Fund.

We look forward to planning a new roster of engaging activities for next year!

Artists & Organizations interested in leading an activity in 2020 are encouraged to visit our website in January for funding application details.
EXHIBITIONS

2019 City of St. Catharines Annual Juried Exhibit:
Transformations

When: On display from September 23, 2019 to March 2020
Where: St. Catharines City Hall, 3rd Floor, 50 Church Street

Artists were invited to submit artwork that investigates the positive and negative transitions and transformations that shape human beings and the world.

EXHIBITING ARTISTS: Emily Andrews, Yvonne Benyo, Irma Bull, Danny Custodio, Renu D'Cunha,  Sandy Fairbairn, Janny Fraser,  Janet Ingrao, Arnold McBay, Colleen McTigue, Lauren Regier,  Kaitlyn Roberts, Jon Shaw, Bruce Thompson, Kim Van Stygeren,  Art Weaver and Jan Yates .

 
Carl Beam: Us & Everything
On display in the Joy Williams Lobby at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre until December 2019.  An exhibit of works by contemporary Indigenous artist Carl Beam. Carl Beam (Ojibwe, 1943 - 2005), is one of the most important artists in Canadian Contemporary Art History, noted as the first Canadian of Native Ancestry to have his work purchased by the National Gallery of Canada as Contemporary Art. 

People and Places of St. Catharines 
On display in Film House Gallery at the the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre until December 2019. In Partnership with the St. Catharines Museum.


For more information on exhibits visit: www.stcatharines.ca/exhibits

UPCOMING ARTS & CULTURE EVENTS:
Get musical this fall with presentations at the 
FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre
Wonderful concerts presented by: 
Chorus Niagara
Niagara Symphony Orchestra
Bravo Niagara - Voices of Freedom Festival
The Gallery Players
and many more...
More info: www.firstontariopac.ca & click "music"

And the Foster Festival is presenting their first
HOLIDAY SHOW, Aunt Agnes for Christmas!
December 11 to 22 at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre
More info & tickets: www.bit.ly/AuntAgnesXmas

The Cultural Services office is a division of the City of St. Catharines' Community , Recreation and Culture Services department. Cultural Services focuses on public art, community development, planning and policy related to arts and culture in the City of St. Catharines.