Community Festivals and Events Program

The Community Festivals and Events program provides rural and northern communities with operating grants towards organizing a festival that takes place over a minimum of two days. These festivals must be recognized as the community’s signature annual event and promote the understanding, awareness and appreciation of their heritage, culture and identity. The program supports events that encourage youth participation and leadership; reflect, celebrate, and profile the unique character of the community; foster a sense of identity and pride; and contribute to local tourism and economic activity.

• To support the efforts of volunteers in organizing their community’s signature annual festival or celebration; to encourage communication and cooperation among community groups, businesses, and local governments in organizing and participating in the community’s signature annual event; to increase community participation, including youth participation, in a significant annual community event that celebrates and reflects the character of the community; contribute to local tourism and/or other economic activity in the community; raise the community’s understanding, awareness and appreciation of its heritage, culture, identity and other elements that foster a sense of identity and pride.

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