Artsweek 2025

Festival dates: September 29 to October 5, 2025
Application deadline: June 10, 2025 at 11:59pm

Artsweek is produced and presented by the Electric City Culture Council (EC3). It is Peterborough’s biennial “festival of the arts” – an exhilarating extravaganza of music, literary and spoken word arts, puppetry and kid’s programming, media arts (film, video, new media), visual arts, circus arts, dance, theatre and performance of all kinds, created by local artists and arts organizations, unfolding in public spaces all across the city. All Artsweek events are FREE.

Since its beginning as part of the City of Peterborough’s Centennial Celebrations in 2005, this legacy project has brought new work to new audiences in unexpected ways, supported original creation by local artists, and celebrated Peterborough as an innovative, creative community with a vibrant arts scene. Artsweek events build public engagement with, and awareness of, the arts. Projects can take place anywhere in the city, and proposals for “unexpected arts venues” are especially welcome. The Festival also accepts reprises of previous work. All artists are paid.

Artsweek 2025 once again employs a three-part programming model including projects selected and funded by a peer jury from this Open Call for applications, commissioned work initiated by EC3 that may include new work or reprised projects, and projects initiated by invited curators. Applications to the Open Call are welcome from individual artists, arts organizations, arts collectives or ad hoc groups.

Find the full Call for Proposals, Program Guidelines, and Application Form on Artsweek's website.