Grants, Bursaries, and Commissions Check out the opportunities below, and learn more about EC3 Juries, Assessment Committees, Review Panels and the Peer Assessment Process here. Click here for EC3’s Tips for Writing Successful Grant Applications.

Each year EC3 responds to identified needs in the community for Professional Development Workshops that provide expert knowledge and skills development for both individual artists and arts organizations.

Spotlight on Local Black Artists Find out more about Black artists in our community.

Poet Laureate Program   The 2023-24 Peterborough Poet Laureate is Ziysah von Bieberstein.

In 2020-2021 our approach to mentorship will shift from a singular grant writing focus, to an artist-driven program. Our top priority will be women and artists from marginalized communities.

Artsweek returns September 28 to October 5, 2025. Visit the Artsweek website for full festival information. Artsweek is Peterborough’s biennial festival of the arts, a 10-day, multi-disciplinary showcase of local creativity. Artsweek brings new work to new audiences in unexpected ways, supports original creation by local artists, and celebrates Peterborough as an innovative, creative community […]

Peterborough Arts Awards Celebration of the Arts The Peterborough Arts Awards were established to honour and recognize excellence and outstanding achievement by professional artists, arts organizations, and arts supporters living and working in our city and county. Six cash awards of $2,000 each are presented, with winners selected by a peer jury from a multi-disciplinary […]

Poets of Nogojwanong

EC3 is uniquely positioned to support the regional arts, culture, and heritage communities in its capacity as a source of institutional and community knowledge that spans the breadth of the city’s cultural history and the full scope of the arts sector outside of Peterborough. This is due in part to the Executive Director’s long history […]

This program offers bursaries to two Peterborough high school students completing Grade 12 who plan to undertake post-secondary studies in the arts. The Bierk Art Bursary Program provides two bursaries of $1000.00 each to graduating high school students in the City or County of Peterborough whose work demonstrates great promise and artistic merit and who […]