Artsweek returns September 23 to October 1, 2022. 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 Alive Find out more about the Peterborough Arts Alive Fund Strategric Recovery and Resilience Grants program. Donate to the Peterborough Arts Alive Fund. EC3 is rolling out several programs to support individual artists and arts organizations in Peterborough and the surrounding area. More information on these initiatives TBA.   See our COVID-19 Updates […]

Poet Laureate Program   “A centuries-old tradition, a Poet Laureate is an appointed artist who primarily composes and presents poems at official occasions.” Sarah Lewis is the 2021 Peterborough Poet Laureate. Read the full announcement HERE. Sarah Lewis (she/her) is an Anishnaabe Kwe (Ojibwe/Cree), spoken word artist from Curve Lake First Nation, Ontario, who has […]

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

ON HOSPITALITY (Artsweek 2018) served as a pilot project for this permanent initiative. This EC3 Downtown Artists in Residence program brought together newcomer artists, settlers, and Indigenous artists in a series of multidisciplinary storefront projects, providing opportunities for artists to research and develop work, engage with each other’s practices, and offer public engagement opportunities. Based […]

Peterborough Arts Awards The Peterborough Arts Awards are annual awards established to honour  and recognize the excellence and outstanding achievement of professional artists, arts  organizations, and arts supporters living and working in our city and county. There are six  awards of $2,000 each and artists working in any artistic discipline are eligible for nomination.  Finalists […]

FUZE is an ongoing professional support and advice service that is provided on request to both individuals and organizations, both within the region and outside of it. To request support, contact EC3.

Culture Lab is a virtual space on the EC3 website where people can access information, stats, research, and reports on a wide variety of subjects that are of importance to the ACH sector. Culture Lab is the umbrella title for all of EC3’s work gathering and disseminating organizational capacity building tools and information and includes […]

This half-hour radio broadcast occurred on occasional Wednesday nights and aired at 7pm on Trent Radio, 92.7FM. Adopting a magazine format, the show was hosted by EC3 Executive Director Su Ditta and included news, reviews, and features interviews with people in the local arts, culture, and heritage scene, along with music, an advice column, and […]

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.