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 […]

Artsweek returns May 5 to 14, 2023. 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 with […]

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 […]

EC3’s Cultural Incubators are a vital forum and platform for exploring and debating important issues impacting the Arts, Culture, and Heritage sector. They provide information, new ideas, and creative solutions for both individual arts professionals and leaders of arts organizations. The Incubators take an integrated approach that builds capacity for individual artists, for arts organizations, […]

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.

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 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 […]

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.

EC3 provides arts programming for special occasions (Canada 150 etc.) and for our biennale festival of the arts, Artsweek.