Manitobans for the Arts Annual General Meeting

Register now for our Annual Gathering - New Voices, Fresh Thinking - taking place on June 4, 2024, at the Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain (CCFM). Featuring Patricia Huntsman, a two-time nationally award-winning cultural strategist, this event will feature a full day of learning and conversation on how we can continue to engage, sustain, and strengthen the arts. Members may also apply to have a one-on-one with Patricia Huntsman on June 5, 2024.

Patricia Huntsman is a two-time nationally award-winning cultural strategist. She has worked across Canada and internationally in senior roles in the creative industry for over 25 years. Her British Columbia-based team practice offers a full roster of arts management, cultural policy writing and planning, and communication services tailored to Building Communities Through Culture.

Join us on June 15, 2023 for the Arts and Culture Ideas Summit, presented by Manitobans for the Arts and Creative Manitoba.

Save the date for our in-person Arts and Culture Ideas Summit taking place on June 15th, 2023. We are delighted to present a day of of provocative ideas, and important conversation about the arts and audiences. Stay tuned for more details.

As the provincial elections approach, Manitobans for the Arts is working to develop an arts and culture policy platform that truly represents the sector and its members. To achieve this, we need your input.

We look forward to working in collaboration with the Government of Manitoba over the coming weeks and months to bring funding to a sustainable level, and ensure everyone can benefit from a healthy, agile and expanded arts and culture sector that spans the province.

Manitobans for the Arts has done the most comprehensive survey of arts audiences in the province, and we want to share it with you.

With an important Mayoral race in Winnipeg, Manitobans for the Arts invited all Mayoral candidates to respond to a survey, and to share their plans for the arts and culture sector.

Our 2022 Municipal Election Initiatives

Manitobans for the Arts welcomes Oyíndàmólá Áláká as its new General Manager

Manitobans for the Arts has compiled a list of programs at the Provincial and Federal level – some for organizations, some for individuals – to help weather the current storm.

Through consultation, we have identified priorities within the sector and are working alongside arts organizations and private- and public-sector partners to address them.

Probe Research surveyed Manitobans to identify opportunities to strengthen community engagement and participation in arts and culture.

The Culture Policy and Action Plan recognizes and celebrates the whole of Manitoba’s diverse cultural sector.  It acknowledges the sector’s contribution as an economic driver, and as a source of pride and belonging.

In the lead up to the 2018 Municipal Election, Manitobans for the Arts called on Mayoral and Councillor Candidates in Winnipeg to commit to implementing three strategies, to ensure their term will include arts, culture, heritage and creativity.

On March 21, 2017, representatives from the Manitobans for the Arts Board and Advocacy Committee were joined by leaders in the arts and cultural community in meetings with all City of Winnipeg Councillors.

Manitobans for the Arts coordinated a delegation made up of 27 members of the creative community to meet with 32 MLAs, Ministers and Deputy Ministers and discuss issues pertinent to arts and culture communities in Manitoba.