NEWS RELEASE
CITY OF BARRIE
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Barrie’s Culture Days is back for its eighth year, featuring a variety of free programs and activities designed to inspire public participation in arts and culture. Culture Days takes place from Sept. 29 to Oct. 1.
Highlights of the Culture Days weekend include drop-in DJ workshops, mandala painting workshops, behind-the-scenes tours of Barrie’s downtown theatre and a chance for members of the public to conduct the Huronia Symphony Orchestra. Local folk artists will perform on select Barrie Transit buses and Barrie street performers will entertain at various locations in downtown Barrie.
The MacLaren Art Centre’s Carnegie Days also takes place over the Culture Days weekend. Carnegie Days is an annual festival of art and language that celebrates the origins of the building as the 1917 Carnegie public library with exhibitions, public art projects, lectures, readings, video screenings, workshops and other public programming.
Culture Days is a Canada-wide celebration that was created in response to the growing recognition that a vibrant arts and cultural sector contributes directly to a healthy and stable society. Barrie has been celebrating Culture Days since 2010 with the goal of providing a behind-the-scenes look at the arts.
For more information about Culture Days, please visit this link.
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