Performance venues enable artists to showcase works that speak to us, tell our stories and reflect our identity. These venues are essential for passing on our culture and building a better future for generations to come.
Today, Lisa Hepfner, Member of Parliament (Hamilton Mountain), announced $67,766 in funding for the Woodland Cultural Centre in Brantford. She made this announcement on behalf of the Honourable Marc Miller, Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and Minister responsible for Official Languages.
Provided under the Canada Cultural Spaces Fund, this financial assistance will support the feasibility analysis for the project "Dwade.'nyota' Dwaga:'sho.:'o.h We Celebrate Our Stories." As the community's needs grow, the Woodland Cultural Centre's infrastructure will eventually need to be renovated to accommodate new spaces for creation, dissemination and exhibition. The funds will also be used to gather the community's vision and analyze the viability of a new cultural facility that would house the museum, art gallery, offices, various meeting spaces and gift shop.
These new multipurpose spaces will be adapted and designed to meet the needs of Indigenous design principles and both traditional practices (such as beadwork, carving and storytelling) and contemporary disciplines such as visual arts, music and digital media.
