About TO Live With Culture
A creative culture is the cornerstone of a great city. Toronto is celebrating this creativity in big and small ways.
From a mural on a wall at a construction site, to an opera at the Four Seasons Centre, from a band playing at the neighbourhood bar, to a film screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, and everything in between. Creativity is everywhere.
Live With Culture.ca is your invitation to celebrate our creative city.
LiveWithCulture.ca is a web portal that celebrates the creativity which contributes to our city’s soul. Toronto culture is among the best in the world, and the hundreds of events listed in this website benefit residents and visitors from every walk of life. This new web portal has been developed as a collaboration between the City of Toronto Culture Division and the Toronto Arts Council Foundation. Livewithculture.ca is a legacy project of the Live With Culture campaign.
Live With Culture is a 16-month celebration of Toronto’s extraordinary arts and cultural communities. From September 2005 to December 2006, Live With Culture showcases the vibrant and diverse cultural activities happening in the city each and every day. Events initiated by the City of Toronto and the community are united under one umbrella campaign to raise awareness of Toronto’s thriving cultural scene.
Live With Culture is an initiative of the City of Toronto’s Culture Division. A series of signature events form the core of the City-initiated programming for the celebrations.
Toronto’s Live With Culture began as a key recommendation in the 2003 Culture Plan for the CreativeCity. The Plan called for the City of Toronto to catch the wave created by a number of Cultural Renaissance capital projects. It recommended that Toronto build on this opportunity through a celebration of creativity in 2006 to draw greater local and international attention to culture in Toronto.
Live With Culture became a reality when the Government of Canada designated Toronto as a Cultural Capital for 2005/06. Financial support for the campaign is coming from all three levels of government.
Live With Culture invites you to celebrate with us. It is our hope that culture in Toronto becomes a daily part of everyone’s life, whether they live here or are just visiting.
How do you live with culture? Architecture. Art. Dance. Design. Festivals. Film. History. Music. Reading. Theatre. Toronto has it all. Visit livewithculture.ca regularly for your ultimate guide to Toronto’s cultural scene.
Livewithculture.ca is a legacy project of the 2005/06 TO Live With Culture campaign, a 16-month celebration of Toronto’s extraordinary arts and cultural communities. From September 2005 to December 2006, Live With Culture showcased the vibrant and diverse cultural activities happening in the city each and every day.
Originally conceived as an event listing portal — the result of a collaboration between the City of Toronto Culture Division and the Toronto Arts Council Foundation — the site was revamped in 2009 to become a blog about Torontonians living with culture. Our objective is to shine a light on every strata of the city’s thriving cultural sector. We talk to the stars of a show but also to the men and women in the trenches, working the lights, building the sets, planning the exhibitions.
Toronto’s Agenda for Prosperity recognizes creativity as one of the city’s most important economic drivers. Between 1991 and 2004, creative occupations in Toronto grew at more than three times the rate of the total labour force. More than 133,000 people earn their living in this sector, which generates $9 billion in GDP annually.
Live With Culture began as a key recommendation in the 2003 Culture Plan for the Creative City. The Plan called for the City of Toronto to catch the wave created by a number of Cultural Renaissance capital projects. It recommended that Toronto build on this opportunity through a celebration of creativity in 2006 to draw greater local and international attention to culture in Toronto. Financial support for the campaign came from all three levels of government.
How do you live with culture? We invite you to use the comment fields that accompany each post to share your experience of what it’s like to live in one of the world’s great cultural centres. To upload your events to our “Now Playing” sidebar, please use the Toronto Arts Online submission form.
Livewithculture.ca was developed in consultation with Digital Fin Communications.
