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Culture Days: Create, Share, Celebrate!

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Culture Days 2026

Culture Days, the annual cross-country celebration of arts and culture, launches on September 18 and runs through October 4, 2026.

Brampton is proud to celebrate and amplify the incredible artists, groups, and organizations that bring free and engaging arts experiences to the community! Whether you're interested in trying out a workshop, attending an artist talk, a demonstration, or learning a new skill - there's something for everyone and all ages during Culture Days.

Culture Days in Brampton is co-presented with community organizers and partners, including Experience Brampton, Brampton Arts Organization (BAO), Brampton Public Library, Downtown Brampton BIA, and Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives (PAMA).

Brampton had an outstanding year in 2025, ranking #1 in Urban Centres and #2 overall in Canada for Culture Days participation. During the 2025 celebration period, from September 19 to October 12, Brampton delivered more than 325 registered programs and events,contributing to a recor​d-breaking year for Culture Days across Canada.

Culture Days in Brampton is proudly supported by Toronto Pearson
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Brampton Becomes a Provincial Hub

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In 2026, Brampton is proud to be recognized as a Provincial Festival Hub​ for Ontario Culture Days. This designation recognizes Brampton's growing and vibrant arts and culture sector and highlights the City as a destination for creative experie​nces in Ontario. As a Festival Hub, Brampton is excited to work alongside artists, organizations, and community partners to showcase local creativity and connect residents and visitors through free and engaging arts and culture programming.

Calls for Proposals

In 2025, several artists and art collectives responded to our call for proposals seeking program leaders working in all art forms to deliver community engaged arts programming during Culture Days. This open call invites expressions of interest from artists and arts leaders with a project budget of up to $4,000. The top applicants from the call were Meegan Lim, Happy Hands Pottery & Art Studio, and the Brampton Latinos Association.

Brampton delivered more than 325 registered programs and events, 20 of which were delivered by nine artists, organizations and collectives that were selected and funded through the Call for Proposals.

More About Culture Days

Culture Days is a nationwide network of events, presentations, activities, workshops, and more happens over three weeks and is free to attend.

Culture Days has become the largest cultural event in Canada, attracting millions of annual attendees to thousands of free activities and performances hosted by artists, cultural organizations and municipalities in hundreds of communities across Canada. Culture Days programs invite the public to get hands-on and behind-the-scenes to highlight the importance of arts and culture by connecting communities and creators.

Past Culture Days Events

How to Participate

There are more than 100 free activities happening across Brampton!

Visit the Brampton Hub on the Culture Days website to discover what's happening in our community.

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Post Your Event

New events can be added up to the day before Culture Days officially launches. Create your own organizer profile for free at www.cultured​​ays.ca.

‭(Hidden)‬ Discover Other Programs and Events

Discover other programs and events proudly supported by Cultural Services:​

Saturday, September 20, 10:20 AM to 11:50 AM
Knowledge Bookstore - 177 Queen Street West

In this family-friendly event, guests will e​xperience a live performance by singer-songwriter and dancer, Durreyl. Afterwards, participants will then have the opportunity to learn simple Afro inspired dance moves meant to uplift the energy and allow everyone to move and embrace the freedom of expression and joy of dance.

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Saturday, September 20, 12:15 PM to 2:15 PM
Knowledge Bookstore - 177 Queen Street​ West

Damien will demonstrate how to set up the microphone and record audio using the music production software. Participants will have an option to practice, record their own voice or use instrumental software. Participants are encouraged to experiment with different microphone settings and effects to learn about their pitch and tonality. Through their engagement with MPC Beat maker, they will learn about music production with a basic beginner's guide and demonstrations that will teach them about the process of midi, samples and drums. They will complete the workshop with an understanding of how to create sequences to build a song.

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Saturday, September 20, 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Knowledge Bookstore - 177 Queen Street West

In this workshop, participants will learn the basics of mixing music by taking two songs to engage the beats per minute (bpm) which they will learn allows for smooth transition between songs.

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Sunday, September 21, 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Rose Brampton - 1 Theatre Lane

Brampton Arts Walk of Fame Inductee, Exco Levi, will be leading a free drop-in Reggae Dub Session in celebration of the new exhibit at the Rose. Whether you're a lifelong reggae fan or curious to see the artist up close and personal, this is your chance! Bring your friends and family and your best skankin' shoes!

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Monday, September 22, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Four Corners Library - 65 Queen Street East

Using comics as a medium, participants will share their borders and border crossing stories and experiences. Through this powerful medium, community members will write and illustrate, visualizing many borders - in the mind, in the body, in geography, in time, in values, in society - and their own border crossing stories and experiences.

The border crossings: Zine Zone forms part of an evolving gallery with public drop-ins and workshops. No prior experience required. All materials and supplies will be provided. Age: 13+

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Wednesday, September 24, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Snelgrove Community Centre - 11692 Hurontario Street

Join producer, composer and internationally renowned drummer O'Neil “Drummy” Fuller in an exciting hand drum and percussion workshop. No experience needed. Materials provided or bring your own.

Arts Inside is a monthly performing arts workshop series for adults and youth 16+ led by arts professionals working in all art forms. With a focus on creation, connection and community, this is your chance to bring out your inner artist! Whether you are interested in exploring acting, poetry, singing, creative writing, digital storytelling or dancing, each month will provide a new and exciting option! No previous experience is necessary — just an open-mind and the willingness to try something new in a safe space.

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Friday, September 26, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Historic Bovaird Log House - 56​​3 Bovaird Dr E

Join First Nations singer/songwriter from Elsipogtog First Nation, Pamela Levi in this interactive songwriting circle. Meet with other writers and musicians and have a chance to share an original song and receive feedback from each other in a safe space.

Bring your acoustic instruments if you have them!

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Monday, September 29, 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM
Snelgrove Community Centre - 11692 Hurontario Street

First - we'll introduce and explore the Cyanotype printing process using botanicals and harnessing the sun to print on fabric scarves

Second - we'll introduce some introductory hand embroidery stitches that participants can use to embellish and customize their scarves

All participants will go home with their scarves, and some embellishment supplies to allow them to continue their creative journey.

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Saturday, October 4, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Snelgrove Community Centre - 11692 Hurontario Street

This is a live interactive workshop where participants will learn and play musical improv games designed to spark creativity, laughter, and connection. Families can join in for a fun and memorable experience, discovering new ways to bond through music and performance. At the same time, artists, singers, and rappers can use this opportunity to sharpen their improvisation skills for the stage, music videos, or even songwriting. We want this to be an inclusive event for everyone and learning to work with different ages and groups will benefit everyone. Plus it will be a good time where you can pick up new skills and hang with the community!

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Saturday, October 4, 4:00 PM to 7:30 PM
Balmoral Recreational Centre - 225 Balmoral Drive

In this workshop, participants will be taught and guided by 3 professional stop motion animators to plan and animate their own short, animated film.

For Culture Days, we are encouraging participants to bring in a small item that's important and relevant to your heritage. We will provide cameras, lighting, computers and other tools to help teach you to bring your object to life, while also giving you an opportunity to write and voice a short piece about your item and its culture.

By the end of the workshop, everybody will have had a chance to create their unique work of film, which we will then screen altogether and learn a little something about everybody's unique heritage and cultural identity. Through the magic of stop motion!

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Saturday, October 11, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

We want to create an atmosphere that allows artists and music lovers alike to come together and cook up a song from scratch! Our two-hour program offers basic production and songwriting techniques for beginners, followed by a live group production and recording session on how to create a demo track. During this workshop the participants will learn how to produce/record a track with Truss, and how to write lyrics for a verse and hook with Nicole Chambers!

Our goal for this workshop is that participants will leave feeling encouraged and inspired to use these skills they have gained and create their own demos. We also want folks to network and connect within the community - as two artists who have grown up together in Brampton, and continue to make music together, we hope this experience will stimulate the group to build a connection with one another like Brampton arts programs have done for us!

For ages 18+

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Contact Cultural Services

Brampton City Hall
2 Wellington St W
Brampton, ON
L6Y 4R2

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