Meeting your colleagues face to face is an essential part of networking. To that end, the first Creative City Network of Canada annual meeting was held in Vancouver in November, 2002. Since then, the CCNC has organized eight more highly successful annual meetings where representatives from municipalities, arts organizations, provincial and federal government agencies and others can meet to share ideas, connect, and work together to build vital infrastructure for arts and cultural development in Canada.

Building on the success of our inaugural Creative City Summit in Whitehorse, Yukon in 2008, Creative City Network of Canada annual meetings will follow the Summit format beginning in 2011 through 2014. The 2008 Creative City Summit was a departure from the conference format followed in previous years. The Summit was designed to be more intimate and interactive to provide practitioners with a platform to exchange ideas and learn from their peers. These meetings will be 2.5 days in length, and will include study tours of the host municipality.

Click here for updates on the recent 2011 Creative City Summit in London, ON!
 

The Host Municipalities of the Upcoming 2012-14 Creative City Summits:

2012 - Greater Victoria, BC: Fertile Grounds: Culture in Your Community
2013 - Ottawa, ON: Capitalizing on Artists & Technology
2014 - Hamilton, ON: Love Your City

Download the 2011-14 Summits Announcement (PDF,140KB)



Visit the 2009 Conference page and the Previous Meetings page to access transcripts and highlights from meetings past. Additionally, the CCNC organized Regional Workshops in March 2010 on cultural mapping and cultural planning.