CULTURE TOUR 2025: ARE YOU INTERESTED IN TAKING PART?

The snow may be flying but it’s not too early to start thinking about a warm summer weekend: the 2025 Culture Tour. This year, the event will take place on August 9 and 10, 2025.
Registration opens February 4, 2025, so now’s the time to start considering if you’re interested in being one of the venues, and what your venue might be like. The deadline to apply is March 23 (early bird) or March 31, 2025 (final).
What’s new this year
- There will be one-step registration. Therefore, prepare to have all your information and photos on hand when you register.
- Note: In 2024, we divided registration into two steps to allow for increased time to consider venue details. This year, we’re giving you advance notice so you can consider your details before you register. If need be, you can adjust your information up until the registration deadline of March 31, 2025.
- We heard your feedback! We’re shortening the tour days by one hour. Instead of being open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., the 2025 venues will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Think about these questions so you’re ready when registration opens
- In small towns or rural areas, it may be hard to draw the public to your more isolated location. Should you collaborate with other artists to create one venue in a central hub?
- Note: If each artist registers separately, you each get your own listing—simply make sure the venue location information remains the same for everyone. If you register as one collective venue, you get one listing in the Culture Tour brochure and website.
- Alternately, do you want to be a venue of your own?
- Where will your venue (individual or collective) take place?
- It can be on your own property, such as your workshop or studio.
- Or you can hold your event at a location like a community hall, gallery, library or café (with its permission, of course).
- Which choice is best for you and would interest the public the most?
- If your location is open regularly to the public, how can you make the weekend special so that people have a reason to check it out during the Culture Tour?
To prepare the best venue, read the following before you register
- Tips on how to write your artist/venue description
- Tips on how to photograph your work and venue
- Tips from previous venues on how to have a great weekend
Have questions? Get in touch.