Backgrounder – Arts and Culture Projects in Alberta Receiving Support through the Canada Cultural Spaces Fund and the Canada Arts Training Fund

Backgrounder

CALGARY, July 7, 2025

In addition to the investments announced today by David Myles, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and Minister responsible for Official Languages and to the Secretary of State (Nature), in support of the National accessArts Centre, the following organizations have also received funding for their projects.

Arts and Culture Projects in Alberta
Program Recipient Project description Funded amount
Canada Cultural Spaces Fund Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Back of house structure analysis, installation of a resilient stage floor and technical equipment purchase for Banff Centre performing arts venues $750,000
Canada Cultural Spaces Fund Citadel Theatre Citadel Theatre accessible washrooms $500,000
Canada Cultural Spaces Fund City of Lethbridge Southern Alberta Art Gallery facility enhancements $500,000
Canada Cultural Spaces Fund The Confluence Historic Site and Parkland Society Treaty 7 Indigenous exhibition cases update $70,000
Canada Cultural Spaces Fund Peoples’ Museum Society of/de St. Paul and District CPR station renovation $26,413
Canada Cultural Spaces Fund Siksika Nation Siksika Piiksapi Memorial Arbour: feasibility and design project $100,000
Canada Arts Training Fund Alberta Ballet Company Training in the Arts $200,000
Canada Arts Training Fund Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Training in the Arts $2,135,000
Canada Arts Training Fund Calgary Opera Association Training in the Arts $200,000
Canada Arts Training Fund Friends of Medalta Society Training in the Arts $140,000

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Contacts

For more information (media only), please contact:

Hermine Landry
Press Secretary
Office of the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and Minister responsible for Official Languages
hermine.landry@pch.gc.ca

Media Relations
Canadian Heritage
media@pch.gc.ca

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2025-07-07