About the GBCN

The Grey-Bruce Cultural Network (GBCN) is a new, developing regional arts-culture-heritage service organization in Grey Bruce, organized by regional artists and arts-culture-heritage professionals. Its purpose is to encourage and support arts-culture-heritage people, projects and enterprises throughout the region, with a heavy emphasis on the technical, marketing, business and community development aspects of the sector.

Its business is being governed by a Steering Committee which functions as its volunteer board of directors to guide its organizational development and projects.

Our projects are listed under Initiatives.

The Steering Committee meets monthly on the third Wednesday of the month, 4:00 pm at the Roxy Theatre in Owen Sound. All are welcome.

Our legal address is c/o Sheatre, RR 1 Kemble, Ontario N0H 1S0

This, the first version of our web site, was developed by Emma Hogbin (www.xtrinsic.com) using an open source content management system and with the help of a Trillium Foundation grant. This project included logos, images and colour schemes which were chosen with the help of Robi Walters of Wiarton.

The Steering Committee consists of:

  • Joan Chandler, Sheatre, Kemble
  • Paul Conway, Voyageur Storytelling, Northern Bruce Peninsula
  • Anne Frost, Jackson
  • Judith Glover, Owen Sound Little Theatre
  • John Harrison, Tempo Foundation, Owen Sound

We welcome volunteers to expand the Steering Committee or to serve on project committees. We encourage you also to join and participate actively in one or more of your local arts-culture-heritage organizations, because these are essential if we are to have an active, effective network over such a large area and including so many diverse cultural fields.

Initiatives for 2008

  • Web Site Completion and Training
  • Communications: with arts-culture-heritage people, organizations and stakeholders.
  • Cultural Mapping and Database: The Arts-Culture-Heritage Phenomenon in Grey Bruce
  • Legal Requirements for Incorporation: must be complete by June 2008
  • Building Resources for the Cultural Network: Ideas, Volunteers, Money and Staff

Add Yourself to the Culture Directory

Are you a person, organization or culture-related venue in Grey and Bruce? Please add yourself to the GBCN Culture Directory. It's as easy as one, two, three!

1. Create a Web site membership.
2. Sign in to the Web site.
3. Fill out the Culture Directory form.

Add Yourself to the Culture Calendar

Are in involved in a culture-related event in Grey and Bruce? Please add it to the GBCN Culture Calendar. It's as easy as one, two, three!

1. Create a Web site membership.
2. Sign in to the Web site.
3. Fill out the Culture Calendar form.