Help Shape Oshawa's 10-Year Culture Plan

Official title: Culture Plan

Closed Community Planning Housing & Communities
Oshawa is creating a new Culture Plan to guide arts, heritage, and cultural programs for the next decade. The city wants to know what 'culture' means to you—whether that's festivals, libraries, historic sites, or community gatherings. This replaces the 2014 plan and will reflect how the community has grown and changed.

Why This Matters

Live in Oshawa? This plan will shape what cultural events, programs, and spaces are available to you for the next 10 years. Whether you care about local festivals, library services, heritage preservation, or community gathering spots—this is your chance to influence what gets prioritized.

What Could Change

The new Culture Plan will set priorities for city funding and programming in arts, heritage, and cultural services through 2035. This could mean new festivals, expanded library programs, better support for local artists, or investment in heritage sites. The city will use this feedback to decide where to focus resources.

Key Issues

  • What does 'culture' mean to Oshawa residents?
  • What cultural spaces and experiences matter most to the community?
  • How should the city prioritize arts, heritage, and cultural programs?

How to Participate

  1. The feedback period for this consultation has closed. Community input was collected from November 4 to December 15, 2025 through online forms, a Culture Map, pop-up events, conversation toolkits, and focus groups.
  2. Stay tuned for updates in early 2026 on the consultation page.

What Happened

Community members participated through multiple channels: completing an online feedback form, adding favourite cultural spaces to a Culture Map, connecting with City staff at pop-up events, using a community conversation toolkit, and participating in focus groups. Results are expected in early 2026.