2025
Culture Pop! September 2025
| In this issue: Culture Days is Coming; Doors Open Barrie Invites You Inside; Don't miss the Final Troubadour Festival Concert of the Year, featuring the Culture Crawl; Don't miss our Fall Culture Night Out; Call for Venues that are Available for Events!
Culture Pop! August 2025
| In this issue: Call for First Floor Gallery Exhibitions; Nominations are now being accepted for the Barrie Arts Awards; Busking Season is Here; Register Your Programming for Culture Days; Save the Date for Doors Open Barrie; Meet the 2025 Emerging Artists; Volunteer with Theatre by the Bay and Submit your Event Listings to Barrie.ca.
Culture Pop! Special Notice
| In this issue: Nominations are open for the Barrie Arts Awards!
Culture Pop! June 2025
| In this issue: Call for Culture Days Activity Providers; Call for Sites to Participate in Doors Open Barrie; Busking Season is Here; Audition for Simcoe Contemporary Dancers; Calling all Youth Filmmakers; Enroll in Georgian College's Museum and Gallery Studies Program; Apply now to play VENUExVENUE; and Submit your Event Listings to Barrie.ca.
June 2025: Invest Barrie Quarterly
| In this issue: Mayor Nuttall Thanks Local Manufacturers and Businesses for Choosing Barrie; Development Updates; Featured ICI Properties; Barrie's Economic Outlook; City Invites Local Businesses and Employers to Take Part in Survey; Nominations Open for the Mayor's Innovation Awards; Invest Barrie Strengthens Ties with Germany; Invest Barrie Attends CANSEC; Celebrating 85 Years of Barrie Press; and Community Updates.
Culture Pop! Special Edition
| In this issue: Calling all Musicians to the Troubadour Festival Local Openers Showcase!
Culture Pop! Special Edition
| In this issue: Congratulations to the Recipients of the 2025 Arts & Culture Investment Program!
April 2025: Culture Pop! Newsletter
| In this issue: April is National Poetry Month; The Barrie Public Art Committee is seeking Volunteer Members; The Afro Fusion Fashion Show comes to the Five Points Theatre; Call for Local Art for Traffic Cabinet Wraps; Applications are now open for Summer Company; Digital Marketing 101 Webinar; Call to Artists for the Barrie Arts Awards statuettes design and fabrication; Call to Artists for Artist Designed Mayor’s Innovation Awards Trophy; and the MacLaren Art Centre are hiring and looking for volunteers.
March 2025: Invest Barrie Quarterly
| In this issue: Provincial Investment in Barrie Helps Promote Entrepreneurship and Innovation; Development Updates; Featured ICI Properties; Barrie's Economic Overview; City Receives Two Economic Development Awards of Excellence; 2025 Women in Business Award Winners Announced; EBS Global Celebrates Grand Opening; and Community Updates.
Culture Pop! Special Edition
| In this issue: Open Auditions for the 2025 Emerging Artists Program and Call to Artists for the Brightening Barriers Temporary Installations of Public Art.
February 2025: Culture Pop! Newsletter
| In this issue: Celebrate Black History Month in Barrie; Applications are now open for the Spring 2025 Starter Company Plus Cohort; Brightening Barriers returns in 2025; StART Making Sense - Living in the Arts Panel Discussion; Apply to Perform at Kempenfest; Call for Visual Artists for the Barrie Art Club's Art Blast 2025; Call for Nominations, Artists, and more for the Barrie Art Club's 75th Anniversary Gala; and Check out upcoming opportunities with the Canada Council for the Arts.
Culture Pop! Special Edition
| In this issue: Empowering Entrepreneurs Through Content Marketing Learning Lab; Calling All Musical Performers for Winterfest Programming; and Reminder about the 2025 Arts & Culture Investment Program
Application Deadline.
2024
December 2024: Invest Barrie Quarterly
| In this issue: Lakehead University to Bring STEM Hub to Downtown Barrie; Concierge Programs Aim to Create More Housing and Jobs; Sky Towers Building 928 Rental Units; Barrie to Build New Wastewater Innovation Centre; Read the New Economic Overview for Barrie; Barrie Trade Mission to Germany Aimed at Boosting Economic Ties; Barrie's Top Innovators and Artists Celebrated at Annual Awards; Invest Barrie Attends The Battery Show; and Community Updates.
Culture Pop! Special Edition
| In this issue: The 2025 Arts & Culture Investment Program is now open; Call for Adjudicators for the Arts & Culture Investment Program; and Arts & Culture Investment Program Information Sessions.
November 2024: Culture Pop! Newsletter
| In this issue: Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Barrie Arts Awards; Vibe & Thrive Black Mentor Speaker Series; She is More - Poetic Community Event; Registration is open for Canvas for Change; 2SLGBTQIA+ Newcomer Nights; Applications are being accepted for the Bright Futures Barrie Grant; and Submit your Event Listings to Barrie.ca.
Culture Pop! Special Edition
| In this issue: Call for Mayor's Christmas Card Contest; and Announcing the Barrie Arts Awards Shortlisted Nominees!
September 2024: Invest Barrie Quarterly
| In this issue: Georgian College expands presence in downtown Barrie; Barrie named best municipality across GTA for getting new housing developments approved; Bryne Drive South expansion opens ahead of schedule and more.
Culture Pop! Special Edition
| In this issue: Recognizing the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation; Grant Writing for the Arts Workshop; and Understanding Intellectual Property Workshop.
September 2024: Culture Pop! Newsletter
| In this issue: Play the Parks brings free live music to Barrie's waterfront; Courtyard Concert Series comes to MacLaren Art Centre; Celebrating 15 years of Culture Days; Seeds to Sow temporary public art exhibition; Music Day in Canada; Nominations open for Mayor's Innovation Awards; Submit your event listings to Barrie.ca.
August 2024: Culture Pop! Newsletter
| In this issue: two weeks left to nominate an artist, organization, collective, or arts supporter for the Barrie Arts Awards.