Over the past several years, the City of Leduc has been steadily and intentionally shaping and bolstering the way culture lives in our community. Through the 2021-2025 Cultural Development Strategy, we strengthened the threads that bind us—our stories, our heritage, our art, and the everyday expressions of who we are together.
Grounded in a holistic understanding of culture—one that reaches beyond events and artifacts to reflect identity, memory, tradition, and creativity—the strategy offered a framework for nurturing deeper roots of belonging.
It helped us learn, create, protect, and expand the cultural life of our city through four interconnected focus areas:
- Understanding and promoting the value of culture
- Creating supportive structures for cultural growth
- Discovering, protecting, and leveraging existing cultural assets
- Ensuring diversity, inclusivity and accessibility
What we accomplished together
The legacy of this work is not found only in programs or projects, but in the shared language we built, the clearer pathways we shaped, and the partnerships that grew stronger along the way. Culture became more visible, woven into civic celebrations, expressed in the stories told in our public spaces, and echoed in the rhythms of community life. Through collaboration with residents, artists, cultural groups, and local partners, we created a more connected cultural landscape.
As the City of Leduc’s Manager of Cultural Development reflects:
