Arts and Culture – Making our Communities Vibrant
News:
Urgent Advocacy Alert!
September, 2026
CALL TO ACTION to everyone living in Nova Scotia:
We are preparing information and tool kits for Nova Scotians so you can participate easily in the fall budget consultations from the Provincial government. It will be so important to participate both in person and online in these consultations and we will have more information for you to feel confident shortly.
Please sign up here right away and make sure you pass on the information to your friends and colleagues so that we ensure that people who care about culture in Nova Scotia are represented at every session! We will have a template and in person kits for you but here is the one you can use to fill in the online form.
PreBudget toolkit below. Our budget submission template that you can download will be ready shortly.
We must be heard. Don't forget to hang the Culture is Critical poster in your window!
Become a member of the NS Arts Coalition today!
The NS Arts Coalition is non partisan and focused on provincial advocacy for appropriate funding both through the department of Communities, Culture, Tourism and Heritage and other Ministries where arts and culture can intersect. We are also focused on advocacy for good public policy as it relates to Arts and Culture in Nova Scotia.
We have pan provincial membership including from the Greater Halifax Area, and we look forward to welcoming you. Currently there is no membership fee, but we want to capture the reach of our advocacy, so please feel free to pass on this form to anyone who might be a cultural worker / artist in the province of Nova Scotia.
Bingo For Better still on!
While many of our volunteer members have had to switch focus from rallies to ensuring our organizations continue, we have continued to be busy on the advocacy front and hope you continue as well. In collaboration with the Ecology Action Centre, we have launched the summer Culture is Critical campaign, asking Nova Scotians to put the Culture is Critical sign in their windows while also playing our Bingo for Better, with some prizes and gatherings across the province in late September (including at the Ross Creek Centre for the Arts, where there will be button-making and more) . Find out more and get your Bingo Cards and Signs here
WE WON'T STOP Fighting for Nova Scotia
The Tim Houston Government rammed through a budget that had no consultation, no discussion, and which they tried to put through late at night until interrupted by some beautiful voices raised in song. While the budget may have passed, we continue to advocate for our jobs, for our communities, for the future of Nova Scotia.
Arts and Culture is a vital part of our mental and physical health and well-being, our economic success, and to our sense of our selves as a community, region and country.
We will continue to provide information about upcoming actions and how you can keep advocating with us. And one of the most important things you can do throughout, is to support the artists and arts organizations in your community and the province. We want to ensure that people can hold on until we can get these cruel cuts reversed.
The NS Arts Coalition is an ad hoc advocacy group made up of individual artists and arts, culture and heritage organizations across the province. We are dedicated to ensuring that provincial policy and funding is responsive to the needs of the sector for the benefit of all Nova Scotians, to supporting Arts and Culture advocacy efforts in NS municipalities, and ensuring that the voice of Nova Scotia is strong in Federal Arts and Culture Advocacy.
Please see the organizations connected to the coalition here.
We need your voice: the voices of individual artists and arts organizations, members, volunteers, staff, audiences and supporters to remind governments from Municipal to Provincial to Federal about the value we bring, and how to work with us as part of a recovery for a robust, vibrant and sustainable community.