Arts, Culture and Heritage Plan

Oshawa's Cultural Strategic Plan, Culture Counts: Oshawa's Arts, Culture & Heritage Plan directs and organizes our key arts, culture and heritage goals and projects. It identifies key opportunities that the City and the arts, culture and heritage sector can implement to help maintain and build upon Oshawa's cultural vitality.

Successful implementation of the plan imagines Oshawa as a city in which:

• Cultural vitality is widely acknowledged as essential to making Oshawa a creative, vibrant and sustainable community in which people and businesses are proud to live, work, learn and play. Culture engages and inspires residents and is a source of civic pride. Oshawa's strong creative cultural industries are major economic drivers in a thriving creative economy, attracting talent and investment regionally, nationally and internationally.
• A ‘culture of design' infuses decisions, producing a city with a vital downtown and beautiful places throughout the community. Oshawa has embraced a vision of a living heritage connecting past and present and encompassing the diverse cultural traditions of all its residents. The City of Oshawa is recognized as a leading municipality integrating culture into all facets of planning and decision-making

Development of the plan began in February 2013 and was approved unanimously by Oshawa City Council in 2014.

Resources

• Action Plan - Oshawa Arts, Culture & Heritage Plan
• Key Findings - Oshawa Arts, Culture & Heritage Plan
• Full Cultural Plan - Culture Counts: Oshawa's Arts, Culture & Heritage Plan