Heritage Week 2023: Always in All Ways
Always in All Ways invites you to explore your local community’s heritage in all the ways that excite you! This could look like anything from joining a walking tour, taking part in a workshop, to cooking a family recipe at home. Take time during this week to celebrate the culture and heritage of the communities that make up the place you call home.
Download your Heritage Week Poster Here
When? February 20 – 26, 2023
Where? Events in communities all around BC
Who? Anyone can participate!
How will you participate in Heritage Week?
I want to help advocate for heritage
Attend Heritage Week Events
Find events to attend
All week on February 20 -26, 2023, culture and heritage organizations across the province are going to be hosting events to celebrate Heritage Week.
Check back on this page regularly in January and February as it gets updated with all sorts of Heritage Week events.
Share your Heritage Week experiences
Find us on instagram, facebook, and twitter at @heritagebcanada.
You can share what you get up to during Heritage Week by tagging us in your posts and using the hashtag #BCHeritageWeek.
We look forward to celebrating and re-sharing your heritage experiences!
Participate as a Host Organization
Who can host events? Museums, Cultural Centres, Historic Houses, Historical and Heritage Societies, First Nations Governments, Heritage Commissions, Libraries, Parks, Schools, Community Centres, Cultural Organizations or Businesses, and more! If your organization has heritage, then highlight and celebrate it with your community during Heritage Week.
1. Plan an event or activity to host
Our goal is to see more Heritage Week events in more communities in BC than ever before! Think about the ways in which heritage excites you – and then plan an activity, event or other program to celebrate them with your community!
10 Examples of Heritage Week Activities:
- Lead a Heritage Walking Tour
- Make a Heritage Hunt or Scavenger Hunt
- Host a free lecture or cultural performance
- Hold an open house in a local heritage building
- Give a behind the scenes tour of your collections
- Host a workshop or make a take-home kit to learn about a cultural craft, practice, art, or game
- Make a Heritage Week display in your public facing space
- Host a genealogy or family history workshop
- Host a local heritage trivia night
- Invite your community to share their cultural traditions with you
If you want support in planning an event, contact Nathalie, our heritage program coordinator, at [email protected].
Heritage BC will be adding your events, big and small, to our All Events Calendar. The calendar will circulate widely through press releases, partner organizations, in our newsletter and on social media, and by word of mouth from heritage advocates in communities across BC.
Submit your event here starting on December 1st, 2022.
2. Raise awareness for Heritage Week using the official poster and social media images and hashtags
Get your community excited about Heritage Week by putting up posters, and sharing our Heritage Week images on social media.
Use our Heritage Week 2023 poster and social media images to promote your own events, and get the word out about Heritage Week in your community.
Tag us on instagram, facebook, and twitter @heritagebcanada, and post using the hashtag #BCHeritageWeek to help us get the word out.
download poster and images here
Request a Heritage Week Poster
Send us an email with your organization name and address, and how many posters you want before November 30th, 2022.
3. Ask your local government to make a Heritage Week proclamation
Every year, the Province of BC and municipalities across the province, make proclamations declaring the celebration of Heritage Week. This is important, because it shows local communities that your civic leaders value heritage conservation – for both intangible and tangible heritage.
These proclamations are documents that Heritage BC leverages to demonstrate the value of Heritage to the Province, when we communicate with them about the need for financial and political support for heritage conservation.
Use our template to ask your local government to make a Heritage Week Proclamation:
View template letter for municipal proclamationParticipate as an Advocate
1. Raise awareness about Heritage Week
Get your community excited about Heritage Week by putting up posters, and sharing our Heritage Week images on social media.
download posters and images to share
Tag us on instagram, facebook, and twitter @heritagebcanada, and post using the hashtag #bcheritageweek to help us get the word out.
2. Ask your local government to make a Heritage Week proclamation
Every year, the Province of BC and municipalities across the province, make proclamations declaring the celebration of Heritage Week. This is important, because it shows local communities that your civic leaders value heritage conservation – for both intangible and tangible heritage.
These proclamations are documents that Heritage BC leverages to demonstrate the value of Heritage to the Province when we communicate with them about the need for financial and political support for heritage conservation.
Use our template to ask your local government to make a Heritage Week Proclamation:
View template letter for municipal proclamation3. Attend a local event, and bring your friends and family!
All week on February 20 -26, 2023, culture and heritage organizations across the province are going to be hosting events to celebrate Heritage Week.
Check our All Events Calendar regularly in January and February as it gets updated with events.