Heritage Week: Host an Event
Host a Heritage Week Event
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.
Plan an event or activity to host
Think about the ways in which the layers of heritage impact your community – and then plan an activity, event or other program to celebrate them!
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 need help or support in planning an event, please contact Nathalie, our Heritage Program Coordinator, at npicard@heritagebc.ca.
Heritage BC will be adding your events, big and small, to our 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.
Tools to Promote Heritage Week Events
Get your community excited about Heritage Week by putting up posters, and sharing our Heritage Week images on social media.
Heritage Week Posters:
Want to receive complimentary Heritage Week Posters?
Fill out this form by Monday, December 16, 2024 and we will send you two 8.5×11” posters to put up in the locations of your choice.
Download the 2025 Heritage Week poster
Social Media and Promotion:
Tag us on instagram and facebook @heritagebcanada, and use the hashtag #BCHeritageWeek.
Social Media Graphics – 2025
We have supplied you with promotional graphics ready to upload directly to social media included in a Google Drive folder.
Customizable Social Media Templates – 2025
If you would like personalized graphics for your organizations special events or promotion, you can access our templates on Canva. We offer a few options to include images and/or text with information.