Summer 2012 Art Show...Beginnings
Presented by the Wilderness Arts Council

This is the first Northern curated art show for Red Lake in recent history. The Wilderness Arts Council has encouraged all people who have at some point been to Red Lake to apply and submit their work. Their goal is to involve and expose the community to a broader spectrum of local and regional art. Art work will be juried by the Thunder Bay Art Gallery.

Opening June 2012 at the Red Lake Regional Heritage Centre

For more information visit the WAC website at www.redlakewac.com

Red Lake’s Municipal Cultural Plan

In June 2011, Council adopted a  municipal cultural plan for the  Municipality of Red Lake. 

In 2011, Red Lake is a community at a crossroads. Historically, its economy has been built on resource extraction – first fur trading, then mining and forest products. Now, in the second decade of the 21st Century, gold mining continues to drive Red Lake’s economy, with 25% of the population employed by the Goldcorp gold mine. Lumber extraction continues but at a slower pace. The fishing and hunting lodges, which have traditionally catered mainly to American anglers and hunters, are experiencing a decrease in their business for economic and other reasons. Red Lake is fortunate compared to its neighbours, many of whom have suffered the withdrawal of their main economic driver as forestry industry mills and jobs are lost across the region. In contrast, Red Lake suffers from a lack of workers for many small businesses in town, and a shortage of housing to accommodate everybody who wants to live and work here.

So what crossroads is Red Lake confronting? In the next few years, Red Lake faces a crucial decision – will it continue along the path that it has followed for the last century, allowing its development as a community to be unplanned and reactive? Or, will it take a new path that allows for a pro-active stance towards developing a community that is diverse, vibrant, and offers a high quality of life for all its residents?

To read more download the final version of the Municipal Cultural Plan

51A Highway 105, P.O. Box 64, Red Lake, Ontario Canada P0V 2M0
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The Red Lake Regional Heritage Centre is a charitable organization, funded by the Municipality of Red Lake, the Ontario Ministry of Culture, and through fundraising activities. Reg # 87315 2714 RR001.