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Arts Milton was thrilled when the MyFM team came to town and opened up shop at 103.1 FM. The station keeps Miltonians up to date on local news, sports, weather, traffic between great, family friendly hits from yesterday and today. Plus they offer amazing chances to WIN contests/giveaways.

MyFM are huge supporters of the Milton Community, and Arts Milton. In support of Milton Culture Days, the radio station will play a series of “What’s Going On” spots in order to highlight all of the amazing Culture Days activities.

Want to learn more? Visit miltonnow.ca or engage with them at 101.3 myFM on Facebook!

Each year, Arts Milton organizes Milton Culture Days with help from a wide array of local businesses. We are so grateful to the following list of 2019 sponsors (list does not include Bronze or Silver level businesses):

 

 

Real Canadian Superstore is our main Activity Organizer Refreshment Room sponsor – helping us to stock both the buffet table and the fridge for volunteers.

Tim Horton’s Milton (Sdao owners) is generously donating coffee, tea, and donuts for all of the hardworking morning volunteers.

Paramount Fine Foods Milton is (for the second year in a row!) donating a large tray of wraps for the Activity Organizer Refreshment Room throughout the Milton Culture Days weekend.

Milton Optometry has provided financial sponsorship, which supports the cost of supplies for a number of free activities.

Milton Villager provides magazine coverage, ad space, and photography (Sarah Arfan Photography).

Tim Hortons will treat Activity Organizers to coffee, tea and delicious donuts!

Fleurish will allow Arts Milton use of a Stage Backdrop for an extra-long rental period.

Home Depot will once again provide all materials for the Arts Milton Community Project.

La Rose Speciality Foods & Fine Italian Bakery will provide scrumptious desserts for the Milton Culture Days Launch Event.

Bloom Sweet Carts will display desserts on their beautiful, photographic sweet cart!

Ved and Friends Book Series has put forth a financial donation with an open-ended use.

Muse Studio & Market offers a continual and significant discount on vinyl lettering to be used for advertising.

 

Arts Milton is thrilled to be wrapping up another year of The Friendship Project – a program that connects Newcomer families to Canada (Milton) with Community Host families. Together these participants of all ages attend free arts and culture activities together within our community. This year there was no shortage of new skills learned, connections made, and fun to be had! This project was made possible in 2019 with support from the Milton Community Fund.

Below is the list of all 2019 activities:

Arts Milton Board Game Afternoon

Music Lesson at Milton Academy of Music

Cooking Class at PC Cooking School Superstore

Drum Circle with Akwaba Cultural Exchange

Improv Games with Milton Players Theatre Group

Children’s Story Workshop with Amy Leask of Red T Media

Mural Painting with Artist Omar “Oms” Hopkinson

Martial Arts with Shaolin Temple Quanfa Institute

Ancestry Art Class with Illustrator/Author Ken Flynn

Heritage and Fossils Workshop by Halton Region

Bhangra Dancing with Bollywood West Dance Studio

Watercolour Art Class at FirstOntario Arts Centre Milton

Aladdin Show by Milton Youth Theatre Productions

Final Celebration Dinner / Summer Nights Music at Milton Sports Centre Park

 

Interested in participating in 2020? Email us at info@artsmilton.com

 

 

 

 

As part of our mission to connect the greater Milton community with artists of all genres in the spirit of providing cultural enrichment, Arts Milton is offering a new program entitled “The Friendship Project”. This project, which will take place from February – May 2019, will connect newcomers with hosts from the Milton community and have them discover inspiring local arts and culture together.

We’ve posted our call-out below – please share it with anyone whom you think might benefit. The ideal participants are families with 1 or 2 parents, who have lived in Canada for three years or less, and have changed between the ages of 4-12.

The 2019 application form can be found here.

The following Milton Culture Days sponsors have all contributed to this important event – in different but important ways!

Both Milton Orthotic & Wellness Centre and Mabel’s Labels have shown their support through sponsorship. Mabel’s Labels, an Ontario based sticker and labeling company, is also donating both financial sponsorship, as well as a donation of swag for our little Culture Days collectors (participating kids can collect stickers at each activity for the chance to pick out some trinkets at the end of their visit!).

Mark Recile is one of the most creative Directors on the Arts Milton Board, and is sponsoring Milton Culture Days on behalf of Shaolin Temple Quanfa Institute. STQI wants to share with the community the practice of mind and body cultivation using Traditional Shaolin Temple Kung Fu.

The Milton Villager supports Milton Culture Days through community coverage, and amazing photography! Thanks to their team, we are able to capture the essence of this amazing event!

Paramount Fine Foods Milton will craft a series of delicious appetizers and sandwiches to be enjoyed at both the Opening Reception Party, and in the Activity Organizer Refreshment Room throughout the weekend.

Thank-you to Sapphire Dental Centre for their support of Milton Culture days 2018.

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We have a great group of Milton Culture Days sponsors this year, and chances are the event would not be nearly as exciting without them!

Thank-you to McCuaig Insurance Milton for finding Arts Milton the right insurance for our unique needs, and for their financial support of our biggest programming event of the year!

Thank-you to Milton Home Hardware and the ReStore Milton for seeing our vision of a painted vintage vinyl stage backdrop and providing us with all of the materials to make it possible. Painstakingly designed by local artist Omar “Oms” Hopkinson.

Thank-you to Real Canadian Superstore for their continued support of our Activity Organizer Refreshment Room. And for agreeing to host one of our most popular children’s activities – a cooking class for kids by PC Cooking School Milton!

Thank-you to The Home Depot for partnering with Arts Milton to make our 2018 Community Project possible. The Home Depot will provide all of the wood, stain and tools needed to bring artist Angela Ferguson’s collective community creation to life!

There are two excellent ways to plan your Milton Culture Days experience. You can visit culturedays.ca and search events in Milton (There’s over 100!). You can narrow the search by location, date, and type of activity. You can even create a Bright Spots Schedule!

Another way to pick and choose your activities at Milton Culture Days is to visit the Arts Milton website and check out our 2018 Activity Sheets. Broken down by date and time, these sheets also tell you the type of activity, and where you can find it during the Culture Days weekend! Feel free to print, and circle favourites the old fashioned way 😉

Of course, you can also join us at the FirstOntario Arts Centre Milton on September 29 and 30 and just see where the wind takes you!

 

 

 

 

Arts Milton thanks Milton Optometry and McCuaig Insurance for their financial sponsorship of Milton Culture Days. This kind of gift allows us to enhance the event in important ways. Examples of this might include an increased marketing budget, more supplies for workshops, and the ability to add more technical support.

We are grateful for donations from both Home Hardware and The Home Depot this year. Milton’s Home Hardware Building Centre has donated all of the supplies for our 2018 Stage Backdrop. This allows Arts Milton to work with a local artist to create the showpiece of the event. The Home Depot is donating materials for our Annual Arts Milton Community Project – as they have generously done in past years. The Community Project is an important element of Milton Culture Days – often resulting in a mural style project which is hung on the walls of the FirstOntario Arts Centre Milton.

Both the Real Canadian Superstore and Paramount Fine Foods Milton will contribute food, beverages and appetizers to our Opening Reception Party and in our Activity Organizer Refreshment Room.

The Milton Villager Magazine faithfully covers the Culture Days event each year, in addition to sending professional photographers to capture all the interactive fun!

Arts Milton is excited to partner with MyFM this year for a series of radio spots and interviews about Culture Days.

Since it’s inception only a couple of year’s ago, Milton’s new radio station has gathered a dedicated base of listeners, and a great deal of support from the business community. In addition to an appealing range of music, MyFM manages a popular social media presence, and has become a go to source for community news!