Significant increase in Canadians who say attending arts and cultural events have a positive impact on their sense of belonging to Canada since 2024 (Business / Arts and the NAC/Nanos)

Three-quarters of culture-goers (75%) say that attending arts and cultural events has a positive or a somewhat positive impact on their sense of belonging to Canada. There has been a significant increase of culture-goers who say that attending arts and cultural events have a positive or somewhat positive impact on their sense of belonging to Canada since last year (75% in 2025; 63% in 2024). Of note, culture-goers in the Atlantic (83%) are more likely to say this than culture-goers in Quebec (64%).

The Arts Response Tracking Study (ARTS) is a regular monitor of the environment in the arts and culture sector. The study focuses on culture-goers who have attended an indoor cultural gathering, an outdoor cultural gathering or a gallery or museum in the past three years.

This wave of research gauged the opinions among Canadians on free admission to arts and culture events, museums, and galleries, and funding around this initiative.

Nanos conducted an RDD dual frame (land and cell-lines) hybrid telephone and online random survey of 1,034 Canadians, 18 years of age or older, between July 31st to August 6th, 2025, as part of an omnibus survey. The margin of error for a random survey of 1,034 Canadians is ±3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

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