2025 Calgary Citizen Engagement Survey: Results
Since 2014, Calgary Arts Development has partnered with Stone-Olafson to better understand the degree and nature of how Calgarians are engaging with arts and culture in our community. The 2025 Calgary Citizen Engagement Survey found that although the arts sector is still recovering in many ways from COVID-19, arts engagement has mostly returned to pre-pandemic levels.
However, as forecasted in our 2022 survey, the landscape of engagement has changed. Financial concerns, shifting priorities and lasting pandemic effects mean that Calgarians are finding new ways to engage, and not everyone is returning to historically popular forms of engagement.
Some key observations from the report include:
- Calgarians are engaging more with the arts overall compared to 2022
- Attendance is bouncing back, but not all activities have recovered
- The way Calgarians engage with the arts is changing
- Cost remains the largest barrier to engagement
- Overall perceptions of the arts remain positive
- The arts help foster a sense of belonging
Read a summary of the key findings and download the full report here.
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