City of Red Deer Culture Services section

Corporate body

City of Red Deer Culture Services section

• Culture Services
• Cultural Services

1988-

The functions of the Culture Services section started as programming under the Recreation section when it was established in 1951. In 1985, the Community Services directorate was created taking responsibility for the Recreation, Parks, and Family and Community Support Services departments. The responsibility for cultural programming continued to be fulfilled by a programmer in the Recreation department.

In 1988, the name of the Recreation department was changed to the Recreation and Culture department. The Cultural and Creative Programs Director position was reclassified and retitled to the Cultural Programs Superintendent and then the Cultural Development Superintendent.

With the reorganization of Community Services into a division in 1995, the department was again revised to become the Recreation, Parks, and Culture department. The department oversees the Culture Services section and its various business units, including Heritage.

In 2006, Culture Services reorganized into two units: Culture Development, and Heritage and Archives. In 2009, the Archives transferred out of Culture Services section to the Corporate Services division.

Red Deer (Alberta)

The functions of Culture Services include supporting the arts and heritage community in Red Deer, running the Culture Services Centre, and providing programming for arts and culture in Red Deer.

The mandate of the Culture Services section is to provide community development and support services to arts and heritage, provide quality programs in a wide variety of cultural disciplines for all age levels, and facilitate the operation of a community-based arts and heritage centre. (City of Red Deer website, February 2018)

RAD

Final

Partial

2018-02

• English

City of Red Deer Website (2018)
Administrative History Project, Culture (2017)
Administrative History Project, Recreation (2016)