Culturedays 2012

Culture Days 2012 is well underway in Swift Current.

It officially kicked off yesterday afternoon with the opening ceremonies at Innovation Credit Union, and 38 different events are planned over the course of the weekend.

Culture Days was an astounding success in Swift Current last year, with the most events and most people involved per capita in all of Canada.

The city is perfect for the event.

"There are so many cultural things going on here but the thing about Swift Current is that it is the right size," said Vincent Houghtaling one of four SaskCulture amateurs helping promote Culture Days. "It's large enough to have a scene of some sort but small enough that it's kind of the same core group that's doing everything."

"The same people organize everything and put it together and so the promotion is more effective and the general number of events are effective and it works really well. There are other cities looking at that model right now."

Some of today's events include the Comp High School music department busking downtown, and the Lyric Theatre's Rocktoberfest later tonight.