Welcome to AuthentiCity
Welcome to AuthentiCity, a community town square and archive dedicated to sharing knowledge, experience, and emerging ideas in cultural planning.
Curated by Dr. Greg Baeker, a practitioner with over fifty years in the field, the site brings together materials from his varied career alongside new thinking and ideas that reflects the evolving landscape of cultural strategy and leadership in the present.
You can explore Greg’s archive of work and publications through the Resources and Dr Greg sections, while his latest writings are published via SubStack.
AuthentiCity is also a place for dialogue. We encourage you to engage, ask questions, and connect through the Ask Greg a Question feature.
Our vision
Culture – Not “Arts and Culture”
If you only have arts, you don’t have culture; you need (at least) the arts and heritage before you have culture.
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Place-based Solutions
Our constitution is upside down; people don’t ‘live in Canada’ they live in cities and regions. A sustainable cultural sector must be built into cities and city-building.
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Diversity and Representation Matter
Canada’s ethno-cultural and racial diversity is our strength, but this diversity must be better represented in our cultural and media infrastructure.
Ask Greg a question
Reach out to Greg to further the conversation around cultural planning, or about consulting opportunities.