Whether you’re live in person outside the CBC Vancouver Broadcast Center or in the comfort of your home, join CBC for the kick-off to the 2nd annual Culture Days weekend! CBC LIVE will be connecting audiences coast to coast to coast to a star-studded lineup of CBC personalities and arts and culture events in a festival setting outside the CBC Vancouver Broadcast Centre on Hamilton, between Robson and Georgia. On Friday, September 30th, from 10am to 10pm, celebrate the art of broadcasting in all forms with an entire day of live events and broadcasts hosted by Jian Ghomeshi and a lineup of CBC personalities. This jam-packed Culture Days-themed day culminates in a live network TV music special. Midnight Music: A Concert For Culture Days will feature Stars, The New Pornographers, The Midway State and many surprise celebrity appearances, and will be broadcast live across the country at midnight and re-broadcasted on Saturday, October 1 at 12 noon.

Like the much-adored Hockey Day in Canada, CBC’s participation in Culture Days will provide Canadians with an opportunity to unite and celebrate their love of arts and culture. Culture Days is the largest-ever collective public participation campaign undertaken by the arts and cultural community in this country and CBC’s commitment not only includes the nationally broadcast CBC LIVE event, but the opportunity for Canadians to celebrate the art of broadcasting, in its many forms and in a variety of ways, at CBC Broadcast Centres across the country, with 75th Anniversary open houses taking place on Oct 1.

For more information about CBC LIVE – A Kick Off to Culture Days, please visit www.cbc.ca/live