Ross Creek Centre for the Arts

Ross Creek is a converted cattle farm turned international artist residency, arts education facility and an outdoor theatre, Two Planks and a Passion Theatre, which performs around a fire in the middle of a forest. 

Ross Creek is down a dirt road on 178 acres of field and forest, overlooking the Bay of Fundy, with the highest tides in the world. The centre has walking and snowshoeing trails, a sound sculpture by blacksmith John Little to play on its front lawn  and a collaborative sound installation called the Primrose Path of Dalliance by Newfoundland Artist Kay Burns that takes the listener (with a GPS-enabled cell phone) on a listening journey  through the landscape.

While focussed on the arts, it is still a registered farm, and through volunteers from around the world they supply their own programs with vegetables and fruit, exchange hay for beef and pork from a local grass-fed beef farm, tap their own maple trees and keep bees. 

Artists from around the world are often in residence and share their work in progress from nascent contemporary dance performance to readings to studio tours. The centre has two galleries, a cultural library that visitors are welcome to use, and education programs including camps in all the arts.