By Gazette Staff
August 8th, 2025
BURLINGTON, ON
The City of Burlington is building its newest community centre, the Robert Bateman Community Centre.
Scheduled to open officially September 15th.
This community centre will be a multi-purpose, community-focused facility that includes tenants such as Brock University, Burlington Public Library, Halton District School Board, Tech Place, and the City of Burlington.
To recognize Robert Bateman’s distinguished career and connection to Burlington, the City of Burlington is seeking Expressions of Interest from professional artists or artist teams to create a community mural inspired by Mr. Bateman’s book Backyard Birds.
Using Bateman’s wildlife paintings as a point of inspiration, the selected artist(s) will design a mural in their own artistic style.
This Call for Artists is open to artists working in a variety of styles and mediums.
The intention is not to reproduce Mr. Bateman’s artwork style but to use Backyard Birds as a point of inspiration.
Deadline: Monday, September 8, 2025
Budget: $15,000 CAD (Design Only)
CLICK HERE for more detail and submission form
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Our Mayor and Council are completely out of control with the amount of money they love to spend day after day without a second thought as to where this money comes from!! And who is paying for it. They have absolutely no control whatsoever?
“$15,000 for the design portion only” for an Art piece is outrageous.
How much is the city planning on spending for the finished Art piece!? Including the design portion?
Also, our Mayor and Council have been very secretive and silent in divulging the overall costs of the property purchase and the construction to date of the Bateman Community Center. What are they hiding and why??
Burlington Property Tax Payers have a absolute right to know exactly what has been spent to date, including all furnishing etc., as Burlington residents are forced to pay for it.