The city is home to two art galleries—the Art Gallery of Sudbury and La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario. Both are dedicated primarily to Canadian art, especially artists from Northern Ontario. The city's two professional theatre companies are the anglophone Sudbury Theatre Centre(STC) and the francophone Theatre du Nouvel-Ontario (TNO). The STC has its own theatre venue downtown, while the TNO stages its productions at La sale André Payment, a venue located on the campus of College Boreal. Theatre productions are also staged by students atLaurentian University's affiliated Thornloe faculty, by a community theatre company at Cambrian College, as well as by high school drama students at Sudbury Secondary School, Lo-Ellen Park Secondary School, St. Charles College and École secondary Macdonald-Cartier with its troupe Les Draveurs. An annual film festival, Infest, is also held in the city each September.
Sudbury's culture is influenced by the large Franco-Ontarian community consisting of approximately 40 percent of the city's population, particularly in the amalgamated municipalities of Valley East and Rayside-Balfour and historically in the Moulin-à-Fleur neighbourhood. The French culture is celebrated with the Franco-Ontarian flag, recognized by the province as an official emblem, which was created in 1975 by a group of teachers at Laurentian University and after some controversy has flown at Tom Davies Square since 2006. The large francophone community plays a central role in developing and maintaining many of the cultural institutions of Sudbury including the Theatre du Novel-Ontario, La Unit sure letting, La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario, Le Centre franco-ontarien de folklore, the Prise de parole publishing company, and hosted Les Jeux de la francophone canadienne in 2011. The city has an active LGBT community which hosts an annual Sudbury Pride march every summer since 1997. Zig's, the city's prominent gay business, is the only gay bar in all of Northern
