The St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts is set to become a multi-faceted performing arts destination. This bold reimagining includes two state-of-the-art performance halls along with creative spaces and studios, rehearsal rooms, and informal gathering areas.
Come explore the STLC and imagine the new cultural hub with us. On May 25 from 10am to 5pm, TO Live invites you to tour the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts (STLC), as part of Doors Open Toronto 2024.
This is a free event open to everyone! Activities will include Story Time with Fay & Fluffy, and Old School Family Dance Jam with Byron Abalos and Andrea Mapili. Additionally, there will be tactile games, a scavenger hunt, face painting, friendship bracelet making, and colouring zones. Not to mention stroller parking and food trucks!
On March 26th, TO Live hosted a public Town Hall to share more details around the future of the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts. The design team of Hariri Pontarini Architects and LMN Architects with Smoke Architecture and Tawaw Architecture Collective presented the inspired design concepts for STLC to become a multi-faceted performing arts destination. Members of the community engaged in a lively discussion and Q&A period following the presentation.
You can also listen to Siamak Hariri, Partner at Hariri Pontarini Architects, discuss the reimagining of the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts on CBC Metro Morning with David Common here.
Public feedback determined that the future STLC will be a place to see live music and performances and a place to stretch your legs, grab a coffee, and hang out. Learn more about the variety of public spaces and how you can use it.
TO Live would like to acknowledge Tkaronto, which is a Mohawk word meaning “the place in the water where the trees are standing.” We live and work on the traditional territory of Haudenosaunee-speaking nations, including the Huron-Wendat, Seneca, and Mohawk. Haudenosaunee-speaking nations have been here since time immemorial, and were more recently joined by the Mississaugas of the Credit.
What this means is that by living and working here, we all have a responsibility to the environment and to each other, to treat each other and the environment with peace and respect. This means we have responsibilities to honour, renew, and consistently uphold the values and relationships outlined in the ancient agreements.
Today, Toronto is home to Indigenous peoples and settlers from around the world. Let us all come together in an atmosphere of respect and peace to do good work together with good minds. Let’s start building stronger and healthier relationships with each other and the spaces we inhabit in Tkaronto, Ontari:io, Kanata. Let’s hold our minds together in kindness.
Nia:wen. Thank you.
© Dawn Maracle
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TO Live is a non-profit charitable arts organization and an agency of the City of Toronto. Our venues include Meridian Hall (formerly the Sony Centre), St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, and Meridian Arts Centre (formerly Toronto Centre for the Arts). TO Live is at the heart of creative Toronto, presenting an unmatched breadth of entertainment, spaces for artistic expression, and a commitment to Toronto’s diverse community.
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