ARTS FOR ALL.
AROUND THE CLOCK.
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.
What's on
SEPT 13-15, 2024
UpFRONT Festival of Indigenous Arts, Music and Culture
TO Live proudly presents a weekend-long celebration of Indigenous talent from across Turtle Island and beyond, featuring three days of extraordinary music, comedy, puppetry, free workshops, and more, right in the heart of Tkaronto. The festival will take place at St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts and Meridian Hall, where the original shoreline of Lake Ontario was once located.
WE HOSTED A
PUBLIC TOWN HALL
The future of the transformed St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts.
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.
MAKING THE MOST OF
PUBLIC SPACE
We heard you.
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.
WHO'S INVOLVED
Building the future STLC is an active meeting of many minds and lives — our neighbourhood, ongoing public consultations, Indigenous communities, local and international architects, theatre designers, creators, producers, the list goes on.
We believe in greater access to culture and shared spaces as core to building a thriving city.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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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