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Artscape Launches New Charitable Foundation .....1

What is the Green Arts Barns? .............................2

Green Arts Barns Forges Ahead ............................2

From Studio Provider to Creative Community Builder ..............................3

Artscape Programs + Services Update ..................3

In The Development Pipeline ................................4

Community Connections ........................................4

Green Arts Barns Campaign News ........................5

Celebrating City of Toronto Leadership .................5

Who’s Who at Artscape ........................................6

Art Transcends Borders ........................................6

Interior of the Green Arts Barns

inside the Loop…

In the winter of 2006, Artscape received

charitable status for Artscape Foundation

from the Canada Revenue Agency. Since

approval for establishing the Foundation was

received, Artscape has been abuzz with activity

and excitement about the new edition to the

Artscape group of companies and the extension

of Artscape’s charitable activities.

While a number of plans and strategies

have been hammered out, the purpose of

the Foundation is quite simple. Artscape

Foundation will support the charitable work

of Artscape including its programming and

educational activities and portions of capital

projects that serve a charitable purpose.

The Foundation’s board will be chaired by

Glen Murray, acclaimed urbanist and former

mayor of Winnipeg. On an operational level,

the Foundation will be led by Dawood Khan,

Executive Director. Both Glen and Dawood

are passionate about Artscape and its mission,

and are dedicated to developing the resources

necessary to sustain Artscape’s role as a

practitioner, educator and facilitator in the

emerging field of creative community building.

The first order of business for the Foundation

will be to raise the balance of funds necessary

for the completion of the Green Arts Barns.

While Artscape has successfully raised a large

portion of the total construction budget of the

Barns, the Foundation’s task is to engage the

private sector and individual stakeholders.

A Green Arts Barns Campaign Cabinet is being

formed to assist with this process.

In the years ahead, the Foundation will provide

much needed fuel to support the growth and

development of Artscape and the explosion of

interest in its work. Its creation is a major step

forward in ensuring long-term organizational

health and the realization of its full potential.

Artscape Launches New Charitable Foundation

Dawood Khan, Executive Director, Artscape Foundation

Glen Murray, President, Artscape Foundation

Issue 1 • Spring/Summer 2006

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The Green Arts Barns involves the

redevelopment of the historic TTC

streetcar repair facility in Toronto’s St. Clair

and Bathurst neighbourhood. The Green

Arts Barns is a community-driven project

led by Artscape in association with The

Stop Community Food Centre and in close

partnership with the City of Toronto.

The Green Arts Barns will be a multi-faceted

arts and environmental convergence centre,

a home for experimentation and innovation

where new ideas flourish. It is a place where

people from all walks of life will come together

to make their community a better place to live,

work and play.

The Barns will provide affordable live/

work spaces to artists, affordable office

and programming spaces to non-profit arts

and environmental organizations as well as

house an environmental education centre

and greenhouse. The Barns will also feature

a covered street where festivals, celebrations

and public performances will be held.

The Green Arts Barns embraces

environmentally sustainable design by

responding imaginatively to the issues of

brownfield redevelopment, water and energy

conservation, and the reduction of greenhouse

gas emissions. The Green Arts Barns will be the

first designated heritage site in Toronto to seek

LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental

Design) Canada certification.

What is the Green Arts Barns?AR TSCAPEFO U N DAT I O N

Artist rendering of the future Green Arts Barns. Image: Joe Lobko Architect

62,000 Square Feet4

26 Affordable live/work studiosfor artists and their families4

15 Work spaces for artists4

1 Artist-run gallery space41 4 Community event space

1 4 Environmental educationcentre + greenhouse run by

The Stop Community Food Centre

1 4 Outdoor sheltered garden

Homes for non-profit arts and environmental organizations, including

B Current, Cahoots Theatre Projects, Citizens’ Environment Watch, Images

Festival, LEAF - Local Enhancement & Appreciation of Forests, Na-Me-Res/

Tumivut Arts Workshop, Salvador Allende Arts Festival for Peace, The Storytellers

School of Toronto, Toronto School of Art, Theatre Direct Canada, Theatre

Gargantua, and Women’s Healthy Environments Network

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THE BARNS BY THE NUMBERS

Bird’s eye view of the Green Arts Barns during site remediation

If you have visited the site recently, you’ll

know that serious work has begun on the

Green Arts Barns. Environmental consultants

Marshall Macklin Monoghan have been hired by

the City of Toronto to manage soil remediation

at the site which is being carried out by the

Cannington Group. While this is the first that

local area residents will have seen of construction

crews and heavy equipment, the truth is that

Artscape and its partners have been working

diligently behind the scenes on this project and

much progress has been made on it.

The City of Toronto and Artscape have signed

a lease for the space, construction designs are

almost complete and a building permit will be

submitted by Artscape in early June. As well,

all agreements and documents relating to the

affordable housing component of the project

have been completed. Over the last several

months, a significant environmental testing and

design work has been undertaken to support

the numerous state-of-the-art environmental

features of the project.

Artscape expects to break ground on the project

in late summer of 2006. While in the beginning

there were some who believed that the project

could never be done, the Green Arts Barns is

testimony to the power of ideas and the tenacity

of hundreds of individuals and organizations

who have helped bring them to life.

Green Arts Barns Forges Ahead

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From studio provider to Creative Community Builder

Describing Artscape’s 20 year evolutionary path in an elevator conversationby Tim Jones

This year, Artscape will serve and engage

tens of thousands of people in Toronto,

across Canada and internationally through

more than 25 projects, programs, services and

engagements. The range and scope of our work

has grown so dramatically over the last couple

of years, it is sometimes challenging for many of

our diverse stakeholders to grasp exactly what

Artscape is and does. Ideally, communications

experts tell us, we should be able to tell our

story in the time it takes to have an elevator

conversation.

In short, Artscape has evolved from an

affordable studio provider into a creative

community builder. We work as a practitioner,

educator and facilitator in this emerging field

of practice. Our work also spans a variety of

spatial scales including creative buildings,

districts/clusters and cities/regions. While

the central focus of our efforts is in Toronto,

our education, planning and consulting work

extends across Canada and internationally and

is among the fastest growing aspects of what

we do.

Now if the above elevator description seems a

little dry and technical, consider for a minute

our new mission statement: “Artscape unlocks

the creative potential of people and places”. At

Artscape, we believe that creativity is probably

the most misunderstood and underappreciated

resource going. In most of the communities we

work in, there is a wealth of creative people,

organizations, buildings and businesses. But

usually these players and places are pushed

to the margins where they are disconnected

from each other and the marketplace. And,

rarely do we find communities that

are working strategically to build or

more importantly to sustain their

creative milieu.

When Artscape started 20 years

ago, we thought our job was

about bricks and mortar. We have

learned over 20 years that building

a creative community is not simply

about throwing a bunch of artists

together in a building and waiting

for the magic to happen. There are

many other factors and dimensions

involved and it’s clear that soft

infrastructure, people, networks,

leadership and psychology are as important as

physical space.

Artscape’s evolution to a creative community

builder has been shaped by the development

of a much more sophisticated understanding

of the dynamics of creative places. Affecting

change in something as complex as a creative

milieu requires multi-dimensional strategies

and approaches. To do this effectively means

playing a diverse range of roles such as those

indicated in the diagram below.

We believe it is important to be proactive and

strategic in building creative places because

there are so many factors out there that, as

Provision ofAffordable Work +Live/Work Space

FeasibilityStudies

EducationalPrograms

StrategyDevelopment

Research

Facilitation

Convening

PropertyDevelopment

Community

Animation

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Development

Artscape programs + services update

Artscape’sCreative Community Building practice

Artscape, in association with the

Creative City Network, hosts the

Creative Community Building Workshop

June 8 - 9, 2006 in Toronto

mark your calendar for this year’s

Queen West Art Crawl happening

september 15 – 17, 2006!

The Retreat Centre provides new

meeting and event facility rentals to

non-profit, charitable, education &

government groups along with private

companies on Toronto island

Artscape Lodge launches summer/fall

seasonal rate package for artists

For more information on Artscape’s programs + services, be sure to visit our website at www.torontoartscape.on.ca

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In recent years, the redevelopment of many

of Toronto’s major cultural institutions

has heralded Toronto’s cultural renaissance.

Artscape helps reinforce this momentum

with a second wave of Toronto-area projects

that will enhance the City’s lived-cultural

experience. Artscape’s development pipeline

currently includes the following major creative

community projects at a combined capital cost

of more than $85 million.

Re-Mix Project

Artscape is currently looking for a home for a new project called Re-Mix, an initiative that provides arts-based training and mentorship for at-risk youth. The program will be modeled on a non-profit arts organization named IC Visions that has successfully operated a similar program for five years in South Etobicoke. Re-Mix is expected to be operational by the fall of 2006.

Hummingbird Centre

Artscape has been selected as the preferred proponent to partner with Castlepoint Realty Partners and the Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts in providing 40 affordable housing units in the new 47-storey high rise development slated for the site designed by Daniel Libeskind.

IDEA Village

IDEA Village is a plan to re-develop the land and buildings at Artscape’s headquarters at 60 Atlantic Avenue in Liberty Village into a multi-tenant creative sector convergence centre. In 2005, Artscape partnered with TEDCO and the Liberty Village BIA to hire Architects Alliance and Metropolitan Knowledge International to develop a conceptual model and business case for the project.

Givins/Shaw School

Artscape has entered into discussions with the Toronto District School Board and the arts community about the re-use of this surplus school located on Shaw Street north of Queen Street West. Significant interest has been generated by arts organizations to become tenants in this 70,000 square foot building if a viable redevelopment scenario can be worked out.

From studio provider to Creative Community Builder

Describing Artscape’s 20 year evolutionary path in an elevator conversationby Tim Jones

Provision ofAffordable Work +Live/Work Space

FeasibilityStudies

EducationalPrograms

StrategyDevelopment

Research

Facilitation

Convening

PropertyDevelopment

Community

Animation

+

Development

Jane Jacobs used to say, squelch creativity.

Combating the “geography of nowhere” means

overcoming poverty of aspiration and aversion

to risk while counteracting the destabilizing

impact of the real estate market on artists and

the creative sector. The complexity of this may

be a bit mind-boggling but we can assure you

that cities and communities around the globe

are waking up to the need to foster sustainable

creative advantage. The key challenge they face

is how to translate all the recent talk about

creativity and innovation as drivers of growth

and change in the new economy into projects

and strategies that create vibrant, dynamic,

authentic and economically thriving places.

The multi-faceted nature of Artscape’s work

makes it not only a one-of-a-kind organization

in the world but one that is uniquely qualified

to respond to the challenges and opportunities

of the creative age. Our ambition is to be

a global leader in building, animating,

connecting, sustaining and understanding

creative communities. While all of this may

be a little long-winded for a regular elevator

conversation, we’ve been testing the waters in

freight elevators and the message seems to be

getting through.

in The Development pipeline

Artscape programs + services update

Artscape is currently working with the

City of Toronto and the Regent Park

Neighbourhood Initiative to develop a feasibility

study for a new cultural centre in Regent Park,

as well as assisting in the development of plans

for a cultural precinct on the site of the Guild

Inn in south Scarborough.

In 2005, Artscape launched a consulting

practice in order to share its expertise on multi-

tenant centres, creative community building

and creative clusters and districts with other

communities. Clients of Artscape’s planning and

consulting services include: Governors’ Island

Preservation and Education Corporation (New

York), Central Salford Urban Regeneration

Corporation (Manchester), Downtown Village

Development Corporation (Sudbury), Toronto

Waterfront Revitalization Corporation, City

of Kingston, Peterborough Arts Umbrella,

Kincore Holdings (Kingston), City of London,

City of Kitchener, City of Brampton, Haliburton

County, St. Catharines and Area Arts Council

and Toronto World Expo Corporation.

Community Connections

Artscape, in association with the

Creative City Network, hosts the

Creative Community Building Workshop

June 8 - 9, 2006 in Toronto

mark your calendar for this year’s

Queen West Art Crawl happening

september 15 – 17, 2006!

The Retreat Centre provides new

meeting and event facility rentals to

non-profit, charitable, education &

government groups along with private

companies on Toronto island

Artscape Lodge launches summer/fall

seasonal rate package for artists

For more information on Artscape’s programs + services, be sure to visit our website at www.torontoartscape.on.ca

Photo: Melanie Gordon Photography


70% of Funds Raised!

The Green Arts Barns campaign

is building momentum with an

incredible $9.5 million having

been raised for the project!

This remarkable achievement

is a result of the dedication

and financial support of many

people and organizations who

have partnered with Artscape

to realize the vision of the Green

Arts Barns. Support for the Barns

has been committed by corporations, charitable

foundations, community associations, not-for-

profit organizations and the support of all

three levels of government. But as the official

groundbreaking in September of 2006 nears,

more money is needed to restore this heritage

site and realize its full potential as an innovative

arts and environmental centre.

How You Can Help

From the beginning,

the Green Arts Barns has

been a community-driven

project, integrating the

ideas, creativity, time

and expertise of the

community members.

Now, more than ever, the

support and generosity

of the community is needed

to assure the success of

this historic community project. By filling out

the Donor Reply Card below and submitting it

with your donation to Artscape, you will bring

this project one step closer to completion. We

are on the cusp of reaching our $13.7 million

goal and your dedication to improving quality of

life in your community will be an inspiration to

others.

Leading the Way

The George Cedric Metcalf Foundation was

one of the first to partner with Artscape in

support of the Green Arts Barns with a grant

of $500,000. These monies are designated for

use in the Green Barn and The Stop Community

Food Centre.

Pro Bono Law creates opportunities for

lawyers to provide free legal services to those

of limited means. In 2003, Pro Bono Law

brokered a relationship between Artscape and

McCarthy Tétrault LLP, the law firm that has

been managing the complex legal issues related

to the project. To date, their contribution is

valued at more than $75,000.

Also, TD Bank Financial Group has chosen

to support the Green Barn component of the

Green Arts Barns with a pledge of $25,000

through the TD Friends of the Environment.

Raised to date:$9.5M

Green Arts Barns

Goal:$13.7M

The Green Arts Barns would not have been

possible without the leadership and support of

the staff and politicians at the City of Toronto. With

the help of the City of Toronto, The Stop Community

Food Centre and other countless partners committed

to the vision of the Green Arts Barns, the city will

become a more creative, livable, clean, green and

environmentally sustainable place.

Green Arts Barns Campaign News

Celebrating City of Toronto Leadership

Donor

Reply

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Yes! I would like to support Artscapein Creative Community Building!

Please designate my donation to the Green Arts Barns.

Please fill out this form and fax or mail to:Artscape Foundation, 60 Atlantic Avenue, Toronto, ON M6K 1X9Fax - 416-535-6260

Title Mr. Mrs. Ms Other

Name

Address Ste

City/Prov P/C

Phone

Email

Please accept my donation in the amount of:

$250 $100 $50 $25 Other

I have enclosed a cheque made payable to: Artscape Foundation

I prefer to pay by credit card: VISA MC

Card # Expiry /

Name on Card

Authorizing Signature

I have included Artscape in my Will.

YES! I would like to support Artscape as a monthly donor! You can help us save on administrative costs if you sign up as a monthly donor!

I authorize Artscape Foundation to receive the following amount from my bank account each month:

$100 $50 $20 Other

Please find enclosed my “VOID” cheque for monthly donations.


Card # Expiry /

Name on Card


You may change or cancel your monthly payments at any time withwritten notice to Artscape Foundation. You will receive one income taxreceipt for all your contributions in a calendar year.

Please send me information on:

Artscape’s special events How to become a volunteer

Programs and services Making a planned giftArtscape Foundation is a registered charity. Tax receipts will be issued for donations of $20 or more. Charitable Registration Number: BN 855588034 RR0001

To make your donation online, go to www.torontoartscape.on.ca and click on “Donate now” or contact Elizabeth Dalgleish at 416-392-1038 x 29.

www.torontoartscape.on.ca

Celebrating Environment Day 2006 at the Green Arts Barns

L-R: Michael Bryant, Attorney-General, Ontario; Mayor David Miller, City of Toronto; Joe Mihevc, City Councillor, St. Paul’s West; Tim Jones, CEO, Artscape.


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NEWSLETTER STAFF Tim Jones CEO, ARTSCAPE

Dawood Khan EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ARTSCAPE FOUNDATION

Elizabeth Dalgleish ANNUAL GIVING COORDINATOR

Liz Kohn DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS

Chris Higgins MARKETING /PRODUCTION COORDINATOR

Shane Finigan DESIGN

Published by Artscape416-392-1038 f. 416-392-1059www.torontoartscape.on.caARTSCAPE GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES THE FOLLOWING SUPPORTERS

60 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 111, Toronto, Ontario M6K 1X9 www.torontoartscape.on.ca

ARTsCApE BoARD oF DiRECToRs President: Kathleen SharpePresident Emeritus: Jini StolkTreasurer: Peter BrownSecretary: P.J. TaylorDirectors: Liz Amer, Phil Anderson, maxine bailey, Jamie Grossman, Michael Kainer, Frank Lewinberg, Pamila Matharu, Glen Murray, Councillor Kyle Rae, Anna Serrano, Peter Tomlinson, Councillor Sylvia Watson

ARTsCApE NoN-pRoFiT HomEs BoARD oF DiRECToRs President + Treasurer: Peter BrownSecretary: P.J. TaylorDirectors: Kathleen Sharpe, Sherece Taffe

ARTsCApE FouNDATioN BoARD oF DiRECToRs President: Glen MurrayDirectors: Sarmite Bulte, Michael Kainer, Frank Lewinberg, Valerie Molloy, Kathleen Sharpe

sTAFFExecutive CEO: Tim Jones Executive Assistant to CEO /

Office Manager: Lisa McCleery

Community Development Director: Susan SerranCommunity Development Coordinator:

Danielle Anisef Programmer – Queen West Art Crawl:

Clinton Walker

Research + Consulting Director: Reid Henry Clusters Program Coordinator: Lori Tesolin

Operations + Services Director: Neva MacleodManager of Tenant Services: Kelly RintoulManager of Artscape Lodge

+ Retreat Centre Services: Ray Stedman

Properties Director: Bruce RosensweetCoordinator Of Project Planning:

Praveen KulkarniBuilding Superintendent: Jim KroesenInterim Building Superintendent: Paul Therrien

Communications Director: Liz KohnMarketing/Production Coordinator: Chris Higgins

Finance Director: Alfred JacksonBusiness Office Assistant: Vesna Babic

Artscape Foundation Executive Director: Dawood KhanAnnual Giving Coordinator: Elizabeth Dalgleish

Who’s Who at Artscape

Donor

Reply

Card

Yes! I would like to support Artscapein Creative Community Building!

Please designate my donation to the Green Arts Barns.

Please fill out this form and fax or mail to:Artscape Foundation, 60 Atlantic Avenue, Toronto, ON M6K 1X9Fax - 416-535-6260

Title Mr. Mrs. Ms Other

Name

Address Ste

City/Prov P/C

Phone

Email

Please accept my donation in the amount of:

$250 $100 $50 $25 Other

I have enclosed a cheque made payable to: Artscape Foundation


Card # Expiry /

Name on Card


I have included Artscape in my Will.

YES! I would like to support Artscape as a monthly donor! You can help us save on administrative costs if you sign up as a monthly donor!

I authorize Artscape Foundation to receive the following amount from my bank account each month:

$100 $50 $20 Other

Please find enclosed my “VOID” cheque for monthly donations.


Card # Expiry /

Name on Card


You may change or cancel your monthly payments at any time withwritten notice to Artscape Foundation. You will receive one income taxreceipt for all your contributions in a calendar year.

Please send me information on:

Artscape’s special events How to become a volunteer

Programs and services Making a planned giftArtscape Foundation is a registered charity. Tax receipts will be issued for donations of $20 or more. Charitable Registration Number: BN 855588034 RR0001

To make your donation online, go to www.torontoartscape.on.ca and click on “Donate now” or contact Elizabeth Dalgleish at 416-392-1038 x 29.

www.torontoartscape.on.ca

Dawood Khan, Executive Director, Artscape Foundation

Elizabeth Langley, Dancer and Choreographer, from Montreal, Quebec, Canada and Walter van Broekhuizen, Installation Artist, from Amsterdam, The Netherlands perform Figment of a Myth during the 2005 Term of the

Gibraltar Point International Artist Residency Program

In the spring of 2006, Artscape welcomed the

11 international artists selected to participate in the

seventh term of the Gibraltar Point International Artist

Residency Program.

The residency program is designed to cultivate a global

dialogue among artists and further their professional

development, providing them with a subsidized opportunity

to live and work at the Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts

on Toronto Island for one month. The competition occurs on

an annual basis and is open to Canadian and international

artists from a variety of disciplines who are engaged in the

research or creation of new work.

Art Transcends Borders

“it was one of the best summers of my life – intense,

adventurous and with ongoing connections with

collaborators. Artscape is filling such a necessary

gap in the needs of the artists of today.”Elizabeth Langley, Dancer and Choreographer,

from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2005 Term Alumnus

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