Artscape Weston Common

Artscape Weston Common is Artscape’s newest community cultural hub situated in the heart of the West-Mount Dennis community. This hub will build on the community’s existing creativity and cultural richness, offering a vibrant central gathering place for people to come together to create, learn and celebrate. Weston Common is Artscape’s first foray into creative placemaking – the practice of leveraging art and culture as a catalyst for urban and community development — outside of Toronto’s downtown core.  Artscape will operate the hub with its programming partners, UrbanArts and Shakespeare in Action, who will animate the hub on a daily basis, inviting the community in to participate in programming and events. Artscape Weston Common will also provide homes for 26 artists and artist-led families, who will live and work in affordable units made possible through a partnership with the City of Toronto. This project is a collaborative venture, jointly envisioned with the community, the City of Toronto and the Rockport Group.