Exploring the future of arts infrastructure, and what we can do to stop spaces from shutting down and being displaced.
✨💌 Please RSVP with LINK below ✨
Join us on Sun, Feb 22nd from 12 - 4pm at Other Guise Theatre (716 Johnson Street) for an infrastructure-focused gathering, bringing together arts, civic, and community leaders. The forum will feature a panel of local arts champions reflecting on what it takes to create, secure, and steward space for the arts in Victoria.
🍱 Reserve your spot today (link below)!
*Lunches must be reserved by Feb 8th.
Agenda
12:00 - 1:00 PM | 🍱 Networking Lunch (by donation)
1:00 PM | 📖 Poem and welcome by Victoria’s Youth Poet Laureate, Shauntelle Dick-Charleson
1:15 - 1:45 PM | 💁♀️ Presentation: Arts & Community Infrastructure Foundation — vision and progress to date
*Break*
2:00- 3:30 PM | 🎤 Panel Discussion: Reimagining Ownership: From Tenants to Stewards | Local arts and community organizations share real-world experience navigating space, infrastructure, and stewardship.
3:30 – 4:00 PM | ☝️Q&A and informal networking
Panelists
• Jenny Farkas from MakeSpace North Park, a new a neighbourhood hub offering access to tools, skills and community
• Logan Ford from Vancouver Island Visual Arts Society (VIVAS), operator of the artist studios at 780 Blanshard
• Jordan Dack from Haus of Owl, our local co-working hub for creators, and
• Jason Guille, from Sunset Labs, a boutique studio specializing in virtual and hybrid event production.
🌈 We're looking for volunteers to help out on the day -- please let us know if you're interested!
🦽 Accessibility: 716 Johnson Street is a ground-level, step-free venue with automated entry doors. There is one gender-neutral, wheelchair-accessible washroom on the main floor.
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🌱 About the Arts & Community Infrastructure Foundation tree
Founded in 2024, the Arts and Community Infrastructure (ACI) Foundation is a registered charity advancing a new approach to space stewardship—one that stabilizes rents, restores lost cultural spaces, and secures long-term access for arts and community use.
Our work prioritizes stability, shared accountability, and long-term security of tenure—so creative spaces can remain affordable, resilient, and community-serving for generations to come.
Find out more or join our 💌 email list at
https://acifoundation.ca
💲Funding for this event was provided by a CRD Arts Development Grow Forward Grant.
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