Facilitated by Jessa Agilo (ArtsPond) and Ashley Proctor (Creative Blueprint)

Cities are under pressure around the globe. The lack of accessible housing and workspaces has reached a crisis point as artists and other low-income communities struggle to survive the rapid, inequitable forces of neighbourhood change, gentrification, spatial precarity, and displacement.

Learn how to respond to gentrification and boost access to affordable artistic spaces for the public good with lessons (and guest speakers) from Canada, USA, and Europe.

This free webinar celebrates the publication launch of ArtsPond + Groundstory’s What Space: Spatial precarity, gentrification, and the arts, a three-year research report on the roots, ripples, and responses to gentrification in the arts in the Greater Toronto to Hamilton Area and beyond.

An international panel of social purpose real estate experts also explores an array of solutions to the spatial precarity and affordability crisis now and into the future, including community land trusts, mutual aid networks, youth-led urban design with and for equity-seeking communities, and more.

Panelists include (more to come):

• Elise Antoniadis + Darian Razdar (Reflex Urbanism, Toronto)
• Yves Blais + Gordon Seabright (Creative Land Trust, London, UK)
• Joshua Brandt (Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust, Toronto)
• Cheryll Case (CP Planning / Black Futures on Eglinton, Toronto)
• Moy Eng (Community Arts Stabilization Trust, San Francisco)
• Kendra Fry (Faith and the Common Good / Creative Collisions, Toronto)
• Sally Han + Lori Martin (Economic Development & Culture, City of Toronto)
• Maggie Hutcheson (Build a Better Bloor-Dufferin, Toronto)
• Cecelia Pye (Creative Mixed-Use Team, School of Cities, University of Toronto)
• Michael Vickers (Akin Collective, Toronto)
• Others TBA

Created with the support of Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Trillium Foundation, and Government of Canada.