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# Toronto

Posts in this archive: 9

- [Catalyst and Transformation Fund: How Toronto supported arts and culture organisations to restructure and recover after the pandemic](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/torontos-catalyst-and-transformation-fund.md) — Launched in response to growing precarity in the cultural sector, Toronto’s Catalyst and Transformation (CAT) Fund helps arts and culture organizations reimagine their futures and business models. Delivered by Work In Culture, the fund supports strategic risk-taking, from shared governance models to thoughtful wind-downs, prioritising equity, sustainability, and collaboration. By offering anonymity and structural support, CAT has empowered organisations across the sector to embrace meaningful, long-deferred change and reshape their role in community life.
- [Cultural Strategy: Toronto’s Culture Connects 2025-2035 plan](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/torontos-culture-connects-2025-2035-strategy.md) — In 2024, the City of Toronto launched Culture Connects: An Action Plan for Culture (2025–2035) to redefine how culture is supported, experienced, and valued across the city. Developed in response to significant shifts in Toronto’s social and cultural landscape, the plan sets out a 10-year vision to ensure that everyone in Toronto has the opportunity to create, engage with, and feel a sense of belonging in the city’s cultural life.
- [How Toronto responded to the insolvency of Toronto Artscape Inc.](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/toronto-artscape-insolvency-response.md) — In 2023, the collapse of non-profit developer Artscape threatened 14 affordable cultural properties and nearly 400 tenancies. The City of Toronto responded with swift legal, operational, and financial action - securing a court ruling to protect 91% of tenancies from sale and providing emergency property management. Working with community partners, the City mobilised to save the remaining 9% of tenancies, enabling tenant-led ownership of key sites and backing Canada’s first cultural land trust. The intervention preserved critical infrastructure and created a new model for cultural resilience.
- [Public art with purpose: Toronto's art strategy takes inclusivity to the streets](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/toronto-public-art-strategy.md) — Toronto has more than 1,500 works of public art, which have been integral to community development, civic engagement, and urban design. Yet, despite the strengths of the collection, issues exist with gaps in representation, geographic distribution of the works, and its accessibility to the public, including the need for better interpretation.
- [Toronto's pandemic response: transforming crisis into creative opportunities](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/toronto-covid-19-recovery.md) — The cultural sector was one of the hardest hit by Covid-19 restrictions, and one of the last to recover. Initially, the City acted quickly to support the sector with funds and rapid policy responses. In the aftermath, it worked to address structural challenges that the sector was facing long before the pandemic, helping it to flourish in the future.
- [TRENDS](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city/trends.md) — Over the past decade the City has increased its spend on arts and cultural grants – rising by 73% between 2012 and 2018. In the post-pandemic period it is again rethinking its grants structures, to support artists from demographics less represented in the sector.
- [INFRASTRUCTURE](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city/infrastructure.md) — A new Waterfront Public Art Trail is being planned in Toronto’s transformed Port Lands, thanks to a $25 million donation from the Pierre Lassonde Family Foundation.
- [Toronto's monumental shift: Dundas Street renaming sparks global conversation](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/renaming-dundas-street.md) — Reconsidering statues and street names in the public realm and ensuring that the most impacted community voices are heard.
- [Toronto](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city/toronto.md) — Toronto is renowned worldwide as a centre for film, television, and digital media, contributing a record-breaking CAD $2.5 billion to the city's economy in 2021. Its festivals, including the Toronto Caribbean Carnival, Pride Toronto, and the Toronto International Film Festival, are among the most celebrated globally. The city is also home to the largest number of artists in Canada, representing approximately one in six artists nationwide.