Catalyst and Transformation Fund: How Toronto supported arts and culture organisations to restructure and recover after the pandemic
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.
Cultural Strategy: Toronto’s Culture Connects 2025-2035 plan
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.
How Toronto responded to the insolvency of Toronto Artscape Inc.
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.
Public art with purpose: Toronto’s art strategy takes inclusivity to the streets
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.
Toronto’s pandemic response: transforming crisis into creative opportunities
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.
TRENDS
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.
INFRASTRUCTURE
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
Reconsidering statues and street names in the public realm and ensuring that the most impacted community voices are heard.
Toronto
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.