Support ArtHouseTO! A Place For The Displaced

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ArtHouseTO is an art project that addresses affordable housing, legitimizes artists and creative spaces, provides for food security, supports platforms for knowledge sharing, and nurtures cross-pollination of disciplines.

Today, this project is flourishing as an East End Toronto Pop-Up Space and as an Instagram account, where members and stories have inspired ArtHouseTV or AHTV, a video magazine style platform, now in early stages.

@arthouseto Insta was initiated as an online community-building experiment based on fundamental concepts of the ArtHouseTO Convergence Centre, A Place For The Displaced.

Focused on amplifying Arts and Social Actions in real time, the @arthouseto Instagram community has grown to become an online hub of connection and source of vital collective support with far reaching social impact.

Locally, @arthouseto has an established role to maintain in connecting artists, workers, and folks on the ground, to find solidarity and to share knowledge in real time. Most recently, @arthouseto Instagram has been able to fill a void in digital news media. By supporting voices at the centre of stories, amplified first-hand accounts offer authentic alternatives to mainstream media’s sanitized biases.

Today, we are experiencing an acute surge in requests for support, amplification, and a safe place to share stories key to understanding diverse perspectives on major issues.

Expansion of capacity is required in order to sustain the @arthouseto signature practice of amplifying Arts and Social Actions with the degree of care and focus relied upon by communities we serve. Additionally, resources are needed to sustain and expand our real-time responsiveness. With support, we can answer the rising calls for first hand stories in a new and emerging digital media landscape.

To date, all ArtHouseTO programs, media production labs, PopUp events and digital community spaces are subsidized, administered, and produced by a team of 2 Artists. In contrast to sprawling cultural institutions struggling and crumbling around us in Toronto, we have been able to draw on years of independently fighting for the value and necessity of the arts, to apply creative solutions that are successfully growing connections. This welcome growth is beyond our capacity to maintain without additional support.

Contributions from supporters will directly enhance daily operations by further subsidizing the workspace foundational to operations of the @arthouseto Insta and all current ArtHouseTO community projects. Support will be applied to requisite utilities and services, funding a dedicated administrator, resourcing the ability to scale activities and rise to the increasing demand for our services.

Go Fund Me Supporters are essential to continuing and expanding the incredible positive impact experienced by a growing community of members magnetized around ArtHouseTO. With gratitude, financial contributors will always be first to know about new opportunities for Sponsorships, Partnership and Investment as we bring ArtHouseTO Convergence Centre, A Place For The Displaced, to life.

Co-creators of ArtHouseTO, Geoff Doner and Andrea Battersby, are multidisciplinary artists, and Co-founders of Bureau Of Power And Light (BPL) Art Collective, est. 2014.

Connect further with co-creators Andrea Battersby and Geoff Doner:

Message us here at GoFundMe OR DM us at @arthouseto on Instagram

Thank you!!! Much Love!!!

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