About the Artscape Wychwood Barns | Wychwood Barns Community Association |

Artscape has transformed the historic Wychwood TTC streetcar repair barns, located in Toronto’s St. Clair and Christie neighbourhood, into the Artscape Wychwood Barns. The 60,000 sq. ft. community centre brings together arts and culture, environmental leadership, heritage preservation, urban agriculture and affordable housing to foster a strong sense of community.

Sitting on 4.3 acres and surrounded by 127,000 sq. ft of new city park, Artscape Wychwood Barns is now home to 26 artists and their families, 17 individual artists and 11 non-profit arts and environmental organizations including ANDPVA (The Association for Native Development in the Performing and Visual Arts, b current, Helene Comay Nursery School, Latino Canadian Cultural Association, Latin American-Canadian Arts Projects LEAF (Local Enhancement and Appreciation of Forests, New Adventures in Sound Art, The Stop Community Food Centre, Storytelling Toronto, Theatre Direct Canada, and The Wychwood Barns Community Association.

Since 2001, Artscape had been working in partnership with the City of Toronto and The Stop Community Food Centre to create the Artscape Wychwood Barns. The vision for the reuse of the repair barns was developed through a rigorous examination of precedents from other communities in the UK, Europe and North America, an extensive process of community consultations and Artscape’s own experience in creative community building. Construction began in March 2007 and was completed in October 2008, with the Official Public Opening taking place on November 20, 2008.