viNES ARTS hUB
Project Description
Vines Art Society (Vines) engaged Hessey to plan, coordinate, and execute a feasibility study, including a facility plan, for a new Vines art hub.
Vines have been producing an annual festival since 2015, with operations located at the Pandora Park fieldhouse. The next step in Vines’ organizational development is the founding of a permanent location. This facility will be the headquarters for Vines and is envisioned to facilitate the following key outcomes:
- Vines all weather and year-round programming
- Functional coworking and gathering space
- Increased autonomy over and access to arts spaces for marginalized communities
- A regional hub for community collaboration
The hub will provide a response to the community need for a space that enables community gathering, networking, relationship building and program/project planning and development. The facility is conceived of as a large open space, accessible as a drop-in for community members. The main space is intended to suit multiple uses including coworking and events and will function as a space for artists to create, share art with public and earn income through art sales. A community kitchen will support gathering and community development. Back of house spaces include Vines admin, office/studios and rehearsal studios that could be rented to other individuals or organizations
About the Vines Art Society
Vines commissions and centers intersectional artists and community members who are Black, Indigenous, of colour, migrants, houseless, queer, trans, and disabled, prioritizing those who have low vision, are blind, deaf, hard of hearing, neurodivergent, or immunocompromised. For Vines, centring these artists is based in the truth that social justice and environmental justice are intrinsically related and that Indigenous voices are at the core of this intersection. Vines centers Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and urban Indigenous voices and then includes their allies and people with cultural and land-based practices. Vines includes dancers, actors, performance artists, painters, visual artists, musicians, and circus performers. Artists range in experience levels from student to emerging and established professionals. Additionally, Vines has begun to work with DTES and low-income artists.
Collaborators
Sarah Van Essen
Status
Completed
Scope
Pre-Design Services
Project Management