 | |
 | |
 | |
| Established | April 29, 2022 (2022-04-29) |
|---|---|
| Location | 27 Larch Street Sudbury,Ontario P3E 1B7 |
| Coordinates | 46°29′28″N80°59′43″W / 46.49111°N 80.99528°W /46.49111; -80.99528 |
| Type | Arts centre |
| Visitors | 40,000 (2025)[1] |
| Executive director | Denis Bertrand |
| President | René Lapierre |
| Architect | Moriyama Teshima Architects,Bélanger Salach Architecture |
| Owner | Regroupement des organismes culturels de Sudbury (ROCS) |
| Website | maplacedesarts |
Place des Arts, also known asPlace des Arts du Grand Sudbury,[2] is aFranco-Ontarianarts centre inGreater Sudbury,Ontario, Canada.[3] It houses the Regroupement des organismes culturels de Sudbury (ROCS), a group of seven francophone arts organizations.[4][5] Place des Arts officially opened April 29, 2022.[6][7]
The 40,000 square-foot building, designed byMoryiama Teshima Architects andBélanger Salach Architecture, contains a 300-seat theatre, multi-use performance spaces, an art gallery, daycare and a library.[8]
The arts centre houses the seven organizations comprising the Regroupement des organismes culturels de Sudbury (ROCS) (English:Sudbury Cultural Organizations Group).[4]
Carrefour francophone de Sudbury (English:Francophone Crossroads of Sudbury) is a francophone organization that operates elevenearly childhood education centres in Greater Sudbury, including at Place des Arts.[9]
Centre franco-ontarien de folklore (French:Franco-Ontarian Folklore Centre) is a heritage organization involved in the preservation of Franco-Ontarianoral history andfolklore.[10] The organization was founded in 1960 by Germain Lemieux, who gathered material in the Sudbury region between 1948 and 1958 for the Société historique du Nouvel-Ontario.[11]
La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario(GNO) (English:Gallery of New-Ontario) is an art gallery founded in 1995 as the first francophoneartist-run centre in Ontario.[12] The gallery focuses primarily on contemporary art by Franco-Ontarian artists.[12]
Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario (English:Theatre of New-Ontario) is a professional theatre company founded in 1971 by theCoopérative des artistes du Nouvel-Ontario (CANO), a group of artists includingAndré Paiement,Marcel Aymar,Denis St-Jules andRobert Paquette. It evolved out of an association of students atLaurentian University who wrote and performed a Franco-Ontarianmusical theatre show,Moé, j'viens du nord, 'stie!, in 1970. Other artists later to be associated with the company includedJean-Marc Dalpé,Brigitte Haentjens andAlex Tétreault. The company originally staged theatre productions at Laurentian'sFraser Auditorium until it acquired a former bakery on King Street in theFlour Mill neighbourhood of Sudbury, where it remained until building a new theatre on the grounds ofCollège Boréal in the late 1990s.
La Nuit sur l'étang (English:Night on the Pond) is a music festival founded in 1973 byFernand Dorais and a group of students fromLaurentian University.[13] The festival is a one night concert program offrancophone musicians, including readings by poets and authors between performances. The festival includes a competition new and upcoming musicians, with the winner given a slot at the main event.[13]
Éditions Prise de parole (English:Speaking Out Publishing) is a book publisher of primarily but not exclusively francophone literature.[14] The most successful title in the company's history isDoric Germain's novelLa vengeance de l'orignal.[15] In 1996, the firm was involved in theFederal Court of Canada casePrise de parole Inc v Guérin, éditeur Ltée, after another publishing company published unauthorized excerpts fromLa vengeance de l'orignal in an anthology for use in schools. The company moved into Place des Arts in 2022.
Salon du livre du Grand Sudbury (English:Greater Sudbury Book Fair) is an annual francophone literary festival and book fair.[16] The festival hosts school workshops, panels, discussions and lectures.[17]
The building was designed by atMoriyama & Teshima in association withBélanger Salach.[5][18] The exterior elements of the building reference of Sudbury's rail history withweathering steel panels, and the weathered appearance of the steel represents the different layers of rock formations found within theSudbury Basin.[19] The building incorporates historicalartifacts that reference the Franco-Ontarian history of Sudbury. These include bread pans from aCanada Bread Bakery built in the 1940s, tin ceiling tiles fromÉcole Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague, student lockers fromÉcole Secondaire Macdonald-Cartier andstained glass from Collège Sacré-Coeur.[19]
Construction began in 2018 and was completed in 2022.[20][21] During construction, remnants of foundations from the King Edward Hotel were discovered and left in place below the new structure.[19] Construction was anticipated to be completed by 2020, but was delayed due to theCOVID-19 pandemic in Canada.[22][23]
Media related toPlace des Arts du Grand Sudbury at Wikimedia Commons
