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Arts Habitat Association News Page Calling all professional artists & non-profit arts professionals We want to introduce you our vision for the next Artists Housing Project in The Quarters Downtown! Get in on the ground floor of a unique urban arts village! Arts Habitat Association and Artists Urban Village - a chapter of PAL Canada Invite you to a Meet & Greet Information Session When: Monday, Nov. 21 at 7:00 p.m. Location: RSVP by Nov. 16 to lhuffman@artshab.com For further information please contact: read more in our projects page here THE OLD CYCLE BUILDING RENOVATION OPEN-HOUSE INFORMATION PRESENTATIONYOU ARE INVITED ... to a “behind-the-scenes” look at the redevelopment of the Old Alberta Cycle Building. Please drop by for coffee, goodies and the news of the design proposal with variances. Take this opportunity to chat with the project team - Arts Habitat + Arts on the Ave with Shelterbelt Architects. Where: The Carrot Community Arts Coffeehouse (9351-118 Avenue) When: November 06th - 2pm or November 14th - 4pm SEE YOU THERE! For questions, contact Katherine Kerr 780 908 3032 kkerr@artshab.com
June 30, 2011Arts Habitat Celebrates Opening of Artists Housing CooperativeOn June 30, 2011 Arts Habitat Association of Edmonton along with partners Edmonton Inner City Housing Society and Artists Urban Village celebrated the official opening of ArtsHab Alberta Avenue. This 16-suite project is a new cornerstone in the arts-led revitalization of 118 Ave. The co-op will allow artists to live and work in a dynamic community that is highly motivated to support the arts. The completion of this development is a source of pride for Arts Habitat Association, whose goal is to provide safe, affordable and appropriate living and working space for artists and arts organizations. ArtsHab Alberta Avenue is our second residential project. ArtsHab 1 opened in 1999 and continues to be a flagship model of an artist live/work studio community, home to some of Edmonton’s most active contemporary artists of many media. Arts Habitat is also redeveloping the Cycle Building, located beside ArtsHab Alberta Avenue, into a multi-discipline arts facility that will ultimately include artist studios, offices, a small black-box theatre and a community cafe. The City of Edmonton and the Government of Alberta funded ArtsHab Alberta Avenue through the Cornerstones Affordable Housing Program. The project was funded to help increase the supply of local affordable housing and help the City of Edmonton and the Alberta Avenue community in their joint efforts to revitalize the 118th Avenue area.
In 2008, Edmonton City Council acknowledged the importance of arts and heritage to the growth of our city. They directed the Edmonton Arts Council to come up with a cultural plan for Edmonton. The Arts Council created the 10-year Art of Living plan that included several recommendations to secure the future of arts and heritage in our city. One of those recommendations was for the City to work with Arts Habitat Association to use the arts to help revitalize neighbourhoods and develop community identity. ArtsHab Alberta Avenue is Edmonton’s first affordable housing co-op for artists. It includes 16 one-bedroom suites as well as ground floor commercial space occupied by the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts. The building is an innovative concept where an artists’ co-operative manages the suites under a 50-year lease. The co-op reviews and approves applications from prospective members, (co-op criteria info here) who then pay membership fees and rent. Rents are set at no more than 85 per cent of average market rents as determined by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. Potential co-op members can access applications here.
February 2011 Space Finder Website Now Online!!
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February 2010 Former Alberta Cycle Building - Building Redevelopment |
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Plans for the redevelopment of the building into a community focused arts/arts friendly facility continue! Partners Arts Habitat Association and Arts on the Ave have just completed an intensive consulting workshop with expert in the field of cultural rejuvenation - Toronto Artscape CEO Tim Jones. They continue successful discussions with the City to develop a long-term plan for the building use and rejuvenation. At the same time they recognize that the building can and should be put to use in the interim. Public information sessions will be held in the near future to include the community on those developments. Look forward to new life in the building soon! To those of you who participated in the November Cycle Building Visioning Session, your input has been invaluable. A summary of your comments can be found on the following links: |
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February 2010
Introducing a new ARTIST HOUSING CO-OP Find out all you need to know at AHA's open house and info session on Sunday March 7th 2pm – 4pm with a presentation planned for 2:30pm at 9225 118 Avenue (above the Nina Haggerty Centre). For more details, click here |
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Monday June 22, 2009 ArtsHab One Lease update: There has been a lot of talk lately about this incarnation of ArtsHab, known as ArtsHab Project 1. At the end of May, 2009 all of the renters received eviction notices for September 1, 2009 because lease negotiation had broken down. The renters are very happy to announce today that lease talks are on again and, while a new lease has yet to be signed, it looks very likely that a lease will be agreed to and ArtsHab Project 1 will continue to serve the artistic community of Edmonton in our present location for years to come. |
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The Arts Habitat Association of Edmonton is pleased to welcome Linda Huffman as the new Arts Habitat General Manager. Linda will be working out of her temporary office in the Lower Gallery of the Alberta Craft Council at 10186-106 St in Edmonton, AB. She can be reached at Telephone: 780 932-3676 Email: lhuffman@artshab.com |
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Association of Edmonton gets support from City Council in the 2009 budget.
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