Alberta businessman Dave Werklund’s donation gets the performing and visual-arts complex project to just over three-quarters of its fundraising goal
This week, we reported that Alberta businessman Dave Werklund and his family aretoward the modernization and expansion of the city’s Arts Commons performing and visual-arts complex, one of the largest philanthropic gifts in Canadian arts history.
“A gift of this magnitude will be a gesture of confidence to others, who may never have given to the arts, that this is about city building,” said Alex Sarian, Arts Commons’s president and chief executive officer.new building is scheduled to open by the 2028-29 season and will include a 1,000-seat theatre and 200-seat studio theatre, boosting the complex’s cumulative seating capacity by about 45 per cent.
“We had a long discussion of how a theatre building could feel entirely welcoming and warm,” said KPMB partner Kevin Bridgman.
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