The gift from Alberta businessman Dave Werklund and his family will go toward the performing and visual-arts centre’s modernization and expansion
Alex Sarian, Arts Commons’s president and CEO, and Alberta businessman Dave Werklund stand outside Calgary's Arts Commons. Sarian has characterized Werklund and family's $75-million gift as the largest to the performing arts in Canada 's history.
First opened in 1985, Arts Commons is one of Canada’s largest arts complexes, home to numerous gallery spaces and six theatres, and it hosts six resident performing-arts companies including the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and Alberta Theatre Projects.new building, across the street next to Olympic Plaza, is scheduled to open by the 2028-29 season. It will include a 1,000-seat theatre and 200-seat studio theatre, boosting the complex’s cumulative seating capacity by about 45 per cent.
The capital campaign is tapping both public and private sources of financing, including $103-million over seven years from the provincial government and $315.5-million from Calgary itself, including from a community revitalization levy.boosting Calgary’s downtown cultural offerings would help pull more people to the core, especially as the city encourages building owners to convert millions of square feet of office space into housing. “It’s going to be an incredible draw for people,” she said.
Mr. Werklund’s career began at Shell Canada, where he came to see a need for the oil and gas industry to develop more efficient waste-management processes. He went on to build Canadian Crude Separators, which was valued at $3.7-billion by 2007. (It combined with numerous related business units to become Tervita Corp. in 2012; Tervita
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