Place des Arts (Sudbury)

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Place des Arts
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Place des Arts (Sudbury)
EstablishedApril 29, 2022 (2022-04-29)
Location27 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
Visitors40,000 (2025) [1]
Executive directorDenis Bertrand
PresidentRené Lapierre
Architect Moriyama Teshima Architects, Bélanger Salach Architecture
OwnerRegroupement des organismes culturels de Sudbury (ROCS)
Website maplacedesarts.ca (in French)

Place des Arts, also known as Place des Arts du Grand Sudbury, [2] is a Franco-Ontarian arts centre in Greater 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]

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The 40,000 square-foot building, designed by Moryiama Teshima Architects and Bélanger Salach Architecture, contains a 300-seat theatre, multi-use performance spaces, an art gallery, daycare and a library. [8]

Organizations

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

Carrefour francophone de Sudbury (English: Francophone Crossroads of Sudbury) is a francophone organization that operates eleven early childhood education centres in Greater Sudbury, including at Place des Arts. [9]

Centre franco-ontarien de folklore

Centre franco-ontarien de folklore (French : Franco-Ontarian Folklore Centre) is a heritage organization involved in the preservation of Franco-Ontarian oral history and folklore. [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]

Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario

La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario(GNO) (English: Gallery of New-Ontario) is an art gallery founded in 1995 as the first francophone artist-run centre in Ontario. [12] The gallery focuses primarily on contemporary art by Franco-Ontarian artists. [12]

Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario

Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario (English: Theatre of New-Ontario) is a professional theatre company founded in 1971 by the Coopérative des artistes du Nouvel-Ontario (CANO), a group of artists including André Paiement, Marcel Aymar, Denis St-Jules and Robert Paquette. It evolved out of an association of students at Laurentian University who wrote and performed a Franco-Ontarian musical theatre show, Moé, j'viens du nord, 'stie!, in 1970. Other artists later to be associated with the company included Jean-Marc Dalpé, Brigitte Haentjens and Alex Tétreault. The company originally staged theatre productions at Laurentian's Fraser Auditorium until it acquired a former bakery on King Street in the Flour Mill neighbourhood of Sudbury, where it remained until building a new theatre on the grounds of Collège Boréal in the late 1990s.

La Nuit sur l’étang

La Nuit sur l'étang (English: Night on the Pond) is a music festival founded in 1973 by Fernand Dorais and a group of students from Laurentian University. [13] The festival is a one night concert program of francophone 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

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 is Doric Germain's novel La vengeance de l'orignal. [15] In 1996, the firm was involved in the Federal Court of Canada case Prise de parole Inc v Guérin, éditeur Ltée , after another publishing company published unauthorized excerpts from La 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

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]

Architecture

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Bread pan wall at Place des Arts

The building was designed by at Moriyama & Teshima in association with Bélanger Salach. [5] [18] The exterior elements of the building reference of Sudbury's rail history with weathering steel panels, and the weathered appearance of the steel represents the different layers of rock formations found within the Sudbury Basin. [19] The building incorporates historical artifacts that reference the Franco-Ontarian history of Sudbury. These include bread pans from a Canada Bread Bakery built in the 1940s, tin ceiling tiles from École Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague, student lockers from École Secondaire Macdonald-Cartier and stained 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 the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. [22] [23]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Keown, Mary Katherine (2025-04-30). "Place des Arts sparking economic activity, artistic creativity, council told". The Sudbury Star . Retrieved 2025-10-10.
  2. ↑ "Daniel Gingras, 70, was one of the founders of Place des Art in Sudbury". The Sudbury Star . 2025-05-13. Retrieved 2025-10-10.
  3. ↑ "Sudbury's Place des Arts on track for a 2022 opening". CBC Northern Ontario . 2021-10-05. Retrieved 2025-10-10.
  4. 1 2 "Bustling year ahead for the GNO". The Sudbury Star . Archived from the original on 2022-05-23. Retrieved 2025-10-10.
  5. 1 2 "Design unveiled for Sudbury Place des Arts". Canadian Architect. 2019-04-16. Retrieved 2025-10-10.
  6. ↑ MacDonald, Darren (2022-02-24). "Place des Arts to open at the end of April in Sudbury". CTV Northern Ontario . Retrieved 2025-10-10.
  7. ↑ Aelick, Lyndsay (2022-04-29). "Place des Arts officially opens in Sudbury". CTVNews. Retrieved 2025-10-10.
  8. ↑ "Gold Winner – Place des Arts by Moriyama & Teshima Architects". Architecture Press Release. 2023-03-01. Retrieved 2025-10-10.
  9. ↑ Migneault, Jonathan (2024-03-11). "Daycare operator in Sudbury, Ont. had to temporarily close 3 sites due to staffing shortage". CBC Northern Ontario . Retrieved 2025-10-10.
  10. ↑ Ulrichsen, Heidi (2022-07-21). "Collège Boréal hosts 'Madame Bolduc on Tour' exhibition". Sudbury.com. Retrieved 2025-10-10.
  11. ↑ "Germain Lemieux". thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 2025-10-10.
  12. 1 2 Migneault, Jonathan (2012-11-22). "Franco-Ontarian artist awarded for efforts". The Sudbury Star . Archived from the original on 2021-09-28. Retrieved 2025-10-10.
  13. 1 2 "Franco-Ontarians set to celebrate identity, young talent at La Nuit sur l'étang". CBC Northern Ontario . 2018-03-20. Retrieved 2025-10-10.
  14. ↑ "Artist, founder of Prise de Parole and two mining leaders receive honourary degrees from LU". Sudbury.com. 2019-06-11. Retrieved 2025-10-10.
  15. ↑ "French-language publishers pop up outside Quebec". Vancouver Sun . 1992-11-16.
  16. ↑ "2018 edition of Le Salon du livre coming up May 9-12". Sudbury.com. 2018-03-22. Retrieved 2025-10-10.
  17. ↑ "Sudbury French book fair, literary festival opens today". The Sudbury Star . 2018-05-08. Retrieved 2025-10-10.
  18. ↑ Maciel, Sean (2022-09-07). "In Sudbury, a Civic Beacon for Northern Ontario". Azure Magazine. Retrieved 2025-10-10.
  19. 1 2 3 Galvin, Terrance (2022-11-01). "Under One Roof: Place des Arts, Greater Sudbury, Ontario". Canadian Architect. Retrieved 2025-10-10.
  20. ↑ "Place des Arts construction continues in Sudbury with new steel and old pine". Ontario Construction News. 2020-07-22. Retrieved 2025-10-10.
  21. ↑ Keown, Mary Katherine (2022-02-24). "Sudbury's Place des Arts nearing completion". The Sudbury Star . Archived from the original on 2022-02-25. Retrieved 2025-10-10.
  22. ↑ Everson, Alana (2021-01-15). "Despite lockdown, construction of new arts facility in Sudbury continues". CTV Northern Ontario . Retrieved 2025-10-10.
  23. ↑ Frommer, Molly (2022-01-18). "Sudbury's Place des Arts set to open its doors soon". Northern Ontario. Archived from the original on 2022-01-18. Retrieved 2025-10-10.
  24. ↑ O'Reilly, Dan (2022-10-13). "Who made this year's OAA Queen's Park Picks?". Daily Commercial News. Retrieved 2025-10-10.
  25. ↑ "Architecture, Construction & Design Awards 2022". Rethinking The Future Awards. 2022-11-21. Retrieved 2025-10-10.
  26. ↑ "Gold Winner – Place des Arts by Moriyama & Teshima Architects". Architecture Press Release. 2023-03-01. Retrieved 2025-10-10.
  27. ↑ "Sudbury arts facility celebrated by global design contest". Northern Ontario Business. 2023-10-06. Retrieved 2025-10-10.
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