By Jaryn Vecchio
Old downtown movie theatre // Steph Seidel - Harvard Broadcasting
Arts Councill Wood Buffalo is moving forward with turning the old downtown movie theatre into an arts incubator.
They recently held a survey to get public feedback on the potential project, getting an overwhelming level of support with nearly half of the respondents stating they don’t consider themselves artists.
Executive Director Liana Wheeldon tells Mix News they see this space doing wonders for the local art community.
“A lot of artists in our region do this as kind of a side hustle or off the corner of a kitchen table, but to be able to have the opportunity to have some purpose-built space to be able to create art will do so much for their practice.”