Reinventing the Unconventional: The Hearn Generating Station

Nestled next to downtown Toronto looms the abandoned Hearn Generating Station. Thirty years after it was decommissioned, art director Jorn Weisbrodt envisioned an entire arts festival, Luminato, taking place in the Hearn. We hear about the challenges of reinventing such an unconventional space, from politics to the will of the Toronto people.

Film Maker
Ye, Gayle
Year
2017
Country
Canada
Length
8
Language
English
Category
Canada, Community, Culture, dance, Education, Food, Identity, Indigenous, Landscape, Oral Histories, Performance, Politics + Policy, Race + Ethnicity, Society, Sound Art + Music, Sustainability, Time + Space, Urban
Genre
documentary, Drama, short

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