CHFT Co-op Awards (drumroll, please. . .)
We're thrilled to share that LVAC News has won the 2024 award for Best Co-op Website from the Co-operative Housing Federation of Toronto, as announced at their GMM last week.
Congratulations and a huge thank you to everyone who has contributed words, images, events and ideas to the newsletter—especially our hardworking committee members—and to all of our readers and subscribers. We couldn't do it without you!
Speaking of awards. . .
LVAC is in excellent company! Arcadia Housing Co-op won CHFT's 50th Anniversary Video Contest for this five-minute video they created about their home, the first artists' co-op in Canada. It's full of great ideas for community engagement and well worth the watch at the YouTube link below.
Welcome to Arcadia Housing Co-operative, dir. Joan Prowse, 2023. Available on YouTube.
Congratulations, River Clyde Arts!
Last month, we reported that River Clyde Arts and its co-director Jane Wells had been nominated for a P.E.I. Arts Award for Organization of the Year. We couldn't be happier to share that River Clyde has since won that award, which it received at the 2024 P.E.I. Arts Awards ceremony. Congratulations to Jane and her collaborators!
Toronto artists feeling the housing crunch
Despite contributing an annual $12 billion to Toronto's economy, artists are still being priced out of the city. A new CBC News article reports that just five (yes, 5) new affordable units for artists at Riverdale Co-op received "hundreds and hundreds" of applications. The piece includes comment from LVAC's vice-president (and LVAC News editor) Lilian Radovac and photography by regular contributor Larry Miller. You can read the full article by clicking on the image below—ou ici, en français.
Let's keep working together to increase awareness of what both artists and co-ops bring to this city. To quote Arcadia's video narration: We need more!
