Posted by Northcrest
Calling artists and teams that think big! Northcrest Developments invites calls for proposals for a highimpact festival, performance, installation, or activation on 600 metres of taxiway. Where airplanes were once made, complete communities are coming. The site is a blank canvas ready to be infused with creativity. In the future and in the interim, this will be a place of big ideas. Do you have one that will take off?
Northcrest is leading the transformation of the 370-acre Downsview Airport Lands. As a focal point of the site, the runway has historically been a location for major events, including SARSstock: the largest rock concert in Canadian history. Building on this past, we want to make the runway a new destination for culture, creativity, and play in Toronto for the future.
With development still decades away, Northcrest has been working with artists, creators, and community groups to create a sense of place through participatory arts and culture, sports and recreation, food and beverage, and community activities.
We’re looking for one or more ideas that are imaginative, unique, engaging, and visually striking, to bring people together and advance our vision of creating a new cultural destination in Toronto. The project could last for anywhere from 1 day to over a month. It must be free or low-cost to the public and accessible to a broad audience.
Northcrest will contribute a total of $100,000 to one or multiple projects. To ensure a diversity of onsite experiences, projects with budgets from $10,000 will be considered. For projects with budgets larger than $100,000, applicants can secure external funding.
Whatever your idea is — a visually stimulating installation, a live experience, an event, or festival — we
want it to bring people together and bring these lands to life in imaginative ways.
Please email your submission to events@northcrestdev.ca by 11:59pm EST on June 20, 2024. WeTransfer links are accepted for larger files. Please email questions to events@northcrestdev.ca.