Stage Door News
Stage Door News
Today on his blog, Luminato Festival’s artistic director Jorn Weisbrodt is sharing the first major details about our 10th Anniversary plans. Next year we’re working to create something special to celebrate the creativity and inventiveness of the city that gave birth to Luminato.
The Hearn Generating Station is a unique industrial landmark in the world. It is three times larger than the Tate Modern, the Statue of Liberty fits in it upright (or on its side), and it sits proudly on Toronto’s waterfront, its smokestack is one of the only structures in Toronto (apart from the CN Tower) you can see distinctly from across the lake on a good day. In the 20th century the Hearn Generating Station produced electricity. In the 21st century, it will produce art (temporarily at least).
In June 2016, we’re going to #TurnOnTheHearn and transform this epic decommissioned power plant into a public art centre. The entire ticketed program of the Luminato Festival will take place at the Hearn Generating Station. Together with dynamic Toronto architecture firm PARTISANS, and leading international theatre and acoustics consultancy Charcoalblue, Luminato will transform The Hearn into a multi-arts generator with a theatre, a music stage, a site-specific performance space, lobbies, restaurants and bars, and more.
We’ll be announcing specifics about the design and layout of the space, and the artists, productions and experiences that will make up the full Festival in the coming weeks and months. Until then, please check out Jorn’s blog to read more about our vision for the space.
#TurnOnTheHearn with @Luminato starting June 10, 2016
Photo: Hearn Generating Station. ©2015 Jonathan Castellino.
2015-11-19
Toronto: Luminato Festival turns on the Hearn Generating Station in 2016