CREATIVE REUSE TORONTO

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Sewing for Change
Covid-19 Community Iniative

Ashley, one of our brave Ontario nurses working with Covid-19 patients in 12 hour shifts.

On March 1, 2020 we opened our Arts & Environment Learning & Resource Centre. On March 12 we had to close the space because of the Covid-19 Virus.

We have been preparing a response to this Public Health Crisis and are now ready to launch the Sewing for Change Covid-19 Community Initiative. We will be using our stock and other donated materials to make masks and other protective gear for front-line health workers and community social agencies.

For more information click here.
To donate materials or funds, please contact us by email. Please note we can only accept funds through online banking transfers at this point.
We will be getting an online fundraising campain started soon.
Thank you for your support.

The Creative Reuse Toronto
Arts & Environment Learning & Resource Centre
at 68 Abell Street, Toronto

Creative Reuse Toronto
is an incorporated Not-for-Profit Organization
registered under the Canada Not-for-Profit Act, Registration # 1186978-7
Registration date: 2020-01-28

All classes and Events Cancelled until further notice because of Covid-19.

Please see our Sewing for Change Covid-19 Community Initiative Response

Event and Workshop Space Rentals Temporarily Cancelled
Contact us to enquire about booking rental space when the Covid-19 closures have been lifted.

DONATIONS OF MATERIALS:
Our Urgent Wish List can be found here
We regret that we can NOT take donations of other materials
at this point as we do not have the capacity to deal with them.
Please do NOT leave them at our door.

We wish to thank Greenest City in Parkdale for their encouragement and support
during the process of building our organization from an idea to a reality.
We are now incorporated as a registered not-for-profit organization.

Wanted: When We are able to begin regular programming again

Advisory Committee Members please submit resume to our email.
Volunteers, Instructors, Artists, and more to staff events, offer courses, assist with the programs.
If you have an idea, or a proposal, please send it to us or make an appointment to discuss it with us.

We are evolving: Below is the vision we began with

a facility that Invests in the future of our planet and
sustainable community
in Toronto through:
. development of an arts and environment learning centre focussed on reuse
. skill sharing . workshops . art and craft making
. events . education/training
. creative reuse of unwanted materials
Future Plans
. warehouse/store . donation centre

Background: Why we need a creative reuse centre in Toronto

What stage were we at prior to the Covid-19 Shutdowns?

We have been searching for a way to set up a community accessible arts/reuse warehouse/store/donation centre as set out in the above diagram. We are a work in progress.

Unfortunately because of the price of real estate, we are unable at this time to meet the very real need to do so.
What we have added in is a strategic intermediate step: the creation of the Arts & Environment Learning Centre at 68 Abell Street. We are only able to do this with the encouragement and support of others.
We hope to partner with other initiatives and groups that have the same objectives and vision in order to create a larger scale sustainable program.

While we work on feasibility, governance models, legal issues, and all of those details, Phase I is beginning with teaching creative reuse programs and skill sharing, mostly in the Parkdale- West Queen West area of the City of Toronto.

With our new space, we should be able to do much of what we set out to do originally.

Our ideas and concepts are evolving rapidly.

If you are interested in being part of this initiative or would like additional information, please contact us

If you would like to have a presentation made to your group, please contact us to make arrangements.