PlaySpace emerged in 2024 as a fledgling, innovative ‘third space’ for contemporary art, culture, and community engagement. Housed in an urban, floor-to-ceiling glass storefront shipping container space in downtown Toronto, PlaySpace hosts independent and underground art projects. PlaySpace is for following the creative impulse. It’s high-impact and low-stakes. Artists and researchers use PlaySpace to make, experiment, explore and try things out in community. 

Artists need time and space to create, and we also need time and space with the public. At some point, the work – polished or rough – needs contact with others. Does it work? Does it spark? Does it hold? Does it move us? PlaySpace offers artists an easy, accessible way to present work in public space.

The presentation space is modest – PlaySpace is housed in a small  7′ x 9′ shipping container – but the courtyard it sits in can easily hold over a hundred people. With food vendors, accessible washrooms, and a public park located steps away, PlaySpace foregrounds the social aspects of cultural gatherings with art at the centre.

Learn more and apply for PlaySpace here.