Room to Move will transform an unfinished basement in Streams Community Hub’s new shared facility into a purpose-built rehearsal and creative space for children and youth.
At its heart will be a dedicated dance and rehearsal studio with a professional sprung floor and Marley surface, giving young performers an appropriate place to rehearse choreography, musical theatre and movement-based work. The project will also create two sound-controlled music lesson rooms, complete a dedicated drum room, and improve the surrounding open area so young people have a welcoming and functional environment in which to gather, practise and learn.
For ten years, Streams has created performances, music programs and arts opportunities while continually adapting spaces that were not designed for rehearsal. Our move gives us the opportunity, for the first time, to build the environment around the work.
Because the facility will be shared with By Design Learning and Grand Pals, Room to Move will also create rehearsal and arts infrastructure that can benefit young people already using the building each day.
Children and youth in smaller and rural communities should not have to leave their community to access high-quality creative learning and rehearsal opportunities.
For ten years, Streams has worked to make arts education locally accessible regardless of a family’s income or ability to travel. As our programs have grown, one limitation has remained: our physical spaces were never designed specifically for rehearsal, dance and music-making.
Our new facility creates a rare opportunity to change that.
A professional rehearsal floor, sound-controlled music rooms and dedicated practice spaces will allow young people to develop their craft in environments designed for the work they are doing. Because the facility is shared with other youth-serving organizations, the impact extends beyond Streams. The same investment can support multiple programs, organizations and generations of young people.
Room to Move will turn unfinished concrete space into lasting community arts infrastructure.
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Seeing impact over the past 10 years and knowing the impact this project will have for the youth of this community, it will be successful! We need this!
Streams has personally been a place where I can come and just be myself. I’m so grateful for the friends I have made here and the talented kiddos we support.
This will bring so many benefits to the children of the BDLC and create such an amazing space for all to enjoy!
I love that my daughter has access to Streams, we have benefited from the music, art, soon, the drama program.
a vital service to the community!