We are in the midst of the Arts Space Assessment Process, the Calgary Arts Development led process to identify strong community led arts space proejcts to reccomend for municipal funding or land. Much like developing space, our process sometimes inches forward and sometimes takes a giant leap. Lately we have been leaping along. The Arts Space Assessment Process has brought forward amazing projects that, when completed, will change the city's sky line and bring creative life into many Calgary nieghborhoods.

Yesterday we took another leap thanks to a forward thinking City Council. Council ear-marked 5% of the province's $3.3 billion infrastructure contribution for arts & culture space in the city. This amounts to $165 million in civic funding for arts and culture space over the next 10 years. Much of this support will be directed towards projects brought forward by Calgary Arts Development though the Arts Space Assessment Process.

We are excited to meet our committment to bring visionary arts space projects from the community to City Council in April / May of this year. Most of all we are excited to start to see holes in the ground, becoming strong foundations for the future of our artists and arts organizations.