churches+used+as+music+venues

//Churches in Toronto used as concert venues -// How does this affect and/or change the public's perspectives on traditional views of the church as a space for religious gathering? By integrating and promoting the church as an environment where commerce takes place, does this enhance or detract the image and understanding of the (sacred) role of the church? Similarly, how does this impact the artists themselves? How does modern, contemporary music define and reflect the overall architecture, atmosphere and context of the church, the surrounding neighborhood, and vice versa? I feel that by introducing and permitting concerts and art-related events within the church locale, it creates an interesting, somewhat unorthodox way of fusing together opinions and styles of the "old" and "new." The experience (ie. holding a concert/art's event inside a church) can be one that brings together a new, innovative audience or shift and broaden the way earlier generations have perceived the "standard" concert/entertainment venue to be. It introduces diversity in music and art with various ways of thinking, bringing together community, I plan to do some investigation in a few churches in Toronto that occasionally (or regularly) house musicians and artist performances. Within the research I hope to discover the similarities/differences (aesthetics, size, beliefs) between a couple of the churches, how their surroundings influence the demographics of people who attend these events and reside in the area. Here are some areas of consideration:
 * Research concept:**
 * Critical position**:
 * Research statement:**
 * //The Music Gallery @ St. George-the-Martyr Anglican Church// (197 John St.)
 * //Bathurst Street Theare// (736 Bathurst)
 * //Church of the Redeemer// (162 Bloor Street West)

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Concept Map: [| churches used as music venues.pdf] Visual Essay: [| melissa_visualessay.pdf]

Resources: [|History of The Music Gallery] [|Bathurst Street Theatre] [|Church of the Redeemer: past and future]