Between Dufferin Street and Trinity Bellwoods Park is West Queen Street West. If you take a stroll through this street, you can actually feel the vibes of art from every nook and corner. Every third building here has been converted into a contemporary art gallery. Every inch of public space has art in it. Go to the public parks like Trinity Bellwoods and you’d see it canvassed. Go to Queen West condos and you’d be transported into a different world – a world of colors and imagination.
The Queen West Art Crawl is a 3-day annual festival that celebrates art on this famous art street. It features arts organizations, artists, and businesses. The Queen West Art Crawl is an extension of the art that is already embedded here. It runs on Queen Street sprawling from Spadina to Roncesvalles from September 18 to September 20.
Apart from terrific Queen West condos, the West Queen West boasts of some of the avant-garde art galleries right from Trinity Bellwoods Park to Dufferin. You cannot ignore the Gladstone Hotels and The Drake, which are cultural destinations and the hub of nightlife; the neighborhood is dipped in creativity, fun, and recreation. The West Queen Street West is not known as the Art and Design District for nothing. Walk through the one-kilometer stretch and you’d be greeted with a bar, gallery, nightclub, and a couple of Queen West condos looking inviting.
For the last 2 years, West Queen Street West has witnessed a paradigm shift in its appearance. The dominating structure nowadays is the Drake Hotel, which has been renovated and transformed into a boutique hotel at a staggering cost of $6 million.
Another structure that demands attention is the Gladstone Hotel. It has survived the test of time and managed to flourish even in the recent period of recession. This railroad-era hotel has, for over so many years, maintained itself through its boarding-house style accommodation. The first floor tavern of this hotel is now a weekly “Art Bar.” Here, locals as well as budding artists from the arts community come together for creative conversations.
The huge gallery space in this area, which includes galleries like Fly and Loop, lets artists of Toronto showcase their art at a cheaper rate. And it does not matter whether the artist is a renowned one or an amateur. The Gallery District has lots of room for special events. The Queen West condos, too, are influenced by art and show that creativity here is taken seriously.
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