The Ground Floor

Since January 2014, Jumblies has made its home in a downtown studio and office that we dubbed The Ground Floor. It is at street level of a Toronto Community Housing block at Fort York Blvd and Dan Leckie Way, in the midst of the newly-developping high-rise neighbourhood called CityPlace.

Click on the presentation below for an overview of our first 3 years at The Ground Floor:

From and at The Ground Floor, we have been:

developing our Toronto-based, provincial and national projects;
offering professional development workshops and seminars;
housing our archives and resource library;
lending and renting our studio for other projects as available;
delivering programs for community members of all ages, backgrounds and abilities;
developing partnerships with local social and cultural agencies;
exploring and expressing the neighbourhood and its layers of history;
hosting residencies and projects by visiting artists.

Thanks to the Toronto Arts Council’s ‘Space for Art’ Program and then-Councillor Adam Vaughan for making this and other downtown spaces available and affordable for artists. Also thanks to Toronto Community Housing for access to the beautiful upstairs community at 150 Dan Leckie for many of our workshops and events.

Location & Direction

The Ground Floor is located at 132 Fort York Blvd at Dan Leckie Way and is accessible by Fort York Blvd at Bathurst St. (south side) and Spadina Ave (west side)

TTC:
From Union Station: take the 121 bus westbound outside the station on Front St., east of Bay St. Get off at Dan Leckie Way. The bus stops directly in front of the The Ground Floor office next to Tim Hortons.
From Bathurst Station: take the #511 Bathurst streetcar southbound towards Exhibition. Get off at the Fort York Blvd. stop, cross Bathurst St. and continue one block east, The Ground Floor is on the north side of the street.
Spadina Station: take the #510 Spadina streetcar southbound and get off at the Bremner Blvd. stop. Walk west 5 minutes along Fort York Blvd. The Ground Floor is on the right (north side)2 doors after the Tim Hortons.
CAR:
There is a metered parking lot accessible off of Queens Wharf Rd. (one block east of Bathurst on Fort York Blvd.) Further parking is available along Fort York Blvd and Dan Leckie Way.