Toronto Life: Inside the transformed Hearn Generating Station, Luminato’s coolest venue yet

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The stage and 1,200 seats were delivered in shipping containers.
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-Luc Rinaldi

Toronto (June 10 2016) -The Hearn Generating Station has had many lives as a power plant, a grimy film set and the unorthodox setting for a ritzy, one-night gala. All that was just a warm-up: from June 10 to 26, Luminato transforms the sprawling, derelict space into the home of its arts fest, complete with a theatre, music stage and French bistro (and more programming than we can list—though we tried). Here’s how they did it.

The cavernous theatre occupies the southeast corner of the Hearn—the spot least obstructed by the steel beams that criss-cross the facility.

The stage and 1,200 seats were delivered in shipping containers. Partisans, the architecture firm behind the Hearn’s transformation, worked with Giant Container Services to reuse those containers for balcony seating.

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article by Luc Rinaldi

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