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Originally Posted by someone123
It seems to me like Vancouver has a good set of mid-range venues like this. I like the Orpheum. However, the lower end music venues have disappeared and there aren't a lot of new major public buildings in the urban centre from the past few years. At least, they don't seem to be keeping up with population growth. You could make a similar complaint about a lot of Canadian cities. The last really big public buildings downtown, I guess, are the convention centre and library, which are both quite good, but I don't think there has been anything comparable built in the 2020's.
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All Canadian cities - except unique situations like Ottawa - are behind where they should be on major cultural venues, although, to be fair, things like concert halls for symphony orchestras just don't figure as prominently as they used to. There hasn't been a lot of new opera houses or concert halls built internationally in recent years, either.
But Vancouver is noticeably behind other Canadian cities on cultural venues and it has gone on for a long time. Calgary and Edmonton built a raft of major arts projects in the last 15 years, Toronto updated pretty much every major cultural institution in the early 2000s, and built a lot of new ones like the Aga Khan museum and the Four Seasons Centre, and smaller cities have really stepped it up, notably Winnipeg, Halifax and Saskatoon.
Vancouver's problem is that it doesn't have major corporate donors or much of a culture of philanthropy.
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