The Centre for the Arts Collective

The Arts Hall of Fame is created and managed by the Centre for the Arts Collective/le Collectif pour un Centre des Arts. The Collective was established in 2013 and adopted two purposes. The first was to celebrate the arts publicly, to a hitherto unprecedented extent. Members of the Collective saw this goal as central to the creation of a groundswell of support for the movement for the establishment of a permanent home for the arts. In line with this conviction, The Collective adopted this motto: We have the arts; now let’s build them a home.”  The Hall of Fame is the main instrument for the Collective’s celebration of the Arts.

The second goal of the Collective was to raise funds for a public, municipal arts and culture centre. All donations made for this purpose are deposited with the city of Cornwall, which issues charitable tax receipts for the monies given. Soliciting and managing this growing fund is a major undertaking. Consequently, when the city of Cornwall purchased the former BMO site at 159 Pitt Street to be repurposed as the home for the arts, the Collective formed a dedicated steering committee to raise funds, apart from the other activities of the Collective, such as the Hall of Fame. This sub-group of The Collective maintains a website at www.bethelink.net. Prospective donors are able to donate at that site.