Leigh Square Community Arts Village

About

Community Arts Village located in downtown Port Coquitlam, home to art exhibitions and classes, concerts, performances and the annual Summer in the City Festival.

Story

Leigh Square has exhibition, studio and program spaces for performing, visual and literary arts and festivals (e.g. May Day, Farmers Market, Summer in the City, Christmas in Leigh Square), as well as archival/historic display area and commercial space. It is operated by the Parks & Recreation Department in the City of Port Coquitlam in cooperation with partners such as the Friends of Leigh Square Society and Port Coquitlam Heritage & Cultural Society under an agreement.

It’s an approach that employs the principles of community development: facilitating rather than providing, supporting rather than directing, and creating an enabling environment that permits community members and artists to work in partnerships to achieve community cultural goals.

Mission

The Leigh Square Community Arts Village encourages and facilitates community development through arts, culture, and heritage within Port Coquitlam and serves as a cultural meeting place, a 21st century community arts village.