A grassroots group is calling on the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) to end its controversial partnership with the for-profit Austrian company Therme Group, whom they say will “destroy Ontario Place” with its planned private spa.
Ontario Place for All, a community collective whose goal is to keep Ontario Place “a vibrant, publicly accessible place,” issued anearlier this month to TIFF, calling on the arts organization to reconsider the partnership, which they argue “stands against organizational values of inclusivity.”
“Therme Group’s proposal is about destruction, loss, not creation. It would privatize actively used public land,” the letter stated, adding that more than 800 trees will be cut down on Ontario Place’s West Island to make way for the facility and no public consultation has been held over the planned project.
Ontario Place for All said the partnership was “announced quietly” by TIFF and Therme in 2021. A tweet posted Aug. 6, 2021 by Therme Canada described the partnership, called the Cinematic Cities initiative, as a “10-year philanthropic program that will promote the role of film in creating more human cities.”
TIFF also tweeted later that day, saying the organization was looking forward “to our new cultural partnership.”
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