Community and Culture

Drake is filled with thoughtful contradictions and a playful intersection of old and new. We opened on Valentine’s Day, 2004 with lots of love for the historic relationship between artists and great hotels; a community-minded spirit is something close to our hearts. Urban and artistic hotels have played a big role as hang-outs for the local creative scene - aka you - so these are the ideas that inspired us to create a community-minded hotbed for culture.

Community

Art Blog

  • From free neighbourhood pancake breakfasts
    to promoting local artists, supporting our friends and neighbours has been a big part
    of our mission since day one. >>

  • If you’re into contemporary art, we’ll definitely get along - those who know us best say we’re a hotbed for culture. Read about what goes on in the art world at Drake! >>

Current Exhibit Title

In The Corner of My Eye

April 26, 2012 - June 18, 2012

Drake’s spring show is a featured exhibition in the Contact Photography Festival and looks at artists who use photos as a sculptural or installation element. With works by home-town heroes, Jeremy Jansen, Brendan George Ko and Nadia Belerique, along with Brooklyn-based Letha Wilson and Matthew Craven and Chilean artist, Maria Aparicio Puentes in her first Canadian show.

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