Communal ownership of property for the benefit of arts and culture communities across B.C.
As land values skyrocket, artists and cultural organizations in B.C. are being priced out of the city; the Cultural Land Trust collectively stewards property for permanent cultural space use.
LAND
The Cultural Land Trust was incorporated in the area known as Vancouver, on the unceded Indigenous lands belonging to the xwməθkwəy̓ əm, Sḵwx̱ wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Nations. The Cultural Land Trust (CLT) recognizes that the colony of British Columbia was created through organized dispossession and colonial violence. As an organization focused on re-commoning land and buildings, our relationship to First Nations’ territories is inherent. Our responsibility to honour and uphold Indigenous rights to self-determination and sovereignty is inextricable with our work, which operates within colonial property conventions in the radical hope of stabilizing the arts sector and decolonizing property relations.