Calgary family donates $75 million philanthropic gift to help transform Arts Commons into the Werklund Centre

Arts Commons says a local benefactor has stepped up to help pay for a major upgrade, which will revolutionize the facility. Dave Werklund and family has donated the largest philanthropic gift to the performing arts in Canada , raising secured funding for the transformation of the Arts Commons campus to more than three quarters of its $660M goal. The current Arts Commons complex, located in the 200 block of Eighth Avenue S.W., will be upgraded and a new building will be constructed nearby along S