{"id":71066,"date":"2021-05-10T17:15:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T21:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=71066"},"modified":"2021-05-10T17:15:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T21:15:22","slug":"scoop-torontos-geary-avenue-rehearsal-factory-become-location-hipster-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2021\/05\/10\/scoop-torontos-geary-avenue-rehearsal-factory-become-location-hipster-church\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Toronto\u2019s Geary Avenue Rehearsal Factory To Become Location For \u2018Hipster\u2019 Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/Geary_Avenue_Rehearsal_Factory.jpg\" alt=\"Geary_Avenue_Rehearsal_Factory\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Australian-based church C3 has purchased the popular Rehearsal Factory\u2019s Geary Avenue location.<\/p>\n<p>The church will encompass 322 and 330 Geary Avenue for a combined 36,150 square feet, or 7 acres of land near the corner of Dupont and Dufferin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe envision a multi-purpose, sacred space that will become a hub for worship, training, serving, creating, and welcoming in the people of Toronto.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two phase building project will include multipurpose rooms, washrooms and C3 Kids spaces, and an auditorium for up to 1,500 people.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c3toronto.com\/visionbuilders\/details\/?fbclid=IwAR3XyqfSx_byyRz5zBwzVk4GUV8a2ElVUq0SpZ0M6mItN41ZAjZ4wBKqxuU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">C3 website<\/a>, the project will start with 322 Geary Avenue first, and they will lease the 330 address to help offset the cost of the spaces during our first phase of work.<\/p>\n<p>Rehearsal Factory has yet to announce the sale of the rehearsal venue, or state what will happen to the many musicians who use the space for music.<\/p>\n<p>Rehearsal Factory also operates locations in Etobicoke, Hamilton, Mississauga, Oshawa, two other sites in Toronto (Front and Richmond).<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Growing fast<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The church has over 500 locations around the world. Similar to Hillsong, C3 is a personality-based evangelical church that delivers informal worship services directed at the under 30 demographic.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><b>#LUDWIGVAN<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Get the daily arts news straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>Sign up for the Ludwig van Daily\u00a0\u2014 classical music and opera in five minutes or less <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/bowtie.mailbutler.io\/tracking\/hit\/583e6ce0-dfd0-48be-8a33-61256b3c58e3\/a01723d1-1d1d-44ee-9d0c-779ed93a798c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>HERE<\/em><\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian-based church C3 has purchased the popular Rehearsal Factory\u2019s Geary Avenue location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":71067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[39646,39,63],"tags":[39668],"yst_prominent_words":[14063,8399,13843,6616,8798,12475,12489,8978,10836,29653,6741],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/Geary_Avenue_Rehearsal_Factory.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-iue","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71068,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71066\/revisions\/71068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71066"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=71066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}