After a Naming Ceremony by Mi?kmaw Elders held at sunrise on October 29, 2021, the Eltuek Arts Centre, a non-profit creative cultural hub in Sydney, Unama?ki, Cape Breton Island, has opened. DTAH, in collaboration with Trifos Design Consultants, led the architecture and landscape architecture for the centre.

Eltuek Arts Centre – Resonance by Ursula Johnson (Corey Katz)
Eltuek Arts Centre features artist studios, an Open Studio for shared artist workspaces, gallery and exhibition spaces, the Better Bite Café and Community Kitchen, Meals on Wheels, Nova Scotia Community College Music Arts Program, Celtic Colours International Festival, The Coast 89.7 FM Radio Station, and NovaStream.
Eltuek Arts Centre – Caitrian MacNeil Visual Artist The facility  supports artists by offering affordable working studios and accessible exhibition space with Indigenous, non-profit, and tenant rates in addition to regular commercial rates.

?Eltuek (pronounced el-du-ehg), meaning ?we are making (it) together.? The (it) refers to whatever it is that we decide to make ? art, ideas, a shared meal, music, community, a brighter future.?

Eltuek Arts Centre was previously known as The Convent | Ta?n etl-mawita?mk, which opened in February 2020 in the former Holy Angels Convent, ca. 1895. It was purchased by New Dawn Enterprises in 2012 and the 130-year-old heritage building is the largest adaptive reuse of built heritage in Unama?ki (Cape Breton).

This naming initiative has com...