Ontario Heritage Centre

Built in 1909, this former financial building is now a pretty nifty event space. I came in here for a «360 Screenings» Halloween event for the screening of the Exorcist, and 360 Screenings makes it a point to host their events in «heritage buildings» around Toronto and the Ontario Heritage Centre falls right in to that categoy. While the website states that they have one of the last manually operated elevators city, I was unfortunately not able to be able to check that out.
But I did get a chance to check out their Oval Boardroom and the gallery downstairs where the movie was screened. unfortunaly the event was pretty low lit (you know being Halloween and all) so I wasn’t able to really admire the venue, but it seemed great for a medium sized event (I’m not great at guessing numbers but I’d say 150-​ish people).
The Oval Boardroom amongst a few other smaller rooms was where we spent an hour or so with actors who would act out specific scenes from the movie. It is definitely a very interesting space, again, I didn’t get a chance to really walk around to see what some of the items that were a part of the Heritage Centre’s deco were like, but there seemed to be a few interesting looking frames around.
I’m not sure who catered the food, so I can’t really speak for any of the actual venues food, we didn’t have hor d’oeuvre served which is usually the case for 360 screenings, so I’m not sure if that was due to the venue or our event hosts.
I would like to come and check this space out during the day when I would have a better chance to check it out, but until that happens the Ontario Heritage Centre has a fan in me!