Mid West Arts Council

The Heritage Arts centre

The Heritage Arts Centre is home to the Mid-West Arts Council office and is a multi-use community facility which provides art classes, craft workshops, music lessons, concerts, private rental space for various events, and a home base for a number of arts and cultural organizations.

The Centre is a municipal – designated heritage building, originally a Union Bank built in 1903, taken over by the Royal Bank. After being left vacant for 20 years, a community arts council was formed and over a period of 10 years fund-raised to renovate the building for its present-day use. Since the hard-earned restoration of this building and its reopening in 2002, The Heritage Arts Centre has served as a central hub for Hamiota and surrounding communities.

The original renovation of the building took place over 10 years and cost $250,000 with most of the fund-raising done locally and enormous amounts of local volunteer time and effort put into the project so the community has already has a vested interest in the building itself. Since opening to the public in 2002 the Heritage Arts Centre has steadily increased its usage and remains a busy centre for community use

Originally built in 1903 as a bank, the Heritage Arts Centre has a long history in our community.

Since the hard-earned restoration of this building and its reopening in 2002, The Heritage Arts
Centre has served as a central hub for Hamiota and surrounding
communities.