Critical Distance DIRECTORY Embassy Cultural House

The Embassy Cultural House (ECH) is non-hierarchical and inter-generational, which paves the way for increasingly inclusive and open opportunities for artists, writers, cultural workers and other cultural advocates. Our most recent publication is Not/For the Money, launched January 22nd, 2026, is an extension of our online exhibition of the same title. In 2024, the ECH published an anthology, An Alternative Cultural History of London, Ontario: Art & Activism, drawing on material that had not been previously published in print or had been out of print for many years. This anthology, printed in an edition of 500 copies, is 240 pages with colour images and includes 36 contributors. This anthology introduces important and essential cultural material to a generation that has not had access to such documents. Since January of 2021 the ECH has published 10 publications. The ECH website creates projects and exhibitions online, maintains ECH contributors’ profiles, updates when needed and a newsletter which is shared with our 500 subscribers. ECH contributors have also played a part in projects which address the crisis of homelessness and the inclusion of public programs within various locations and institutions throughout the city. The fourth Embassy Cultural House Annual Review Tabloid was published in February 2025 in an edition of 3000.