The Living Arts Centre is the city's main performing arts venue, a 1997 complex with three theatres, a series of artist studios, and a wide public foyer. Most touring music and theatre that reaches Mississauga ends up here, along with the Mississauga Symphony Orchestra.
The studios at the rear of the building are open to visitors — glass-fronted spaces where ceramicists, jewellers, glassblowers and printmakers work and sell their pieces. It is one of the more interesting things to do downtown.