ISAbEl bAdER CEnTRE FoR ThE pERFoRmIng ARTSCEnTRE FoR ThE pERFoRmIng ARTS . Canada’s first capital...
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On the shore of Lake Ontario, at one of Kingston and Ontario’s
oldest heritage sites, a world of imagination is taking root.
Together, Queen’s University and the City of Kingston are realizing
a bold vision of an arts campus where community and student
performance, education, creativity and training blend to give rise
to an inspirational cultural presence.
ISAbEl bAdER CEnTRE FoR ThE pERFoRmIng ARTS
Canada’s first capital city is about to undergo an artistic revitalization.
In cities, regions and countries around the world, there is a growing
recognition of the importance of arts and culture in building strong
communities and economies.
The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts will be a cultural beacon
and provide urgently needed recital, theatre, screening and rehearsal
space. In designing the new centre, we have taken the best features
of the world’s greatest centres and combined them with exhilarating
advances in modern technology to create a world-class building.
Within the walls of the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing
Arts, Queen’s will:
• Extensively enrich academic excellence – the new centre was
designed from the beginning to encourage interdisciplinary
collaboration between the four Queen’s creative departments
of Music, Drama, Film & Media, and Art.
• Increase public outreach with the Queen’sMusic conservatory.
• Promote interaction and collaboration with artists and the
public with new cultural programming for the Kingston and
regional community.
• Create a facility for public access and rejuvenate an under-
used and historic waterfront. Tourism will intensify and
our city will become a new cultural anchor for the region.
Since 2007, Queen’s has been working collaboratively with
Snøhetta/ema Architects, a partnership of two firms to design
an exciting new home for the arts. Snøhetta won the Mies van
der Rohe Award for Contemporary Architecture in 2009 for
the Oslo Opera House.
“Thirty years ago, I graduated from Queen’s witha bachelor in performance on the French horn.I performed my graduation recital at ChalmersUnited Church because I wanted the sound tobe superb for my final solo opportunity atQueen’s. At that time, there was no venue atQueen’s that had excellent acoustics – forplayers, let alone audience members. So thenew Isabel bader Centre for the performing Artswill give Queen’s music students what they’velacked for so long – the opportunity to experiencehigh-quality sound while they perform. This isincredibly important for students who aspire toplay at the highest levels and shows theUniversity’s commitment to quality performancespace as essential, not just to musical education,but to the people of Kingston and audiencesfrom everywhere.”
– loie Fallis, bmus ’79 Toronto Symphony orchestra
“Queen’s needs, and deserves, a home for thearts. I am enormously impressed with the multi-disciplinary concept, bringing together drama,music, Art and Film within a beautiful newstructure on the lakeshore. 31 years ago I wasinspired to make my first film at Queen’s. I soughthelp from drama, music and arts students andfaculty. This new venue will house all thesepeople all under one majestic roof with theatres,sound mix facilities and a production studioaccessible to everyone. Simply brilliant!”
– peter Raymont, bA ’72 Award-Winning Filmmaker and Tv producer
“The Isabel bader Centre for the performing Artsis spectacular. It not only ensures that theunique voice of Canadian culture will benurtured and strengthened but also that allQueen’s graduates will be the creative thinkersthat will lead and enrich our communitieslocally, nationally and globally. In the remarkableway that only art can, it lifts us, reminding andenabling us to dream.”
– Wendy CrewsonActor, bA ’77
FoR moRE InFoRmATIon, vISITwww.queensu.ca/badercentre
Queen’s University will soon break ground on a stunning new performing arts centre,
thanks to infrastructure funding from the federal government, the province of Ontario,
the City of Kingston and a generous donation from benefactors Drs. Alfred and Isabel Bader.
The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts will be unique to the region and will help
meet the cultural needs of Queen’s, Kingston and southeastern Ontario. It will provide an
acoustically superior, medium sized concert hall, as well as a studio theatre, an art gallery
and a film screening room for local and visiting arts enthusiasts.
We invite you to play a role
Beth McCarthy
Faculty of Arts & Science Advancement
Queen’s University
613.533.6000 ext. 75088
Bob Silverman
Chair of the Building Committee
Office of the Vice-Principal (Academic)
613.533.6000 ext. 78587
[email protected] 09-0
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KEY FEATURES
King Street
Lake Ontario
GreenRoom
RehearsalHall
ConcertHall
Public Lobbywith Café
StudioTheatre
ArtGallery
ProductionStudio
Film ScreeningRoom (upstairs)
J.K. TettCentre
The project includes approximately 80,000square feet to house the following:
• 560-seat Concert Hall which will include a drop down screen for film presentations
• Sound studio and recording facilities for local and national recording opportunities
• Large public lobby with café on the waterfront will act as intersection for students and community
• Climate controlled Art Gallery, which will be accessible to the public
• 100 seat studio theatre, offering maximum configuration flexibility for student and community use
• 90-seat Film Screening room
• Rehearsal hall for multi-purpose use
• Teaching and performance space for classes for the School of Music and the Departments of Drama, Film and Media, and Art as well asoperating space for the Queen’s PerformingArts Office