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ARTS AND COMMUNICATIONS IN THE NEW
BUILDING

The new permanent campus facilities
will enable the Arts and Communications
Department to continue to offer quality
programming in music. Individual
study, rehearsal, and specialized
ensemble spaces will enhance the exist-
ing program and allow expansion into
new activities. The department expects
that this attractive well equipped
complex will result in a considerable
growth in the community music programs
as well as the credit course offerings
and programs. -

The 350 seat performance theatre is
designed for theatrical and musical
uses. This high profile space is to
be equipped with all the technical
apparatus necessary to support product-
ions. The college is aware of the fact
that this desirable facility will have
a lot of demands made upon it by the
Arts community of the Douglas College
region. In anticipation of those

sorts of requests, the college is
currently examining ways and means

of ensuring it is available and use-
able by community groups. In addition
to college and community programming,
the college is looking forward to

this space being used for visiting
performing artists, and thereby help-
ing Douglas College to be 4 focal

point of leadership for the Arts.

In addition to the performance
theatre, the Arts and Communications
space includes: ‘

- A studio theatre for instruction in
performance, as well as a space for
student productions.

- Three group instruction spaces

for band, choral, orchestral, and
small emsembles. These rooms are well
suited to rehearsals of these kinds

of music activities.

 

- One of our performance instruction
areas is well suited, with proper
flooring and mirrors; for instruction in
dance/movement and related performance
skills.

- The performance space is backed up
with technical shops. The department
is very pleased to have recently
received Provincial approval of the
Stagecraft program which was designed
for people interested in pursuing a
career in the fields of film, video,
stage, etc.

- The continuing Musical Instrument
Repair shops are located in the south
building in the region of our technical
shops. Piano tuning and repair is the
content of present curriculum.

- Twenty practice rooms and ten studio
offices will be equipped with instru-
ments and outfitting necessary for all
types of music instruction.

- A unique feature of the music dis-
cipline area is the piano lab,
equipped with 16 electronic pianos
which allow communication by head-
phones between instructor and student.
This permits instruction to occur in

a Class situation with direct aural
access to individual students.

- Classrooms for the teaching of aca-
demic subjects in the areas of theory
and history in music, the visual arts,
and the theatre and all related
disciplines are designed to accomodate
pianos, audio and visual equipment, as
well as the traditional teaching tools.

The Douglas College library contains

a comprehensive collection of books,
scores, microfilms and recordings that
compliment the teaching and study of
the arts: music literature, history and
theory, music performance, the history
and performance of the theatre and the
appreciation of the visual arts. As
well, the new music library facility
will contain a fully equipped audio