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

beth.mccarthy@queensu.ca

Bob Silverman

Chair of the Building Committee

Office of the Vice-Principal (Academic)

613.533.6000 ext. 78587

bob.silverman@queensu.ca 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