CAMPUS BREAKS GROUND ON ARTS CENTER, TO DEBUT IN 2003 $15 MILLION FACILITY TO HOUSE THEATER.Byline: Heather MacDonald Staff Writer VALENCIA - City officials joined College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. teachers, students and administrators Monday to break ground for a new Performing Arts Center A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. . Under sunny skies with a brisk Brisk as a proper name may refer to:
``We've waited an awful long time for this,'' said Michael McMahan, the dean of fine arts and humanities for the community college. ``It will allow us to hold a mirror up to the human soul of Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, .'' Dozens of years in the making, the Performing Arts Center will cost nearly $15 million to build and will seat 950 theater patrons. Plans call for workshop space, classrooms and offices to be included in the building, said Diane Van Hook, the college's superintendent-president. ``The Performing Arts Center will let the various groups grow and create more opportunities for all of our students,'' Van Hook said. The city of Santa Clarita is contributing $2.4 million toward the center, which will be used to add the second level of seating and a outdoor sculpture garden A sculpture garden is an outdoor garden dedicated to the presentation of sculpture, usually several permanently-sited works in durable materials in landscaped surroundings. . It will also feature pieces created by students on a rotating ro·tate v. ro·tat·ed, ro·tat·ing, ro·tates v.intr. 1. To turn around on an axis or center. 2. basis. Students from the music, theater and dance departments performed during the ceremony, which was held on the site of the future building, near the main entrance to College of the Canyons at Rockwell Canyon Road. Jaime Hamilton, 20, a second-year student, said the new facility would unify 1. (database, product) Unify - A relational database produced by Unify Corporation. 2. (algorithm) unify - To perform unification. all of the arts departments at the college. ``It'll bring us together, but allow us to have more space to create and spread out,'' Hamilton said. ``I'm really looking forward to it.'' CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Julie Lawson directs Les Chanteuses as the singers perform at Monday's groundbreaking at College of the Canyons. (2 -- color) Theresa Bruno and other members of Valencia Flamenca perform at the groundbreaking for the Performing Arts Center on Monday in Santa Clarita. (3) College of the Canyons library media technician Rhonda Ginn enjoys a souvenir of Monday's groundbreaking ceremony. Evan Yee/Staff Photographer |
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