OXNARD COLLEGE HOSTS GROUNDBREAKING FOR PERFORMING ARTS CLASSROOM/AUDITORIUM ON THURSDAY, JULY 31, 2008
By 2010, Oxnard College music, theater and dance students will be able to perform in an authentic performing arts environment -- a 400-seat multipurpose auditorium, the largest lecture facility ever constructed on campus. The new $21.2 million Performing Arts Classroom and Auditorium will be constructed on a 34,000 square foot site near North Campus Road and will be visible from Rose Avenue.
You are invited to join Oxnard College President Richard Durán, Chancellor James Meznek and the Trustees of the Ventura County Community College District as they break ground for the Oxnard College Performing Arts Classroom and Auditorium on Thursday, July 31, 2008, at 11 a.m. at the construction site near North Campus Road. District and college officials will hoist shovels for the ceremonial groundbreaking. An artist's rendering of the planned facility will show the unique design for the facility, the first of its kind on the OC campus. Following the groundbreaking there will be a reception with refreshments in the nearby Student Lounge.
For the past 30 years, the 125-seat Letters & Arts lecture hall (LA-6) has housed most of the college theatre arts and musical productions, guest performances and special events. The design of the new 18,638 square-foot performing arts facility includes a flexible Black-Box Theater with seating for a hundred, while another feature of the project is to house the Oxnard College Television Studio pre-production and post-production facilities. The television studio is now housed in the Learning Resources Center, which is also is scheduled for a major reconstruction in the next few years.
In 2006, the Community College Facility Coalition presented Oxnard College with a state design phase award for the performing arts classroom and auditorium. The Irvine-based architectural firm of MVE Institutional, Inc. designed the structure for Oxnard College and the Ventura County Community College District. The construction project will be funded with $13.7 million from Bond Measure S and state funding estimated at $7.5 million.
For more information on the groundbreaking or to RSVP please contact the President's Office at X5808 and X5809.
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