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PETER: It's a dream come true.
DEAN BUCKER: This is about the community,
but it's mostly about the campus and the students and the faculty.
We want them to feel that this is their home.
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REBECCA: Our main goal was to provide a building
where the community and the campus could come together.
The building's shape sort of emphasizes some of that.
The Performing Arts Center off to Nordhoff for visibility
for people in the community and so as to
not dwarf some of the other buildings on campus,
and focus the more academic spaces on the campus side,
creating a courtyard in the center
that is a gathering space for everyone.
We started at the very beginning and met with all of the various users,
the Music department, the KCSN staff,
the Theatre department and worked through what they needed.
And finally we've ended up here.
DEAN BUCKER: The President wanted the space to be more
than just a performance space for the campus.
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This building was built for the campus, and it was built for the community.
The life of the building will be the curriculum that's delivered in the building,
the performances that take place in the building.
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I think there are a number of ways that it will impact the community.
It's going to bring people to the campus to see programming
that they've never been able to see before in the San Fernando Valley.
It's going to bring students and faculty into a space
that's a space to be celebrated.
KAREN: I feel like being next to the VPAC, we're finally coming home,
and it will give the radio station the visibility that it so much needs.
What that new building does, it centers on the arts on campus,
and so we will be bringing wonderful artists into the Valley Performing Arts Center
but the Theatre department will also be doing events
over in the black box or the multipurpose theater
and KCSN will be able to also bring in people
that will be at the Performing Arts Center.
So I see it as sort of an area where people move around, work together,
and we really kind of bring the arts together on campus in a very visible place.
PETER: Every time I come in here, I see a little more
that we asked for that's in place.
We have scenery labs, light labs,
an incredible--they call it a rehearsal space; I call it a movement studio--
where we'll have the ability to lift the entire glass face of the room
and actually sometimes have the students in the space
performing to an audience that could be sitting outside.
In the experimental theater, this grid means that the students
don't have to work with ladders.
They can walk on it and hang instruments and focus instruments
so efficiently that it is just going to change everything.
Now that it's going to be so attractive,
I think students that wouldn't have come before
in scenery, costuming, lighting, sound design,
who wouldn't want to work with all the latest equipment?
But I think the job possibilities are going to be greater
now that we have facilities like this.
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The building has a life when every seat in the concert hall is filled,
every seat in the lecture hall is filled,
every one of the laboratories in the Theatre department is filled
with faculty, staff, and students actually making art.
That's the personality of the building.
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