Project Featuring Media Arts and Broadband Communication
New Performing Arts Building & Media Arts Center
Carmel Unified School District
Carmel, California
LOBBY, OFFICE, WOMEN & MEN RESTROOMS
AUDIENCE CHAMBER (360 SEATS), CONTROL ROOM, AUDIO, SOUND & STAGE
LARGE STUDIO & GREEN ROOM, SMALL STUDIO, CONTROL, ELECTRICAL, STORAGE, CHANGE, VESTIBULE, ORCHESTRA PIT ACCESS, CATWALK ACCESS
CLASSROOMS (3)
May all who enjoy
this center of learning and performance
appreciate the vision, leadership
and community support
that made it possible.
Carmel Unified School District Board of Education
Amy Funt, President
John Ellison
Mathew Fuzie
Marcy Rustad
Annette Yee Steck
Howard Given, emeritus
Daniel Hightower, emeritus
Marvin Biasotti, CUSD Superintendent
Dedicated March 2011
(Plaque on North Lobby Wall)
Carmel High School Jazz Band
WHAT: Open House at Carmel High School’s Performing Arts Center
Carmel High School’s Performing Arts Center (PAC), "the crown jewel of all the improvements on the campus, reflects an environmental awareness in its state-of-the-art construction." Tour the new theatre and visit with the architects involved with the theater development, architects Peter Kasavan and Bart Wolfe, Kasavan Architects, 60 W. Market Street, Suite 300, Salinas, CA.
WHEN: Saturday, May 21, 2011, 10:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.
WHERE: Performing Arts Center
Carmel High School
3600 Ocean Avenue, E/s Highway 1 & Ocean Avenue
Carmel, CA.
ADDENDUM:
CUSD Measure A Bond Report
Spring 2011
Performing Arts Center
Eco-friendly Construction with Students in Mind
4 comments:
CUSD's choice of Kasavan Architects was an excellent choice. The facility is state-of-the-art and compatible with the pre-existing architecture on campus. It has a theater and smaller, black box theater, rooms, etc., and is being primarily operated by students. And the architectual firm is local in Salinas. This is the kind of thinking which should have occurred with the Forest Theater in Carmel. The hiring of an out-of-the-area architect to draw up plans for the Forest Theater was a big mistake mainly because of its too expensive pricetag and out-of-touch needs and wants of the community. The plans and cost and nononexistent Camille report means a meaningful renovation is years and years into the future. At least the CUSD puts taxpayers monies to good use, whereas the Carmel council and past administrator do not spend taxpayer monies wisely or well and seem never to accomplish meaningful community projects for our benefit.
Well the theatre IS beautiful, that's for certain. But there are serious lighting, sound and production problems that should never have occurred. I KNOW, having just worked the tech crew for "Grease" - No workshop, no storage, no booth monitors, no fill speakers, not even a sink backstage! And sightlines from audience left and right are horrible - you can't see half the stage! Maybe having an architect that actually KNOWS how a theatre needs to work, and what an audience needs to see, would have been a better choice. But it IS pretty! Maybe that's what CUSD wanted - a gorgeous building that makes an ok theatre, and a beautiful lobby for 100 people... for a 350 seat theatre! What was Kasavan thinking??
The last post sounded like it was from someone associated with another Carmel theater with a sour grapes agenda.
LOL, that makes no sense. Nice way to change the subject, though. So much for your argument. Ha.
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