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Artspace Art to house art section will be a 350-seat performance hall, while an adjoining 80-seat area will double as a foyer. It will be part of the Waldorf school complex, but it will also have a separate external entrance for use by the public. The school property is already zoned for public assembly. The projected cost is $1.5 million (including $74,000 for a grand piano). If this money is raised by next summer work can start during the vacation, says Costanzi, who heads the fundraising. In early December there was some $27,000 in the kitty. Fund-raising activities include the sale of seats in the building; for $1,000 you can buy a permanent balcony seat, with a plaque with your own name or the name of the person in whose memory you are buying it. The design is by H.S. Chase, a local architect and Waldorf parent. Colours will be soothing, angles gentle, materials natural. The resulting performance space, Costanzi says, "will be like the inside of a violin." For more information about the Waldorf School performance hall project, call Rita Costanzi at 604-987-2784 or visit www.vws.bc.ca/vanws/hall - MB What amenities make a community cultured? A place where people can play and enjoy music surely tops the list. Yes, musicians can perform and audiences can listen in school gyms. But a lot gets lost in a cold, echoing box. "As a classical musician I can't play in those concrete grey auditoriums," says harpist Rita Costanzi. "The harp is not like a trombone. Often I walk into a concrete hall and I just feel defeated. I don't want to use a microphone because I believe in the natural healing properties of sound and its effect on the soul." What Costanzi and other musicians would like to see is a performance hall in North Vancouver that is, as she says, " a work of art to house other works of art." There is now a chance to create such a hall. It would rise, Phoenix-like, out of the rubble of the present cramped and leaky performance space at the Waldorf School on St. Christopher's Road in Lynn Valley. Such a facility won't just benefit the school, its supporters say. After use during school hours for music, acting, and movement classes, it will become a unique and valuable cultural centre open to the local community. This is in keeping with the Lynn Valley Community Plan. And as the number of retirement homes in the area mushrooms, the new performance hall will enrich the community and the lives of its members, with appearances by visiting performers as well as members of the Waldorf school. The planned facility has two parts, totaling some six thousand square feet. The main The Waldorf school performance hall will be a venue musicians want to play in. Emily Carr Institute Of A R T + D E S I G N Continuing + Networked Education 6 0 4 844 3810 ceinfo@eciad.bc.ca http://cne.eciad.bc.ca http://www.eciad.bc.ca January | February 23 Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design 1399 Johnston Street Vancouver, BC V 6 H 3R9