Mount Allison Fine and Performing Arts Centre

Dear Alumni and friends,

The Mount Allison experience is renowned for being unique, creative, and world class. This reflects our enduring commitment to institutional excellence and quality in our people, programs, and campus facilities. We want to provide students and faculty with dynamic teaching, research, and creative spaces so that they can explore and reach their potential.

As part of its ongoing commitment to the Arts, the University has identified that our next major campus priority will be a Fine and Performing Arts Centre.

Fine and Performing Arts have long played a large role at Mount Allison. Today 40 per cent of students from outside of these disciplines take a course from one of these areas and each year hundreds participate in the many student productions that occur on campus. This facet is one of the ways in which the University is distinct and it is a powerful draw for our community.

There is broad support on campus and in our community for this project, and we have initiated plans to pursue this with vigour. This project promises an exciting future for students, faculty, and the extended Mount Allison and local community. However, the plan to proceed with the Centre's construction on the site of the currently unused former Memorial Library has generated some concern. We appreciate all the feedback that we have received — supportive and otherwise. This engagement on an important issue reflects the spirit of a community that wants the best for our University.
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Preliminary drawings for the proposed Fine and Performing Arts Centre will be available in April. The architects have been challenged to design a facility that will foster excellent teaching, learning, and creative pursuit, while having a look and feel that will both fit into and enhance the campus. This design will see the traditional Mount Allison rose-coloured stone as well as contain some significant representation and memory of the former Memorial Library. We look forward to hearing your feedback on the drawings when they become available.

This is an exciting project for Mount Allison and we are not surprised that it has elicited such interested, committed, and at times emotional responses. We have appreciated hearing this response and reflecting on it as we have proceeded with the development of the project. If you would like to share your thoughts with us, please send them to yourthoughts@mta.ca.

Thank you for your continuing interest in and ongoing support of Mount Allison.

Regards,

Dr. Robert M. Campbell
President and Vice-Chancellor
Mount Allison University

Bruce McCubbin
Chair, Board of Regents
Mount Allison University

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[SybertoothInc]

Pretty sad to think that they might tear down a beautiful war memorial and replace it with this hideous monstrosity.