Bella Rose Arts Centre
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| Former names | TheatreHalifax |
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| Location | 283 Thomas Raddall Drive Halifax West High School Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Coordinates | 44°39′24.59″N 63°39′51.69″W / 44.6568306°N 63.6643583°W |
| Owner | Bella Rose Arts Centre Society |
| Type | Indoor theatre |
| Seating type | Reserved/General |
| Capacity | 600 |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | February 2007 |
| Built | June 2007 |
| Opened | October 2007 |
| Website | |
| http://bellaroseartscentre.com | |
The Bella Rose Arts Centre is a community-based proscenium theatre performing arts centre located inside of Halifax West High School in the Clayton Park neighbourhood of the Halifax. The 600 seat, professional grade, multi-purpose theatre has the capacity to handle almost any type of event from music and dance shows, to theatrical productions, and conferences. It currently functions primarily as a rental venue.
The idea of the theatre was founded during the planning process of the new Halifax West High School after the old Halifax West High School became condemned due to toxic mould contamination in July 2000.
Though the old Halifax West High School did not have a theatre or auditorium—having just a gymnasium with a stage in it—the communities of Clayton Park and surrounding areas fought for a theatre during the planning process of the new school. The Nova Scotia Department of Education would however not fund a theatre seeing it as an unnecessary add-on to an already expensive new High School.
After many hours of planning and community consultation it was decided that if there was going to be a theatre inside of the new Halifax West High School that the money for it would have to come from sources other than the government. The Halifax West Community Theatre Association was then founded to ensure that a theatre would be included in the overall plans for the new Halifax West High School.
The Halifax Regional School Board turned over the old Halifax West High School that was located on Dutch Village Road over to the Halifax Regional Municipality who then demolished the building sold the lot to a local developer for an undisclosed amount. Of that undisclosed amount approximately $300 000.00 CAD was then donated to the Halifax West Community Theatre Association so that an empty shell could be included in the High School’s initial construction that would one day hold the theatre after fundraising was complete.
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