Confederation Centre of the Arts
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| Location | 145 Richmond Street Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island C1A 1J1 |
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| Architect | Ray Affleck, Hazen Sise, Dimitri Dimakopoulos |
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| http://www.confederationcentre.com/ | |
| Official name | Confederation Centre of the Arts National Historic Site of Canada |
| Designated | 2003 |
The Confederation Centre of the Arts (French: Le Centre des arts de la Confédération) is a cultural centre dedicated to the visual and performing arts located in the city of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Construction of the Confederation Centre, as it is commonly referred to, started in 1960 and Queen Elizabeth II officially opened it to the public on October 6, 1964. The institution is funded by the ten provincial governments in Canada and the federal government as Canada's National Memorial to the Fathers of Confederation, who met in Charlottetown in September 1864 at what was called the Charlottetown Conference.
..."[The Fathers of Confederation Memorial Building] is a tribute to those famous men who founded our Confederation. But it is also dedicated to the fostering of those things that enrich the mind and delight the heart, those intangible but precious things that give meaning to a society and help create from it a civilization and a culture." — Prime Minister L. B. Pearson, Opening Ceremonies for the Confederation Centre of the Arts, October 6, 1964 [2]
As part of its mandate to showcase the best in Canadian visual and performing arts the centre has played host to the Charlottetown Festival every summer since 1965, with a tribute to its host-province by playing Canada's most popular and longest-running mainstage musical Anne of Green Gables — The Musical. It also inspired the production of the critically acclaimed musical, Anne and Gilbert. Their most successful second mainstage show to date is Canada Rocks.
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