What:

Groundbreaking celebration for new music and theater facility at Kennesaw State University

When:                            

Friday, April 25, 2008

10:00 a.m.

Where:              

Behind the Dr. Bobbie Bailey & Family Performance Center

Kennesaw State University, 1000 Chastain Road, Kennesaw

Who:              

Sharon Brittain, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Board of Regents;

Daniel S. Papp, President, Kennesaw State University;

John Anderson, KSU Assistant Vice President for Facilities Services;

Joseph Meeks, Dean, KSU College of the Arts

Why:              

Kennesaw State University is constructing a state-funded annex to the existing Joe Mack Wilson Building. The new facility includes music studios, practice rooms for music students and a 125-seat studio theater for use by the KSU Department of Theatre & Performance Studies. Construction is scheduled for completion in Fall 2008.

The new facility will help the KSU Department of Music and Department of Theatre & Performance Studies deliver quality academic programs, as outlined by their respective accrediting agencies, the National Association of Schools of Music and the National Association of Schools of Theatre. Kennesaw State is one of only a handful of Georgia universities to have achieved full national accreditation for all of its arts departments.

The Wilson Annex is the second new arts facility at Kennesaw State in recent years; the Dr. Bobbie Bailey & Family Performance Center was opened in Fall 2007.

Contact:              

Cheryl Anderson Brown

College of the Arts Public Relations Coordinator

678-438-7601
cbrown@kennesaw.edu

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