The Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts is a performance hall and sports museum in
Parry Sound,
Ontario, Canada. It is the primary performance venue for the annual
Festival of the Sound summer classical music festival. The centre is named for Charles W. Stockey, an early and enthusiastic supporter and board member of the Festival of the Sound. Construction of the CAD$12.4-million centre was started in the spring of 2002 and the official opening took place in .
Facilities
The centre sits on a 1.5-hectare (3.5-acre) site on a
peninsula
A peninsula (; ) is a landform that extends from a mainland and is surrounded by water on most, but not all of its borders. A peninsula is also sometimes defined as a piece of land bordered by water on three of its sides. Peninsulas exist on all ...
where the
Seguin River
The Seguin River is a river in Parry Sound District in central Ontario, Canada that empties into Parry Sound on Georgian Bay, Lake Huron at the town of Parry Sound. The river's name comes from the Ojibwe word ''ziigwan'', meaning "spring".
...
flows into
Parry Sound on
Georgian Bay and adjacent to the town's harbour area. The building has 2,500 square metres (27,000 square feet) of floor space. It includes a 480-seat music hall with acoustics by Artec Consultants
and the Bobby Orr Hall of Fame, celebrating the Parry Sound native and ice hockey legend
Bobby Orr.
The centre was designed to look and feel like a Georgian Bay cottage; wood is used extensively for structural and decorative purposes.
References
External links
*{{Official website, http://www.stockeycentre.com/
Bobby Orr Hall of Fame
Parry Sound, Ontario
Concert halls in Canada
Ice hockey museums and halls of fame
Event venues established in 2003
Museums established in 2003
Museums in Parry Sound District
Sports museums in Canada
Buildings and structures in Parry Sound District
Tourist attractions in Parry Sound District
2003 establishments in Ontario