{"id":47047,"date":"2018-06-05T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=47047"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:43","slug":"crabtree-foundation-donates-2-million-to-carleton-universitys-new-performance-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2018\/crabtree-foundation-donates-2-million-to-carleton-universitys-new-performance-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Crabtree Foundation Donates $2 Million to Carleton University\u2019s New Performance Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Crabtree Foundation Donates $2 Million to Carleton University\u2019s New Performance Centre\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n
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Carleton University is pleased to announce a $2-million gift in support of its new performance space in a renovated Dominion-Chalmers United Church complex in downtown Ottawa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are very grateful to the Crabtree Foundation for this gift,\u201d says Carleton University Interim President Alastair Summerlee. \u201cThe Foundation\u2019s long commitment to education and community is inspiring, and the new performance centre will be a marvelous gathering place for students and will strengthen Carleton\u2019s roots of serving the community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 24, 2018, Carleton\u2019s Board of Governors approved the purchase of the church for use as a multi-purpose performance space for Carleton students and faculty, and a hub for artists and community groups. Dominion-Chalmers is already home to one of Ottawa\u2019s best concert halls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe see this as an opportunity for our family\u2019s Foundation to support the entire Ottawa arts community,\u201d says Sandra Crabtree. \u201cWe are appreciative of Carleton\u2019s vision for the space and the university\u2019s commitment to helping the local community. Dominion-Chalmers has many wonderful facilities and our family is excited at what the future holds. My husband and I have attended concerts there and know how much the venue is loved by music enthusiasts and performers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Crabtree Foundation\u2019s gift will support renovations and Carleton looks forward to announcing additional support for the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe university has long considered options to develop more space for its performance arts programming,\u201d says Summerlee. \u201cThe new performance centre will greatly expand opportunities for students in music, drama and other disciplines. Music students, for example, will have access to one on the city\u2019s best acoustic concert halls and numerous rehearsal rooms. This is an amazing time for Carleton.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The generosity of the Crabtree Foundation counts toward Carleton\u2019s $300-million Collaborate Campaign. This campaign is dedicated to Carleton\u2019s Here for Good ethos \u2014 raising funds so that together we can contribute more to the good of society, its economy and institutions, and the health and well-being of people around the world. Thanks to donors, the campaign is now more than 90 per cent of the way toward its goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Crabtree Foundation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Crabtree Foundation is a private family foundation established in Montreal by Harold Crabtree. It subsequently moved to Ottawa where its operations have been based for the last thirty years. The Foundation\u2019s capital, the source of its grants, has been donated by family members. Its activities represent the philanthropic interests of the Sandra Crabtree and Gerald MacGarvie family. A number of the arts organizations who will use the Dominion-Chalmers facility have been supported over the years by their Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About Carleton University<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Located in the nation\u2019s capital, Carleton University is a dynamic research and teaching institution with a tradition of leading change. Its internationally recognized faculty, staff and researchers provide more than 30,000 full- and part-time students from every province and more than 100 countries around the world with academic opportunities in more than 65 programs of study. Carleton\u2019s creative, interdisciplinary and international approach to research has led to many significant discoveries and creative works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Carleton University is pleased to announce a $2-million gift in support of its new performance space in a renovated Dominion-Chalmers United Church complex in downtown Ottawa. \u201cWe are very grateful to the Crabtree Foundation for this gift,\u201d says Carleton University Interim President Alastair Summerlee. \u201cThe Foundation\u2019s long commitment to education and community is inspiring, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":47049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1559,88,97,138,157],"class_list":["post-47047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-releases","tag-advancement","tag-awards","tag-community-engagement","tag-music","tag-president"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47047"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47211,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47047\/revisions\/47211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}