Centre opens in style
The spirits of several university professors in Canterbury looked on yesterday as the Arts Centre Information Centre was opened.
Lord Rutherford was there, depicted in Rutherford’s Den by a figure made by Mr Gary Sutton of the Canterbury museum. Sir James Hight was present in the form of a bust sculptured in the 1930 s and given to the centre by his daughter. Christchurch’s eccentric Professor Alexander Bickerton was represented by memorabilia and song.
All have associations with the Arts Centre site,
Bickerton and Hight as Canterbury College professors and Rutherford for the research he did there.
The Information Centre has been created in what was storage and junk space behind the present administrative office and adjacent to Rutherford’s Den.
It aims to provide e'asier access to the artists working in the Arts Centre through a large, coded map and information.
Displays of artists’ work and of the history of the old Canterbury College and University of Canterbury site will be staged. A
20-minute video of the Arts Centre activities will be screened regularly. Creating the Information Centre has allowed the Arts Centre to open up Rutherford’s Den. Glassed off, the figure of Rutherford at work is easily accessible to visitors.
Upstairs is the last remaining lecture theatre in the complex. ■ It will be restored as a typical lecture room.
Coinciding with the centre’s opening is a display about Professor Bickerton. The Court Theatre, one of the Arts Centre tenants, will open a musical on August 9 about the life of Bickerton.
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