The Community Arts Center has been described as one of the “crown jewels” of Fairfield’s Village Green. The 40,000-square-foot Center houses a 250-seat theater, an arts and crafts studio, dance and fitness studio, children’s room, senior lounge, classroom, a multipurpose community/banquet room with a balcony overlooking Village Green Park, and an art gallery. A dramatic two-story, day-lit galleria / lobby welcomes patrons.

“We worked with the entire community to design this one of a kind facility,” said Parks and Recreation Director James Bell. “There is literally something for everyone.”

Fellowship Village Senior Living is in the process of adapting its social environments in an effort to develop a robust in-reach program. Fellowship Senior Living has a population of 450 residents and an increasing demand for programs: invited artists, lectures, in-house productions, and more. The existing 80-seat multipurpose room is inadequate both in capacity and technology for this robust programming. An important first step is the addition of a new auditorium in the heart of the community.

Collaborating with these organizations and KDA, FDA has designed a state-of-the-art auditorium that will provide the setting for the presentation of high-quality, diverse programming in an appropriate setting. Designed for flexibility, the auditorium has 140 retractable seats with the capacity for an additional 100 floor seats to accommodate large productions and events. The retractable seating allows for an entirely open floor for banquet seating.

Two regional performing arts organizations, Berkeley Light Opera Company and Trinity Theater Company, will make this new venue a home for their productions and will bring their audiences with them.

The Whitaker Center was the first facility in the nation to link the arts and sciences in one building. The Center houses a 600-seat theater, 200-seat Imax, and a Science Center in a design that affords visitors views from one program area to another to emphasize the link between the disciplines and encourage participation in both.

The Sunoco Performance Theatre has a 664-seat auditorium designed with three levels of seating, none more than 65 feet from the stage. The Broadway-sized stage, fly space, moveable orchestra pit and commodious back-of-house accommodations were designed to meet the production and performance needs of a range of community performing arts groups including the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Theatre Harrisburg, the Harrisburg Opera Association, and the Concertante Chamber Ensemble.