CAMBRIDGE — Hubbard Hall Center for the Arts and Education has announced it was awarded $86,000 in additional funding from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) towards new HVAC, sound, and audience seating systems.
NYSCA’s Capital Funds will allow Hubbard Hall to update its heating and cooling systems throughout its buildings, purchase and install a new sound system in its main stage space, and purchase and install new audience seating.
“These new systems will greatly enhance our ability to serve our audiences with world class music, theater, dance and spoken word special events,” said Hubbard Hall’s Executive & Artistic Director David Snider, in a statement. “This new equipment will allow our older and hearing-impaired audience members to hear every word spoken on our stages and to clearly hear a musician’s notes and a singer’s voice. It will increase the comfort in our spaces, by providing cleaner and warmer or cooler air, and more comfortable seating. It will also provide the kind of professional support necessary for high quality artists.”
NYSCA’s Capital Funds must be matched dollar for dollar. Hubbard Hall will therefore launch a matching campaign this summer in order to raise the funds to complete the HVAC and sound system projects later this fall. In 2023 the Hall will launch a second matching campaign in order to raise the final funding needed to purchase and install new audience seating in 2024.
