![]() “By the time William and I had our first conversation, we had a pretty solid idea that we wanted that space to be a performing arts space, that it would be ideally suited to do a multiplicity of things there, including the science workshops that we expect to be doing here where people will come from all over the world, literally to come here and learn and enjoy the beautiful campus.”Īfter meeting with Pemberton, Miller said, PlaneWave was ready to move forward and help leverage resources for the project. ![]() “It would be something that all of the rest of the campus would have an opportunity to use for their own purposes and then potentially the community could use it as well,” Miller said. Suggestions were made to PlaneWave about how to incorporate the performing arts on the campus, and the company started looking for the right group to make that happen in the chapel, Miller said. PlaneWave has wanted to be able to host conferences and workshops on the property - perhaps arts or sciences or a combination of the two that would be run by either the company or other groups - and having a larger space on campus would help do that, Miller said. It has since been used by families of PlaneWave employees for volleyball practice, cornhole games and swimming. ![]() While the training school was open, the chapel was turned into a student center with a stage and gymnasium on the main floor and the pool in the basement. PlaneWave did repairs inside to fix water damage that happened while the property was unused after the training school closed. The size of the performance hall in the chapel plus the available space in the basement - where a small, lane swimming pool is now - made Pemberton realize it could be a home for R4, where it could perform and have its offices as well as be a repository for the archive of musical arrangements, research materials and recordings that was entrusted to R4 by noted jazz and ragtime historian Karl Koenig. More: Raisin Institute was first racially integrated school in Michigan “That there is a building here that’s associated with Laura Haviland that PlaneWave is hoping can be a community performing arts center … that fits into our story really, really well,” he said. Part of the nonprofit ensemble’s mission is to educate audiences about the history of ragtime music, which dates back to just after the chapel was built, including the diversity ragtime's origins: African American roots, Latin American rhythms, European harmonies and Western musical form, Pemberton said. Croswell at that time really connected with me, and then hearing more about PlaneWave’s vision from Chris, by the time I got home my head was spinning and probably by the end of the evening I was beginning to write a proposal, just thinking this is an unbelievable match.” … Finding out that the chapel and the original training school was something that was pushed by Laura Haviland along with Gov. I knew of Laura Haviland as the Raisin Institute a little further down the road. “… Meanwhile, Pi had been telling me about the provenance of Laura Haviland on campus here. “It still wasn’t all clicking until I went in and I saw the intimate size of the hall” in the chapel, Pemberton said Monday in an interview at PlaveWave’s offices. He said artist Pi Benio invited him to see the gallery and studios. He was impressed by what he saw, then PlaneWave special projects consultant Chris Miller stopped by and they got to talking about how PlaneWave wants to incorporate the arts, including music, into its campus and how some of the company’s executives are musicians. It closed in 2008.ĭiscussions between R4, as the ensemble is known, and PlaneWave started with a visit by R4 executive director William Pemberton to see the ACA. The school was a state-run juvenile detention facility. This project also is intended to honor some of the history of the training school by renaming the chapel Haviland Hall for “Aunt Laura” Haviland, the abolitionist, educator and activist who played a role in the creation of the State Industrial School for Girls, which later became the training school. The Tecumseh-based River Raisin Ragtime Revue and the telescope maker are making plans to convert the 1879 chapel into a performance and office space for the 13-piece orchestra. PlaneWave already hosts the Adrian Center for the Arts and the Sam Beaufort Woodworking Institute on its property, which is the former Adrian Training School campus at the corner of North Main Street and Curtis Road. ADRIAN - Plans are in the works to add the performing arts to the visual and industrial arts on the campus of PlaneWave Instruments in Adrian.
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