Kerr Hall is a series of four buildings in a square, surrounding Ryerson Community Park, on the

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(formerly Ryerson University) in

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, Canada. Kerr Hall is on the site of the former

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. All but a portion of the Normal School's front façade was demolished in the late 1950s to enable the construction of: * Kerr Hall East: 340 Church Street and 60 Gould Street. * Kerr Hall West: 379 Victoria Street. * Kerr Hall North: 31 and 43 Gerrard Street East. * Kerr Hall South: 40 and 50 Gould Street. The current building was built from the early 1960s to 1969 and designed by architect Burwell R. Coon. Until 1963, Kerr Hall surrounded the site of the

The middle of Kerr Hall is the tree-lined Ryerson Community Park, also known as the ''Quad''. Kerr Hall is named for Ryerson's first principal,

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The Theatre at The Creative School

The northwest corner of Kerr Hall North houses The Theatre at The Creative School, formerly Ryerson Theatre. The 1,237-seat auditorium is used for "live productions, lectures, product launches, convocations, fashion shows and film shoots". It also hosts screenings of films during the

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. The Theatre has hosted * film premieres including ''

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'' in 1987 and ''

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'' (2006) * the 1976

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* the

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(1977) * the Atkinson Lecture Series. Source:

Dance performances have included: * ''Fall for Dance North'' series - Indigenous Enterprise program "Indigenous Liberation" October 2022 Musical concerts have included: *

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- November 1979 * CJRT Festival Series Theatre performances by the Ryerson Theatre Company have included: *

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, November 1977

Floor plans and navigation

Not all four of Kerr Hall's buildings connect to each other on all floors. You cannot pass through the Theatre. Google Maps offers indoor maps for all four floors of Kerr Hall, plus the basement. Many room numbers are omitted from the map, and the entire 100 level of Kerr Hall West is also missing. Google indoor maps provide static floor plans; they can also provide spoken walking directions to selected rooms inside a building. Google Maps can use Wi-Fi trilateration in order to determine a user's position; it can achieve an indoor accuracy of between 5–15 meters in many commercial and institutional buildings.

References

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