A part of South Kerr Hall
Toronto Metropolitan University Community Park

Kerr Hall is a series of four buildings in a square, surrounding Ryerson Community Park, on the campus of Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) in Toronto, Canada. Kerr Hall is on the site of the former Toronto Normal School. 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 Toronto Normal School.[1]

Interior access of Kerr Hall
Facade of Toronto Normal School serves as entrance to Toronto Metropolitan University's Recreation and Athletics Centre

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, Howard Hillen Kerr.

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".[2] It also hosts screenings of films during the Toronto International Film Festival.[2]

The Theatre has hosted

Source: Toronto Metropolitan University[2]

Dance performances have included:

  • Fall for Dance North series - Indigenous Enterprise program "Indigenous Liberation" October 2022[4]

Musical concerts have included:

  • Japan - November 1979[5]
  • CJRT Festival Series

Theatre performances by the Ryerson Theatre Company have included:

Floor plans and navigation

Not all four of Kerr Hall's buildings connect to each other[7] 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.[8]

Google indoor maps provide static floor plans; they can also provide spoken walking directions[9] 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[10] in many commercial and institutional buildings.

References

  1. ↑ "Toronto Normal School - Bing images".
  2. 1 2 3 "The Theatre at The Creative School". Toronto Metropolitan University. Retrieved November 28, 2022.
  3. ↑ "Borat satire turns to farce in Toronto". Ynetnews. Yedioth Internet. October 9, 2006. Archived from the original on February 21, 2014. Retrieved February 12, 2014.
  4. ↑ Grant-Moran, Robin (October 4, 2022). "Jera Wolfe, 146 National Ballet School dancers bring uniqueness to Fall For Dance North". The Globe and Mail. p. A13.
  5. ↑ McGrath, Paul (November 26, 1979). "Japan makes good music but not history". The Globe and Mail. p. 14.
  6. ↑ "THEATRE". The Globe and Mail. November 30, 1977. p. F6.
  7. ↑ Ash, Peter. "Kerr Hall: The maze that you'll never run away from". The Eyeopener. Rye Eye Publishing, Inc.
  8. ↑ himcognito. "Re: Kerr Hall is confusing". Reddit, Inc.
  9. ↑ "Use indoor maps to view floor plans". Google Maps Help. Google Inc.
  10. ↑ "Indoor navigation by Google – what you should know about it". Infsoft GmbH.

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