Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts
Morton Way Kingston Ontario
The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts is an 90,000-square-foot world-class facility in Kingston, Ontario, featuring a variety of spaces for live music and performances, including:
- Jennifer Velva Bernstein Performance Hall: 567-seat state-of-the-art concert hall
- Power Corporation of Canada Studio Theatre: A 100-seat black box studio theatre; completely flexible space designed to allow for almost any configuration
- The Gordon Vogt Film Screening Room: 92-seat capacity with steeply raked seating and state-of-the-art digital projector
- Principal Emerita Karen Hitchcock Rehearsal Hall: Mimics the acoustics of the performance hall to allow musicians to practice in the rehearsal hall, then move into the performance hall seamlessly, avoiding surprises
- Hours: Monday - Friday, 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm.
- Phone: 613.533.2424 or 1.855.533.2424
- West on Autoroute 720, then west on Autoroute 20, then west on Ontario's Highway 401
- About 290 km, or about 3 hours by car
- South on Highway 416, and west on Highway 401
- About 200 km, or about 2 hours by car
- East on Highway 401
- About 260 km, or about 2.75 hours by car
- North on I-81 to the border of Canada
- West on Thousand Islands Bridge to Highway 401
- West on Highway 401
- About 215 km, or about 2.5 hours by car
- Follow Highway 401 to Kingston and exit south on Sir John A. Macdonald Blvd. (exit 615). Follow this street south to King Street, which is at the ninth – and final – set of traffic lights before the lake. Turn left (east) onto King Street West and continue to 390 King Street West, located on the right hand side.
- A Kingston Transit bus shelter, known as the “Isabel/Tett Centres” is located at the entrance to the Isabel. Express routes 501 and 502 service this stop, as does route 3.
- Please visit the Kingston Transit Trip Planner or the Kingston Transit site for schedules, routes, fares and additional information.
- Train service to Kingston arrives at the Kingston VIA Rail Station
- Inter-city Bus service arrives at the John Counter Blvd. Bus Terminal
- Flights arrive at Norman Rogers Airport (YGK)
- Taxis can drop passengers off at the front door.
- We will advise the cab companies of the anticipated end of our concerts with the hope that we’ll have taxis waiting to take you home.