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FSB at NCTC

The First State Bank of Gainesville, Texas sponsored the name of the new Performing Arts Center at North Central Texas College.

NCTC’s administrators view their Performing Arts Center as a powerful recruiting tool.

Lobby-Gallery

It curves around the 360-seat proscenium theater and provides a display area for students’ paintings, sculptures, jewelry and other creative items.

Theatre seating

Three hundred sixty roomy, upholstered seats are arranged in a classic Continental pattern with no center aisle, but with extra wide spaces between the rows.

Acoustics

The fine-tuning included evaluating all its exposed surfaces, then adding certain materials that absorb undesirable echoes and frequencies but allow others to focus out into the audience.

State of the art

The FSB Center has technologically sophisticated audio, visual and lighting equipment.

An ivory Green Room

Before going on stage, performers can relax in their Green Room which isn’t really green.

Lecture Hall

This 40-seat Lecture Hall is equipped for power-point presentations.

Special spaces

The FSB Center includes rooms for just about every artistic college activity.

Rehearsal Room

Used for rehearsals of instrumental performances, this room includes Wenger equipment.

Room of their own

NCTC’s singing groups now have a room of their very own for rehearsals.

Performing Arts Center

This Monolithic Dome has a diameter of 130 feet and an 8-inch-thick concrete stemwall that is 18 feet high. Overall size: 25,600 square feet.

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