Seating type Reserved seating Capacity 4,998 Phone +1 541-682-5000 Architect Hugh Hardy | Built 1982 Opened 24 September 1982 Owner City of Eugene | |
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Location On Willamette Street, between 6th & 7th Avenues Type concert venue, performing arts venue, theater Address 1 Eugene Center, Eugene, OR 97401, USA Similar The John G Shedd Institute f, McDonald Theatre, Oregon Bach Festival, The Cuthbert Amphitheater, WOW Hall Profiles | ||
The Hult Center for the Performing Arts is a performing arts venue in Eugene, Oregon.
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The Hult Center is located downtown on Willamette Street between 6th & 7th Avenues, adjacent to the Hilton Eugene and Conference Center. Built using funds that were approved by voters in 1978, the Hult Center and the Hilton were completed in 1982 as part of the same urban renewal project.
The Hult Center is operated by the City of Eugene and is one of two performing arts venues owned by the City. Cuthbert Amphitheater, located in Eugene's Alton Baker Park, is also owned by the City and is operated by Kesey Enterprises.
Twenty-seven architectural firms competed for the opportunity to design the Center, but in the end, the Eugene City Council awarded the contract to the New York firm of Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates. The firm had previously designed the $7.5-million, 2,700-seat Minneapolis Orchestra Hall and the $13-million Boettcher Concert Hall at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.
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Performance and other facilities
The Hult Center houses 2 performance halls, a meeting venue and a public art gallery:
Resident companies
Resident companies at the Hult Center must satisfy a minimum number of performance and audience attendance requirements. In return, they enjoy certain priority scheduling privileges, hall rental discounts and the ability to apply for funding from the Hult Endowment. The residency requirements are not always easy to achieve or maintain. The current resident companies are: