When arriving at York by bus (often the 196  Express from Downsview Station), you get off in front of York Lanes, seen here from the common room in the Accolade East Building. York Lanes is our community shopping mall. Once off the bus, cross the street onto the Harry Arthurs Common, crossing in front of the reflecting pond, with Vari Hall on the right and the grassy Common on your left.

Looking to the left (East) you see the Common with the Canadian flag waving at the far end.

As you cross the Common, looking right you see Vari Hall. Vari Hall is the hub of the university and sits at the west end of the Harry Arthurs Common. The reflecting pond is filled in early May, just days after this photo was taken.

As you cross the Common you will see next to the Burton Auditorium the new Accolade West Building behind some large willow trees.

As you approach the south side of the Common, you see the Centre for Film and Theatre (CFT) to the left of Burton Auditorium.

The Centre for Film and Theatre faces the Common, and its surrounding bus loop. In this shot you can see the CFT with the new Accolade East building in the distance.

This is the entry to the CFT from the Common.

Upon entering the Centre for Film and Theatre, on your left is a stairway (the red door) and an elevator to take you to the Department of Theatre offices on the third floor.

This elevator serves the Film and Theatre Departments, located on the second and third floors respectively. There is a staircase in the big red box to the right of here.

If you take the stairs this is what you'll see as you approach the third floor.

Faculty offices and department staff are located on this floor. After exiting the stairs or elevator, head down the hall to find the Graduate Program Director's office and the office of the Graduate Program Assistant, Marcia Orlowsky.

This room houses the photocopier and the coffee machine and faculty cubbies, and often serves as the hub of the department.

Just before heading back down the stairs or elevator, you might find room 301 open. This meeting room is used for classes and seminars, department meetings and gatherings of the graduate class.

The entrance to the Joseph G. Green Studio Theatre (the red doors) is off the CFT Lobby. Theatre@York tickets are sold from the box office here.

Tickets for most productions at York are sold here, at the box office in the CFT Lobby.

During the fall and winter terms, the CFT lobby is busy with a cafeteria serving sandwiches, simple Italian food, coffee and breakfast.

Behind these doors are acting studios and classrooms and studios for production and design. Film studios are located the far end of the hallway. The entrance to the Joseph G. Green Studio Theatre's dressing rooms and backstage area is also through these doors and to the left.

The door to 142, similar to all the studio door in the CFT.

This studio is typical of the studio spaces available in the Centre for Film and Threatre. There is a minimal grid and audio equipment in each of these studios for "unmounted" productions.

another view of studio 142, named in honour of Professor Emeritus Ron Singer.

The Department of Theatre's black box space is the Joseph G. Green Student Theatre, named for the founding Chair of the department.

Sandra Faire & Ivan Fecan Theatre.

Sandra Faire & Ivan Fecan Theatre

Sandra Faire & Ivan Fecan Theatre, view to stage

Sandra Faire & Ivan Fecan Theatre - Backstage

This studio is scheduled for remodeling and will be used as a grad student lounge in 2006-07.

Another view of the small studio in Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts.

Walking south from the CFT lobby, you exit to a sunny sculpture garden across from the Technology Enhanced Learning  (TEL) building.

This studio has been the home for the graduate program in acting for many years. Unmounted or small productions have been staged in this space very successfully.

another view of the studio.

Returning back toward the CFT, you can see the Accolade East building in the distance.

The CIBC Lobby, serving the new Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre and the Tribute Communities Recital Hall,  is bright red! and is located right in the centre of the new Accolade East building on the main floor.

Tickets for all York music and dance and some theatre productions are available at the Fine Arts Box Office located in the CIBC Lobby.

The doors to the Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre from the CIBC Lobby.

the other door to the new theatre.

Studios for the acting area are located on the second floor of the Accolade East Building, with many music studios and dance studios as well.

The entry to the Robert & Julia Foster Studio.

The Robert and Julia Foster Studio, on the second floor of the Accolade East Building, is a studio theatre space with a grid, dressing room, and booth.

This large studio is used for studio classes and rehearsals.

This studio is used for unmounted productions throughout the year.

The new studio theatre in the Accolade East building has a small dressing room.

The smaller studio in the new Accolade East Building  is also used by Creative Ensemble classes.

Another view of the new acting studio in the Accolade East Building. You can see the wide-screen television that is installed in the studio.

On the second floor of the new Accolade East Building, overlooking the Harry  Arthurs Common, is a new common room where students can hang out.