Frequently Asked Questions

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To park on the ODU campus, you must pay for a parking meter or use a parking permit, available for purchase from the Transportation & Parking Services office. The parking permit is purchased online via the ODU Parking Portal, and is linked to your vehicle license plate (i.e. you plate is your permit).

View the campus transportation map for available parking areas.

Recital information, including dates, and dress, can be found by clicking here.

Directions to ODU can easily be found by using Google Maps, or Mapquest. The address to the Diehn Performing Arts building is:

1339 W. 49th St.
Norfolk, VA 23529

Additionally we have provided a brief overview of how to get to ODU from multiple locations:

From Williamsburg:

Take I-64 East to Norfolk. Drive through the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel. Approximately six miles after leaving the tunnel, you will see a sign saying, "To Terminal Boulevard/To Naval Bases." Follow Terminal Boulevard until you reach the third traffic light, where Terminal Boulevard and Hampton Boulevard intersect. Turn left onto Hampton Boulevard.

To reach Diehn Performing Arts:

You will continue on Hampton Boulevard until you reach the seventh traffic light. This will be 49th Street. Make a right onto 49th Street. You will pass Forman Field on the right and a glass building on the left. The first street on your left will be Elkhorn. Turn left onto Elkhorn and park in Lot 27 (the first parking lot on your right). The brick building on the corner of 49th and Elkhorn is Diehn Fine and Performing Arts.

From Virginia Beach:

Take I-264 West to Downtown Norfolk. This highway turns into Waterside Drive. Follow Waterside Drive for several blocks, which turns into Boush Street. At the intersection of Boush and Brambleton Avenue turn left onto Brambleton. Move into the right lane. You will see a sign that says "To ODU." Merge with the traffic onto Hampton Boulevard.

To reach Diehn Performing Arts:

Continue on Hampton Boulevard for approximately three miles. Make a left onto 49th Street. Make a right onto 49th Street. You will pass Forman Field on the right and a glass building (Webb Center) on the left. The Diehn building is located next to a parking plaza just after Webb Center.

From Chesapeake:

Take I-64 East toward Suffolk (from Deep Creek area, take I-64 West). Take the I-464 exit to Norfolk. Stay left on the Berkley Bridge, avoiding the I-264 exit, and take the Waterside Drive exit on the right once you cross the bridge. Follow Waterside Drive for several blocks, which turns into Boush Street. At the intersection of Boush and Brambleton Avenue turn left onto Brambleton. Move into the right lane. You will see a sign that says "To ODU." Merge with the traffic onto Hampton Boulevard.

To reach Diehn Performing Arts:

Continue on Hampton Boulevard for approximately three miles. Make a left onto 49th Street. Make a right onto 49th Street. You will pass Forman Field on the right and a glass building (Webb Center) on the left. The Diehn building is located next to a parking plaza just after Webb Center.

From Norfolk International Airport:

Coming out of the airport follow signs for I-64 West toward Richmond and Hampton. Once on I-64 move to the left hand lane. Several miles later you will see a sign for a left exit for 564 and Terminal Boulevard. Take this exit. You will be on 564 for a very short span. Take the first exit (to your right) it will say Terminal/Hampton Boulevard. Follow Terminal Boulevard until you reach the third traffic light, where Terminal Boulevard and Hampton Boulevard intersect. Turn left onto Hampton Boulevard.

To reach Diehn Performing Arts:

You will continue on Hampton Boulevard until you reach the seventh traffic light. This will be 49th Street. Make a right onto 49th Street. You will pass Forman Field on the right and a glass building (Webb Center) on the left. The Diehn building is located next to a parking plaza just after Webb Center.

Exterior of the Diehn Fine & Performing Arts addition

Lessons are taught at the Diehn Center for the Performing Arts on the ODU main campus in Norfolk, Virginia. The Diehn Center for the Performing Arts is located at: 1339 W 49th St, Norfolk, VA 23529


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