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500 Friends, $500 Gift Cards and almost $100,000 raised! What a week!

What a week! We we hit 500 Facebook Likes today, and with 39 days, 6 hours, and 35 minutes to go before our May 1st deadline, we have already raised almost $100,000 for our Community Challenge! Remember, everyone that sponsors a seat (or has already sponsored a seat!) will be entered into a draw to a win a $500 Save On Gift Card! Thanks to Save On for their amazing support.

Advanced Ticket Sales

Due to popular demand, we are pleased to announce advanced tickets for our movies! We considered not offering any advanced tickets without a full system in place, but have decided to listen to the demand and offer a single "online" ticket price - we hope this is better than nothing!

March 21 to 24 Movie Weekend

March 15, 2013
ken
Events
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We are pleased to announce our second movie weekend, March 21-23. Thursday, March 21 at 7:30pm - Fistful of Dollars Friday & Saturday March 22 and 23 at 7:30pm - Django Unchained Saturday March 23, 1pm Matinée - Escape from…

Grab a seat while you grab your groceries!

We are very pleased to announce that our friends at Save On Foods have once again stepped up to support our project! Last summer they set up a membership table for us and helped Josh and his membership team sell…

28 seats, $84,140 and counting!

Rick, our intrepid Treasurer, has just told me that since we announced our community challenge on February 22nd, we have raised almost $10,000, bringing the total to $84,140! We are on our way to the $150,000 total but we still have a way to go before May 1. If 660 more of us send in a $100 cheque we will be done! Thanks to all the following for their generous donations and seat sponsorships

Community Challenge!

You came, you saw, you cheered! At our kick-off Gala last Friday we proudly announced an anonymous gift of $60,000 towards the digitization of our first screen and the purchase of a digital projector! Combined with money raised already, this…

Ushering in a new era of possibility at our newly remodelled Civic Theatre

February 28, 2013
Josh Wapp
Events, Fundraising
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“I’m deeply moved by this truly salt-of-the-earth community! I remember going to the Civic Theatre since I was a little kid, whether to watch the movie, “The Man Who Would Be King” or to see Allan Ginsberg wail out his beat poetry. On Saturday night, the line-ups were halfway up the block on Vernon Street and people remembered the old days of movies at the Civic, before this new era of entertainment competition with Netfix and flat screens and iPads. Such a night it was!”

Announcing the Community Challenge!

February 28, 2013
07892775801973
Challenge, Events, Fundraising, Renovations
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We are pleased as punch to have announced that a member of our community has stepped forward offering to buy our first digital projector. He will foot the bill for a brand new digital projector, valued at $60,000! With the money raised so…

Wow. What a night!

February 27, 2013
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Our Gala Kick-off evening was memorable to everyone who came. We lit up the big screen for the first time in 3 years, and “Skyfall” was everything a Bond movie should be (bullets! Explosions!) Sixty people dressed as Bond girls,…

Wow–what a weekend!

February 24, 2013
anne
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The Gala was a resounding success, and the Civic Theatre packed 'em in all weekend long for Skyfall. You came, you saw, and you celebrated. On Friday night we had great media presence (see Star story below, with thanks to…