Going to the movies is a great way to spend an evening and Cornerstone Theatre is excited to announce their bid has been accepted on the Redvers Arts Centre’s digital projection system.
The Redvers Arts Centre was inundated with water during the floods of 2014 and was closed due to structural concerns. Although the Redvers Arts Council attempted to salvage the building, they ran into larger issues and had to abandon their attempts to repair and renovate the building.
With that coming to light the Redvers Arts Council decided to sell the system. The cost of the system is being paid up-front by the Cornerstone Theatre, however, they are hoping the community will be willing to help them in donations, as some of the money they are using to purchase the system is earmarked for other upgrades to Carlyle Memorial Hall.
“Cornerstone is paying for the system up front,” Dianne Twietmeyer explained. “But, we’re hoping to have community donations to help pay for the system. We have some other projects that the money we’re using is earmarked for, so we hope the community will help us pay for the rest, but we do expect to cover a third of the system.”
Twietmeyer explains that movies have been gone from Carlyle for approximately five years: “Things went digital and we had to stop showing movies. At the time it was looking like $100,000 to set up a digital projector and at that time we couldn’t even think about it because we had quite recently gone to the community for donations in upgrading the projector we had.”
“This opportunity in Redvers came up and Cornerstone decided that we should jump at the opportunity and make it possible to show movies here again, but we will need the community’s help to afford it.”
The total bid, which was accepted by Redvers, was for $30,000. Cornerstone Theatre will pay this up front, but are hoping to raise $20,000 with the help of the community to assist in covering the cost of the venture for they have other projects at Carlyle Memorial Hall underway as well.
“We plan to get it set up in the theatre this summer, but won’t be looking to open until after summer,” Twietmeyer said. “We’d also like to find groups interested in running it – Cornerstone had done it for many years, prior to that individual families ran it for several years, but we’re hoping we can find a relationship like the Arcola Optimists have with the high school.”
Contact the Cornerstone Theatre if interested in helping them with this venture of bringing movies back to Carlyle.
