  Detroitoronto Member Username: Detroitoronto Post Number: 8 Registered: 12-2005 |
hi everyone -- i've rarely posted but enjoyed DY for years -- thought you'd be interested in local organising around Windsor's historic Capitol Theatre and there are online AND paper petitions for signing and circulating. take care, //scott The Capitol Theatre and Arts Centre, home to many local arts organizations, festivals and other events in Windsor, is currently under receivership. We are asking for your support to help show Windsor City Council that the arts, and more specifically the Capitol Theatre and Arts Centre, is a viable investment and worth re-opening for the community. Every signature counts! Please post and distribute widely! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SIGN ONLINE TO RE-OPEN THE CAPITOL THEATRE: http://www.citizensforthecapit ol.org/?page_id=33 Please distribute widely. We ARE the community Voice! The Citizens for the Capitol Theatre (CCT) petition can now be accessed and signed online. Please be directed to the following link (below) and show your support for this VITALLY IMPORTANT community theatre and public trust.Please also forward this petition to those who consider the Capitol Theatre to be an important community facility in the city of Windsor. The CCT's main goal is to have community input at the table where future usage of the theatre is being considered. SIGN NOW TO RE-OPEN THE CAPITOL THEATRE: http://www.citizensforthecapit ol.org/?page_id=33 MISSION STATEMENT: The Citizens for the Capitol Theatre (CCT) is a community based organization formed to help facilitate the re-opening and ongoing usage of the Capitol Theatre and Arts Centre in a sustainable capacity as an established public trust. CCT recognizes the interests of the artistic, entertainment, educational and business communities by adopting strategies to maintain this historical theatre and helping to establish the future cultural well-being of Windsor and region through diversity of programming, artistic excellence and ongoing dialogue with the community. | ||
Bussey Member Username: Bussey Post Number: 554 Registered: 12-2003 |
Didn't this theater just recently, past 5 years, go through a massive renovation? If so it seems odd that funding for it would go dry so soon after just being remodeled. | ||
56packman Member Username: 56packman Post Number: 1581 Registered: 12-2005 |
We had a thread going on this at the time of the closure/crisis. Is there going to be a change in management/BOD? or is this petition drive an effort by the staff in charge at the time of the crisis? | ||
Detroitoronto Member Username: Detroitoronto Post Number: 9 Registered: 12-2005 |
its a grassroots petition by artists, arts groups and community folks (some of whom work in the building at Artcite for example) the Capitol filed for bankruptcy and the city wants to assume ownership. i will post some links to Windsor Star articles shortly. | ||
Goat Member Username: Goat Post Number: 9632 Registered: 10-2003 |
The city is trying to take over the building as owners but they want to fight it in Superior court rather than through a bankruptcy. So it should take a few years to settle and I am sure tens of thousands more dollars to do it. They could have easily done this in bankruptcy court and won but no, they wanted to make a point and spend more tax payers dollars. Considering this city jsut spent over $3.1 million in legal fees for the border crossing and the Iterim control bylaw (to fight the bridge)this comes as no suprise. I am sure King Eddie is setting himself nicely when he leaves office to go and work in someone's law firm. Now about those water rate hikes and the missing funds... |
