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Great article. I saw "Visiting Mr. Green" there a couple of years ago. Nice to know the renovations will ensure the viability of the theatre long into the future. It seems such a beloved and accepted part of the neighbourhood but I can imagine the uproar if it had never existed but was proposed today. The area residents would be up in arms. "A theatre! In our residential neighbourhood! Think of the parking! The crowds! The noise! The kittens! Nevah!!!"
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RE: East Cultural District
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Sep 11 2006, 2:27 PM EDT
The Truth Centre currently houses Ballet Victoria as a tenant. BV (essentially powered by the husband and wife team of Jacqueline Sloan & Colin Doroschuk -- the latter of "Men Without Hats" fame) in turn also offers ballet classes, and of course the rehearsals for its productions are held there. Other than that, however, the Truth Ctr. is pretty stable and not likely to morph into a performing arts centre... Although the possibility has a certain "wow!" factor, that's for sure...
I had an idea earlier this summer that the extensive grounds of the Truth Ctr would be an ideal location for a biweekly weekends open air arts market and antiquarian bookfair... You know, the local galleries and the local independent/ unaffiliated artists, together with booksellers, could offer a kind of "Parisian" market experience... It would be a sort of "arts tourism" type thing for the summer (and into fall?), too, what with tourists straying up Fort Street anyway to get to Craigdarroch Castle, which of course is also on the way/ in that quadrant. It would really enliven Fort St., what with the Kilshaw's less than 100m to the south, the antique store across the street (about halfway between Kilshaw's and the Truth Ctr.).
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