The Civic Theatre’s Long Intermission: What rebuilding a rural theatre taught us about resilience, access and the art of waiting.
Right now, the Civic Theatre in Nelson doesn’t look like a theatre at all. The seats are gone, scaffolding fills the room, the projectors are packed away, and the familiar rhythm of showtimes and concessions has been replaced by silence.
After more than a decade of near-constant use, that silence is unsettling. Since 2012, we’ve weathered digital conversion, economic shifts and a pandemic without ever fully closing our doors. This time, we had to step aside, not because the work stopped, but because the building itself needed to catch up with the future we’ve been working toward all along.
This is the long intermission, the quiet middle where we hold steady and prepare for what comes next. There’s still much work to do; we have more fundraising ahead of us, and the actual construction of this exciting renewed space.
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