Looks like it’s not curtains for Nanaimo Centre Stage after all.
City Council is backing a 3 year agreement with the newly formed Harbour City Theatre Alliance to manage the rehearsal and performance space at 25 Victoria Road. It’s going to pay them $11,350 a year.
Jim Taylor of the Nanaimo Ratepayers Association isn’t giving the deal a very good review, he threw the proverbial tomatoes, calling it a waste of taxpayer dollars.
But Mayor John Ruttan says it’s a vital cultural space.
Ruttan also says the Port Theatre will hopefully provide an alternative, when it expands in the future.
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The agreement with Harbour City Theatre Alliance (which includes Centre Stage users Schmooze Productions and In Other Words Theatre) passed in a 6-3 vote.
