Wednesday, January 05, 2005

Thanks, Jessica

I talked about this a while ago. There are a lot of people upset with the Englert and the way it has treated the Iowa City Community Theatre and the rest of the local arts community. And those people are starting to make some noise.

Acknowledge local theater

As a member of this community and a supporter of community programs, I find disturbing how we've allowed the Englert Theatre board to brush aside the very people who have supported it. For almost a year now, it has been a struggle for the Iowa City Commun-ity Theater to get recognition for the large donation it made to the Englert and for the words of promise that were given to them. Many people in this community donated to the Englert be-cause we were foolishly led to think the community theater was to be the resident theater company of the Englert.

I only vent because I have seen how hard it is for the theater to make ends meet. They are troopers through all of this, have really had their hopes up for the last few years and have worked hard to raise money for the Englert.

Yet, if they describe themselves as possessing "selflessness" and "thankful"-ness, where is Iowa City Community Theater's rec-ognition?

I suppose that unless someone who has invested in this Englert steps up and says how he feels and demand his money back, the Iowa City Community Theater's struggle has all been in vain.

Jessica Aimone

Iowa City


Edited to add that I see Kris has also blogged about this. Nice.

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