The Cultural Center Committee had an excellent fact-finding trip to the Prizery in South Boston, VA yesterday. Prizery Executive Director Chris Jones ran through the entire history of how the building came to be, how their foundation came up with financing, and how their community partners interact.
We stayed for an excellent dinner at Bistro 1888, then went on to see the Prizery’s staging of Greater Tuna. The committee was very impressed with both the quality of the performance space and the show. We can’t thank Chris enough for all of his time, and for helping to lead us down the path.
We got an exclusive tour of their Crossing of the Dan permanent exhibit. The exhibit recounts a key military event in the Revolutionary War that led to the American victory. This event is very interesting to us as Hillsborough residents, since Cornwallis passed through town during this campaign. We thought it would if we could set up a similar exhibit in Hillsborough. The grand opening for it is tomorrow, Saturday the 26th.
We will continue to be in touch with Chris as we continue our process.
P.S. There are two more shows of Greater Tuna this weekend, if you were thinking of driving to a great little town to take in dinner and a show.
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Dennis Hermanson // August 4, 2008 at 2:25 pm |
A very big thank you goes out to Elizabeth (from us all, I am sure) for the tix. The theatre is perfectly intimate, yet “state-of-the-art”. Fun show, and those two were troopers… Well, one of them was a Trooper… they were all parts great and small… Great work.
As for Director Chris Jones, what a warm and intelligent guy!
I hope he checks this, as I wanted to send my sincere thanks for the really exceptional time he
showed us. Brainstorming of third kind.
It was really a perfect “roadtrip” with fine dinner, a fun show, and the warmest and most thorough presentation/background public arts discussion I think I’ve ever enjoyed. Good art show, too.
Crossing the Dan is well worth the trip.
I only hope we can add to the regional arts excitement by adding, sometime in the near future, Hillsborough to the list of smaller towns enjoying a fine regional creative arts center. The Prizery does South Boston, Va. proud!
Dennis Hermanson