Colorado Springs City Auditorium celebrates history with documentary

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) – Come February of 2023 the Metropolis Auditorium in Downtown Colorado Springs will likely be present process renovations to revive the house. Earlier than that occurs, a documentary on the 100-year-old constructing will likely be premiering at Metropolis Auditorium on June 29. Doorways open at midday for the director’s minimize screening and seven p.m. for the red-carpet premiere.

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“The title is The Grand Outdated Woman which feels like a extremely humorous title however, this constructing, a number of of us stored referring to it over and over because the grand outdated girl and in order that was a title,” mentioned Julie Jackson, Director of The Grand Outdated Woman Documentary.

“The documentary challenge is in regards to the neighborhood cultural collective right here on the Metropolis Auditorium and it’s a extremely cool story simply the neighborhood coming collectively making one thing actually outdated, into one thing actually new that may additional the neighborhood,” mentioned Ben Fout, Co-Director of The Grand Outdated Woman Documentary.

Not solely does the documentary replicate on the historical past of Metropolis Auditorium however the Group Cultural Collective’s imaginative and prescient for the way forward for the constructing as properly.

“A part of the method, of re-imagining this constructing and giving her one other 100 years is that we have fun not solely our historical past, however we have fun this constructing in context of who we have been, who we’re, and who we’re going to be,” mentioned Linda Weise, President Colorado Springs Group Cultural Collective

“Telling this story is basically particular to me, and I really feel like we get to be a small a part of this 100 12 months historical past, which is now going to be one other 100 years, it’s been a extremely particular challenge,” mentioned Jackson.

“My favourite half about it’s that it jogs my memory of form of what I used to be doing as a child, this constructing goes to be an arts camps for teenagers and media packages and so I used to be concerned in all of these as a child and I feel that’s why I’m doing what I’m doing now,” mentioned Fout.

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