There is general consensus that Kelowna should have a new performing arts center. There’s only one thing that gets in the way.
Money. About $ 67 million to be precise.
That’s why Kelowna citizens are working to build public support for a new performing arts center.
NowMedia spoke to the group’s spokesperson, Patricia Ainslie, outside what is now the Kelowna Community Theater, which is now nearly sixty years old.
“At the time, our population was around 15,000,” Ainslie points out. “Our population is now about 143,000.”
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The group believes that with public support it can come together over the next five years.
“The city has grown to a point,” said Ainslie. “We lived with this theater, we will have lived with it for over 60 years by then and it really has to be renewed.”
There is support for the idea in the town hall and planning is ongoing, but there is no funding yet.
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