Neo-Futurist regulars are all too familiar with our multi-purpose lobby/classroom/rehearsal room dubbed the State Park, which has been slowly deteriorating over the years.
We said ‘yes please,’ and started an IndieGoGo Campaign this summer to raise money for a tiered set of priorities for the renovation. Our incredible summer Multimedia Intern, Will Sonheim, created this amazing video for the fundraising campaign:
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We sent emails, pleaded with our patrons and posted on Facebook about the campaign ad naseam. But it worked and we were able to raise well over $13,000 from almost 200 individual donors through the IndieGoGo Campaign alone! With generous contributions from our Board and other donors outside of the public campaign we raised over $20,000 for the renovation!
We broke ground (or at least broke plaster molding) on Saturday, August 24th at 8:00am:
We are so pleased with how the room turned out. We now have appropriate climate controls all year-round (including the ability to heat the Theater). We were able to purchase brand new (much more powerful) speakers for the Theater, which allowed us to repurpose our, still-kicking, existing sound system into the State Park along with significant improvements to lighting and video capacity turning the room into a second performance-ready space.
We’re very excited to continue to introduce old and new patrons to the space, but it’s most important that we again take the time to publicly thank The Neo-Futurist Board, Ensemble and Staff in addition to the 200+ generous renovation campaign donors who made this project a huge success.
THANK YOU!!!
And if by any chance you missed your opportunity to donate to the campaign, we did go over budget in a few areas to deliver the space we needed – consider making a tax-deductible donation to the Neos today.