One among Augusta’s oldest downtown theaters has been awarded historic preservation funds to put in a brand-new sound system.
The Imperial Theatre, 749 Broad St., plans to make use of the $30,000 grant to buy and set up new sound gear for the performing arts venue that first opened in Augusta as a vaudeville theater in 1918.
The Fox Theatre, by means of its Fox Theatre Institute outreach group, gives annual funding to assist shore up monetary shortages for historic theaters in Georgia and all through the South, and gives preservation mentoring by means of FTI’s neighborhood engagement packages.
The latest grant marks the fourth time that the Imperial has secured an FTI grant. An analogous grant for the Imperial in 2018 paid for greater than $40,000 of labor to restore, paint and glaze deteriorating plaster work, together with the plaster reliefs depicting Dionysus, the Greek god of revelry, above the Imperial’s field seats.
Since 2008, the Fox Theatre has awarded greater than $3.2 million to greater than 57 historic theatres in Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina and North Carolina.
