By Angela Brown

Battlefords Community Players celebrates new home

Oct 6, 2017 | 5:00 PM

 After five years in a labour of love, the Battlefords Community Players (BCP) will launch its new season this month at the Battlefords Community Players Club House at 102-26 Street W. in Battleford.

The company that’s been running for more than 60 years had an open house Thursday to showcase its new space.

In 2012 BCP purchased the former church and spent the past five years renovating the building to create a performing space for the company.

“We’re quite excited about it,” Donna Challis, the Battlefords Community Players executive producer, said.

She thanked the community, the businesses and organizations who supported the effort.

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Grants, financial donations, as well as donated supplies, materials and in-kind labour bring the total value of the renovation project to over $200,000.

Business for the Arts also provided grant funding for the project.

As part of the renovation work, BCP upgraded and renovated the building foyer, installed new flooring, added wheelchair-accessible bathrooms and an entrance ramp.

They also added a large outdoor shed to build and produce sets. The new theatre with a dressing room sits on the main floor, with a lounge and kitchen downstairs. Outdoors, there is new stone-work at the entrance along with the parking lot.

“We put in air conditioning, which was very much needed,” Challis said. “And of course the upper level has been repainted and we put in new lighting fixtures.”

Challis said the opportunities for performing groups will be extensive, but touring companies can use the space too. 

The first play to be performed at the new BCP Club House will be The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, starting Oct. 17.

angela.brown@jpbg.ca

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