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Home / News & Events / 2011News & Events in 2011
ARTICLE: Colonial Fox acquires National Bank building . . . Read more. ARTICLE: The Colonial Fox Theatre Foundation has taken over ownership of the National Bank Building . . . Read more. EVENT: November 11 at dark, 2011 Friday Flix Series comes to a close with The Polar Express EVENT: Local Poets read in Wichita, Saturday Nov. 5 at 2:00pm . . . EVENT: SOLD OUT! Saturday October 29, 9:00pm Haunted tour of the Colonial Fox with Jasper Haunts Paranormal team! EVENT: Friday Flix "Beetlejuice" will screen on October 21 at dark. NEWS: Popcorn Cart mural is now complete! See photos ARTICLE: FIRST IN PRINT--Restoration work on the Colonial Fox Theatre is moving right along. . . Read full article NEWS: New popcorn mural being patinted on north wall! See photos EVENT: October 9 -- Last Second Sunday tours from 2-4 pm. EVENT: October 7 -- Fall Art Walk featuring "The Barows" EVENT: CANCELED due to rain "Toy Story 3" September 16. ARTICLE: Sunday's Little Balkans Days Festival events capped off one of the best weekends in the festival's history . . . EVENT: Second Sunday Tours, September 11 from 1:00pm - 3:00pm. MEDIA COVERAGE: KOAM invites CFTF for an interview about Tallgrass Film Fest. & progress update! ARTICLE: Pittsburg resident Joy Reed and her friend Gayle Callahan used to go watch the Rocky Horror Picture Show at Grubbs Hall . . . EVENT: Saturday, September 3--Little Balkans Day Tours 9:00am - 12:00pm. Limit 25 to a group, $3 donation appreciated. EVENT: Friday Flix Series continues August 19 with "Rocky Horror Picture Show!" . . . EVENT: Second Sunday Tours begin August 14 from 1:00pm - 3:00pm . . . EVENT: Friday Flix Series continues with "The Princess Bride" . . . EVENT: "Creating the Future" LHAT's 35th Annual Conference held in Schenectady, NY, will take place in the city's historic Proctor's Theatre. The event will include workshops on programming, marketing, fund raising, facilities operation and many more topics crutial to the restoration of historic theatres. EVENT: June 17 - Friday Flix Series continues with a special showing of "Stagecoach" EVENT: Kansas State Historic Preservation Conference, Topeka. City, state, and community leaders meet in Topeka . . . See More EVENT: Friday Flix season opener cancels due to wide-spread thunder storms. The Colonial Fox Theatre Foundation staff reluctantly called the showing of The Sting amidst driving rain in the downtown district. Radar shows Pittsburg surrounded by thunder storms. Unfortunately, The Sting will have to wait for another season. EVENT: 2011 Friday Flix Season opens May 20 with The Sting. Show will start at dark. Rain cancels. EVENT: The Great Plains Traveling Vaudeville Show world premier. Saturday, May 14, 2011 at the McPherson Opera House. 7 p.m. May 14, 2011 EVENT: The Kansas HIstoric Theatre Association"s (KHTA) 2011 second quarter meeting will be held at the McPherson Opera House on Saturday, May 14 at 3 p.m. . . May 14, 2011 ARTICLE: Colonial Fox welcomes new letters - The historic and beautiful Theatre of Lombard, Ill., was demolished May 14, 2007, despite the efforts of devoted friends to save it. VIDEO: "A Gift From One Historic Theatre to Another." The Colonial Fox Theatre receives a donation of marquee letters, once used on the Dupage Theatre in Illinois. ARTICLE: Colonial Fox receives marquee letters from another historic theater... EVENT: Friends of the DuPage Theatre in Lombard, IL, Lillian and Paul Mundt, deliver a set of marquee letters saved from the demolition of their theatre. ARTICLE: Sister theatre to deliver marquee letters to Fox. Come Monday, it will be easier for the Colonial Fox Theatre Foundation to spell out for the public what's been done or what's coming up at the historic theatre -- literally. ARTICLE: The Commission approved the $7,500 grant, which will be used for east and west facade improvements, as part of the meeting’s consent agenda. ARTICLE: The Colonial Fox Theatre Foundation and Memorial Auditorium staff are requesting approval from the city for grant applications at tonight’s city commission meeting. ARTICLE: Now it's History -- "When a new phase of restoration begins next week at the Colonial Fox Theatre, the sign out front will read: “Funded in part by Save America’s Treasures program." EVENT: The Colonial Fox Theatre Foundation will be partnering with the Pittsburg State University Department of Construction Management and Construction Engineering Technologies and Sika Corporation to present a seminar on fiber reinforced polymers (FRP) used in construction on Tuesday, March 29th, at 7pm in Room S102 - Auditorium of the Kansas Technology Center on Pittsburg State University's campus. This is a very exciting collaboration of Non-Profit Corporation, Higher Education, and Industry and we are pleased to be able to bring it together. Kansas Senate will vote to stop the governor’s ERO to disband the Kansas Arts Commission. ARTICLE: And the Winner Is… “What could be more fitting? Ralph E. “Rack” Wallace will be the first recipient of the Ralph E. Wallace Award. It will be presented during the Colonial Fox Theatre Foundation membership meeting…” ARTICLE: Pittsburg residents fear plan would undermine arts support » The ... ARTICLE: Andra Bryan Stefanoni: Theater's future as layered as its ..... Vonnie Corsini, director of the Colonial Fox Theatre Foundation, knows about layers. The restoration work has chipped away at layers upon ...
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