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RAAC seeks
new quarters
Arts organization
quits Gay St Theatre
By LOU HATTER
Rappahannock Newt Staff Writer
Sunday was moving day for the Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community, as volunteers began packing up the RAAC office and relocating it from the Gay St. Theatre to the packing house at the comer of Gay and Porter Street.
RAAC’s lease on the Gay Street Theatre expires Nov. 30, and the community arts organization was unable to agree with theatre owner Wendy Weinberg on the terms of a new lease, according to former president and RAAC director Diana Bird.
“Negotiating a new lease of the recently refurbished and air-conditioned building proved impossible owing to what might be called a failure of each party’s bringing its goals and responsibilities into focus with the other’s,” Mrs. Bird said in a written statement delivered to the Rappahannock News on Monday.
“RAAC and Mrs. Weinberg have parted amicably and the organization hopes that on particular occasions it will rent the theatre on an ad hoc basis,” she added.
Mrs. Weinberg agreed with Mrs. Bird’s feeling, adding, “It just seems to make sense, both to RAAC and to me. I’m sorry that they are going in one way — but I would hope to get the theatre used even more. If RAAC can use the theatre more often, that is so much the better.”
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