Back from rehab: CSPS ready to reopen doors after $7 million renovation
CEDAR RAPIDS — The world will grow a little smaller as CSPS grows larger.
The historic building at 1103 Third St. SE is ready to fling open its doors on a whole new world of possibilities, fueled by a $7 million rehab of the 120-year-old Czech social hall once affiliated with the Czech-Slovak Protective Society.
The three-story building, opened in 1891, has been home to Legion Arts since 1991.
When it reopens Friday, Aug. 26, cutting-edge performers from all corners of the globe will find new audiences in Cedar Rapids. Local artists will get a hand up in presenting, marketing and managing their work, through additional performance and gallery spaces, as well as an arts incubator where they can build their knowledge base. Three small businesses can set up retail shops on the ground floor, too.
Audiences will enter through a new tower with stairs and an elevator leading – for the first time — to an air-conditioned interior.
The neighboring 1916 firehouse has been renovated as well, to provide visiting artists with upstairs living quarters and main floor studio space.
That’s a huge leap from Legion Arts’ beginnings; co-founder Mel Andringa, 68, of Cedar Rapids, said during a recent building tour.
“When we started in this place 20 years ago, we thought we would do performance art three nights a week, and then it turned out that people were ready for that about six nights a year,” Andringa said with a laugh, “so then we started presenting other types of activities.”
The non-profit group has brought to area stages such huge artists as Joan Baez, Ani DiFranco, Richie Havens, Janis Ian and Duncan Sheik, as well as artwork by Yoko Ono, Tuvan throat singers, a Czech bluegrass band, a punk-rock gypsy band, Irish jig bands and performance artists who express themselves through music, theater and dance.
Now Legion Arts owns the building, cementing its presence for years to come.
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