MAKE BOWKER BETTER
For over a century, the Bowker Auditorium has hosted plays, dance and music concerts, and some of the community’s and campus’s most special events. It is a vital community resource, a place where audiences have come together since 1915 to laugh, to be moved, to applaud.
Now, Bowker needs a hand.
It’s showing its age. It needs your help.
Last summer, we upgraded the patrons' seats. Now we want to improve the spaces used by the university, regional, and international performers who grace its stage.
How do we do that?
We refurbish the basement lab spaces into a green room, dressing rooms, rehearsal rooms, and needed storage space. They will be a welcoming and highly functional suite of spaces for performers. Spaces that will merit a resounding, "Bravo!"
The Daily Hampshire Gazette’s Steve Pfarrer and Kevin Gutting captured the full scope of this project when they toured Bowker with FAC’s Dennis Conway and Milo Lanoue.
Take a look: http://www.gazettenet.com/Bowker-Auditorium-gets-a-facelift-7544463
The Fine Arts Center has received a Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund grant and a UMass budget allocation to help make this happen. The Fine Arts Center needs to raise the remaining funds to complete the project.
We hope, with your UMassGives contribution, we can reach $10,000 of that goal.
Please help “Make Bowker Better!”
No gift is too small.
Thank you!
