Marian St Theatre needs your voice
By Monday
The arts should not come last
Ku-ring-gai Council could finally commit to Marian St Theatre. But they need to hear from you.
Ku-ring-gai Council has:
✓ 207 parks, playgrounds and sports fields
✓ 67 tennis courts
✓ 2 golf courses and
✓ 1 fitness and aquatic centre
But for the arts only:
✓ 1 arts centre (Roseville)
X 1 theatre (closed for over 12 years)
Marian St Theatre has been closed for 12 years
Ku-ring-gai has a vibrant, community-driven, grassroots arts and culture scene, but audiences and groups have been forced out of the area, including Marian Street Theatre for Young People, Killara Music Society (the largest music club in Sydney), Pymble Players, Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic, Sanskriti (School of Indian Performing Arts), and its many choirs, such as Hummingsong Choir and Challis Singers.
Neighbouring Councils of Willoughby, Northern Beaches and Ryde are providing 6 to 7 arts spaces each. Ku-ring-gai has just one that is open (Ku-ring-gai Art Centre in Roseville), which caters to the visual arts.
Why Marian St?
A renovated Marian St Theatre will have three performance spaces, a rehearsal space and a cafe opening out into a beautiful, rejuvenated Selkirk Park. It will be a space for music, dance, theatre, visual arts and community to come together again.
Check out the approved designs
By one of Australia’s preeminent theatre architectural companies, Tonkin Zulaikha Greer.
What can you do?
Option 4 is only 4%, or $1.32, more per week per ratepaying household than Option 3, which Council has effectively already committed to as works on the St Ives Sports Centre are already in progress.
That’s approximately $0.46 per resident. Or $23.92 a year. Less than a coffee a month, or one month of Netflix without ads.
The arts should not come last.
Have your say – before 1 September*
*Submissions extended from 31 August to 1 September.
Write now to Ku-ring-gai Council to support Option 4 of the SRV, including reference number S14747-2, and say you support Marian Street Theatre. Submissions can be made via:
- Emailing: srv@krg.nsw.gov.au
- Ku-ring-gai Council’s website
- Sending a letter to: Ku-ring-gai Council, Locked Bag 1006, Gordon NSW 2072
Not a ratepayer or resident? You can still make a submission.
Make your voice heard. Submissions close 1 September.
More on the Special Rates Variation
Find out more from Ku-ring-gai Council website, or in their video below.