The Making-Box has surpassed its $20,000 Kickstarter crowd-funding target, a campaign aimed at establishing a permanent home for the wildly successful and growing comedy and improvisation organization.
By the time the fundraising effort ended on Sunday, $24,355 had been raised. A celebration was held on Sunday at the Royal City Brewing Company on Victoria Road.
The permanent home will be located at 19 Wyndham Street in downtown Guelph, the historic Petrie Building. The building is currently undergoing renovations from top to bottom. The Making-Box needed major money for renovations of its own.
Building community through laughter and the spirit of play, The Making-Box has plans to build a fully-accessible comedy theatre and improv. training centre.
The arts organization will turn a large room in the Petrie Building into a theatre, a project requiring significant construction, soundproofing and painting, with new flooring and plumbing, and the purchase of various pieces equipment and furnishings.
The projected launch date of the project is this October.
