The Local - Mt VictoriaMount Victoria Historical Society is seeking supporters of local history and cinema, to help share the story of the Embassy Theatre in its centenary year.
The Embassy Theatre reaches its 100-year milestone this year and the Society is leading a project to create an explanatory panel ready in time for the celebrations later this year.
The panel, highlighting key moments from the history of the iconic theatre, will fill one of the original glass display cases on the side of the Embassy on Marjoribanks Street near another on the history of Mount Victoria.
Fundraising is underway, to help pay for the design and production of the panel. Individuals or businesses donating more than $200 to the cause will get their name recorded on the panel, with larger donations getting more prominence, and free membership of Mount Victoria Historical Society for a year.
“When it opened in 1924, the Embassy Theatre – known as the De Luxe – was New Zealand's biggest movie theatre, and is still hugely important to the city,” says Society convenor Joanna Newman.
“It has a grand history of entertaining and surviving, and we want to make this easily accessible to visitors and locals.”
For more information see the Mount Victoria Historical Society’s website mtvictoria.history.org.nz
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