Agency Details:

Garde Arts Center

As a non-profit, professional center for the performing arts, the Garde Arts Center strives to engage, enrich, entertain and inspire the region of greater New London County, by

protecting, operating and enhancing the historic Garde Theatre and its facilities as a central cultural gathering place,
presenting top-quality performing arts and film events,
fostering community arts organizations, and
strengthening community interaction and vitality in and through the arts.

Description:
The Garde Arts Center, Inc. (GAC) is a non-profit cultural organization created in 1985 by a regional, volunteer network of leaders in business, arts, education and philanthropy. Their mission was to save and transform the historic Garde theatre, one of the few remaining historic movie palaces in Connecticut, and create a performing arts center in the heart of downtown New London serving Southeastern Connecticut, a region rich in geographic, economic, ethnic and cultural diversity.

Today, The Garde owns and operates a complex of four adjacent buildings in downtown New London, the centerpiece of which is the 1,472-seat Garde Theatre, an historic movie/vaudeville house (1926). Built in 1926 during the golden era of the motion pictures and vaudeville theatres, the recently restored Moroccan interior of the Garde Theatre, along with the new seats and state-of-the-art stage equipment, provide a very audience-friendly theatre venue in a warm and beautiful atmosphere. Today the Garde is becoming nationally recognized for its unique architecture and multi-faceted programming.

Contact person: Jeanne Sigel, Volunteer Coordinator, (email)

Office fax number: (860) 444-6766

Address:

325 State Street New London, CT 06320 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.gardearts.org

Directions:

FROM 1-95 HEADED NORTH From: I-95 Heading North To: 325 State St, New London, CT 06320 I-95 [Connecticut Tpke] (North) At I-95 Exit 83, turn off onto Ramp for 0.2 mi Bear LEFT (East) onto Local road(s) for 0.2 mi Continue. . . (more)

Last updated on July 13, 2009