Main Street Toccoa Gets Grant for 2017 Performance

A grant is allowing Main Street Toccoa to put on a special performance early next year.

The Georgia Council for the Arts recently awarded Main Street Toccoa a grant for the purpose of programming at the Historic Ritz Theatre at the Schaefer Center.

Christian Hamilton with Main Street Toccoa said the grant will bring a performing group called “Lightwire Theater” to Toccoa next March.

“If you have heard of them, they were featured prominently on America’s Got Talent,” said Hamilton. “They perform in a dark theater and they were light rigs, costumes of a sort, and they perform in the dark.”

Hamilton said there will be two nighttime shows with plans for a matinee for students in school as well.

He went on to say that they are excited for the opportunity and appreciative to the Georgia Council for the Arts for providing the grant.

The name of the grant is a Vibrant Communities grant.

According to the Georgia Council for the Arts, it awarded nearly $300,000 in grant funds through this program to 85 entities.

Georgia Council for the Arts Executive Director Karen Paty said that the GCA recognizes that a thriving arts community contributes immeasurably to economic and social vitality, and the Vibrant Communities grant is one of the ways in which the agency supports the incredible work happening in communities.