Page 6 - June 2021 Donor Newsletter
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Corn Fest
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The merchants in Downtown DeKalb We are excited to announce
held their latest Back Alley Market event on that, this coming August, the Egyptian Theatre
Saturday, May 8th with great success! And this will be the host of the Community Stage at Corn
time the Egyptian Theatre was able to participate! Fest. This longstanding downtown event has
With over 50 vendor tables throughout Palmer always brought tremendous foot traffic through
Court and 2nd Street, we were happy to open our the Egyptian, but we expect this to greatly increase
doors to allow for more spaces for these vendors with the addition of the Community Stage. We will
to set-up. We were so thankful that the weather be welcoming over 20 different community groups
cooperated and the amount of foot traffic we to our stage across all three days of the festival.
saw at this event was astounding! We had our
new concession stand open with popcorn sales This exciting partnership was only made possible
being the big winner of the day! We continued to thanks to the addition of air conditioning to our
receive words of praise throughout the day from historic building! We have our fingers crossed for
market-goers of how impressed they were with our 80 degree weather with full sun!
expansion project and how they could not wait to
come back for a movie or a show. A great day of Check out the lineup at www.egyptiantheatre.org.
collaboration with the downtown merchants!
