Map to Wealthy Street Theatre

The Wealthy Theatre is located in East Grand Rapids and will be home to the Thriller! Chiller! Film Festival this year.

Wealthy Theatre  (aka "Theatre A"  Seating capacity: 420)

Wealthy Theatre, 1130 Wealthy Street, was constructed in 1911 for vaudeville and live theater, and later became a neighborhood movie house. It served during World War I as a warehouse for the Michigan Aircraft Company, and in the 1960s, offered the only regional venue for foreign films. It closed in the late 1970s and stood empty and decaying for more than 25 years before the South East Economic Development neighborhood association launched a capital campaign to fund its restoration. The Theatre re-opened in 1998 as a community arts center and heralded a transformation of the entire Wealthy Street business district. And in March of 2005, the theatre was acquired by the Grand Rapids Community Media Center and their recent renovations in the main lobby compliment the latest additions of state of the art digital projection and concert studio sound. There has never been a finer time to screen films at the Wealthy Theare and Thriller! Chiller! is proud to be one of the very first events to showcase these improvements to an eager public.

Dirk Koning Memorial Bell Garden MicroCinema (aka "Theatre B" Seating Capacity: 60)

Adjoining the Wealthy Theatre complex is the brand new state-of-the art microcinema and memorial space dedicated to the memory of visionary media innovator and director of the Grand Rapids Community Media Center, Dirk Koning. Started in mid-Summer of 2007, Thriller! Chiller! staff and members of the West Michigan Film Video Alliance assisted in the realization of this space with the removal of more than ten tons of broken concrete and dirt durng the first scorching weekend in August. This brand new theatre will boast state of the art digital projection and sound with all new stadium seating and carpet to splash with your popcorn and beer when the thrill and the chill strikes you during this year's festival. Thriller! Chiller! is far beyond incredibly honored and giddy with fright delight to be the first event to take this space out on it's maiden voyage.

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