Our residents need a cultural and event center that welcomes their meetings, award presentations, weddings, birthdays, and memorials. Our local arts groups and high school students need a permanent state-of-the-art home to rehearse and perform. Our children need arts education that is no longer offered in our schools. Our economy needs the vital new businesses that will be generated by the renovation of the Lompoc Theater. The Lompoc Theatre will provide all these opportunities and give Lompoc a true heart of the arts.
Getting to opening day will not be easy. It will be expensive. But the benefits will be a rejuvenation of the entire city, radiating out in rings from the state of the art, historically preserved theatre center. Dollar-by-dollar, step-by-step, hurdle-by-hurdle, we are turning our community’s longstanding dream into reality.
This will literally set the stage for completion of the project, and the long awaited, permanent re-opening of the historic Lompoc Theatre. This new community arts center will show movies, host music concerts of all kinds, exhibit dance shows, perform live theater, host lectures, film festivals, and every other kind of arts and entertainment you can think of to enlighten, educate and entertain audiences.
Phase II includes the completion of critical structural and interior upgrades necessary to enable us to host live performances on the Lompoc Theatre stage for the first time in over 50 years! This includes, among other things;
Complete roof replacement and remediation.
Grading and repaving of the Theatre parking lot.
Installation of permanent ADA upgrades for audience members and performers.
A full retrofit of the facility safety features including: sprinklers and fire alarms, telecom, access and exit lighting, and more.
Resurfacing of the stage and removal of existing rigging; upgrades to electrical capacity; and the purchase and installation of stage lighting instruments, rigging and sound.
Portable seating for 99 – the maximum occupancy for live events until Phase III has been completed.
The purchase and installation of two permanent modular dressing rooms and full exterior courtyard restrooms.
Restore Historic Land Office and move it back onto H street where it was originally built.
Phase II received a tremendous kick-off in the spring of 2023 when Lompoc Theatre Project received a matching grant from the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians for $150,000. In just 10 short months, our community came together to match that challenge, putting $300,000 toward our Phase II funding goal. Then in November 2023, Senator Monique Limon and Assemblymember Gregg Hart announced that the State of California awarded us $2.285 million to restore this heart of Historic Lompoc!
With just $400,000 left to raise until our Phase II objectives are all fully funded. You can help us reach this new milestone by making a donation online here.