Pollinator Paradise

from 2017 April Oak Cliff

by Advocate Media - Dallas

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Saturday, April 29, 11-12:30pm FREE gregational Church when they bought it for $330,000 in 2015. But turning it into the arts center of their dreams has been a struggle.

After nearly two years of zoning battles, painstaking restoration and turmoil with the city, they’re making it happen. Arts Mission Oak Cliff launches this spring.

It’s a for-proﬁt arts space, currently funded entirely by the Lotts, that will offer workshop and rehearsal space for theater companies as well as studios and art classes. They’ll host summer camps, and in the fall, they’ll begin offering a conservatory for students at nearby Greiner Middle School. They hope to add a number of one-off after-school classes and events as well.

At the helm is Anastasia Munoz, an actor, director and teacher with years of experience on the Dallas stage.

The building, beautiful and dramatic as it is, gives the city’s theater community one major thing that’s lacking: Space.

It offers theater companies the opportunity to workshop plays at low cost, with a unique venue where donors can see their new work. It opens the door for experimentation, Munoz says.

“There’s such limited space available,” she says. “They really have to play it safe all the time. Now we have a place to play again and dive into the unknown.”

Munoz says she expects Shakespeare Dallas, the Dallas Children’s Theater, Kitchen Dog and many others to take advantage of the space. Cara Mia Theater will be the ﬁrst to perform a play in the church’s former sanctuary this month.