Donations to the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium Campaign can be made online at ChattanoogaOnStage.com, officials said.
Contributions for both $11.11 (Veterans Day) checks and $150 for Seat Plaques can be made online as well as donations in other amounts.
For the first phase of fundraising for the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Fund, Education, Arts & Culture (EAC) is asking the community to buy a seat plaque for $150 to honor a veteran, soldier, or to just have a family name permanently placed in this historic building.
EAC is also launching an ongoing 11:11 campaign, which is "a unique and wonderful way for anyone and everyone to give 11 dollars and 11 cents, signifying Veterans Day, which is also the day the building was erected — Nov. 11, 1922." All donations from $11.11 and up will be recognized in a Book of Remembrance for the campaign.
Donations to the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Fund may be made online at www.chattanoogaonstage.com or by calling the box office at 757-5156. Box office partner eTix is making the process for accepting online donations possible.
On June 17, the city of Chattanooga Department of Education, Arts & Culture (EAC) announced that it would move forward with a fundraising campaign to renovate the Community Theatre on the third floor of Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium, coinciding with a revitalization campaign to breathe new life and activity into the historic building.
The $3 million renovation project will be donor-driven, engaging volunteers, outside partners, in-kind contributions, and other means to fully restore the Community Theatre—a smaller venue located on the third floor of the auditorium, which will seat approximately 700 when completed. This project will rely heavily on the participation and partnership of local veterans groups, troops and their families, and those invested in the local military, including the Chattanooga Music Club who was instrumental in raising over $1 million for the world-class Austin Pipe Organ.
For more information about Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium or the City of Chattanooga Department of Education, Arts & Culture contact Melissa Turner 425-7826 or turner_m@mail.chattanooga.gov.