Featured Series
Tomorrow
8pm (doors open at 7:30pm)
GRFAS Acoustic Saturday Nights-Nobody's Darlin'
AVAILABLE DAY OF CONCERT, AT DOOR!! $9 GRFAS members; $12 General Public; $10 seniors/students (2 students for $10 with ID) $3 12 and under
The Koning Micro-Cinema, 1130 Wealthy St SE
9pm (doors open at 8:30pm)
Sounds of the Motor City Live at Wealthy Theatre
$20 dollars in advance $25 dollars at the door, 10% of the proceeds will go to the fundraiser
Wealthy Theatre, 1130 Wealthy St SE
Profile: Ed Pratt...A Documentary Life
Ed Pratt...A Documentary Life
In the visual arts, a picture is worth a thousand words. But in the world of documentary filmmaking, a thousand words are just the beginning of what you’ll need to put that picture into its proper perspective.
Spotlight: Wealthy Theatre
Wealthy Theatre is a venue for films, video, discussions, and dialogues, music concerts, community meetings, and more.
Client Feedback
“Our experience with the Community Media Center was extremely beneficial to the Mental Health Foundation of West Michigan. We were able to utilize several facets that are offered at the CMC and feel that these were instrumental in educating the community about mental illness. We never realized the impact the CMC has in our community until we were receiving phone calls daily from viewers. Our community is extremely fortunate to have the CMC available to us. ”
Christy Buck, Executive Director, Mental Health Foundation of West Michigan
Welcome to the CMC
For over 25 years the Community Media Center has acquired and maintained technology tools, media services and community venues to benefit the Grand Rapids community. Explore this site to discover how CMC's television, radio, IT, education and live theatre resources are here to help you. Learn more about the CMC.
"It's A Wonderful Life" returns to Wealthy Theatre!
Wealthy Theatre and Community Media Center (CMC) are proud to feature "It's A Wonderful Life" - a tradition at Wealthy Theatre!
The classic Frank Capra film starts at 6PM on Saturday, December 13, in Peter Wege Auditorium.
Thanks to donations from the following area businesses and organizations, the movie will be free!
- Wealthy Street Business Alliance (WSBA)
- John O’Connor & the Peoples Republic of Cherry Hill
- Art of the Table
- Atomic Object
- Kregel
- Urban Pharm
- Wealthy at Charles
CMC is grateful to WSBA for taking a lead role in the sponsorship of this event, and to John O'Connor for the challenge grant that led off the pledges!
High-Resolution Printable Version of Poster
The WYCE Legacy Project
88.1 FM WYCE
announces two new radio programs
beginning Sunday nights this fall.
Sundays from 6 to 8 pm, host Ogie Dreyer presents Legacy, an historical look at the world of music that inspired today’s progressive radio.
Then from 8 to 10 pm, join host Mike Scot for The British Infusion – a look at how early American roots music influenced British culture and sparked a revolution.
These shows are part of an overarching program we're calling The Legacy Project, an effort to preserve your music that has lost its home on the radio.
You can participate! The Legacy Project needs your vintage music - CDs, LPs or 45s - for archival and potential addition to our new Sunday night programming!
More information on the Legacy Project is available at wycelegacy.blogspot.com, or by contacting Matt at (616) 459-4788 extension 110 or
A Winter's Tune
WYCE presents the 12th annual A Winter’s Tune concert on Sunday, December 7th at Wealthy Theatre at 2:30pm (buy tickets). Join WYCE and some of the area's finest singer/songwriters, including Ralston Bowles, Chance Jones and Josh Rose, for an evening of original and traditional music to ring in the holiday season.
This year's concert will have a silent auction, featuring items such as paintings from local artists, autographed CDs and merchandise from WYCE artists, musical instruments and more.
Tickets are available by calling the Wealthy Theatre Box Office at 616-459-4788 x 131 or by clicking on the link below.
GRTV Thanksgiving Holiday Hours
Please note that GRTV will only be open on Saturday November 29 from Noon to 4:00 pm. We will also be closed November 27 and 28 for the Thanksgiving Day holiday.
Remembering To Not Forget
Wealthy Theatre would have be nothing without the heroic actions of the South East Economic Development (SEED) organization. Literally: the SEED organizers saved the theatre from the wrecking ball. What would the property be now, if the theatre had been demolished? A Wal-Mart? Shudder to think. Better simply to say "thank-you" to the folks who organized the movement, and saved the Wealthy Theatre District, in the 1990s. Those who have the pleasure of visiting, living, working, or recreating in this neighborhood... are in your debt.
This photograph (above) is archived at CMC Lending Library, collected as part of a retrospective video that CMC is creating to honor the history of the Wealthy Theatre District. Special thanks to Craig Nobbelin, Rebecca Smith-Hoffman, Carol Moore and Rhonda Baker for their advice and contributions to the archiving project.
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Join us on Facebook and MySpace, and become a fan, a friend of WYCE!
Excuse me - *WHOSE* WYCE skull cap is it, Papi?
I was on the phone with a surfer friend from Grand Haven, talking about the upcoming Unsalted & The Concusssions event at Wealthy Theatre. Very excited to discover a dozen of his surfer friends are coming to GR to see this music and concert extravaganza, on Thursday. Out of the blue, my little lad (Julian) came up and hijacked my cherished WYCE skull cap - and he proceded to put it on! I had a camera nearby and wanted to share HIS new skull cap ;-)
Learn more about the Unsalted/Concussions event!
Going Once... WYCE Wants Your Stuff for Our Silent Auction!
Got stuff? Good. Want to get rid of some? Even better!
WYCE is holding a silent auction on December 7th, and we're looking for donated items to auction off. To find out how you can help out, click the "read more" link.
Coleman A. Young Foundation Launch
The CMC IT Team is proud to announce the launch of www.CAYF.org the new web presence for the Coleman A. Young Foundation of Detroit. The site not only helps communicate their organization and their great work with students from Detroit, it also helps streamline their work. People can now apply for any of their programs online, nominate an outstanding educator for the "Detroit Educator of the Year" award, and those accepted to the scholarship program can now handle all of their paperwork online. It also provides an area where past and present participants in the scholars program can connect with each other through a message board system for advice, support, or just general conversation.
How Sweet It Is
Our builder, Bill Bainbridge, is going to fix our fallen flagpole later this week. In the mean time, to commemorate Election Day, we flew the flag in the Lobby... right below our brand new neon that commemorates late CMC Founding Director Dirk Koning. The Koning Micro-Cinema opened earlier this year: in that short time, it has become as popular as our main theatre, Peter Wege Auditorium.
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