For those of you who went looking for us at the State last Friday, you probably quickly realized: we’ve relocated! To help catch you up to speed, here’s a quick tour of our new box office space, as well as our newest venue.

Main Box Office & Festival Store

Our box office location tends to change from festival to festival; this year we hope you’ll want to come and stay for a while. Our new Main Box Office & Festival Store, located at 300 E. Front St (next to Crema, one block east of the State Theatre), is a roomy, inviting, sunlit space, provided through the generosity of WCCW Radio Oldies 107.5 and Art Van Furniture, the good people who have furnished it beautifully. Here you can purchase tickets, shop for official TCFF gear, rest on couches, enjoy complimentary Crema coffee and watch trailers for this year’s films, or enjoy a snack with friends. Open every day of the week from 12-8 p.m., we hope this will be a refuge in the midst of the hustle and bustle of the festival, a place you can connect with fellow moviegoers and discuss the films you’ve seen.

Of special note: The Art Van Furniture/WCCW Cybercafe will be up and running before and during the festival. Wireless capabilities throughout the building will allow the tech-savvy to get their Internet fix between screenings.

Lars Hockstad Auditorium 

As the festival continues to grow, we’ve begun scouting new venues into which we can expand. While there are a variety of options in Traverse City, the list is made smaller by our main criteria: that festival venues remain within walking distance of each other. This year, thanks to the generosity of TCAPS (this event is not sponsored by TCAPS) and a number of very smart and generous people including those listed below, we’ve been able to make a lot more tickets to great films available by securing a new venue that fits the bill: Lars Hockstad Auditorium.

Engineers and architects and AC experts and theater specialists have come together to turn this historic auditorium in Central Grade School into a temporarily-air conditioned movie theater that will be chillier than normal during the festival. The auditorium promises to be a great addition to our lineup of venues; we look forward to hearing your thoughts on the new digs.

With Many Thanks to:
A.B.I. Mechanical Contractors
Arms & Cole Plumbing and Heating
Rhoades Engineering
Traverse Architectural Group
Traverse Area District Schools
Traverse City Light and Power
Windemuller Inc.

And Special Thanks To:
Steve Bizon, Rhoades Engineering
Michael Buday, A.B.I. Mechanical
Gary Derrigan, TCAPS
Scott Hardy, City Commissioner
Philip Jaquish
Doug King, State of Michigan,
Paul Mahon, TCAPS
Jim Rose, Windemuller Inc.
Richard Smith, TCLP
David Spala, Traverse Architectural Group