By Eric Hartley
The Virginian-Pilot
The students drove in, some from Virginia Beach, for their weekly steel-drum practice at the Attucks Theatre. But the door was locked, and no one was around.
So the six students and their instructors from Mosaic Steel Orchestra, a nonprofit that has held classes in the Attucks for a decade, found themselves standing in the back parking lot Wednesday afternoon.
“Whose car can we practice on?” Helen Brown joked, holding up her two mallets.
Until this week, Mosaic was the last arts organization standing out of a collection that long used the theater, which is owned by the city.
But Norfolk spokeswoman Lori Crouch said in an email that the group was not allowed in the building Wednesday because it had not signed a lease by an Oct. 31 deadline.
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If what d spokesperson says is true then it's the group's fault.
Read the whole story, what would you do if your rent suddenly went up to $60,000 a year after they had been given free space there for years. Not a nice thing going on there.
If this is true, then the group needs to have someone negotiating for them and bringing this injustice to the relevant authorities