Multicultural Arts Center The theater interior at the Multicultural Arts Center in East Cambridge.

The mission of the Multicultural Arts Center was to “coordinate ongoing arts programs, house a learning center, offer performing and rehearsal space and nourish all branches of the arts in Cambridge,” the Cambridge Chronicle reported as it was being formed by committee in 1977. It was also intended to be a space for performers and audiences from across Cambridge – and beyond.

But, as board member Victoria Gordon told the Chronicle in 1979, “we are particularly sensitive to the needs of East Cambridge.”

The creation of the center was part of the East Cambridge Riverfront Development Plan, and its location speaks to the commitment of the planning team to adaptive reuse of historic but vacan

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