Build The Bones
$58,173.41
Raised
367
Gifts
$50,000
Goal
We are building a new theater on Parrish Street in downtown Durham & need your help to do it.
Before the curtain, before the first screening, before any of it, there's the unglamorous work of building something from scratch.
Your donation helps us lay that foundation: sourcing the projector that will light up our screen, developing the branding and website that will tell Durham who we are, and hosting screenings to bring us all together. These aren't the 'pretty' parts of opening a cinema. But they're the parts that make everything else possible.
We've come a long way on our own: We've found our space, started construction, and started planning our first screenings. But we've gone as far as we can without you. This is the part where Durham shows up, and we get to build something together that this city has never quite seen before.
If you've ever left a film feeling less alone, like a writer, director, or actor up on that screen knew exactly what you needed to hear, you know why spaces like this matter.
Help us make it real.
Click here to make a tax-deductible donation
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Steve Burnett
donated
$100
Wonderful!
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Nathan Dixon
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Tray Batson
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Dylan DeVore
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Emma Vinella-Brusher
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Margaret
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Juliana
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Jen Poole
donated
$104.43
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Atinuke "Tinu" Diver
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$100
Congrats ya'll!❤️👏🏿
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Kevin
Thank you for sharing your dreams with Durham. Long live S&B.
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Mark Adams
Am so thankful for Shadowbox, and so excited for Skin & Bones!
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walter neff
donated
$52.37
That tears it.
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Devon Tuttle
donated
$50
S&B forever!
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Craig Fischer
donated
$104.43
Good luck, guys! Thanks for fighting the good fight for cinema and alternative culture in Durham...
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Banks Dixon
donated
$123.17
"Go that way really fast. If something gets in your way... turn." - Charles de Mar
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Chris Gayler
donated
$52.37
Very very cool Alex!! Can't wait to see it finished
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Brad
donated
$100
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Anh Pham
donated
$123.17
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Bren Vienrich-Felling
donated
$52.37
Happy to support this cause. Wishing you all the best and look forward to attending future screenings.
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rust gilbert
donated
$104.43
What steps have you taken to get buy-in from interested/influential members of the Black Community here in Durham? NCCS has a Department of Mass Communications which includes film. I don't know them but perhaps they would be interested in helping to shape your project.
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Peter Perez
donated
$52.37
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Kerry
What Grady said.
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Emily Millay Haddad
donated
$104.43
It’s a dream come true to bring a “social cinema” to Durham. I’m grateful to you for doing this unglamorous work so that the deep magic of movies, across time and around the globe, will be available to our communities. When y’all are up and running, I’ll be proud to sit in a chair I helped make happen.
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Douglas
donated
$86.47
...a little tip of the hat to your efforts, and you know I wish it could be more, but this is it for now... love you guys!
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Marsha Gordon
donated
$100
Thanks for your commitment to micro-local cinemagoing, and much more of course. I look forward to sitting in one of these chairs!
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Elizabeth Ellis
donated
$123.17
Hey you guys! This is Lizzie (so you know who Elizabeth Ellis really is)
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Ruby
donated
$31.55
Love y'all! Wish I could give more.
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Alexa
donated
$21.14
Support local!!
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Joel Peter Johnson
donated
$104.43
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Ron
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$104.43
Bring The Screen!