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campus, or the Knox Hall performance venue on Larch Street. At Knox Hall, the organization would be able to remain downtown, but would have to reduce programming to only part of the week to share the venue with musical performances, and would not be able to run a full-size projector; at
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seating at the time as its permanent seats had not yet been installed. Once the installation of the permanent seating had been completed, an official opening ceremony followed in June with a ribbon-cutting ceremony presided over by
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Canadian and international independent films, the organization coordinates several annual specialty film festivals, including Junction North for documentary films, the
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