“Welcome back Athens” reads Athena Cinema’s marquee

D uring the pandemic, the glowing, green marque that crowns the Athena Cinema read: “Stay healthy Athens, see you soon.” The black letters used to display that message were put up around the time of the theater’s closure on March 16, 2020. For 16 months after that, the message remained on the marquee.

“We just didn’t have any idea that we’d be closed that long,” Alexandra Kamody, director of the Athena Cinema, said. “But then (the message) sat there, and it just seemed like it really kind of spoke to the community. It somehow felt like it had some deeper symbolism. At some point I just decided we weren’t going to change (the marquee) until we can reopen.”

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