Pick up and head northeast this Friday and Saturday to Urbana and a new folk festival that promises to be a Midwest favorite. The celebration combines the best of staged concerts, a family street carnival, a treasure hunt, a pub crawl, folk art show and a participatory music-dance camp with jam sessions and open mics, […]
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Artist talk
Artist, author, Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University and critic for The Nation, Arthur C. Danto is considered one of the most important philosophers of art in the world. He discusses and shows his art at this UIS ECCE Speaker Series presentation followed by a reception at the Visual Arts Gallery located in […]
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Paramount pics
This weekend see an array of short films produced by independent filmmakers from around the world. View everything from animation to documentary. If you cannot make the entire two-day fest, drop in on a block of films beginning Saturday at 10 a.m., 1 p.m., 3:15 p.m., 6:30 p.m. or 8:45 p.m. (adults only for this […]
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Top talent
This is more than a premier fine art fair where over 85 artists present and sell their works on the grounds of the Art Association. Take a tour of Edwards Place Historic Home, where Lincoln entertained and now the oldest Springfield home on its original foundation. Find a book at the used book sale; listen […]
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Able arms
Saturday and Sunday, the main action takes place at the Logan County fairgrounds with good-ole fashioned rail-splitting, tomahawk throwing, log rolling and water boiling competitions. There’s so much more happening, too: antique car and tractor show, historical displays, flea market, children’s games, handmade crafts, storytellers, trap shooting, working crafts, tours, food, music, and on Sunday, […]
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The Station
As The Station, a Springfield-based national touring funk/rock/jam band, celebrates 10 years of being together as a functioning unit in 2009, the nucleus of Dave Littrell (vocals, guitar, sax) and Dave Carter (drums, percussion) with Kevin Lemen (guitar) announces the addition of Springfield bassist, Jeff Cunningham, to the lineup. The Chatham native who plucks the […]
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Therapeutic theater
UIS Theatre and ECCE Speaker Series bring this interesting and moving documentary film to Springfield Wednesday night. In Hank Rogerson’s revelatory trip into and around this prison production, we embark on a year-long journey with the Shakespeare Behind Bars theatre troupe. Prisoners cast themselves in roles reflecting their personal history and fate. Their individual stories, […]
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Flatland
The founding triumvirate of Flatland — Jerry Reno, Bill Dunlap and Gordy Cotter — began playing music together in grade school, shall we say, many years ago. The group, based in west central Illinois around White Hall in the Jacksonville area, formed as Flatland Band in 1980 and continues going strong nearly 30 years later. […]
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Hot topic
In an era when United States military expenditures are almost as great as all the military expenditures of all other countries combined, Retired Ambassador W. Robert Pearson makes the case for greater United States investment in diplomacy. Sponsored by the University of Illinois at Springfield Speaker Series and World Affairs Council of Central Illinois. Crisis […]
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Outdoor gallery
Forty-two artists from 10 states and Israel show and sell their original artwork this weekend including clay items by popular artist Celeste Theodore from Florida, pewter by Missouri pewter artists Kandis and Randy Lovcik, one-of-a kind pine needle baskets by Oklahoma artist Elizabeth Smathers and documentary-style images of the Dana-Thomas House and the Old State […]
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Sneak peek
Party with friends this Wednesday night and get a taste of the main feast, the Route 66 International Film Festival. Capital City Bar and Grill hosts this free preview party where you can sample five short films (5-8 minutes in length) by independent filmmakers from all over the world. Movie trivia, raffles and film festival […]
