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This is your chance to watch man’s best friend compete up close and in person Easter weekend at the Orr Building. The American Kennel Club (AKC) licensed dog Obedience and Rally Obedience Trials, one of the first AKC events in the country in which mixed breed dogs are competing and judged side-by-side with purebred dogs, […]

Second only to Santa’s delivery of presents at Christmas, the Easter egg hunt excites children to no end. Here are a few hunts around the area for you and your family to get your first taste of spring in the open air. April 3 at 10am, 11am and 12pm, Knights Action Park welcomes droves of […]

Budding entrepreneurs of health care innovations such as information technology products, research tools or services, patient care enhancements and medical devices or drug development have a chance to learn from experts April 1. SIU faculty and staff members discuss their expertise in clinical research development, research regulatory requirements, patenting, licensing agreements, plus business whiz Bruce […]

Your kids’ eyes will light up with delight seeing the musical ice version of their favorites The Little Mermaid and Shrek, as over 100 Springfield Figure Skating members dance and perform on ice. Also included in the show is a rendition of the funny Young Frankenstein and featured guest skater, U.S. National Medalist Ross Miner. Tickets […]

During the noon hour at the Springfield Art Association’s Michael Victor II Art Library learn more about the man who painted Demon Sitting, pictured above. Rosina Neginsky, UIS associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, lectures on Michael Vrubel, a Russian painter of the 20th century. Vrubel was the first to develop a representation of the subconscious […]

Susy Hendrix, a blind Greenwich Village housewife, is targeted by three ex-convicts searching for drugs hidden in a doll that her husband unwittingly transported home from Canada.  Jacksonville Theatre Guild presents the masterfully constructed thriller by Frederick Knott that moves from one moment of suspense to another as it builds toward an electrifying final scene. […]

This Celtic sports event ranks as unusual and spirited. Kilted athletes compete in the stone put, caber toss, Scottish hammer throw, weight over bar and sheaf toss. The equipment is like none you’ve ever seen and the events are challenging, to say the least. Hosted by the St. Andrew Society of Central Illinois Ancient Athletics, […]

Internationally acclaimed classical guitarist John Johns performs compositions by Bach, Frescobaldi, Sor, de Falla, Villa-Lobos and others March 20. Johns’ debut recital was at Carnegie Hall where the New York Times praised him as a “first-rate performer with sure fingers and a firm technique…a sensitive instrumentalist.” Since then, his credits include appearances around the world, on […]

Hear the voices and see the likes of Susan Lawrence Dana and others as time rolls back to the early 1900s March 20-21 at the Dana-Thomas House. Reenactors will bring the rooms to life as they portray Mrs. Dana and her fellow suffragettes from Springfield’s Equal Suffrage Club who gathered at the home to discuss […]

Focus in on the fabric of artwork displayed at the Springfield Area Quilt Guild’s A Community of Quilters Quilt Show the weekend of March 19-20. Besides a display of junior and antique quilts and the featured work of 2010 Marian Brockschmidt Quilting Achievement Award recipient Barbara Olinger, view competitive quilts vying in several categories. These […]

Star gazers and animal enthusiasts get two for the price of free at Lincoln Memorial Garden March 12. Trek the trails with two UIS science professors and learn about the night sky and night animals. Dr. John Martin from the astronomy/physics program will have telescopes and teach about the nighttime sky. Biology department vertebrate biologist […]

Families can learn all about collections — how to start a collection and how to keep it in great shape – and explore the collections of Springfield area kids and teens March 13 from 1-3 p.m. at the museum. There will be no sales or appraisals at this event. Families with younger children, ages 4-8, […]