Yes, it’s true. It’s time to vote again. The general election is April 4th. You can find all your voting information (including sample ballots and vote by mail info) on the Champaign County Clerk’s website. …
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View Resilience: The Heart of Ukraine, photographs by Michael Andrews, at KCPA

Krannert Center for the Performing Arts is showing an exhibition of photographs by Michael Andrews. The exhibition opens on Sunday, February 26th, ahead of the Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine concert that night. The …
Jessica Hammie
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Hear Rose Marshack of Poster Children talk about her new book

Rose Marshack — musician, author, professor — will be talking about her new book, Play Like a Man: My Life in Poster Children, at 2 p.m. on March 4th at Exile on Main Street in …
Jessica Hammie
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CLAW is recruiting

Have you ever wanted to professionally wrestle, or be involved behind the scenes with professional-adjacent wrestling? This is your moment. CLAW — Champaign Ladies Amateur Wrestling — is recruiting for all positions, and you can …
Jessica Hammie
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Stream Nicole Anderson-Cobb’s Homegrown through February 26th

For the next nine days, you can stream playwright Nicole Anderson-Cobb’s Homegrown: An Insurrection Play. The Station Theatre has made it accessible for online viewing through midnight on February 26th; tickets are $5. The play …
Jessica Hammie
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Getting to know the Aizuri Quartet

This weekend at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts you can experience a performance from the Aizuri Quartet, a string quartet of four amazing women: Emma Frucht and Miho Saegusa on violin; Ayane Kozasa on …
Jessica Hammie
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Here are the Food for Thought discussions this semester

Food for Thought is a weekly discussion organized by the University of Illinois’ Asian American Cultural Center. Topics are relevant to the Asian American community and range from arts and culture to stress management and …
Jessica Hammie
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The Inauguration Celebration for the Urbana Poet Laureate is February 26th

The Inauguration Celebration for Urbana Poet Laureate Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure is from 2 to 4 p.m., Sunday, February 26, 2023 at the Spurlock Museum. There will be poetry readings, music by the New Souls, and …
Jessica Hammie
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Celebrate Jewish community advocacy, activism, and fellowship in Central Illinois

The University of Illinois Library’s Illinois History and Lincoln Collections has an exhibit up through May called “Pulling It All Together”: Jewish Community Advocacy, Activism, & Fellowship in Central Illinois, 1959-1984. The exhibition draws from …
Jessica Hammie
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Watch The Magic Stump at The Virginia Theatre on February 19th

The Magic Stump, a documentary that “tells the story of an Illinois tree stump that’s attracted a phenomenal variety of wintering raptors through the years, including two rare Prairie Falcons,” will be screened — for …
Jessica Hammie
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