…since 1989. The festival is a cultural celebration of Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), a Bengali activist, poet, author, artist and scholar. His wide range of prose can touch any human emotion,…
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An inside look at Rent with music director Justin Brauer
…also proposed New York Housing Authority and Mixed-Use Development. I still like that last one, maybe I’ll use it sometime. Justin Brauer SP: Besides Rent, what else from this season…
The Murder at Old Willow Boarding School is a spooky new choose your own adventure book
…The Murder at Old Willow Boarding School by Jessika Fleck, a Champaign-Urbana based author who focuses on young adult and middle grade fiction. This choose your own adventure book came…
Brendan Slocumb’s visit to the Champaign Public Library
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the great authors series at the Champaign Public Library. For the first time, there was an afternoon music event and an evening…
Let’s talk about book bans
…in any book-centered physical or online spaces that week, you likely saw displays of books highlighting frequently-challenged titles. It’s unfortunate that 40 years after its founding, the annual event is…
Homecoming: An Illinois tradition
…event I have coming up in a few weeks with the author Luis Alberto Urrea.” Ross worked with me to share some of his extensive knowledge with a Homecoming history…
It’s Friday the 13th…are you superstitious?
…the superstition surrounding Friday the 13th, various traditions attached misfortune to Friday and to the number 13 separately, then a Victorian author merged them into one with a novel called Friday,…
Take a look behind the scenes of October Dance
…pieces with almost 40 dancers in total. All of the performers are undergraduate dance majors or graduate MFA candidates. We try to program works that are not only diverse in…
Five things in arts: October 2023
…is the result of the collaboration between 40 North and the Urbana Arts and Culture Program. The two organizations were also responsible for the PostMark Urbana event last month. The…
U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón is coming to Spurlock
…the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. She is the author of six books of poetry, including The Carrying which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry….