| 2009 Pygmalion Music Festival |
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Established and emerging artists in venues no bigger than a small theater!
 Pygmalion Music Festival is a multi-day music festival named for the Slowdive album of the same name, which takes place in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, every September. For year number five, the festival has expanded to include over 100 performers over four days in 15 different venues taking place in two different vibrant neighborhoods in Champaign-Urbana.
This year's lineup features well established mainstays, including Iron and Wine, Low, Lucero, RJD2 and The Books, alongside up-and-coming acts, such as The Antlers, YACHT, Wavves, Headlights, Japandroids, Autolux, BLK JKS, My Brightest Diamond and many more.
Shows run concurrently at multiple venues.
The 2009 Pygmalion Music Festival will run from September 16-19 at Bentley's Pub, Blues BBQ, Canopy Club, Channing-Murray Foundation, Cowboy Monkey, The Highdive, Krannert Art Museum, Krannert Center, Mike & Molly's, Parasol Records Store, Red Herring, and Sandella's. Two of the four members of local legends Hum will perform (Tim Lasher with Alpha Mile and Jeff Dimpsey with Gazelle).
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Thursday, September 16 - Saturday, September 19
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| Second Annual Local Foods BBQ |
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Serving up local veggie kabobs, brats, and burgers!
Mark your calendars! Our 2ND ANNUAL LOCAL FOODS BBQ is September 17 from 5-7pm. Come meet some of your local farmers while supporting your local food bank. Co-sponsored by Mervis Industries and Lincoln Square Village. $10 for a local meal cooked up by your Co-op and your local farmers. Stan Schutte , Diann Moore, Jon Cherniss, Phil Shidles, and Jim Hires will be manning the grill, taking orders, and serving up local veggie kabobs, brats, and burgers! All proceeds will support the Eastern Illinois Food Bank.
For more information, visit:
Thursday, September 17, 2009
5:00 - 7:00 pm
Common Ground Food Co-op
Lincoln Square Village
300 S Broadway Suite 166, Urbana |
| The Iron Post's 9th Anniversary |
Come check out bands that have supported "The Post" through the years!
 This Thursday through Sunday The Iron Post will be celebrating the ninth anniversary of opening with bands that have supported "The Post" through the years.
Thursday, Sept. 17- New Orleans favorite and world renown jazz quartet Astral Project 7pm, Friday, Sept. 18 The Jeff Helgesen Quintet featuring Glenn Wilson and Chip McNeill, 5pm. Kilborn Alley Blues Band 9pm, Sat., Sept. 19- A WEFT fundraiser with Big Bluestem, Corn Desert Ramblers and High Cross Road Bluegrass Band 6pm , and Big Grove Zydeco 9:30pm. and Sunday Sept. 20- The Music of Django Reinhardt 7pm.
For more information, visit:
Thursday, September 17 - Sunday, September 20
The Iron Post
120 South Race Street, Urbana |
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YMCA Friday Forum |
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"How Do We Get America Out of Debt?"
 The Fall 2009 Friday Forum lecture series will begin at noon, on Friday, September 18, with a lecture entitled "How Do We Get America Out of Debt?" by Chicago labor lawyer and author, Thomas Geoghegan. Our country melted down because it lived beyond its means. Why is it that other high wage countries like Germany are able to run trade surpluses and out compete us in the world economy? Tom Geoghegan, author of "The Secret Lives of Citizens" argues that the only way to make the country more competitive is to move to a European-type social democracy. While it may sound paradoxical, only a progressive agenda based on more public goods (especially single payer national health insurance) will keep our country out of the clutches of foreign creditors.
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Friday, September 18, 2009
12:00 - 1:30 pm
Latzer Hall, University YMCA
1001 South Wright Street, Urbana |
| International Beer Tasting & Chili Cook-Off |
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Taste over 150 different specialty & import beers!
Urbana's Annual International Beer Tasting & Chili Cook-Off is a local event with over 150 different specialty and import beers from around the world, along with the finest chili samples that CU has to offer. The first 500 people through the gate will receive a collectible souvenir glass. Be sure to check out the chili eating and red hot chili pepper eating contests, as well as informative seminars on different types of beer.
We need hundreds of volunteers to make this event happen! Form a team with your friends or organization, or come as one, we need your help!
If you are interested in volunteering or registering, contact:
Event Volunteer Coordinator, Vanessa Robinson
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Gates Open: 3:00 - 8:00 pm
Main and Broadway, Downtown Urbana |
| Book Signing with the Authors |
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A new book on the history of Urbana by local authors!
A book signing will take place for a new book on the history of Urbana by local authors,
Ilona Matkovszki and Dennis Roberts.
Established in 1833 as the judicial seat of Champaign County, Urbana is a city of majestic old trees, pleasant parks, and stately historic residences. Today it is home to more than 40,000 people and counts nationally known film critic Roger Ebert and several Nobel Prize laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners among its former residents. In the 1850s, Abraham Lincoln was a frequent visitor as a young lawyer on the Eighth Judicial Circuit. Today the city is best known as home of the University of Illinois, a world-class educational and research institute and the stateas first land grant university. Originally a small agricultural town on the prairie, Urbana is proud bearer of the title Tree City USA, and in 2007, West Urbana was named one of the nationas 10 Great Neighborhoods.
For more information, visit:
Saturday, September 19, 2009
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Urbana Free Library Jean Evans Archives Room
210 West Green Street, Urbana |
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2009 National Night Out Safety Expo |
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Come enjoy food, fun, and learn safety tips!
Saturday, September 19th, from Noon to 5:00, at West Side Park, Champaign. Meet U of I athletes, free live music, bounce house, hot dogs, and ice cream.
Learn valuable safety tips in a fun way from local police and fire departments.
- Safety demonstrations & exhibits for all ages
- Police anti-crime equipment on display
- Neighborhood Watch information
- Students - apartment / tenant occupant safety codes
- Safe Kids bicycle rodeo
- Fire Factor fire safety exhibit
- METCAD 911 information
- Many other safety related exhibits
For More Information Contact:
City of Champaign
Neighborhood Services Dept.
(217) 403-7070
Saturday, September 19, 2009
12:00 - 5:00 pm
West Side Park at University & State, Champaign |
| Celebrate National Yoga Month with Amara Yoga & Arts |
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Generate Global Peace Through Meditative Yogic Practice!
 Check out this free event on Sunday, September 20th, 10 AM - Noon with Handmade chocolates and live music! The purpose of the Global Mala is to unite the global yoga community from every continent, school or approach to form a "mala around the earth" through collective practices based upon the sacred cycle of 108 Sun Salutations for Fall Equinox as the yoga world's offering to further the UN International Peace Day.
Drop in or visit this website to sign up online:
Sunday, September 20, 2009
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Amara Yoga & Arts Lincoln Square, Suite 156 B
300 S. Broadway Avenue, Urbana |
| UIECU Retirement Seminar |
Planning For Tomorrow!
You've spent a lifetime accumulating money for your retirement. You've saved, invested, and taken advantage of workplace retirement plans. Now you have to make decisions about how to generate steady income stream, and these decisions could have lasting repercussions.
Join us for an educational workshop September 24, where you'll learn proven strategies for:
· Making the most of your retirement income streams
· Tapping into your retirement accumulations
· Investing for stability, income, and growth potential
· Utilizing financial vehicles that can last a lifetime
· Protecting your income and assets from the unexpected
· Preparing for a more comfortable and rewarding retirement lifestyle
For more information, or to register, visit:
Thursday, September 14, 2009
12:10 - 12:50 pm
Illini Union
Room 210, Second Floor |
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C-U Folk & Roots Festival |
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Come out with friends, family and instruments and join the fun!
 The First Annual Champaign-Urbana Folk and Roots Festival announces its performance and event schedule for September 25th and 26th in and around downtown Urbana! Featuring old-time, bluegrass, blues, conjunto, Cajun and Creole, Irish music, storytelling and more, this all-volunteer-run festival will feature over 70 outstanding artists and performers.
Highlights include alt-country singer-songwriter Robbie Fulks, champion Irish fiddle player Liz Carroll, Los T-Birds (a fabulous conjunto band), Dennis Stroughmatt & Creole Stomp, Tango Nero, the Prairie Dogs, New Orleans Jazz Machine, Illinois Rail bluegrass band, Kilborn Alley, the Corn Desert Ramblers and much more, as well as dances, workshops, jam sessions, an open stage, and family activities.
This is an indoor-outdoor festival, so come out with your friends, family and instruments and join the fun rain or shine!
Friday, September 25 & Saturday, September 26
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Urbana's Market at the Square |
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Corner of Illinois & Vine
Soccer at the Square with Coach Janet Rayfield and her University of Illinois soccer team. The team will be working with people of all ages on simple soccer drills as well as giving away posters, a few t-shirts, and a signed soccer ball. Come show them your stuff, y'all. See you out there!
For more information on the market, visit their blogspot at this link! |
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Call for Art! |
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Urbana Sculpture Project
The City of Urbana is seeking submittals of images of original, pre-existing sculptural works to be considered for the installation and exhibition in the Iron Post Courtyard on Elm Street, and in the Philo Road Business Corridor in Urbana. Up to four, free-standing sculptural works of art will be selected for a two year installation period. The selected locations are open air settings with high visibility.
Selected artists will received a two year rental payment and an installation and removal stipend for each sculpture.
Interested artists should review the guidelines and submittal requirements prior to submitting an application. Guidelines can be viewed on-line at:
www.city.urbana.il.us/artsAll submission materials must be received by 5:00 P.M. on October 19, 2009. This Call for Art is a project of the City of Urbana Public Arts Program. A goal of the Program is to beautify and improve the city streetscape while enriching the lives of Urbana residents and visitors. For additional information, contact the Urbana Public Arts Coordinator,
Anna Hochhalter at
(217) 384-2311
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Xinh Xinh Cafe Open Sundays! |
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Xinh Xinh Cafe will begin opening on Sundays starting October 4th! |
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H2O Salon & Spa |
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Features the "Green" Haircut
The "green" haircut uses all organic shampoos, conditioners and styling products and the "lunch-time color", a service including color and blowout all within your hour lunch break! Also, Jr Stylists Ethan Madarieta and Carly Benjamin will be offering free "shampoo bowl experiences" with a hair cut, blowout or lunchtime color through the month of October.
What you can expect from an experience is a shampoo, hot towel conditioning treatment, essential oils, pressure point, facial and scalp massage. In between services you can come in for a free bang trims! |
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Furniture Lounge has a new website! |
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Furniture Lounge has a new website. Check it out!
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ACE Awards |
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The ACE Awards, presented annually by 40 North | 88 West, honor those who have made contributions to the arts through education, media, advocacy and public service, local business and nonprofit organizations.
Nominees include artists, students, faculty, non-profit administrative staff, business owners and employees, elected and appointed officials and other individuals and organizations actively supporting our creative community. The ACE Award presentations will take place on Thursday, October 22, 2009, 5:30pm at The Highdive, 51 E. Main, Champaign. | |
