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Spurlock Museum Special Event: Gotta Dance! |
In collaboration with the exhibit A World Of Shoes, the Spurlock Museum announces November 9-11 as Gotta Dance! weekend. The three-day event will feature a variety of dance performances in classic films and live concerts. Feel the rhythm! For a schedule and admission information, visit the Museum's website at www.spurlock.illinoi.edu. or call Kim Sheahan at 217-244-3355. The Spurlock Museum is located at 600 S. Gregory, Urbana. |
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A World of Shoes: Exhibit at Spurlock Museum |
Is an exhibit on shoes cool? You bet your boots! Find out more by visiting the Spurlock Museum’s fall Campbell Gallery exhibit A World of Shoes, opening September 4. Over 60 pairs of shoes from 20 different countries will be featured.
The main themes of the exhibit all begin with the letter “S:” Sports, Style, Soul, Service, Substance, Self, and Sensuality. There is also an introductory area inspired by the wall of shoes display at Chicago’s Field Museum. Near the entrance to the exhibit, visitors can share their own shoe stories and take a quiz on shoe names.
A significant number of the shoes on display are loans by individuals from across central Illinois. The Museum of the Grand Prairie in Mahomet loaned artifacts, including two examples of animal shoes. A pair of Weary Willie clown shoes worn by renowned entertainer Emmett Kelly has come in from the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. Shoes worn by Shinto priests at the Izumo Taishakyo Mission of Hawai’i can be found in the Soul area.
A World of Shoes will be on display during regular Museum hours from September 4, 2012 through February 10, 2013. The Spurlock Museum is located at 600 S. Gregory, just across the street east of the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in Urbana. Museum hours are Tuesdays 12-5; Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays 9-5; Saturdays 10-4; and Sundays 12-4. For more information on the exhibit and related events, call 217-244-3355 or email ksheahan@illinois.edu. |
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5:30PM |
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee |
The Champaign Urbana Theatre Company announces its final production of the 2012 season: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Urbana, IL (September 24, 2012) – Six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, learn that winning isn’t everything and that losing doesn’t necessarily make you a loser. “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” is an hilarious tale of overachievers’ angst chronicling the experience of six adolescent outsiders vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. The show’s Tony Award winning creative team has created the unlikeliest of hit musicals about the unlikeliest of heroes: a quirky yet charming cast of outsiders for whom a spelling bee is the one place where they can stand out and fit in at the same time. The show will be performed at Parkland College Theatre 2400 W. Bradley Avenue. Performance dates and times are October 11-13 & 18-20 at 7:30pm and October 14 & 21 at 2:30 pm. Tickets available online at www.cutc.org or call 217-344-3884. Follow the cast on twitter @cutcspellcow Any additional questions can be answered through CUTC’s main office at 217-344-3884. The Champaign-Urbana Theatre Company, a nonprofit community theater, is committed to providing the people of East Central Illinois with experience in all aspects of the performing arts through volunteer opportunities in the theater trades, on stage and off stage, in the course of presenting high-quality theatrical productions, and through education and leadership in the promotion of theater arts to the community. |
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