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Peoria artist Peytin Fitzgerald's "Falling in Between" is on view at Joe McCauley Gallery at Heartland Community College. Fitzgerald is a printmaker and self-taught textile artist who learned how to sew as a grad student during COVID. The show explores what is passed down intentionally — and inevitably — through generations.
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Adam Farcus' nomadic curatorial project called Lease Agreement is leaving at the end of the month. The DIY pop-up gallery in downtown Bloomington hosts Whitney Johnson's "Three Handfuls of Pennies" for a few more days.
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Bloomington native DaZ Exotic chats with WGLT about a one-night-only show at Nightshop. Expect beats from his latest album, but an interdisciplinary celebration of local artistry.
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Veteran Twin City director Don LaCasse leads the Heartland Theatre Company in a new production of "Tiny Beautiful Things." The play follows advice columnist "Sugar" as she navigates various letter writers' traumas — and her own.
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The 50-year-old roller rink known as Skate N Place will close April 2. Remaining skates include theme nights, kids sessions and a tribute to the longstanding Twin City hangout.
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An exhibit and accompanying film screening at University Galleries share Chicago's 1970s "Imagism" movement. Though not a formal collective, the imagists share some aesthetic distinctions.
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Chicago Farmer and the Fieldnotes kick off their 20th anniversary Midwest tour this week. The band makes a quick stop home for a set at the Castle Theatre on Friday night. Before heading out on the road, front man Cody Diekhoff stopped by our studios to chat with WGLT's Lauren Warnecke.
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The 100th year of the "American Passion Play" will be its last. The production is the longest-running passion play in the country and runs four Saturdays in Bloomington before closing for good.
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Community Players Theatre launches its latest family-friendly show with a witty and whimsical musical based on the ancient tale about the girl with the glass slipper. With no dancing mice in sight, CPT employs Rogers and Hammerstein’s 1957 score with Douglas Carter Beane’s updated book, created for the 2013 Broadway smash hit.
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A new open mic night at Crafted is just the spot for amateur and seasoned singer/songwriters
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Normal Community High School senior Myra Saulat hosts an art exhibition on March 4 focused on teen artists of color, part of a school assignment called “The Impact Project.”
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The theater department at Illinois State University brings to life a satirical (mostly) true telling of local hero John Wesley Powell's 1869 expedition through the American West. Powell's journey with other erudite explorers is hilariously captured in the play, "Men on Boats." The play runs Feb. 17-25 in the Westhoff Theatre at ISU.