[Peace] Come to Downtown Urbana for the Boneyard Arts Festival - April 21-22

[Danielle Chynoweth]

Don't miss it!

... comedy sketches in the street, sound sculpture, blown glass, pottery, 
quilt art, edible arts, paintings, roving performers and clowns, guitar 
music, storytelling ...

Downtown Urbana will be bursting into the streets with art, music, and 
theater this Friday and Saturday, April 21st and 22nd, as part of the 
county-wide Boneyard Arts Festival.

This year Urbana has twice as many venues as last year and will host the 
5th Annual Street Theater festival and the Late Night Space - an immersive 
arts event featuring exhibits, installation, and live performance - in 
Urbana's newest art space: the Independent Media Center.  

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Here's a suggested 
DOWNTOWN URBANA TOUR
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FRIDAY EVENING:
... leave work early ... come park your car/bike in the  parking deck off 
Main Street and then ...

... listen to the Acoustic Roots Music of the Javelinas at the Library 
(4-5:45 PM) ...

... have dinner under the setting sun at the Iron Post to the tunes of the 
Boneyard Jazz  Quintet (5-7 pm)....

... stroll down Main street where there is artwork hung in nearly every 
window by Rebecca Rohloff, Sandra Ahten, Tyler Blen, Heidi Kellner, Ralph 
Roether, Kelly White, Taylor Schmidt, world folk art, and others (up all 
weekend) ...

... stop next to Crane Alley at 115 W. Main for a brief art talk by Glen 
Davies at 5:30 PM ...

... check out the opening soiree for an exhibit by Jason Lamb at the 
Community Design Center (112 W. Main - until 9 pm) ....


FRIDAY NIGHT:
... go to the Independent Media Center in the downtown post office 
building where the Late Night Space, under the artistic direction of Jason 
Finkelman, is just heating up (9pm - 2 am - $5-7) ...

... travel through a sound installation into light and video installations 
...

... view the works of Boneyard featured artist Patrick Harness ...

... check out the work by Cherry Alley Artists, a new art collective in 
the lower level of the IMC - Rebecca Rohloff will be selling mixed media 
pieces, jewelry, and prints (Saturday 12-5 as well)...

... and enjoy live music late into the evening by Alma Afro-Beat Ensemble, 
Brandon T. Washington, Ear Doctor, Environmental Encroachment, Nu Orbit 
Ensemble, and Triple Whip (until 2 am) ...

GO TO SLEEP

SATURDAY MORNING:
... come to Lincoln Square for coffee and croissants at the Art Mart  ...

... check out artwork by various artists at International Galleries ...

... hear an art talk by muralist Lee Boyer in his studio (10:30 am) ...

... check out the Festival of Quilts ($5 entrance to benefit Cunningham 
Children's Home - goes on all weekend) ...

... visit Milo's to view the hand painted photographs of Cali 
Hobgood-Lemme ...

... bring your kids to the Kid Creation Station in the north hall of 
Lincoln Square (12-5pm) ...


SATURDAY LUNCH:
Choose from:

Uncommon grounds is the new Cafe in Lincoln Square
Music by Chilean-American guitarist and singer Karina Lepeley at Noon

Strawberry Fields
Music by Maria & Co from 11-1pm

Siam Terrace - 212 W. Main
Music by the Jazz Cats 1-3pm

Crane Alley - 115 W. Main
Visual art by Taylor Schmidt

Cali's Cocina in Lincoln Square
Visual art by Lee M. Boyer


SATURDAY AFTERNOON - ART TRACK
... come to the Cinema Gallery at 120 W. Main to view the group show of 45 
artists  - live guitar and vocal performance by Barb Hamilton from 1-2 pm 
...

... turn the corner onto Broadway to visit downtown's newest hair salon - 
H2O - 109 N. Broadway to see the visual art of Sarah Ritz and Ashly Keifer 
(10am - 7pm) ...

... cross the block to Race Street (named after the race track near the 
County Fair Grounds) and down the little known Griggs Street (named after 
the person largely responsible for bringing the U of I to Urbana) to 
Griggs Street Potters at 305 where the Jazz Quartet will be playing 2-4 pm 
and there is new pottery work by Charlene Anchor, Betsey Cronan, and Reni 
Franciscono ...

.... walk up Race to the Urbana Free Library for the visual art of local 
children in the elementary fine arts program with Amy Koestrer (Fri & Sat 
9am-6pm and Sunday 1-5) ...

... stroll down historic Green Street to the Timothy John Salon  at 404 W. 
Green to view regional landscape watercolors by Sandra Batzli (Saturday 
12-5pm) ...


SATURDAY AFTERNOON - THEATER TRACK
Featured on three stages in the heart of downtown (the weather is expected 
to be great!)

- excerpts from Laramie Project by Central High Drama Department at noon

- storytelling by Helen Katz at 1 pm

-  theater by the Performers' Workshop Ensemble at 2 pm

- comedy by the Prompting Theater at 3 pm

- performance installation by Ann Coddington Rast between 3:30 to 5 PM 
(inside the IMC/post office)

- a script written by the Prompting Theater at 4pm

- excerpts from Pippin by The Station Theater at 5 pm

- Zoo Improv Troupe at 6 pm

- classic TV comedy sketches by the Rantoul Theater Group at 7 pm

Also, games and raffles (tickets at $1), comedy sketches, and all sorts of 
fun throughout the whole day.


SATURDAY DINNER:

... Silvercreek at 402 N. Race Street - folk rock artist Ryan Gorff - from 
6-8 pm (he is also playing Friday 6-8pm) AND edible art as a collaboration 
between artist David Bushman and Silvercreek's pastry chef ...


SATURDAY NIGHT:

... go to the Independent Media Center in the downtown post office 
building where the Late Night Space (9pm - 2 am - $5-7) ...

... enjoy live music late into the evening by Alma Afro-Beat Ensemble, 
Andrew Dixon, Darrin Drda's Theory of Everything, Environmental 
Encroachment, Nu Orbit Ensemble  ...


SUNDAY
The art continues and at 1 PM on Sunday there will be a special 
presentation by quilt artists Deborah Fell ....


OTHER URBANA LOCATIONS:

High Cross Studio - 11101 N. High Cross Road (Rt 130)
Multiple artists - Sat 10-5 pm

Glass Lake Studio - 2908 E. Main
handblown glass and sculpture, & drawings from Barrie Bredemeier & Hyon 
Joo Kim
Glass blowing demo Sat 12-2 pm

Firefly Jewels - 712 S. Maple
Glass torch work of Athan Chilton

N & M Muay Thai & Boxing - 1106 S. Vine (with boxing and Spoken Word 
Poetry Fri 5-9pm, Sat & Sun 12-3pm)


View ALL the Boneyard activities throughout the county: www.40north.org 
or see the Festival map in last Sunday's edition of the News-Gazette 
(buried with all the ads).


enjoy!
Danielle Chynoweth
City Council Member, Ward 2