OCR Event Manager - Master Calendar

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    • 2:00 pm    3/30/2025
    • Spurlock Museum

    Blending Thelonious Monk’s compositions with Sierra Leonean music, Leon Lewis-Nicol’s performance acts as a tool to mend the gap between African Diaspora musical culture. Lewis-Nicol aims to illustrate how jazz can be a medium through which two different cultures can co-exist and serve as a form of healing for the African diaspora.

    • 6:00 - 7:30 pm    4/10/2025
    • Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign

    SPEAK stands for Song, Poetry, Art, and Knowledge. It’s an open-mic public performance space at Krannert Art Museum curated by local artist, Shaya Robinson, featuring guest performers and welcoming all to the mic.

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    • 7:30 pm    4/16/2025
    • Alice Campbell Alumni Center BallRoom

    A public reading and book signing with award-winning poet and essayist Ross Gay.

    • 7:30 pm    4/22/2025
    • Krannert Center, 500 S. Goodwin Ave, Urbana

    In this evocative conversation, MacArthur Fellow and award-winning artist Taylor Mac—a playwright, actor, songwriter, performance artist, director, and producer whose epic performance work, A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, was nominated for a 2017 Pulitzer Prize...