Multicultural Advocates Master Calendar

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Monday, August 25, 2025

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

    • 12:00 - 3:30 pm
    • Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign

    Calling all new and returning U of I students! Kick off the school year and celebrate Krannert Art Museum’s newest exhibitions at KAM Fest 2025. Stop by the museum to get a free tote bag, enjoy food trucks and an immersive art installation by local artist Matt Harsh, plus art activities with the CU Community Fab Lab!

Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Thursday, August 28, 2025

    • 4:00 - 7:00 pm
    • Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign

    Enjoy a ribbon-cutting, new exhibitions, and live music! Join us to celebrate the Grand Reopening of the museum—after eighteen months of renovations—including premiering new exhibitions, remarks, and a performance by Peruvian Quechua hip-hop artist Liberato Kani.

Friday, August 29, 2025

    • 8:30
    • Gallery Art Bar, 119 W Main St, Urbana

    Join us for an unforgettable night with Liberato Kani—Peru’s visionary Quechua hip-hop artist. His music fuses hip-hop with Andean, Amazonian, and Afro-Peruvian rhythms, carrying stories of cultural pride, Indigenous resistance, and life between the highlands and the city. Champaign-Urbana’s community mariachi group, Mariachi Libertad, will open the evening!

    • 9:00 pm
    • Encanto Restaurant, 115 W Main St, Urbana

    Join us for an unforgettable night with Liberato Kani—Peru’s visionary Quechua hip-hop artist! After a performance (Gallery Art Bar (6-8:30 pm), enjoy a reception and conversation. Liberato will share insights into his process, discuss the cultural and conceptual foundations of his performance, and invite conversation. *This is a CEU-eligible event!*