Friday, April 19, 2024

• • All Day
    

  Eastern Orthodox Lent (Eastern Orthodox Christianity)

  In the Christian (Eastern) Orthodox Church, Great Lent marks the forty days leading to the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The first day of Great Lent is called Clean Monday. Lent is a time for prayer, penance, good-will, fasting and drawing closer to God.

  • Religious/Cultural
• • All Day
    
  • Main Level, East Gallery

  2024 School of Art & Design MFA Exhibition

  This annual exhibition of work by graduate students in the School of Art & Design at Illinois includes Industrial Design, Photography, Studio Art, and Design for Responsible Innovation.

  • Exhibition
• • All Day
    
  • Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign | Main Level, West Gallery and Light Court

  Jen Everett: Could you dim the lights?

  Throughout her process, Jen Everett remixes images of herself in conversation with the materials she collects to talk about Black life, kinship, and collective gathering. Could you dim the lights? is her first solo museum presentation.

  • Exhibition
• • 6:00 - 7:00 pm
    
  • Spurlock Museum: Community and Collaboration Gallery (CCG) Multipurpose Room

  Friday Fusion: Latin Dance Instructional Series - Salsa Night

  • Health/Fitness
• • 7:30 pm
    
  • Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 500 S. Goodwin Ave

  Illinois Theatre Presents: The Gangster Play: Circus/Circus (Forcibly Adapted from Brecht's The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui)

  Brecht’s 1941 satirical allegory of Hitler’s rise to power, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, follows the elevation of a 1930s Chicago mobster who works a corrupt political and economic system to his advantage.

  • Performance
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  • 7:30 pm
    
  • Smith Memorial Hall

  Latin American Ensemble: Bailando en Tres

  • Performance