Thursday, April 18, 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
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  • 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
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  Birthday of Guru Angad Dev (Sikhism)

  This observance commemorates the Guru Angad Dev who was the second of the ten Gurus who founded Sikhism.

  • Religious/Cultural
• • All Day
    
  • AACC Lounge

  Community Wellness Tables

  • Social/Informal Event
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  • 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
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  • 9:00 am - 6:00 pm
    
  • 300 Levis Faculty Center, 919 W Illinois St, Urbana, IL 61801

  14th Illinois EU Studies Conference ("Paradigms of Racialization: Alternative Sources") - Day 1

  • Conference/Workshop
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  • 6:30 - 8:30 pm
    
  • Room 208, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W Illinois St, Urbana

  Coffee, Tea & IP: Indigenous Knowledge, Intellectual Property, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR): Challenges and Opportunities for Africa

  • Other
• • 6:30 - 8:30 pm
    
  • Levis Faculty Center Room 208, 919 W. Illinois , Urbana

  Coffee, Tea & IP: Indigenous Knowledge, Intellectual Property, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR): Challenges and Opportunities for Africa

  • Informational
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  • 7:00 - 9:00 pm
    
  • Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory St, Urbana

  The Spurlock Gala: Night at the Museum!

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 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