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December 2019
Holiday Indoor Farmers’ Market
Join us for a special Holiday Farmers' Market from 9 am - 12 pm in the Grossinger Motors Arena. Long Ladder Home will be our live entertainment. Get all of the last minute holiday gifts and food items. Check back with us closer to the event date to see the map our participating vendors!
Find out more »January 2020
Hands on Art – January First Friday
Downtown Bloomington celebrates art in all forms on First Fridays! Join us again in January for "Hands on Art" More details about this months event including a list of participating businesses and galleries coming soon!
Find out more »Bloomington-Normal Sixty-Six Games Expo
League of Legends Tournament - $6,000 Prize Pool// 32 Open -16 High School Video Game Convention - Developers, Game Dealers, Cosplay Contest, Games & VR Eports Clinic - Panels & Networking with Industry Professionals More info at Sixtysixgames.com
Find out more »The Drifters
Saturday, January 18, 2020 at 7:30 PM Tickets: $40/ $30/ $20/ Student $10 “Up on the Roof”, “Under the Boardwalk”, “This Magic Moment”, “There Goes My Baby”, “Dance with Me”, “Spanish Harlem” and “Stand by Me”. The list of hits goes on and on. They were the first African American vocal group to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Along with fellow inductees The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Bob Dylan and The Supremes, The Drifters…
Find out more »Bandstand: The Tony Winning Broadway Musical
Tickets: $65/ $55/ $45 Show Sponsored by Holiday Inn Express & Suites, Anthony & Karen DeAngelis, Owners From three-time Tony® winner and Hamilton choreographer, Andy Blankenbuehler, comes an inspiring new American musical that explodes with infectious music and high-octane, heart-stopping dancing. Its 1945, and six soldiers return from war to a changed nation. When NBC announces a national competition to find the nation’s next great musical superstars, they form a band unlike any the nation has ever seen. Along the way, they discover…
Find out more »January Indoor Market
We move the Farmers' Market indoors from January to April from 10 am - 12 pm in the Grossinger Motors Arena. The Unemployed Architects will be our live entertainment. Get all of the last minute holiday gifts and food items. Check back with us closer to the event date to see the map our participating vendors!
Find out more »Magnificent Mozart
An evening of magnificent music featuring Mozart’s masterful Sinfonia Concertante with Concertmaster Roy Meyer and Principal Viola Nicholas Jeffery. Jennifer Higdon’s energetic To The Point and Stravinsky’s rhythmically charged Dumbarton Oaks, inspired by Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, round out this playful program. For more information, go to ilsymphony.org.
Find out more »#ShePERSISTED
Tickets: $10, General Admission Coalescence Theatre Project and The Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts are partnering to present the #ShePERSISTED: New Play Festival The deadline for play consideration is October 1st, 2019. Script submissions may be sent to Coalescence Theatre Project at coalescencetheatre@gmail.com The #ShePERSISTED festival of new plays will feature new work by Women, Femme and Non-Binary playwrights. Four one-act plays will be presented as staged readings, acted and directed by Bloomington-Normal area artists. The quartet of plays will…
Find out more »February 2020
Judy Moody & Stink
A musical for Grades K – 5 Monday, February 3 at 10:00 AM and 12:15 PM In this new musical, Judy Moody and her brother Stink take audiences on a hilarious adventure. As usual, Judy is in a mood. After seeing her classmate’s picture on the front page of the newspaper, Judy wants to be famous and sets off to find fame and happiness. All the while, Stink and his foul-smelling sneakers become a real distraction as he vies for the…
Find out more »Tour de Chocolat
You've been waiting all year for the sights the sounds and the samples during Tour de Chocolat in Downtown Bloomington! Join us in our great downtown shops and art galleries for this tasty annual event! A complete list of participating businesses and galleries coming soon!
Find out more »Paw Patrol Live! “The Great Pirate Adventure”
BUY TICKETS Paw Patrol Live! "The Great Pirate Adventure"
Find out more »March 2020
Downtown Through the Decades – March First Friday
Downtown Bloomington is rich with history! Come and check out how the many participating shops portray Downtown Through the Decades! Our artists will be using the First Friday in March to celebrate Discovering Young Artists - We can't wait to see what they have to share with us! More details on this event to come!
Find out more »April 2020
Area Artist Invitational – April First Friday
Check out our various art galleries, retailers and restaurants as they extend their hours until 8pm for First Friday! Many of our businesses will be hosting artists from outside the district as part of the annual Area Arts Invitational! More information to come!
Find out more »May 2020
Derby Days – May First Friday
Check out our various art galleries, retailers and restaurants as they extend their hours until 8 p.m and celebrate Derby Days! More information to come!
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