Category: Arts

Two hundred years of glorious music continues from Beethoven

The brilliant piano virtuoso Ludwig van Beethoven has provided the world with glorious music. One of his most beautiful piano pieces is Fur Elise, “Bagatelle in A minor” composed in 1810 for a lady love who rejected him. His “Moonlight Sonata” is another outstanding melody. Both I never tire of...

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Naperville Millennium Carillon in Moser Tower concerts, lighting, celebrate health-care workers

The Naperville Millennium Carillon in Moser Tower is announcing special concerts and lighting to honor healthcare workers and first responders during the coronavirus pandemic this spring. Local carillonneurs will perform a series of concerts Wednesdays at noon for the month of May, in addition to the regularly scheduled concerts at...

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Water Street curator on Zoom in Batavia

Water Street Studios’ Gallery curator, Steve Sherrell, will be host to a virtual get together at 6 p.m. Friday, May 8. Attendees can hang out online with Steve in his studio when he provides a behind-the-scenes look at how Water Street Studios displays 24 exhibitions every year. Afterwards, Steve will...

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The Cross Man’s book at Aurora Historical Society

The late Greg Zanis, 69, the Aurora carpenter known throughout the country as the man who traveled hundreds of thousands of miles carrying his handmade crosses to scenes of tragedy and loss, wrote a memoir late in his life. Entitled The Cross Man – Crosses For Losses, it traces his...

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Aurora’s COVID-19 Community Conversations Art Series

As part of its COVID-19 Community Conversations Series, the city government of Aurora will be host to a discussion with Aurora Public Art and the COVID-19 PSA designers at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 7. The conversation can be watched on the City’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/CityofAuroraIL. In the spirit of...

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Aurora author: Special nursery rhymes

Marilyn Huntman Giese, an Aurora author, added Nursery Rhymes Your Mother Never Taught You (Xlibris 2019) to a list of her diverse writings. The humorous book contains 24 parodies on familiar nursery rhymes, plus a little history of the genre and some conversations starters. The original versions of these rhymes...

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First Fridays will return to virtual world in full force

First Fridays will return to the virtual world May 1. Virtual attendees can stay at home and enjoy art, music, and more on Friday night. Visit Aurora Downtown and other participating venues on Facebook for live video throughout the evening. Viewers are invited to participate at home by tagging #virtualfirstfridays...

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Paramount Theatre cancels performances

Following a mandate by Illinois governor JB Pritzker, and State and local health officials, the Paramount Theatre in Aurora will cancel performances of The Secret of My Success as a cautionary measure to help combat the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus). Ticket-holders to the remaining performances of The Secret of My...

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Water Street Studios return March 29

Due to the rapidly evolving development in regard to COVID-19 (coronavirus) and the newest recommendations set forth from local, state, and national health organizations, Water Street Studios in Batavia will be closed effective immediately through March 29. We are currently working on a plan to address this disruption in programming...

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Remodeled Copley Theatre in Aurora to launch Bold Series

Paramount Theatre will pull the curtain on another live theater venue, the remodeled Copley Theatre, where it will launch its new Bold Series, a four-show subscription ready to bring a new type of theater to downtown Aurora. Paramount’s new Bold Series will offer intimate, professional, live theater experiences that are...

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Call for jazz poems in Aurora, kindergarten through college

In celebration of National Poetry Month, April, the Fox Valley Music Foundation will be host to a call for poems. This call is open to any student writer, kindergarten through college, currently residing in the Fox Valley region of Illinois. Submission deadline is 5 p.m., March 31. No exceptions! Each...

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Water Street Studios in Batavia to open Dempsey Family Gallery

Water Street Studios’ new exhibitions will open at 6 p.m. Friday, April 10 and feature artwork by Andrew Reach, Diane Sanborn, Nicholas Sistler, and Darius Hurley. The Dempsey Family Gallery on the first floor will feature the work of Andrew Reach and Diane Sanborn in their exhibition entitled, “The Shape...

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Simply Destinee Dancing with Stars April 2

The third annual Simply Destinee’s Dancing With Our Stars event at Gaslight Manor Banquets will be at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 2 at Gaslight Manor Banquets, 2485 Church Road, Aurora. Dinner will be from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. and the show will start at 7 p.m.. The contestants will...

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Bright lights: Paramount Theatre, The Secret of my Success

Aurora, bright with all sorts of lights, include cars maneuvering to drop off excited showgoers to The Paramount Theatre. It is the Friday evening press preview. Vehicles pull up in front of the red carpet and drop off passengers who have arrived to see, and enjoy, “The Secret of my...

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Muses the owls, butterflies, frogs, and geese: Mary Oliver

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” —Mary Oliver I wish we could have met. It would have been a meeting of the minds. In writing, Mary Oliver could create her own world with nature as her teacher. Just as do...

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Water Street Studios’ change in leadership imminent

Water Street Studios, an award-winning nonprofit art center in Batavia, recently announced the future departure of executive director Danielle Hollis with an anticipated transition date in June. Danielle and Board president Jessica Breugelmans will be working hand-in-hand with the Board of Directors and staff members during this period to ensure...

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