Calendar of Events

Conklin's Barn II Dinner Theatre presents- "Shady Business"

• Date(s): 03/11/2010 - 05/01/2010
• Recurring weekly on Sunday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
• Times: See below
• Location: Conklin's Barn II Dinner Theatre- Goodfield IL
• Contact: Conklin's Barn II Dinner Theatre Box Office
• Phone: (309) 965-2545
• Admission: See below
• Venue(s): Conklin's Barn II Dinner Theatre

Girls, guns, gangsters and guffaws!  The action never slows down in this madcap comedy by the author of Don't Dress for Dinner and Perfect Wedding.  Mandy and Tania are struggling nightclub dancers facing a crisis. Will possessive club owner Big Mack find out about Mandy's affair with Gerry? Will Mack discover that he is owed money that was borrowed from the club's till, gambled and lost on the club's roulette table and then stolen from the day's take? Will Gerry be discovered hiding in Mandy's bathroom? Will Terry be caught delivering dinner? Will Terry reveal that he is really Gerry and that Gerry is Terry? Will anyone survive until the curtain comes down?

Event Schedule
Evening Performances
Doors Open 6:00 P.M.
Buffet 6:30 - 7:30 P.M.
Show Starts 8:00 P.M.

Sunday Brunch Performances
Doors Open 12:00 Noon
Buffet 12:00 - 1:00 P.M.
Show Starts 1:30 P.M.

Event Admission
Thursday evenings:  $31.00 (musicals $33.00**)
Friday evenings, Sunday Brunch:  $33.00 (musicals $35.00**)
Saturday evenings:  $35.00 (musicals $37.00**)

March Madness Experience

• Date(s): 03/11/2010 - 03/20/2010
• Recurring weekly on Thursday, Friday, Saturday
• Times: See below
• Location: Peoria Civic Center
• Contact: IHSA or Peoria Civic Center Box Office
• Phone: (309) 663-6377 or (309) 673-8900
• Admission: Admission is $2.00 or free with an IHSA game ticket.
• Venue(s): Peoria Civic Center

Since 1996, the March Madness Experience, a family-oriented extravaganza of fun, interactive games, historical exhibits and good times, has been an integral part of the boys tournaments in Peoria. Just across the concourse from the tournament action at Carver Arena, the March Madness Experience fills up the Peoria Civic Center's huge Exhibition Hall. It's free to fans who have game tickets, and just $2 for everyone else. Once inside, there's no charge for any of the attractions.

Event Schedule
March 11, 2010- 6:00am- 9:00pm
March 12, 2010- 10:00am- 9:00pm
March 13, 2010- 9:00am- 6:30pm

March 18, 2010- 6:00am- 9:00pm
March 19, 2010- 10:00am- 9:00pm
March 20, 2010- 9:00am- 6:30pm

National Wheelchair Basketball- March Madness

• Date(s): 03/12/2010 - 03/13/2010
• Recurring daily
• Times: See below
• Location: Peoria Civic Center
• Contact: IHSA or Peoria Civic Center Box Office
• Phone: (309) 663-6377 or (309) 673-8900
• Admission: Admission is $2.00 or free with an IHSA game ticket.
• Venue(s): Peoria Civic Center

 

 This year Peoria March Madness will again play host to the Illinois High School Association Wheelchair Basketball State Tournament. All tournament games will be part of the March Madness Experience connected with the Boys Class A State Basketball Tournament.

The Illinois High School Association Wheelchair Basketball State Championship will have 4 teams.  All games will be played in the Exhibit Hall connected to the Peoria Civic Center on Friday and Saturday.

Event Schedule
March 12, 2010- 10:00am- 5:30pm
March 13, 2010- 10:00am- 4:30pm

Peoria Zoo

• Date(s): 03/13/2010 - 03/13/2010
• Times: 11:00am- 3:00pm
• Location: Peoria Zoo
• Contact: Peoria Zoo
• Phone: (309) 686-3365
• Admission: FREE- with zoo admission
• Venue(s): Peoria Zoo at Glen Oak Park

Learn all about these scaly creatures with animal encounters every hour and a special snake feeding at 1:00 pm.

Electric Paint

• Date(s): 01/30/2010 - 03/28/2010
• Recurring daily
• Times: 10:00am- 4:00pm
• Location: Lakeview Museum
• Contact: Lakeview Museum
• Phone: (309) 686-7000
• Admission: Tickets- $6.00 Seniors-$5.00 Children-$4.00
• Venue(s): Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences

With advances in personal computing and increasingly sophisticated software, a new breed of artist has emerged who is creating dynamic forms of visual expression. Thanks to computers, advanced software and the power of the Internet, these artists are able to share their work and ideas with their peers as well as with varied audiences around the world in mere seconds. They are exploring the full visual possibilities of cyberspace. Yet the work of these pioneering artists is virtually unknown to most of us.

Electric Paint: The Computer as 21st Century Canvas, an exhibition organized by Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, WI, brings together 70 works by 22 international artists to shed light on the phenomenon of computer- generated art found on web pages, galleries, and virtual museums worldwide. Their work comprises altered photographs, free-hand painting with a mouse or graphics tablet, and fractals derived from the input of mathematical formulas resulting in fantastical portraits and landscapes that alter our sense of reality. The exhibition also includes digital video and paintings.

A digital artist's tools and studio look nothing like the traditional artist's studio with its brushes, palettes, canvases, paper, paint tubes, and easels scattered about. Instead, they work with myriad software programs to sketch and paint images on their computer screen or introduce digital photographs into their work, using electrons to bend, cut, paste, and fold images. Another technology involves using mathematical formulas to create fractals. In nature, a fractal is a complex, detailed geometric pattern repeated at ever-decreasing sizes. By changing the formula the artist creates an entirely new artwork.

Artists included in Electric Paint hail from Austria, Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Turkey, Wales, and the United States. This wide- ranging geographic and cultural array ensures diversity in style, subject matter, and technique yet also reveals the internationality of the passion and knowledge - both artistic and technological - that digital artists bring to this burgeoning art movement that is rapidly changing the landscape of contemporary art.

Corn Stock Theatre presents- Dancing at Lughnasa

• Date(s): 03/05/2010 - 03/13/2010
• Recurring weekly on Sunday, Friday, Saturday
• Times: See below
• Location: Corn Stock Theatre
• Contact: Corn Stock Theatre Box Office
• Phone: (309) 676-2196
• Admission: Adults- $10.00 Children- $8.00
• Venue(s): Corn Stock Theatre

This extraordinary play is the story of five unmarried sisters eking out their lives in a small village in Ireland in 1936. We meet them at the time of the festival of Lughnasa, which celebrates the pagan god of the harvest with drunken revelry and dancing. Their spare existence is interrupted by brief, colorful bursts of music from the radio, their only link to the romance and hope of the world at large.

Winner of the 1992 Tony Award for Best Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Broadway Play and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play.

Chosen by Time magazine as one of the ten best plays for 1991, saying it is "The most elegant and rueful memory play since The Glass Menagerie."

Event Schedule
March 5, 2010- 7:30pm
March 6, 2010- 7:30pm
March 7, 2010- 2:30pm
March 11, 2010- 7:30pm
March 12, 2010- 7:30pm
March 13, 2010- 7:30pm

The University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria-presents Living Healthy

• Date(s): 03/09/2010 - 03/30/2010
• Recurring weekly on Tuesday
• Times: 6:30pm
• Location: University of Illinois College of Medicine- Main Campus Building
• Contact: University of Illinois College of Medicine
• Phone: (309) 671-8490
• Admission: FREE
• Venue(s): University of Illinois College of Medicine

The University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria (UICOMP) is pleased to announce session two of Living Healthy, a four-part interactive series promoting wellness, safety, and preventive healthcare in the Heart of Illinois.

Living Healthy is free and open to the public. Sessions will be held the first four Tuesdays in March in UICOMP's main campus building at One Illini Drive. Session two, "What You Need To Know About Finding Reliable Health Information On-Line," will take place on March 9, 2010, at 6:30 p.m. The evening's keynote speakers are Jo Dorsch and Peg Burnette from Peoria's Library of the Health Sciences.

Each session of Living Healthy includes free health screenings starting at 6 p.m. Living Healthy is presented free of charge as part of the Timothy W. and Katherine Altorfer Swain Endowed Lectureship in Community Health by the University of Illinois Regional Health Sciences Site in Peoria.

Willett's Winery & Cellar Wine & Dine Experience

• Date(s): 03/10/2010 - 03/10/2010
• Times: 6:30pm
• Location: Willett's Winery & Cellar
• Contact: Willett's Winery & Cellar
• Phone: (309) 968-7070
• Admission: TBA
• Venue(s): Willett's Winery and Cellar

IHSA Class 1A Semifinal Session

• Date(s): 03/12/2010 - 03/12/2010
• Times: See below
• Location: Peoria Civic Center Arena
• Contact: Information
• Phone: (309) 673-8900
• Admission: $6.50, $8.50 and $10.50
• Venue(s): Peoria Civic Center

Event Schedule: Game 1- 12:15 p.m. Game 2- 1:45 p.m.

IHSA Class 2A Semifinal Session

• Date(s): 03/12/2010 - 03/12/2010
• Times: See below
• Location: Peoria Civic Center Arena
• Contact: Information
• Phone: (309) 673-8900
• Admission: $6.50, $8.50 and $10.50
• Venue(s): Peoria Civic Center

Event Schedule: Game 1- 6:30 p.m. Game 2- 8:15 p.m.

Peoria Players Theatre presents- All My Sons

• Date(s): 03/12/2010 - 03/21/2010
• Recurring weekly on Sunday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
• Times: See below
• Location: Peoria Players Theatre
• Contact: Peoria Players Theatre
• Phone: (309) 688-4473
• Admission: Tickets- $12.00 Adults $9.00- patrons 18 & under
• Venue(s): Peoria Players Theatre

Event Schedule
March 12, 13, 18, 19 and 20 at 7:30 pm
March 14 and 21 at 2:30 pm

A Timeless Irish Tale Candlelight Tours

• Date(s): 03/13/2010 - 03/21/2010
• Recurring weekly on Sunday, Saturday
• Times: 2:00pm- 4:00pm
• Location: John C Flanagan House- Peoria, IL
• Contact: John C Flanagan House
• Phone: (309) 674-1921
• Admission: Adults- $5.00 Children- $2.00
• Venue(s): John C. Flanagan House

Costumed characters tell the story of the Flanagan family, stories of other area Irish immigrants and prominent Peorians of the time, the history of St. Patrick's Day and the true tragic tale of The Sweethearts of Flanagan house.  The Pot of Gold Gift Boutique will feature Irish items besides unique gift items from local artisans.

Design 101: Plan Before You Plant

• Date(s): 03/13/2010 - 03/13/2010
• Times: 10:00am -11:00am
• Location: Green View Nursery, 2700 W. Cedar Hills Dr, Dunlap
• Contact: Green View Nursery
• Phone: (309) 243-7761
• Admission: FREE, please call for reserved seating
• Venue(s): Green View Nursery, Inc.

Before you start digging in your garden, learn about planting and design from our professional landscape designers.

IHSA Class 1A Final Session

• Date(s): 03/13/2010 - 03/13/2010
• Times: See below
• Location: Peoria Civic Center Arena
• Contact: Information
• Phone: (309) 673-8900
• Admission: $6.50, $8.50 and $10.50
• Venue(s): Peoria Civic Center

Event Schedule: Game 1- 12:15 p.m. Game 2- 1:45 p.m.

IHSA Class 2A Final Session

• Date(s): 03/13/2010 - 03/13/2010
• Times: See below
• Location: Peoria Civic Center Arena
• Contact: Information
• Phone: (309) 673-8900
• Admission: $6.50, $8.50 and $10.50
• Venue(s): Peoria Civic Center

Event Schedule: Game 1- 6:30 p.m. Game 2- 8:15 p.m.

Ralphie May

• Date(s): 03/13/2010 - 03/13/2010
• Times: 8:00pm- 10:00pm
• Location: Peoria Civic Center Theater
• Contact: Peoria Civic Center Box Office
• Phone: (309) 673-8900
• Admission: Tickets- $29.50
• Venue(s): Peoria Civic Center

Tickets can be purchased through the Peoria Civic Center Box Office, all Ticketmaster outlets, by phone at 1-800-745-3000 and online at Ticketmaster.com