Calendar of Events

OctoberFest

• Date(s): 09/26/2010 - 09/26/2010
• Times: 12:00pm- 6:00pm
• Location: Kickapoo Creek Winery
• Contact: Marsha Conner
• Phone: (309) 495-9463
• Admission: TBA
• Member Listing: Kickapoo Creek Winery, Inc.

Annual Octoberfest with live entertainment at Kickapoo Creek Winery.

Forest Park Nature Center - Tree I.D. Walks

• Date(s): 09/26/2010 - 09/26/2010
• Times: 1:30pm- 2:30pm
• Location: Forest Park Nature Center
• Contact: Forest Park Nature Center
• Phone: (309) 686-3360
• Admission: FREE
• Member Listing: Forest Park Nature Center

Need help identifying trees by their leaves? These walks are for anyone who would like to learn tree identification. Emphasis will be on the process of identifying trees by their leaves with a simple key. Although leaf collecting cannot be done on this walk, good collecting sites in the Peoria area will be suggested. Don't let the trees "leaf" you "stumped" this fall; participate in one of these informative walks.

Tree I.D. walks are open to ages 10 and over. There is no fee, but donations are appreciated.

Soulful Sunday At Contemporary Art Center

• Date(s): 04/25/2010 - 12/26/2010
• Recurring monthly on the last Sunday
• Times: 3:00pm- 5:00pm
• Location: Contemporary Art Center
• Contact: Peoria Riverfront
• Phone: (309) 671-5555
• Admission: Members- $5.00 Non-members- $8.00
• Member Listing: Peoria Riverfront District

Gumbo for the Soul featuring family oriented entertainment with stand up comedy, special performances and R&B and gospel choral music.

Conklin's Barn II Dinner Theatre presents- "Not Now Darling"

• Date(s): 09/16/2010 - 11/07/2010
• Recurring weekly on Sunday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
• Times: See below
• Location: Conklin's Barn II Dinner Theatre
• Contact: Conklin's Barn II Dinner Theatre Box Office
• Phone: (309) 965-2545
• Admission: See below
• Member Listing: Conklin's Barn II Dinner Theatre

The scene is the exclusive fur salon of Bodley and Crouch, where Crouch struggles to keep things going despite the energetic philandering of his partner. At the moment, Bodley is trying to secure the affections of his latest would-be mistress by selling her husband an expensive fur coat for a fraction of its real worth. But as luck would have it, the husband seizes the bargain coat as the perfect gift for his own mistress, whereupon the complications explode uproariously, with poor Crouch caught in the middle. Suspicious wives, mistaken identities, scantily clad girls in closets and a continuous barrage of rapid fire jokes keeps the play bubbling along merrily right up to the end.

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
2010 Dinner and Show Pricing *
Thursday evenings:  $31.00 (musicals $33.00**)
Friday evenings, Sunday Brunch:  $33.00 (musicals $35.00**)
Saturday evenings:  $35.00 (musicals $37.00**)

Lakeview Museum- Audubon

• Date(s): 09/18/2010 - 01/09/2011
• Recurring daily
• Times: TBA
• Location: Lakeview Museum
• Contact: Lakeview Museum
• Phone: (309) 686-7000
• Admission: TBA
• Member Listing: Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences

5th Annual Jubilee College State Park Colonial Faire

• Date(s): 09/25/2010 - 09/26/2010
• Recurring daily
• Times: See below
• Location: Jubilee State Park- Brimfield, IL
• Contact: Jim Winter
• Phone: (708) 269-1965
• Admission: $10.00 per vehicle
• Member Listing: Jubilee College State Historic Site

Jubilee State Park will come alive with the sights and sounds of a Colonial Settlement organized by the Colonial Event Committee, an organization of dozens of amateur historians and re-enactors. Anyone who has watched the History Channel or seen the movie "Patriot" will love being part of History come alive.

The event will feature colonial, civilian and military life from 1750 to 1790. Visitors will be able to visit a Native American village, interact with colonists in their everyday life and participate in soldier's drills and military tactics with British Red Coats. The guest-friendly event will strive to educate the public and will be situated on the 3,300 acres of forest and prairie wilderness that comprise Jubilee State Park.

Food and drink will be available for purchase from the Brimfield Men's Club, and live music by accomplished musicians of period music that will bring the sounds of the era alive.

The re-enactor's group decided to hold the event to bring a taste of Colonial American History to the public.  With years of re-enacting experience and a love of living history the committee found Jubilee College State Park to be the perfect wilderness setting for a Colonial settlement. The event will include characters from Colonial History, such as French Fur traders, Native Americans, British Soldiers and Colonists. Public participation is the goal at this event. Reenactors from at least 8 states will take part.

"We want families to have a good time", said event organizer Jim Winter, Captain of American Provincial Forces. "The public will be able to take part in and do things and not just watch."

Special features of the weekend will include: British Redcoat military drills, Minutemen, Woodland Indian village, musicians, hunters, trades and crafts people, settlers building a cabin, battle reenactment, and much more.   

Come see Colonial daily life first hand by taking part in activities and experience what it would have been like to live 250 years ago in early Colonial America.

Jubilee College State Park can be reached from I-74.
Eastbound: Brimfield Exit #75, left to US Rte 150. Then turn right on US Rte 150 and go 4 miles to Park entrance on left.

Westbound: Kickapoo-Edwards Exit #82, right 1.5 miles to Kickapoo. Then left onto US Rte 150 for 4 miles to Park entrance on right.

Event Schedule
Saturday- 9:00am -5:00pm 
Sunday- 9:00am- 4:00pm

Living History American Colonial Settlement

• Date(s): 09/25/2010 - 09/26/2010
• Recurring daily
• Times: TBA
• Location: Jubilee State Park
• Contact: Jubilee State Park- Jim
• Phone: (708) 269-1965
• Admission: TBA
• Member Listing: Jubilee College State Historic Site

We request that you change to 18th-century dress as soon as your camp is set up and remain in proper dress when in the camp.  We also ask that your camp remain18th century at all times, even if there are no spectators present.  We are striving to put on the most authentic muster possible, not only for the spectators, but for the participants as well.

Attire should be military or eastern frontier civilian (1750-1790).  Pay attention to headgear, small clothes, footwear and outerwear.  No long-fringed buckskins.  Children should be properly attired for their age.  Flintlocks only, no percussion.

Vehicles will be allowed in the camp area to unload and load only.  No overnight parking in the camp area.  No vehicles in camp after 8:30 am Saturday unless it is an emergency.

Tents must be authentic to the period.  All non-18th century items should be kept out of sight at all times.  Pay attention to drink containers, food items, cooking and eating utensils, make-up, jewelry, watches and modern eyeglasses.

Interpretation and demonstration are encouraged in the camps and by sutlers.  Sales are also permitted by license agreement with the park.  Sutlers must deal with 18th-century items only.  No rubber tomahawks and neon feathers.  We want to emphasize authenticity at the event.  There will be a trade committee to check on items.