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Th Bee Mi Gallery hosted a variety of modern and wild artwork as well a a DJ during the Boneyard Festival in Champaign on Friday. Photo by Jordan Shevell

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• Boneyard Arts Festival plans a successful 8th year

Thursday April 15: Downtown Champaign

2010 Parkland College Art and Design Student Juried Exhibition

10:00 a.m.

Price: free

Enjoy the beautiful artwork created by your very own aspiring community student artists at this free public event. This amazing exhibit allows Parkland College and the community to recognize and experience the immense strength and high quality of Parkland students’ artistic talents. Attending this exhibition will benefit and inform incoming college students who may wish to explore and achieve an art career. Come unwind and become inspired by the Juried Exhibition.

Shakespeare on Love

Outside Cowboy Monkey

5:00 p.m.

Watch this theatrical outside performance dedicated to the many classical works of William Shakespeare. Performances will consist of a collection of romantic scenes, speeches and sonnets from all of Shakespeare’s finest work of his time. Even if you are not a Shakespeare fan, you will be entertained with a live modern classical performance while enjoying the fresh air and catching a bite to eat.

Global Sounds, Creative Rhythms

Ten Thousand Villages, 105 North Walnut St., C. 5:30 p.m. Price: free

Listen to percussionist Jason Finkelman, who brings to Champaign contemporary and traditional Global Sounds and Creative Rhythms for free. Fill your ears with new sounds, and enjoy a different kind of entertainment that you can’t watch on TV or hear on the radio. Finkelman will feature a variety of African and Brazilian instruments, found objects and interactive innovations. This is not your ordinary musical performance, and it’s definitely worth attending.

Friday April 16: University of Illinois Campus

Intersections: Art in Postwar New York (1945-51)

KAM Gelvin Noel Gallery

Price: free

This mixed media installation focuses on works created in New York during the postwar years by several established artists in exile, younger international artists, eager American artists and other international artists exhibiting. The work focuses on the influence of surrealism, expressionism and cubism and shows how artists expressed their dislocation and distress through creative forms.

Bella Boutique

1422 S. Neil St., C.

Price: free

Be sure to venture to the newly opened Bella Boutique on Neil Street. The mens and womens boutique, which recently moved locations, is featuring hand painted silk scarves by local artist Loba C. Chudak in conjunction with Boneyard. The display and sale actually goes from Thursday to Saturday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., so you have all weekend to enjoy the wearable art.

Champaign Arts Showcase

Lutheran Campus Center at St. Andrews Lutheran Church

7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Price: free

With a mixture of different mediums, Lutheran Campus Center is hosting the Champaign Arts Showcase as a Boneyard exhibition. There will be a visual arts and architecture display accompanied by music performances, poetry readings and samples of cooking. Satisfy all your senses in this one stop.

Saturday April 17: Downtown Urbana

Logan GraFX Airbrush Art

Rosati’s Pizza and Catering

At Rosati’s Pizza and Catering on Friday, you can pick up much more than a good pizza fix. Christopher Logan GraFX Airbrush Art will be at Rosati’s, selling original airbrush designs on items like T-shirts, canvas and various other mediums for Friday’s Boneyard event.

Trikhala Belly Dance Performance Beads n’ Botanicals

117 n. broadway, U.

3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Price: free

For a unique dance experience, watch Trikhala, a belly dance group made up of U of I students. The group will perform a mixture of belly dance moves from different cultures with hip hop for a one-of-a-kind dance showcase.

Spa treatments, jewelry and art

H20 Salon, 109 North Broadway, U.

For the female crowd, the H2O Salon will be a popular to-do on Saturday. Offering free eyebrow waxes, free bang trims, formal up-do demonstrations, jewelry sales and a collection of pastel over charcoal art by Sergio Juan, this salon will have the perfect mix of art mediums for its Boneyard event.

Sunday April 18: Out & About Champaign County

Pastry Display Madeline’s Confectionary Arts Studio and Gallery

9 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Price: free

To satisfy your sweet tooth, Madeline’s Confectionary Arts Studio will hold a pastry-themed display. Ranging from silk paintings to sugar art cakes to acoustic guitar, this Boneyard event, featuring a range of mixed art by mostly local artists, will be sure to please the stomach and the creative juices.

Duke of Uke and His Novelty Orchestra

Urbana Free Library

Sunday, April 18, 2010

2:00 p.m.

Price: free

The Duke of Uke & His Novelty Orchestra will perform unique music inspired by classical composers, Tin Pan Alley ragtime tunes and Rock ‘n Roll artists of the ‘60s and ‘70s. Listening to live music is a wonderful way to relax and remember to breathe on those stressful days at work or school. Free to you and your family and friends, make it an outing right after lunch! It’s free, and it’s right in your backyard. What more could you ask for? Come support the original melodies of this novelty orchestra.

UI Brass Choir

Krannert Center, Foellinger Great Hall

7:30 p.m.

Price: $4-$10

Enjoy the University of Illinois’ Brass Choir, which will be led by Elliot Chasanov. Experience a beautiful musical performance created by the definitive sounds of trumpets, horns, trombones, tubas and many more brass instruments. By supporting the University, you will not only be helping the students, but you will also be able to de-stress by listening to the peaceful sounds of U of I’s Brass Choir.