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Family Night with Urbana Fire

Submitted by FemiF on October 4, 2018 - 3:10pm
Date: 
October 11, 2018 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm

The City of Urbana Fire Department is closing out Fire Prevention Week with a Family Night event featuring food, fun, and fire safety! Bring your family out for free dinner (first come, first served), fun activities with our Urbana firefighters, a fire safety demonstration, and a bike giveaway!

The event will be hosted at Lincoln Square Mall on Thursday, October 11, 2018 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. We hope to see you there!

Young Artist Studio

Submitted by BridgetB on October 1, 2018 - 12:55pm
Date: 
October 21, 2018 - 3:00pm to 3:45pm

The Urbana Free Library and Urbana Public Arts Program are jointly sponsoring The Young Artist's Studio, workshops this summer in the Urbana Free Library's Children's Library offering art-making for children ages 5 and up (or younger with an adult helper)! Join us for the next installment of our Young Artist’s Studio, featuring local artist, Gayathri Menokee! Youth participants will create their own zentangle through a guided exercise using pens, paper, and their own imaginations! Each participant will have a zentangle design to bring home by the end of the event! All events in the series are free and open to the public! Arts supplies are provided. Dress comfortably and ready to roll up those sleeves!

Artist of the Corridor

Submitted by BridgetB on October 1, 2018 - 12:49pm
Date: 
October 3, 2018 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm

Join the Urbana Public Arts Program and The Urbana Free Library for the opening reception for next art exhibition in our Artist of the Corridor Series: LOOMED BEADWORK by Judie Spencer!

"Beads have been used as currency, adornments, status symbols, counting devices, religious objects and have been part of the human story for thousands of years. They seem to be hardwired into the human brain, eliciting universal emotional responses to their diminutive beauty. They have been produced from hundreds of natural and synthetic materials. Their shape, size and colors are infinite," Spencer said.

The Urbana Free Library & Urbana Public Arts Program proudly sponsors this month’s Artist of the Corridor exhibition, BEADWORK by local artist Judie Spencer.

Coffee with a Cop is this Week!

Submitted by BridgetB on October 1, 2018 - 12:18pm
Date: 
October 3, 2018 - 7:30am to 9:00am

Consider this your official invitation to join The City of Urbana Police Department at Starbucks this coming Wednesday, October 3, 2018 for Coffee with a Cop. The event begins at 7:30 a.m. and will last until 9:00 a.m. Enjoy delicious coffee samplers and yummy pastries, as well as an information-yet casual conversation-with some of Urbana's finest police officers. We hope to see you there!

Check out a HOT SPOT!

Submitted by BridgetB on September 18, 2018 - 4:57pm
Date: 
September 1, 2018 - 12:00pm to September 30, 2018 - 11:59pm

Did you know that The Urbana Free Library has tech gadgets you can borrow? This is yet another good reason to sign-up for a library card this September, which is "Library Card Sign-Up Month."

Seriously.

Let's say your family is going on vacation, and you want to bring Wi-Fi with you. There's no need to extend you local service and increase your monthly bill. Your Urbana Free Library card allows you to check-out that ever-valuable Hot Spot for your family to borrow on your vacation.

How wonderful is the library, right? But, guess what? There is more!

Ever wonder what family treasures lurk on those old VHS tapes you’ve saved? Thinking about reformatting your boxes full of photos or slides to digital duplicates? Do you have a cache of dated 3.5 inch floppy discs with unknown files you’d like to view or copy? Need a projector to display images for that presentation you’re planning?

Urbana Homecoming Parade

Submitted by admin on September 14, 2018 - 4:46pm
Date: 
September 28, 2018 - 3:00pm

Urbana High School students, staff, and alumni will celebrate homecoming during the week of September 24 through September 28, with their traditional Homecoming Parade on Friday, September 28. In a change from 2017, the Homecoming Varsity football game vs. Champaign Centennial will be held on Friday, September 28, however, the game will start earlier than previous years, at 5:00pm. Students must present a photo ID to obtain a ticket to the Football game, and any youth under the age of 13 must be accompanied by an adult.

Homecoming Parade

On Friday, September 28, the Homecoming Parade will start at 3:00pm. The parade will include the Homecoming King and Queen and their Court, UHS Marching Band, floats created by student committees representing student groups and grade levels, student athletic teams, and a variety of special guests and USD #116 administrators. The Court will also be introduced during the UHS Varsity Football game later that day. There will be a USD #116 Family Social at 4:30pm on the west side of Urbana Middle School prior to the Varsity Football game, with food trucks available.

Experience Pygmalion

Submitted by BridgetB on September 13, 2018 - 5:02pm
Date: 
September 26, 2018 - 5:30pm to September 30, 2018 - 12:00am

Since 2005, the programming at PYGMALION has sought to engage its community of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois with the newest and most vital live music it can afford.

Over the years, it has grown from simply being a music festival, and into a multi-disciplinary event. In 2018, it has expanded once again. In addition to Music, Literature, Technology, Food, and a Made Fest, we bring Comedy and Podcasts to the forefront as well.

The nature of modern “festivals” has become so passé, we barely recognize the word, and choose not to use it any longer. Of course PYGMALION is a festival, one that looks like any other, on its face. I mean, look at the poster. There’s a lot of names there, a lot of bands, and artists. There are sponsors, of course there are!

The City of Urbana honors the fallen

Submitted by BridgetB on September 10, 2018 - 10:45am
Date: 
September 11, 2018 - 7:30am to 5:00pm

The City of Urbana will hold a September 11, 2001 Memorial Ceremony at 7:30 a.m., on Tuesday, September 11, 2018 at the flagpoles in the front of the Urbana City building, in remembrance of the tragic events of that day.

The agenda for the ceremony is as follows:

• Opening Prayer by Chaplain Dave Ashby

• Reading of events that occurred on September 11, 2001. The flags will be lowered to half-staff at this time.

• Urbana Mayor Diane Wolfe Marlin will speak

• Urbana Police Chief Seraphin will speak

• Urbana Fire Chief Charles Lauss will speak

• Bells will ring to honor the fallen

• Bag pipes will play Amazing Grace

• Dismissal

Later in the day, at 4:30 p.m., Urbana Fire Department, Station 4, will escort the University of Illinois ROTC units in their annual 9/11 Run.

Urbana Grows Green Weekend

Submitted by ScottT on September 6, 2018 - 9:38am
Date: 
September 8, 2018 - 8:00am to September 10, 2018 - 5:00pm

Join the Urbana Park District, City of Urbana, Midwest Pesticide Action Center, and others for a weekend packed with natural lawn care and sustainable landscaping demonstrations in Champaign County.

September 8th -10th

MGG Weekend Events include: