Whisper & Shout: Open Mic for Poetry

Thursday, Jan 19, 2023 ~ 8:00-10:00pm BUY TICKETS

Tickets in Advance Online at 309tix: $5-members, $8-nonmembers, $3-poets + fees (until 6pm day of event). (*No money will be taken at the door unless we don’t reach our max capacity)

Featured Poet: The Law of HUEY

The Law of HUEY is a Chicago native hailing from Chicago’s west side. He is a proud father, mentor, emcee and one of the co-founders of the music collective, HUEY Gang. HUEY is an acronym that stands for Headstrong Urban Educated Youth. He is currently working on a project called How Much 4 Therapy, addressing his struggles with mental health and therapy as a black man in America.

Salsa at CAC

Friday, Jan 20, 2023

Introductory Dance Lesson: 8:30-9:30 pm

Learn the basics of several Latin Dances by Eduardo & Beverly Caballero

Open Dancing: 9:30-midnight - music by of Eduardo Caballero

ADMISSION AT THE DOOR ONLY: $8.00 nonmembers, $5.00 CAC members

No partner is required. Mostly Salsa music is played but also Cha Cha, Bachata, Merengue, Tango, Reggaeton, R&B, Cumbia and Latin styled pop and R&B also. Bring your own food and drink or order take out from the Rhythm Kitchen. Pop, water and ice for sale on the floor for $1.00

Combined Art Reception

Saturday, Jan 21, 2023, ~ 6:30-8:30pm - free admission, donation requested

Meet the exhibiting artists and view artwork in three galleries.

Featuring Harry Tonchev and Andy Crawford Duo

A jazz guitarist whose high energy performance focuses on improvisational music by exploring a mixture of originals and standards from the Great American Songbook, Harry Tonchev’s conversational approach withstand up bassist Andy Crawford keeps audiences engaged.

The public is invited to this open house style event. Complimentary snacks and drinks will be offered.

Unframed prints from “Rhea Edge & Harold Boyd: PrintMakers exhibition will be for sale in the 3rd Floor Gallery.

Harold Boyd & Rhea Edge: Lost Lore 

January 6-February 18 - Preston Jackson Gallery

As fellow artists, educators and administrators, Rhea Edge of Eureka College and Harold Boyd of Illinois State University have shared a long partnership in the downtown Bloomington arts community, both showing work at the Beluga Press Art Gallery. With a focus on the human story, Boyd's fluid ink drawings and figures are poignantly recognizable, while dramatic images of motion and flight depict nature out of balance in Edge’s paintings.

Rhea Edge & Harold Boyd: PrintMakers 

January 6-February 18 - Gallery 3R

Boyd’s gestural figures defy gravity, exploring lithography, etching and relief printmaking with fluid lines in a largely black and white world. Edge brings us the power of stealth bombers and predatory birds in these abstracted etchings, lithographs and relief prints. Unframed prints will be for sale during 1st Fridays and the reception.