Arts and Culture

Here are 3 things to do for the weekend of Sept. 29 through Oct. 1, 2023, curated by WCBU's Meagan Ruger-Smith. You can find more coverage on our Out & About - Arts & Music page or by subscribing to WCBU's Weekend Fanfare email newsletter, which goes out every Friday.

On this week's episode of Out and About, Dr. Mae Gilliland Wright talks about the 2023 Peoria Food + Wine Festival with event chair Laura Cullinan.

The recurring film program returns with a selection of "some of the funniest films ever made" with this series. Riverfront museum film curator and author Marc Eliot talks about this new series, along with how the program presents movies that Peoria and central Illinois audiences don't normally have an opportunity to see.

Peoria Civic Center general manager Rik Edgar says the city-owned venue had its best year since renovations were completed in 2007, with a record adjusted growth income of $7.1 million.

The Peoria Civic Center has agreed to a five-year extension of its management agreement with ASM Global, running through 2028.

Here are 3 things to do for the weekend of Sept. 22-24, 2023, curated by WCBU's Meagan Ruger-Smith. You can find more coverage on our Out & About - Arts & Music page or by subscribing to WCBU's Weekend Fanfare email newsletter, which goes out every Friday.

JR Runkel, spokesperson for the investor group behind The Putt Club, provides more details on the year-round, multi-use family entertainment center currently under construction along Interstate 74 near Bass Pro Shops in East Peoria.

The annual Blues Blast Music Awards will be held in Peoria for the first time. This after holding court at Buddy Guy’s Legends in Chicago for a few years and venues at other sites.

On this week's episode of Out and About, Dr. Mae Gilliland Wright of ArtsPartners of Central Illinois talks about the 61st annual Fine Art Fair with Shannon Cox, executive director of the Peoria Art Guild, and Nikki Wheeler, the Guild’s director of education and the fair’s co-director.

There are many vibrant cultural communities in the Peoria area, but not all are as well represented as the Filipino American Society of Central Illinois, or FASCI.

Showcasing quilts, paintings and hand carved sculptures, the FOLK exhibition at the Peoria Riverfront Museum represents a little bit of American History.

Xavier Chapman and Jonah Sendlin will have their original video game scores performed by the Heartland Festival Orchestra on Sept. 23