Organization | • | Illinois Arts Council | [X] |
| | 41: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 March 3 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The Illinois Arts Council is pleased to announce Illinois' 2010-2011 Poetry Out Loud State Finals, featuring recitations by sixteen regional contest winners from throughout the state. The event will take place on Friday, March 11, 2011, at 1:30 p.m. in Springfield's Hoogland Center for the Arts. Attendance is free, open to the public, and accessible. | | | | Date Created: | 03 03 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 239**11 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000034753 Original UID: 16273 FIRST WORD: Illinois | |
| 42: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2010 October 12 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The Illinois Arts Council and our regional partners statewide invite all Illinois high schools to participate in the 2010-11 Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest, a free national program created by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation. | | | | Date Created: | 10 12 2010 | | | | Agency ID: | 1252**10 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000031855 Original UID: 14869 FIRST WORD: Illinois | |
| 43: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2010 July 16 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Press Release: The Association of American Cultures (TAAC) invites leaders both established and emerging to attend the 12th Open Dialogue symposium, taking place in Chicago for the first time August 12-14, 2010. Attendees will help formulate action-agendas promoting equity in cultural policy, funding, and leadership in the 21st Century. | | | | Date Created: | 07 16 2010 | | | | Agency ID: | 833**10 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000030443 Original UID: 14298 FIRST WORD: Kenny | |
| 44: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The Illinois Arts Council is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of the Illinois Arts Council to hire well-qualified people to perform the varied tasks we require. Decisions regarding the recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, layoff, working conditions, benefits and privileges of employment, compensation, advancement, transfers, and terminations for all employees without discrimination are made without regard to non-merit factors including, but not limited to because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin/ancestry, citizenship status, disability, age, order of protection status, marital status, arrest record, military status, including veteran status, unfavorable discharge from military service or age, except when it is necessary to implement the Affirmative Action Program, or when it is a bona fide job qualification. | | | | Date Created: | 09 18 2012 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000045024 Original UID: 24504 FIRST WORD: Affirmative | |
| 45: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 March 11 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | From a competitive field of nearly 6,000 students from across the state, Rapheal Mathis, a senior from Plainfield East High School in Plainfield, received the title of 2013 Poetry Out Loud Illinois State Champion at the statewide competition hosted by the Springfield Area Arts Council in Springfield, on Friday, March 8, 2013. Mathis recited Silence by Thomas Hood, Buick by Karl Shapiro, and The Gift by Li-Young Lee. Cat Harmon, a senior from Auburn High School, Rockford, won first runner-up with recitations of Ah! Why, Because the Dazzling Sun by Emily Bront, I felt a Funeral in my Brain, (340) by Emily Dickinson, and Rebecca Lindenbergs Carnival. Mr. Mathis will advance to the national competition to be held in Washington, D.C., in mid-April. If Mr. Mathis is unable to attend, Ms. Harmon will represent Illinois at the national contest. | | | | Date Created: | 03 11 2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 229**13 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000045350 Original UID: 24601 FIRST WORD: Illinois | |
| 46: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2012 March 30 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | From a competitive field of nearly 6,000 students from across the state, Carolyn Muller, a senior from Champaign Central High School in Champaign, received the title of 2012 Poetry Out Loud Illinois State Champion at the statewide competition hosted by the Springfield Area Arts Council in Springfield, on Thursday, March 29, 2012. | | | | Date Created: | 03 30 2012 | | | | Agency ID: | 311**12 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000042390 Original UID: 21913 FIRST WORD: Illinois | |
| 47: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 July 30 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The twelfth annual Midwest Folklife Festival returns to historic Bishop Hill, Illinois, located in the states western Henry County, August 4 5, 2012. The Midwest Folklife Festival is a two-day free outdoor public festival that highlights the ethnic and folk arts, customs, and practices of the participating Midwestern states. Each year this family-friendly festival is hosted by a different Midwestern state, and this year Illinois is joined by Minnesota and Wisconsin in presenting their states artists and folkways at the festival. The once bustling 19th century communal settlement of Bishop Hill has been selected as the festival site for 2012 and will provide an exciting location for the festival. The community of Bishop Hill continues to preserve its unique cultural legacy and is proud to again serve as the host for the Midwest Folklife Festival, having played host to the festival in 2006 and 2009. | | | | Date Created: | 07 30 2012 | | | | Agency ID: | 869**12 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000044620 Original UID: 24113 FIRST WORD: Twelfth | |
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