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Southern Illinois Stichers
Southern Illinois Stitchers, the local chapter of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America, Inc., will meet on Sunday, March 24, 2024, at 2:00 PM in the Community Room of the Carbondale Public Library, 405 W. Main Street, Carbondale, IL Chapter member Dawn Legier will give a demonstration on lacing your embroidery in preparation for framing. Visitors, whether stitchers or those just curious about the needle arts, are most welcome. If you stitch, please bring samples of your work to share. The event is free and open to the public. For more information visit our Facebook page: https://m.facebook.com/groups/843733229299769/?tsid=0.834195438950917&source=result or email Lee Swayze at lswayze1200@gmail.com.
A Night at the Mouse Races
Fundraising event for Herrin Hometown Christmas.
Saturday, April 13th at The Herrin Civic Center.
Doors open at 6pm. Racing begins at 7pm.

See Flyer for additional details!
Eclipse Over Little Egypt in Alto Pass
When the rare total solar eclipse travels through Mexico, the United States, and Canada on the afternoon of Monday, April 8, 2024, the two-time GRAMMY™ nominated Mexican folk music organization and performing group Sones de México Ensemble will be right there on the path of totality to greet it with an outdoor workshop and concert at Alto Vineyards.
Sones de Mexico will also live webcast this special daytime concert to pay musical tribute to this rare cosmic phenomenon!!!
facebook.com/sonesdemexico
youtube.com/sonesdemexico
10:00am-11:00am “La Danza del Sol” (the Dance of the Sun) - Aztec Dance Workshop
11:30am-12:45pm 30th Anniversary "Beyond the Music: A Musical Geography of Mexico" concert by two-time GRAMMY™ Award Nominated Sones de Mexico Ensemble
12:45pm-3:15pm 2024 Solar Eclipse (totality = 1:58pm-2:03pm)
5:00pm Beyond the Music: A Music and Culinary Geography of Mexico - a lecture-demo feat. the expertise of Chef Dudley Nieto
6:30pm-7:30pm "Fandango en la viña" open jam session with music and percussive dance
See Alto's Events Calendar here: https://altovineyards.net/events.../eclipse-2024-celebration
PARKING passes available for purchase ($20) in advance here: https://events.com/.../alto-vineyards-eclipse---cosmic...
Reservations strongly suggested! Email: events.alto@gmail.com
This project is free and open to the general public and is generously supported by:
Illinois Arts Council Agency Artstour and Live Music - One state together in the arts.
https://arts.illinois.gov/
Illinois Humanities Council Foreground Rural Initiative - providing funding to support the arts and humanities in rural communities and small towns across the state.
https://ilhumanities.org/
National Endowment for the Arts-Art works!
https://www.arts.gov/
Alto Vineyards-Southern Illinois' oldest and most celebrated winery
https://altovineyards.net/
#Eclipse Over Little Egypt
#Fandango en la viña
#CarbondaleEclipse2024
Art in the Park
“Matter of Mind” – Indie Lens Pop-Up
WSIU, the Carbondale Public Library, and ITVS invite you to a free film screening + dinner + community conversation on the Independent Lens film Matter of Mind: My Parkinson’s.

Join us after the screening for a discussion on the film and how it relates to our Carbondale community.

ABOUT THE FILM: In Matter of Mind: My Parkinson’s, three people navigate their lives with resourcefulness and determination in the face of a degenerative illness, Parkinson’s disease. An optician pursues deep brain stimulation surgery; a mother raising a pre-teen daughter becomes a boxing coach and an advocate for exercise; and a cartoonist contemplates how he will continue to draw as his motor control declines. Matter of Mind premieres on WSIU Monday, April 8th. Watch on the PBS App starting at 9pm.

Box meals available for the first 35 attendees; made possible by WSIU through iTVS grant funding.

carbondalepubliclibrary.org/indielens
Adler Planetarium's Astro Road Trip
Each year, the Adler Planetarium’s home away from home for Astro Road Trip is The Science Center! Fun, hands-on activities led by Adler staff will include seeing - and touching! - our fabulous Moon, Mars, and asteroid meteorite collection, making a drawing of a solar eclipse using chalk and construction paper, creating a pinhole projector, and assembling a special bead bracelet to “see” colorful effects of ultraviolet light from the Sun.