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Lotus Backstage

Looking Back at Lotus

15 December 2011
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Alejandra Lance, a graduate student in IU’s Arts Administration program, took to the streets during this year’s Lotus World Music and Arts Festival to record her impressions of the proceedings.

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Looking Back at Lotus: The Lovely Belles

9 December 2011
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This year’s Lotus street action focused on the aerial artistry of Australia’s Strange Fruit, who performed on the IU campus on Thursday and Friday, and in the middle of a rainy Kirkwood Avenue on Saturday night. Here are grad student Alejandra Lance’s impressions of the Three Belles.

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Wesley Lovell: Artist Liaison

9 December 2011
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This year’s festival artist liaison — the person in charge of coordinating all communication between Lotus and the 20-odd groups on the festival roster — was grad assistant Wesley Lovell. He did a great job, and lived to tell the tale. We asked him what he thought of the experience.

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My Banner Summer

8 December 2011
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Graduate intern Kathy Varble spent her summer with Lotus as one of our visual arts interns. She discovered, among other things: “Children + glitter = chaos.”

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Bloomingfoods Brings the Love (and Food, and Drink)

26 August 2011
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Back in the mid-’90s, Bloomingfoods served veggie burgers and soft drinks from a little 10 x 10-foot pop-up tent between Lotus  venues. Boy, have times changed.

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Jacob Edgar: Music Voyager, pt. 2

14 August 2011
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Here’s the second part of Lotus Director Lee Williams’ conversation with Jacob Edgar, host of the PBS series Music Voyager, and owner of the world music label Cumbancha. He’s traveled to more countries than most of us could even identify on a map, but Jacob’s career almost started in Bloomington….

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Jacob Edgar: Music Voyager, pt. 1

11 August 2011
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Jacob Edgar is the world-traveling host of the PBS series Music Voyager. Lotus director Lee Williams caught up with Jacob on August 4th as he was getting ready to film a new season, and the two chatted about what it takes to track down and present great music from around the world.

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