The Lotus Education & Arts Foundation

Growing a Perennial Lotus

28 March 2013

We’re proud to celebrate 20 years of Lotus. We’ve got deep roots in our community, and we’re growing tall.

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Family Day at the Blossoms Bazaar: March 23

20 March 2013

It’s all happening at the Bazaar….

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* VENUE CHANGE * Charlotte Blake Alston: March 18

14 March 2013

Our 2013 Lotus Blossoms outreach begins with renowned storyteller, instrumentalist, and singer Charlotte Blake Alston. She brings African and African American story traditions to life at a free performance at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures.

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Lotus at 20 Snapshot: Sissoko & Segal

12 March 2013

When Ballake Sissoko and Vincent Segal visited Bloomington recently for a Lotus at 20 concert, the two musicians took time for a brief master class at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

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12 March 2013

Each spring, we get to do something that we really love: bring educational outreach, Lotus-style, to Bloomington and surrounding areas in south-central Indiana. It’s Lotus Blossoms time, when we make it easy for Hoosier kids to discover the music, dance, songs, arts, and stories of cultures around the world.

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March 6: Sissoko & Segal’s “Chamber Music”

1 March 2013

Our special Lotus at 20 series kicks off with a concert of elegant simplicity: “Chamber Music” is a collaboration between Ballake Sissoko, who plays the kora, a lute-harp from Mali, and Vincent Segal, a French cellist who plays for the trip-hop band Bumcello. Proceeds from this event — and all Lotus at 20 events — [...]

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