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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My Lotus Experience: The Arts Village

8 December 2011
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Emma Seeley was one of two Indiana University Arts Administration graduate students who worked on the Festival Arts Village this year, September 23-24. We asked them to say a bit – in words and images – about their experiences on Team Visual Arts.

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Prince Julius Adeniyi

7 December 2011
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We just learned, via Traditional Arts Indiana, that Nigerian drum master and teacher Prince Julius Adeniyi passed away recently. He was part of the first Lotus World Music and Arts Festival, in 1994.

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Lotus World Music & Arts Festival

17 October 2011

This year’s Lotus was a blast! Thanks to everyone — volunteers, sponsors, fans, and our wonderful performing artists — for a great year. Mark your calendars for next year’s Lotus World Music and Arts Festival: September 20-23, 2012.

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Sport a Lotus Pin

1 September 2011
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— and support our free Festival programming. When you buy a Lotus Pin ($5), you help us foot the bill for free events like Lotus in the Park, the Festival Arts Village, and this year’s special “Woven Treasures” exhibit. Fan support is crucial to help us keep these programs vital and accessible to all.

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