Lotus is happy to announce that it recently received grants from the Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County and from the Bloomington Arts Commission (BAC) and Bloomington Urban Enterprise Association (BUEA). During this time of live-event cancellations...
We are happy to announce that the 2020 Lotus World Music & Arts Festival is on! Yes, you heard that right, the Lotus Festival (Sept 24-27) is going virtual. Audience members will be invited to participate in numerous ways to engage with online performances and...
It is with great pleasure that Lotus announces two stellar additions to the Lotus team: Lydia Campbell-Maher, the new director of community & arts engagement; and Katie Bethel, Lotus’s new development coordinator. With the uncertainty of the pandemic changing the...
If you missed our Lotus Live-Stream Concerts, please find the videos here. We loved seeing Giri and Uma Peters, Cielito Lindo, Aaron Jonah Lewis, and Kardemimmit in action. Kardemimmit May 3, 2020 Aaron Jonah Lewis May 2, 2020 Cielito Lindo April 21, 2020...
Lotus is thrilled to announce another Lotus Live-Stream Concert featuring Finland-based band Kardemimmit. The concert will take place on Sunday, May 3 at 12:00 p.m. EDT on our Facebook and YouTube pages. Simply navigate to one of these pages at 12:00 p.m. and you will...
Lotus is happy to announce our next Lotus Live-Stream Concert featuring award-winning fiddle and banjo player Aaron Jonah Lewis. The concert will take place on Saturday, May 2 at 8:00 p.m. EDT on our Facebook and YouTube pages. Simply navigate to one of these pages at...
The Lotus Education & Arts Foundation is proud to announce that we are making our Lotus Blossoms study guides available to the public for the very first time. This means that parents and teachers interested in providing their children with in-depth knowledge about...
The Be More Awards are the City of Bloomington’s way of honoring and applauding the outstanding, but often unrecognized efforts of our community volunteers. Lotus’ brilliant cohort of volunteers always makes choosing just a few volunteers to represent us – and you – a...
[fusion_text]Charitable Giving through the CARES Act The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the daily reality for everyone in the US. Like many nonprofits, Lotus is looking closely at both our upcoming programming and our financial future, in a world where we can’t hold...
Written by LuAnne Holladay In January, Lotus lost two members of its “extended family”: Mike Wilkerson and Paul Sturm. Mike was a gifted arts administrator and teacher, and a tireless, articulate advocate for the arts in Bloomington and beyond. He was on the Lotus...