Join us for our 3rd annual event to raise money for the St Jude Children’s Research Hospital in honor of two of our heroes, Josie Orellana and Chance Mason. Bar sales, tips, silent auction and all proceeds go to St Jude. Please join us in our fight against childhood cancer. 

For more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/802420072075170

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PEORIA IRISH FEST
On the RiverFront
Peoria, Illinois
August 23, 24, 25, 2024

Purchase in advance: $10 Single Day Tickets / $25 Weekend Passes (3 Day tickets)
Purchase on / after August 1, 2024: $15 Single Day Tickets / $30 Weekend Passes (3 Day tickets)

The last weekend in August every year, the St. Patrick Society of Peoria partners with the Peoria Park District to host the Peoria Irish Fest on the Peoria RiverFront. Over the years, Peoria Irish Fest has grown from a Sunday afternoon picnic to a 3-Day Irish Festival. Although the venue has changed and the scope of activities and entertainment has grown exponentially since that first picnic, we still provide a time and place for friends and families to join together and share their interest in Irish traditions.

During the three days of the event, attendees can enjoy a variety of musicians from around Peoria, the country, or the world, playing both traditional and more modern Irish music, Irish dancers from a variety of Irish Dance Schools, and learn more about Irish traditions in our Cultural Village.

Also featured during the festival is the Ancient Athletic sporting competition featuring the Sheaf Toss, Caber Toss, Stone Put, Hammer Throw, Braemar Stone/Open Stone—heavyweight for distance and lightweight for distance. On Saturday, fest guests can participate in the Highland Games; Sunday is a fierce athletic competition.

On Friday, the Happy Hour 5K race will be held along the riverfront. Participants will receive free fest entry and a beverage ticket.

On Sunday, attendees can participate in a Catholic Mass where canned goods are collected for local food pantries.

Please learn more about the festival by visiting www.PeoriaIrishFest.com or following us on Facebook and Instagram @peoriairishfest.

For tickets: Ticketswww.etix.com/ticket/p/38943553/peoria-irish-fest-any-day-ticket-peoria-peoria-riverfront

Join us every week for College Night! Meet other college climbers and get in some sends. And, don't forget to bring your school ID!

Walk in or sign up ahead of time online or by calling the gym at 309-966-0831.

Cost for current college students with valid ID is $15 (includes rental gear).

For tickets: https://faclimbing.portal.approach.app/event/2690/booking/546326

Come out and support the Peoria Chiefs. Don't forget to check out our website for giveaways, fireworks and other specials!

 

For tickets: https://www.milb.com/peoria/tickets/single-game-tickets

Skill building classes which meet once a week.  Learn the basics of or improve your skills hand-building and wheel throwing pottery , as well as how to finish through glazing your work.

Instructor: Jacob Grant
No Experience Necessary.
Ages 18+.  
For Beginning students and Beyond Beginners: Intermediate and Expert levels require taking several classes at the Beyond Beginning level or several hours (500+) of independent work time.  
Registration cost is $190. This covers tuition and two 5lb bags of Red Stoneware Clay to begin the class.  If you need more, it can be purchased as needed.  
Everyone will need to have their own tools for the class.  If you do not have tools, there is a $20 add on option to purchase them through us.
All glaze and firing costs are included in the cost of the clay you purchase.  
When pottery is finished, it is food-safe, dishwasher-safe, microwave safe.

After you fill out and return the form, your application will be reviewed, along with availability in the class.  If there is not room, you will recieve an email that you have been placed on a wait list and will be notified as soon as a spot come available.  

If there is room in the class, you will be notified by email and you will also receive an invoice via email, which you can pay online with card.

To register: https://sites.google.com/site/wheelartpotterystudio/classes/adult-clay-classes

There aren’t many places to get a great meal on a Monday night in Peoria … and there’s exactly one place to do it while listening to a curated playlist of jazz, funk, soul, rock, hip hop, & world music from the past 60+ years. River City DJs bring the vinyl and The Bar at BLACK BAND provides the rest: great beer & cocktail specials paired with a fantastic food menu. The vibes on this night are just right! Join us 6-9pm every Monday.

Skill building classes which meet once a week.  Learn the basics of or improve your skills hand-building and wheel throwing pottery , as well as how to finish through glazing your work.

Instructor: Jacob Grant
No Experience Necessary.
Ages 18+.  
For Beginning students and Beyond Beginners: Intermediate and Expert levels require taking several classes at the Beyond Beginning level or several hours (500+) of independent work time.  
Registration cost is $190. This covers tuition and two 5lb bags of Red Stoneware Clay to begin the class.  If you need more, it can be purchased as needed.  
Everyone will need to have their own tools for the class.  If you do not have tools, there is a $20 add on option to purchase them through us.
All glaze and firing costs are included in the cost of the clay you purchase.  
When pottery is finished, it is food-safe, dishwasher-safe, microwave safe.

After you fill out and return the form, your application will be reviewed, along with availability in the class.  If there is not room, you will recieve an email that you have been placed on a wait list and will be notified as soon as a spot come available.  

If there is room in the class, you will be notified by email and you will also receive an invoice via email, which you can pay online with card.

To register: https://sites.google.com/site/wheelartpotterystudio/classes/adult-clay-classes

Figure Drawing / Open Studio 
Tuesday Afternoons, July 23-September 10
2:00-4:00 pm 
(eight 2-hour sessions) 
Ages 18 & up
minimum students: 4, maximum: 12 
CAC Member: $75, nonmember: $90 
or drop-in with $15.00 fee per class

Artists are invited to draw or paint the figure from a live nude or clothed model. A monitor will direct the model to change poses and provide guidance, if desired. There is no instruction, but students are encouraged to seek advice from others in the class. Students must bring their own supplies and materials. Easels for sitting and standing will be provided, but artists may bring their own supports also. 

To confirm that the class will proceed as planned, a minimum of 4 member students must register by July 16. Once we have received the minimum required students, we will seek payment. Space may be limited and drop ins may not be a possibility. 

Class location: Contemporary Art Center of Peoria, 305 SW Water St., Peoria, IL 61602 in the new 3rd floor classroom.

All students (those planning to drop in also) must register at Class Schedule - Contemporary Art Center of Peoria (peoriacac.org) If there is an obstacle to registering electronically, over the phone 309-674-6822 or in person during an event or business hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11-5:00. 

For more information, contact: William Butler or Darlene Jones, 309-674-6822 or cac@peoriacac.org

kill building classes which meet once a week.  Learn the basics of or improve your skills hand-building and wheel throwing pottery , as well as how to finish through glazing your work.

Instructor: Jacob Grant
No Experience Necessary.
Ages 18+.  
For Beginning students and Beyond Beginners: Intermediate and Expert levels require taking several classes at the Beyond Beginning level or several hours (500+) of independent work time.  
Registration cost is $190. This covers tuition and two 5lb bags of Red Stoneware Clay to begin the class.  If you need more, it can be purchased as needed.  
Everyone will need to have their own tools for the class.  If you do not have tools, there is a $20 add on option to purchase them through us.
All glaze and firing costs are included in the cost of the clay you purchase.  
When pottery is finished, it is food-safe, dishwasher-safe, microwave safe.

After you fill out and return the form, your application will be reviewed, along with availability in the class.  If there is not room, you will recieve an email that you have been placed on a wait list and will be notified as soon as a spot come available.  

If there is room in the class, you will be notified by email and you will also receive an invoice via email, which you can pay online with card.

To register: https://sites.google.com/site/wheelartpotterystudio/classes/adult-clay-classes

Join us from 6-8pm on the last Tuesday of each month to meet other women who climb! 

Open to all female-identifying climbers.

This meetup is geared toward climbers age 16 and older. All ability levels welcome!

Free for First Ascent Members | $15 per climber for non members (rental gear included)

Booking Requirements

This class requires a ticket.

For tickets: https://faclimbing.portal.approach.app/event/2828/booking/532057

Grab your smartest friends and head to Jack's on Adams for you chance to win prizes every Tuesday night! 

https://jacksonadamspeoria.com/events/

Join us every week for College Night! Meet other college climbers and get in some sends. And, don't forget to bring your school ID!

Walk in or sign up ahead of time online or by calling the gym at 309-966-0831.

Cost for current college students with valid ID is $15 (includes rental gear).

For tickets: https://faclimbing.portal.approach.app/event/2691/booking/547493

Skill building classes which meet once a week.  Learn the basics of or improve your skills hand-building and wheel throwing pottery , as well as how to finish through glazing your work.

Instructor: Jacob Grant
No Experience Necessary.
Ages 18+.  
For Beginning students and Beyond Beginners: Intermediate and Expert levels require taking several classes at the Beyond Beginning level or several hours (500+) of independent work time.  
Registration cost is $190. This covers tuition and two 5lb bags of Red Stoneware Clay to begin the class.  If you need more, it can be purchased as needed.  
Everyone will need to have their own tools for the class.  If you do not have tools, there is a $20 add on option to purchase them through us.
All glaze and firing costs are included in the cost of the clay you purchase.  
When pottery is finished, it is food-safe, dishwasher-safe, microwave safe.

After you fill out and return the form, your application will be reviewed, along with availability in the class.  If there is not room, you will recieve an email that you have been placed on a wait list and will be notified as soon as a spot come available.  

If there is room in the class, you will be notified by email and you will also receive an invoice via email, which you can pay online with card.

To register: https://sites.google.com/site/wheelartpotterystudio/classes/adult-clay-classes

Every Thursday Open House from 10AM - 2PM. Private Tours are available for small groups by appointments. For questions, private tours and special event rentals contact the Peoria Historical Society Office 309-674-1921.

The Pettengill-Morron House has celebrated 150 years! When you visit lean about all of the owners, stories of abolitionists and the underground railroad, what famous actor was married in the home and other stories of Peoria's past along with unique collection of pieces. The house is on the National Register of Historic Places and is owned by the Peoria Historical Society.

 

For more info: https://www.peoriahistoricalsociety.com/events

hese classes offer kids, ages 5-17, the chance to explore and build skill, learning different hand-building techniques and how to throw on the potter's wheel. They also learn how to finish work through different glazing techniques.  

Instructors Jacob Grant and Kyla Cadwell co-teach this course.  

Jacob started Wheel Art Pottery Studio in 2010. He has 25 years of experience working in clay, an M.F.A. in Ceramics from Bradley University, and 20 years of experience teaching ceramics.  He began teaching pottery to homeschool children at The Peoria Art Guild in 2005.

Kyla is a working artist with 15 years of experience in art education. She has taught art to children in many settings, including Montessori School of Peoria, Peoria Lakeview Museum, the 21st Century Program, Cornerstone Academy of Performing Arts and most recently at Wheel Art Pottery Studios.

Jacob and Kyla share a teaching philosophy that creativity is best learned through independent experimentation/trial and error.

Their teaching process involves detailed lectures on materials used in ceramics, the firing process, and its historic and technological impact on human civilization. Demonstrations are given of techniques on how to manipulate clay through hand-building and wheel-throwing methods to create a variety of functional and sculptural forms. Children are then allowed to "play in the clay." They are encouraged to fail and learn through their failures. Students will be instructed on being responsible for their workspace and tools, and mindful of the materials they use.

Wheel-thrown Projects: Students are instructed on the basics of creating pots on a pottery wheel.  They are then given opportunity to spin clay (throw) by themselves, while instructors are only observing.  After working on the wheel independently for a period of time, instructors will give assistance and more instruction, as needed.

Hand-building Projects: Students will learn pinch-pot, and slab techniques for the upcoming fall session.  Focus on fall-time creations: slab-built leaf trays, pinch-pot pumpkins (can be carved decoratively like jack-o-lanterns), and slab spiders (used from carving patterns of their hands).

Students learn to finish their own pieces by applying glaze, underglaze, and/or other ceramic mediums before they go into a kiln and fire on for a permanent finish.

Children in both classes follow individual paths in clay. With guidance from the instructor, they are allowed to develop their own unique voice in clay. 

All kid's classes work with stoneware clay and glazes that are food-safe, water-tight, oven-proof, microwave/dishwasher-safe.

No experience necessary

Ages 5-17

$165/student, includes materials & firings

Next Session: 7 Consecutive Thursdays, August 29-October 10, 4:30-6pm

To register: https://sites.google.com/site/wheelartpotterystudio/classes/kid-s-clay-classes

From 1850 to Prohibition, the volume of whiskey distilled, aged, and bottled here in Peoria led to enormous fortunes being made and the birth of equally prosperous secondary industries. Tour the sites where it happened from an air conditioned bus.
Bus tours are $20 per person and reservations are required; visit 309tix.com to reserve a spot.
All bus tours depart from Caterpillar Visitors Center, 110 SW Washington Street. 
Many thanks to our partner City Link.

For tickets: Tickets309tix.com/events/roll-out-the-barrel-bus-tour-8-30-2024

Jay Goldberg Events & Entertainment and the Illinois Blues Coalition present:
The 34th Annual Peoria Blues & Heritage Music Festival

August 30th and 31st, 2024
Peoria Riverfront, Peoria, IL
Tickets and Info available at www.PBHFest.com

The Peoria Blues & Heritage Music Festival has been a staple End-of-Summer event at Peoria’s beautiful riverfront festival park. Now in its 34th year, festival-goers will bask in the glow of the sun on the beautiful downtown peoria riverfront while they enjoy a world-class line-up of artists from blues, roots, funk, soul and everything in between. Help us bring downtown to life as the event stretches off the waterfront into bars, venue and businesses through after hours events, late night club shows and much more! 

Artists:

Friday, August 30th
At the CEFCU Landing Main Stage
Here Come The Mummies
Shemekia Copeland
Bobby Rush

At the Gateway Stage
Aaron Kamm & The One Drops
Pert Near Sandstone
Peoria Rhythm Kings
+ More!

Saturday, August 31st
At the CEFCU Landing Main Stage
Marcia Ball
Joanna Connor
Steady Flow (Late Night Show)
Rock Athas

At the Gateway Stage
Dwayne Dopsie & The Zydeco Hellraisers
Jennifer Hartswick Band
Dizgo
Feed The Dog
Erech Bruce Band
+More!

VIP Reserved Seating 2-Day and 1-Day Tickets are on sale now as well as GA Tickets at PBHFest.com/tickets

Outside chairs only allowed with the purchase of a Bring Your Own Chair Add-On. $15 For 2-Days or $10 Per Day. All VIP Reserved Seating includes a Chair Add-On for the Gateway Stage!

Gates open at 5PM on Friday and 11:30AM on Saturday

Website: www.PBHFest.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/pbhfest

Available Hotels!
Coming in from out of town? Check out hotel rates in the Peoria area! There are a limited number of rooms available, so be sure to reserve your room right away-> www.pbhfest.com/about/hotels

All Ages! Fun for the whole family! No bottles, cans, coolers or animals allowed.

For more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/355783370897632

Peoria's biggest and best farmers market!  Featuring over 100 local vendors selling fresh produce, local meats, eggs, cheeses, breads, flowers, and baked goods!  Local artists, musicians and demonstrations each week!

Join us every Saturday morning 8 am - noon in the 200 block of Water Street.

For more info: https://www.facebook.com/PeoriaRiverFrontMarket

Learn the basics of setting up a pottery wheel to throw, the proper tools needed, how to prepare the clay through a process called "wedging," centering, throwing on the wheel and how to clean up.

We give a demonstration of how to throw a pot.  Next, we let you try by yourself for a short period of time.  Then we give assistance, as needed, to create your own piece which can literally exist forever (unless it is heated to 2500 fahrenheit:). You get to choose the glaze color of your piece.

This class qualifies a person to attend open studios and work independently. 

Materials and firing is covered in the cost for one piece (approximate maximum size-up to 6" tall x 6" width x 6" length).

Everyone keeps one piece. Additional pieces of equivalent size are $5 (covers material and firing costs).  These are paid for after the pottery session, if you create more than 1 piece you wish to keep.

Specialty Items are also available for additional cost.  These require additional time, material, and firing.

Pieces are kept at the studio for finish work, glazing and two kiln firings, and are picked up at a later date. When finished, everything is food-safe, dishwasher-safe, microwave-safe.

Ages 5+

No experience necessary

Pre-registration and pre-payment required.

Please Fill out the form and submit to register for a Wheel 101 class.  If you have a group of people, all paying together, please use one form.  If you are coming with others, but paying separately, please fill out separate forms.  After you submit the form, you will receive a confirmation email and invoice within a day.  When the invoice is paid, your spot will be reserved.

To register: https://www.wheelartpottery.studio/events/wheel-101-class

Enjoy a tour and tasting with a BLACK BAND team member in our restored historic space in Peoria’s Warehouse District.

As you explore the distilling process from grain to glass, you will learn about mash bills, still technology, distillate selection, barrel aging and more. Please bring your photo ID and plan to arrive 15 minutes before your tour begins.

For more info & to register: https://www.exploretock.com/blackbanddistillery/event/483954?date=2024-07-27&size=1&time=20%3A00

Jay Goldberg Events & Entertainment and the Illinois Blues Coalition present:
The 34th Annual Peoria Blues & Heritage Music Festival

August 30th and 31st, 2024
Peoria Riverfront, Peoria, IL
Tickets and Info available at www.PBHFest.com

The Peoria Blues & Heritage Music Festival has been a staple End-of-Summer event at Peoria’s beautiful riverfront festival park. Now in its 34th year, festival-goers will bask in the glow of the sun on the beautiful downtown peoria riverfront while they enjoy a world-class line-up of artists from blues, roots, funk, soul and everything in between. Help us bring downtown to life as the event stretches off the waterfront into bars, venue and businesses through after hours events, late night club shows and much more! 

Artists:

Friday, August 30th
At the CEFCU Landing Main Stage
Here Come The Mummies
Shemekia Copeland
Bobby Rush

At the Gateway Stage
Aaron Kamm & The One Drops
Pert Near Sandstone
Peoria Rhythm Kings
+ More!

Saturday, August 31st
At the CEFCU Landing Main Stage
Marcia Ball
Joanna Connor
Steady Flow (Late Night Show)
Rock Athas

At the Gateway Stage
Dwayne Dopsie & The Zydeco Hellraisers
Jennifer Hartswick Band
Dizgo
Feed The Dog
Erech Bruce Band
+More!

VIP Reserved Seating 2-Day and 1-Day Tickets are on sale now as well as GA Tickets at PBHFest.com/tickets

Outside chairs only allowed with the purchase of a Bring Your Own Chair Add-On. $15 For 2-Days or $10 Per Day. All VIP Reserved Seating includes a Chair Add-On for the Gateway Stage!

Gates open at 5PM on Friday and 11:30AM on Saturday

Website: www.PBHFest.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/pbhfest

Available Hotels!
Coming in from out of town? Check out hotel rates in the Peoria area! There are a limited number of rooms available, so be sure to reserve your room right away-> www.pbhfest.com/about/hotels

All Ages! Fun for the whole family! No bottles, cans, coolers or animals allowed.

For more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/355783370897632