Join us for two days of creative fun. Experience art from 130 juried fine artists on Peoria's Riverfront on September 28-30. Participate in the interactive community mural. Try your hand at wheel-throwing a clay creation at the mobile pottery studio. Bring your children to the Kid's Art Festival where they can create their own masterpieces. Food, beer and wine stations will be set up throughout the fair. More info... ...

Contemporary Art Center

1st Thursday of each month, 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Come to share your poetry or excerpt from your novel or just to listen
Admission: $5 CAC member, $8 nonmember

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On the First Friday of every month, from 5pm to 9pm, join us for an intimate look at studios, galleries and arts organizations. Meet artists, musicians, neighbors and collectors. The tour includes twelve locations and spans a breadth of artistic media. Come, enjoy the unique efforts of creative and talented artists living and working in Central Illinois. For more information, visit www.peoriafirstfriday.com

Whiskeydaddle describes the process of moving whiskey barrels from one location to another. It was coined in the 1840s when every distillery in Peoria employed – along with mashmen, maltmen, stillmen and coopers – a team of “whiskeydaddlers.” The job of the whiskeydaddler was to transport whiskey barrels as quickly (and safely) as possible from warehouse to warehouse and to customers throughout the city.

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