On December 15th visit the website of our Art Magazine UKAY-zine: 

www.ukayzine.org

You will discover the works of Talented Artists who support our effort to repurpose the Hale Memorial church and share our desire to create a national and international cultural exchange. You can also submit to receive the Newsletter at ukayzine@gmail.com

FILMS BY THE COLLECTIVES

Atelier Lamine ( Paris, France)

Maik Alles Gute (Berlin, Germany)

Vejiga de Pez (Lima, Peru)

WORKS BY ARTIST

Ian Shelly, Settlement

Patrick Moser, Little Curry Tests

Lori Miles, An invention that bottle up memory

Heather Brammeier, Sideways

IGNITE Peoria is a celebration of creativity that will feature events that inspire innovation, release artistic vision, and spark the passionate imagination of our community.

IGNITE Peoria wants to celebrate and find the artist in all of us. Your art, your passion, could be visual or audible, 3-D or 2-D, in motion or static, come from your heart or your backyard.  It doesn’t matter.

IGNITE Peoria is giving all of us a chance to share our love and passion and, hopefully, light an artistic spark in others.

Yaku Presents: SNAX 02

Featuring Beautiful Works by Katie Yancey

Katie Yancey generates video, sound and installation work through a multi-disciplinary practice that explores the materiality of the poetic voice.

Born in 1985 in Peoria, Illinois, she currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon. She received an MFA in Contemporary Art Practice from Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, and attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (BFA 2009). 

'SNAX' is a Small Nomadic Artistic Experience — an ongoing series of events organized by Yaku to share the creative potential of the Organization and the life that will live within repurposed the Hale Memorial Church. 

Bring your beautiful selves!

Let us cover you with beauty.......

Think you know all about historic preservation in Central Illinois?
Spend a Sunday afternoon at the historic GAR Hall in downtown Peoria and you may learn something new! Five groups will be invited to do seven-minute presentations on their current historic preservation projects. Presenters will highlight
their mission, goals, progress, and current support.
After the presentations, you can vote for your favorite project! Winners will be announced at the end of the event with a champagne toast to celebrate National Historic Preservation Month.

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Works Presented:

"Peoria" - Film by Coralie Maurin

"Soulution IV s3" - Perfomance by Natalia Villanueva Linares

PEORIA
Film by the Artist Coralie Maurin:

"The action takes place in the city of Peoria, the United States (Illinois) - built on what was once the territory of the Indian tribe Piwarea - in the Hale Memorial Church meant to be renovated and turned into an art center. As indicated by the artist Natalia Villanueva, a group of women sewing large pieces of plastic sheeting.
The film focuses on the skill of the seamstresses gestures and movements of the colored material which has the texture of the dream. However, the shape and the destination of the final work are not revealed.

A silent song is inserted into the gaps of the film. This is a song written on the model of not sacred songs invented within the Native American communities in the domestic task, such as embroidery.
The movie develops the theme of collective artistic gesture and its profound meaning for the individual, for the community he is associated with and finally for us, spectators of this action."