Urbana Sweetcorn Festival, 8/28-8/29:
Now in its 40th year, the Urbana Sweetcorn Festival is Champaign County’s largest free festival. Urbana’s signature summer event is a two-day celebration of food, live music, arts and crafts and of course — all the delicious, locally grown sweet corn you can eat. Taking place in the heart of downtown Urbana, the 2015 festival will run Friday, August 28 from 5 to 11 pm and Saturday, August 29 from 11 am to 11 pm.
Arthur Amish Country Cheese Festival, 9/5-9/7:
Family fun for the whole
weekend. Enjoy the festival atmosphere throughout Arthur. Eat a
corn dog, sample the Free Cheese, take in a tractor pull, watch
a parade, listen to some music, visit an Amish farm shop, shop
the sales in town — just enjoy yourself. That's what a visit
to Amish Country is about!
The Pygmalion Festival, 9/23-9/27:
The Pygmalion Festival started out with relatively humble beginnings back in 2005 with a handful of touring and local bands, all playing in the wide array of venues that both Champaign and Urbana have to offer. Now entering our eleventh year in 2015, it’s featured hundreds of artists from around the world performing on dozens of stages around Champaign-Urbana, playing to tens of thousands over the years.
In 2015, we take yet another step forward, and implement and integrate an entire Tech component into the mix. Panelists, speakers, demonstrations, interactive opportunities and student recruitment will collide, and with the backdrop of The Pygmalion Festival to make it a helluva lot more fun than your average “conference.” Our vision is simple: we get one life to live, and we can do anything we want with it. That vision continues to be realized each year as we move the dial forward for what is possible in Champaign-Urbana.
