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Sweet Corn Festival 2012 One Community Together Concerts and Children's Activities August 24-25, 2012 Urbana, Champaign, University of Illinois One Community Together Stage Urbana, Illinois In the spirit of bringing communities together the 2012 Sweet Corn Festival, in collaboration with the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music, the University of Illinois Office of Public Engagement, and the Urbana Business Association, is again producing a series of short concerts and special children's activities at the Urbana-Champaign-University of Illinois One Community Together stage to celebrate the close of the summer season. This year's programming will include a diverse range of popular and world music concerts as well as include an instrument petting zoo, playing and planting nature's garden, guessing what vegetable and fruit am I, Didjerido instrument making, an international conga parade, and many other activities for children. Saturday's programming will conclude a joint performance of Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" by the Urbana, Central, and Centennial High School Marching Bands under the direction of University of Illinois Bands' director, Rob Rumbelow. In addition the One Community Together program will be reaching out to our local communities of Urbana, Champaign, and the University of Illinois to collect vegetable seeds. These seeds will be sent to the women of the east Zambia community of Musalila to help them become more self-sustainable as a community. All seed packets collected during this year's Sweetcorn Festival will be packed up and taken to Musalila in November by Nicole Bridges, manager of Champaign's Prosperity Gardens and founder of the seed exchange program in Zambia as part of her Peace Corp experience. All seed packets can be brought to the One Community Together Stage, located on Broadway just north of Main, and given to Scott Schwartz. The goal is to gather enough seeds that Nicole has to take an extra suitcase to get them to Zambia! For further information call either the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music at 217-244-9309, Urbana Business Association at 217-344-3872, or email Scott W. Schwartz at (schwrtzs@illinois.edu). Concert and activity schedule. Sponsors: Urbana Business Association University of Illinois Public Engagement Office Sousa Archives and Center for American Music Partners: Anita Purves Nature Center Champaign County Historical Museum Champaign’s Prosperity Gardens Chanute Air Museum Common Ground Food Co-op Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion Museum of the Grand Prairie Orpheum Children's Science Museumn Parkland Art Gallery Pollinitarium Sousa Archives and Center for American Music Spurlock Museum The Music Shoppe William M. Staerkel Planetarium University Library Special Collections Division |