Get your boogie on at the First City Music Festival at the French Commons in Vincennes. There is something for everyone. Listen to music throughout the day and evening. Bring your yoga mat and find your zen in the yoga garden. The children’s area offers crafts and other activities from 10am to 4pm. One of a kind artisan and food vendors will be on site. Visit the event website for a full list of events and ticket information.
Get your boogie on at the First City Music Festival at the French Commons in Vincennes. There is something for everyone. Listen to music throughout the day and evening. Bring your yoga mat and find your zen in the yoga garden. The children’s area offers crafts and other activities. One of a kind artisan and food vendors will be on site. Visit the event website for a full list of events and ticket information.
Get your boogie on at the First City Music Festival Kick Off event at the French Commons in Vincennes. Listen to Music by Local Folk, Wicked Ways and The Fun Dunns. Free entry with canned food donations for the local United Way or monetary donation to the Evan Twitty Foundation.
Are you looking for something to do this weekend? We’ve got you covered! Check out one of these great events happening in Knox County this weekend!
Whether it’s your first time going to First City Music Festival or you’re a seasoned festival goer, knowing what to pack can be a difficult decision. Luckily, we’ve created a list of some essentials we think that you should bring with you to FCMF.
Enjoy the natural beauty of Ouabache Trails Park during a casual nature walk with Master Naturalist Terri Talarek King on Sunday, September 11, 2022. The walk will begin at 2:00 Eastern from the Sacajawea Shelter House (at the back of the park’s lower loop road) and will proceed on Trail 7.
This trail begins in a wetland area consisting of a wet meadow, stream, and swamp, with abundant summer plants and wildlife. Trail 7 then winds through upland forest habitat with hills and ravines. Walkers will experience a variety of trees, plants, fungi, and animals.
There is no fee or registration. Terri Talarek King provides the Second Sunday Nature Exploration Walks as an Independent Naturalist, for all who are interested.
Ouabache Trails Park is at the end of Lower Fort Knox Road, just north of Vincennes, Indiana. For more information, email leapingfrog55@yahoo.com or leave a voice message at 812-881-8987. Also check the Facebook page The Nature of Knox County, Indiana, and other local news outlets.
This year the Hoosier Cruisers are hosting two events to help raise funds for their annual “Clothe a Child” shopping trip.
Saturday’s event starts at 7 PM at Gregg Park. Cars will drive through town and end up at the Riverfront Pavilion where there will be food trucks, live music, and door prizes.
Sunday’s event is the car show. It will start at 8 AM and run until 3 PM. There will be between 100-300 cars.
Bring history to life through a combination of short presentations, games, and hands-on activities that combine social studies, language arts, math, and science.
Explore what a soldier’s life was like at Fort Knox II, and learn about the War of 1812 through a combination of short presentations, games, and hands-on activities that combine social studies, language arts, math, and science. Build a craft stick fort, play a War of 1812 version of Capture the Flag, see a demonstration of the Harrison-Tecumseh debates, and more. This event takes place at Fort Knox II, located at 3090 N. Old Fort Knox Road, Vincennes.
Recommended for ages 8 – 12.
(812) 882-7422
Join us in one of the premier annual events as we honor the veterans of WWII. We will have speeches, vendors, food, and reenactments. Check our Facebook page for the most up-to-date information about this event.
Join friends at Art Space Vincennes, the Open Gallery, the Northwest Territory Art Gallery, the Shircliff Gallery, the Dragoon pop-up temporary gallery and the Democratic Headquarters for the First Friday Art Walk, Friday, September 2. Galleries will be open 5 – 8 pm.
Art Space Vincennes LLC, 521 Main will open Personal Perspectives, monoprints, collage, and watercolor artworks by retired Vincennes University Art Professor Deborah Hutchinson-Hagedorn. These new works express this artist’s love of nature; the subject matter is often landscape, at times with a focus on a single tree. Deborah states, “The tree acts as a metaphor for life and rebirth through seasonal dying and renewal.” There are also abstract pieces that reflect inspirational life experiences, revealed through the artist’s deep understanding of expressive color and her expertise in the many-layered processes involved in creating a monotype print.
Due to the continued high rate of COVID infection in Knox County, masking is recommended.
Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat Noon – 5 pm. Other hours by appointment; call 812-887-6145
Northwest Territory Art Guild, 316 Main will open their annual Members Juried Art Exhibition. Guild members will exhibit works in a wide variety of media and styles. An outside juror will select awards which will be announced during the First Friday reception.
Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat 11 am – 2 pm. Additional hours by appointment; contact the gallery via Facebook.
The Open Gallery, 329 Main will open Drive-by Shootings, photographs by former Vincennes University Professor of Photography Arthur Fields. Fields conceived this series idea during the lonely hours of the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown as a way to stay in touch with those things that brought him joy, including the art of photography. The exhibition features a variety of people on their front porches, photographed from a street vantage point, framed by the outlines of their homes where they were obliged to remain for weeks. The collection has at one and the same time a sameness about the small-town folks, and yet, upon closer inspection, the portraits reveal a varied and arresting cadre of individuals living together, separately, during a time of great worldwide upheaval. The exhibition will run through October 30. A reception for the artist, who will visit from his new home in Texas, will be held during October’s First Friday Art Walk.
The First Friday Players will again provide rollicking good Irish music for visitors to enjoy.
Regular gallery hours: Tue, Thu 12 – 5 pm, Sat 11 am – 4 pm and by chance. 812- 881-6475
The new Knox County Indiana Democratic Headquarters, 314 Main Street will give viewers another chance to see Fernando Lozano’s powerful prints on stretched canvas in his series Our Rights, Our Freedom, Our Vote. These 13 pieces, each 20.5” x 3” address the historic difficulties many groups have faced in striving for the right to vote.
For more information, please contact Marsha Fleming, 812-890-1688 or Fernando Lozano, 323-559-1954.
The pop-up gallery space at 517 Main Street will feature the exhibition Dragoon, photographs with sound interpretations by Ken Park. This exhibition will only be available during the First Friday Art Walk.
The Shircliff Gallery, First and Harrison Streets, will be showing Bone Deep, paintings by Michael K. Paxton. Paxton, a well-established Chicago fine artist whose career spans more than forty-eight years, is also a sixth-generation West Virginian from the coalfields of deepest Appalachia. In his series, Bone Deep, he plumbs his Appalachian roots. Slides of coal miners’ black lungs are translated first to sketches, then larger drawings, then immense canvases. The dark source images transform into richly colored compositions, bordering on abstract expressionism. They seduce the eye while raising awareness of a people and culture underrepresented in contemporary art.
Regular gallery hours: weekdays 9 am – 5 pm. 812-888-4316
of Vincennes and Knox County with a glimpse of history at every turn.
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