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Legion Arts | CSPS
1103 Third St SE
Cedar Rapids, IA  52401

Open 11-6 Weds-Sun
319.364.1580

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Legion Arts is a founding
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the Iowa Cultural
Corridor Alliance


Legion Arts belongs to
The
National Association of

Artists' Orgs (NAAO)
as well as
The National Performance
Network
(NPN)

 

 

Mahala Rai Banda (Landfall)Kenge Kenge (Landfall)Cimarrón (Landfall)Pietra Montecorvino (Landfall)
Barbara Furtuna (Landfall)Liliana Araujo of Nation Beat (Landfall)
Mahala Rai Banda;
Kenge Kenge; Cimarrón;
Pietra Montecorvino;
Barbara Furtuna;
Liliana Araujo of Nation Beat
 



 

Brave New Era

Curious about the renovations taking place at CSPS? The building will be closed for the next seven months or so. When it reopens in the spring of 2011, CSPS will truly be a cultural center for the 21st century.

To survey the upcoming changes and answer your questions, we're holding eight informational sessions at CSPS between Fri July 30 and Thurs Aug 5. Each session lasts about an hour. Space is limited. Check out the full schedule here and if you're interested reserve a spot.
(To read more about our recovery following the 2008 flood, the I-JOBS grant and plans for the building, you can go here.)

 

Landfall Festival of World Music
Our third annual Landfall festival takes place in and around Greene Square Park, downtown Cedar Rapids Sept 22-25, 2010.
The four-day event includes free outdoor performances, as well as workshops, classes and other events.

Featured artists announced so far include Mahala Rai Banda, Gyspy brass from Romania; the powerful drumming, singing and dancing of Kenge Kenge, Kenya; the spectacular joropo music and dance of Cimarrón, from the Orinoco plains of eastern Colombia; and passionate Italian folk-rocker Pietra Montecorvino.
Also Barbara Furtuna, an extraordinary male vocal quartet from Corsica, France; the Panamerican mash-ups of Brooklyn-based Nation Beat; Georgian song and dance ensemble Zedashe; acclaimed trio Salaam, performing music from the Middle East and North Africa; and enchanting, world-inflected jazz from England's Portico Quartet.

 

Like to help?

If you'd like to help organize Landfall, you're invited to join the planning team that's meeting this summer. If you're interested in signing on, or if you have questions, write john@legionarts.org.

Warhol awards $80,000 to Legion Arts

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has awarded Legion Arts an $80,000 grant toward our building project. The grant will allow us to purchase the historic firehouse next to CSPS, and to carry out related planning. The firehouse, when renovated, will house visiting artists and support an artist residency program.
The Warhol Foundation has been an invaluable supporter of Legion Arts over the years. We're deeply grateful for this latest expression of the foundation's commitment to artists and innovation. 

 

You can help
Nate Morrison, Bill & Teddy Shuttleworth, Greg Kanz, Gary & Susan Streit, Ellen Heywood, Glen & Hanne Miska, and Laurie Haag are among those who recently made gifts to Legion Arts.
You can join them by clicking the
Donate Now button to the left. It's quick, easy, safe and tax-deductible. Alternately, send a check to Legion Arts, 1103 Third St SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52401. Your support is crucial, and deeply appreciated.

A
dvance tickets
Starting this winter, advance tickets for all CSPS shows are only available through
MidwesTix.com, an online service based in Des Moines.
While change can be awkward, this is one change we feel pretty good about. MidwesTIX.com is small and local, a responsible, public-spirited company that keeps its service charges low, gives back to the community, and is genuinely supportive of artists and arts organizations.
This change also means that audience members can purchase tickets at their
convenience, day or night, 24-7. Advance-price tickets may be purchased up to 5 pm the day of the show. And we'll continue to monitor and tweak this arrangement so that it works for  you the audience on whom we and our artists depend. Let us know your thoughts.

Student rush
As long as seats are available, full-time students 21 and under can see any show at CSPS for only $5. Just show up at the box office with your student ID 30 minutes before the show.

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