Celebrating ecological music and arts through a series of programs in 2015-16 ,Sonified Sustainability Festival culminates at the start of Earth Week on Saturday,April 16, 2016 at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.

 

This all ages event,offered admission free to campus and community audiences, will feature live music by Ken Butler, a Brooklyn-based artist whose sculptural “hybrid  instruments” are manufactured with recycled and repurposed materials. Area musicians and interactive art making focused on sustainable practices in the arts,and an accompanying information fair will provide greater visibility of local projects, programs and organizations working towards a sustainable future.  

 

Presented by Global Arts Performance Initiatives, this programming serves the educational mission of the co-sponsoring Student Sustainability Committee at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.