You’ve seen the lineup announcements — first announcing that RIDE would be performing in Champaign-Urbana, alongside Purity Ring, Sylvan Esso, and dozens of others. And then came the real doozy: Run The Jewels was announced as the Saturday night headliner. There is a ton packed into this year’s installment of The Pygmalion Festival: Music, Tech, Lit, and Made. Now, we’re announcing the full schedule for the festival, which takes place in a few weeks from September 23rd through 27th.
Grab your tickets here, as there are various options, festival passes and single show tickets (plus, the Tech component is completely free for UIUC, Parkland College, and high school students). Check out the beast of a schedule below, and over at the festival website. — Patrick Singer
LEGEND:
► MUSIC
► TECH
► LIT
► MADE
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23rd
KRANNERT ART MUSEUM
► 6:30PM — 7:00PM: Russ Evatt
► 7:00PM — 7:30PM: Jaime Brunton
► 7:30PM — 8:00PM: Mark Neely
► 8:30PM — 9:30PM: Big Scary
► 10:00PM — 11:00PM: Feral States
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24th
RESEARCH PARK ATKINS BUILDING
► 9:30AM — 10:45AM: Nurturing Tech Talent: Best Practices from the Field
Featuring: Cathy Singer, Ken Taylor, Laura Berg
► 11:00AM — 12:15PM: The Socially Conscientious Company: How and Why
Featuring: Brett Walker, plus more TBA
► 1:15PM — 2:30PM: Making Big Data Actionable: Visualization in the Real World
Featuring: Scott Althaus, Loretta Auvil, Mark Nolan
► 2:45PM — 4:00PM: The Student Employment Model: Students in the Innovation Strategy
Featuring: Dana Cohen, Masha Trenhaile, Keith Bujak, Art Jackson
RESEARCH PARK ENTERPRISEWORKS
► 9:30AM — 10:45AM: Design Thinking
Featuring: Deanna McDonagh, Scott Daigle, Bruce Vojak
► 11:00AM — 12:15PM: Agriculture and Entrepreneurship: How to Teach an Old Industry New Tricks
Featuring: Chris Chauvin, Rob Hornbaker, Chris Harbourt, Roger Vanhoy
► 1:15PM — 2:30PM: What the Internet of Things Really Means
Featuring: Jed Taylor, Owen Doyle, plus representatives from Caterpillar and Petronics
► 2:45PM — 4:00PM: Tech for All: How Innovation Improves Quality of Life
Featuring: Josh George, Adeel Akhtar, David Kirby, Pat Malik, Marissa Siebel
BLUE WATERS
► 3:00PM — 4:30PM: Blue Waters Tour
► 4:30PM — 5:00PM: Champaign Cycle Bike Ride to Downtown Urbana
TECH CRAWL
► 4:00PM — 6:00PM: PaleGray Lab, Personify, Colab, Pixo (OPEN)
The Tech Crawl is an opportunity to check out interesting tech happening in Downtown Urbana, open from 4-6 PM on Thursday evening in the locations listed above.
THE ROSE BOWL
► 7:30PM — 8:00PM: Caleb Cook Band
► 8:15PM — 8:45PM: Cody Lee
► 9:00PM — 9:45PM: The Fights
► 10:15PM — 12:00AM: Whitey Morgan
THE IRON POST
► 8:30PM — 9:10PM: Adam Fein
► 9:30PM — 10:30PM: Ryley Walker
► 11:00PM — 11:45PM: The Eagle Rock Gospel Singers
► 12:15AM — 1:15AM: Bully
ERROR RECORDS
► 8:30PM — 9:00PM: Euriah
► 9:30PM — 10:00PM: Heat
► 10:30PM — 11:00PM: Resinater
SILVERCREEK
► 6:30PM — 7:00PM: Kenna Mae Reiss
► 7:15PM — 8:15PM: Owen
CAFETERIA & COMPANY
► 5:30PM — 6:00PM: Paul Doffing
► 7:00PM — 7:30PM: Christine Sneed
► 7:30PM — 8:00PM: Michael Czyzniejewski
► 8:00PM — 8:30PM: Ladan Osman
AIRBANA
► 5:30PM — 6:30PM: Creative Design and Engagement: A one-on-one with Mike Renaud
Featuring: Mike Renaud and Cate Kompare
► 6:45PM — 8:15PM: Fiber-optic internet: A micro and macro discussion, Champaign-Urbana and beyond
Featuring: Peter Folk, Mark Scifres, Justin Hill, plus representatives from iTV-3 and Comcast TBA.
► 8:30PM — 10:00PM: TECH Party
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th
KRANNERT CENTER TRYON FESTIVAL THEATER
► 11:00AM — 12:15PM: Stephen Wolfram
► 7:15PM — 8:15PM: Patrick Watson
► 8:45PM — 10:00PM: Tune-Yards
KRANNERT CENTER LOBBY
► 10:00AM – 4:00PM: Demo Day / Trade Show
Featuring: Research Park, Parkland College, Wolfram Research, Champaign County Econcomic Development Corporation, Beckman institute, Norden, UIUC Computer Science (Oculus VR), Personify, Epiworks, Volo, LiveOne, and more TBA. Plus, there’s a full-blown drone demo that will be taking place in the Krannert Center Ampitheatre by Horizon Hobby.
KRANNERT CENTER STUDIO THEATRE
► 1:00PM — 2:00PM: Money and Entrepreneurial Influence in the Midwest
Featuring: Suk Shah, Michael Solana, Karin O’Connor, Dennis Beard
► 2:15PM — 3:15PM: The Separation of Editorial and Advertising in Media
Featuring: Jessica Hopper, Tommy Craggs, Sarah Buhr, Lisa Bralts
► 3:30PM — 4:30PM: Consumption of Music: The Impact and Ramifications of Immediacy in Music
Featuring: Jimmy Chamberlin, Brandon Stosuy, Chris Kaskie, Rose Marshack
► 4:45PM — 5:45PM: Pushing Performance in Sports and Wearables
Featuring: Will Leitch, Taylor Rooks, Jen Quinlan, Kevin Jackson
► 6:30PM — 7:30PM: Adrian Matejka
► 9:30PM — 10:00PM: Jennine Capo-Crucet
► 10:00PM — 10:30PM: Janaka Stuckey
► 10:30PM — 11:00PM: Marcus Wicker
KRANNERT CENTER STAGE 5
► 10:00PM — 10:45PM: Braids
► 11:00PM — 12:00AM: Zola Jesus
CANOPY CLUB
► 9:00PM — 10:00PM: AMPlifi
► 10:00PM — 11:00PM: Dirty Di$co
► 11:00PM — 12:00AM: Krucial
► 12:00AM — 2:00AM: Savoy
RED HERRING
► 10:30PM — 11:00PM: Single Player
► 11:30PM — 12:15AM: White Reaper
► 12:45AM — 1:45AM: Beach Slang
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26th
BACARO
► 11:00AM — 12:15PM: Sustainable Food: The Adaptation of Food Production Through Innovation
Featuring: Morgan Oliveira, Albert Burneko, Drew Starkey
BLIND PIG BREWERY
► 12:30PM — 1:45PM: The Methodology and Science Behind the Brew
Featuring: Anthony Benjamin, Bill Morgan, Eric Adkins
► 5:00 PM — 6:00PM: LIT Crawl
BIG GROVE TAVERN
► 2:00PM — 3:15PM: The Future of Immersive Tech and Virtual Reality
Featuring: Steve LaValle, Roger Dickey, Zavian Porter, Sanjay Patel
CIRCLES
► 5:00PM — 6:00 PM: LIT Crawl
THE BLIND PIG
► 10:00AM — 4:00PM: Book Fair
HIGHDIVE OUTDOOR ANNEX STAGE 1
► 3:30PM — 4:00PM: Tara Terra
► 5:00PM — 5:40PM: NE-HI
► 6:40PM — 7:20PM: Pure Bathing Culture
► 8:20PM — 9:40PM: Purity Ring
► 10:30PM — 11:30PM: Run The Jewels
HIGHDIVE OUTDOOR ANNEX STAGE 2
► 2:45PM — 3:20PM: American Wrestlers
► 4:10PM — 4:50PM: Sarah Jaffe
► 5:50PM — 6:30PM: Wild Ones
► 7:30PM — 8:10PM: Hana
► 9:45PM — 10:20PM: T.R.U.T.H + Klevah
HIGHDIVE INDOOR
► 11:30PM — 12:15AM: The Palmer Squares
► 12:15AM — 1:00AM: Psalm One
► 1:15AM — 2:00AM: K.Flay
MIKE N MOLLY’S
► 4:00PM — 5:00PM: LIT Crawl
► 7:30PM — 8:00PM: Elena Passarello
► 8:00PM — 8:30PM: Brian Evenson
► 11:30PM — 12:00AM: Jorts
► 12:30AM — 1:30AM: Nick Diamonds
MEMPHIS ON MAIN
► 4:00PM — 5:00PM: LIT Crawl
► 11:45PM — 12:30AM: Take Care
► 1:00AM — 2:00AM: Moon Duo
THE ART THEATER
► 6:00PM — 8:00PM: Mortified
COWBOY MONKEY
► 5:00PM — 6:00PM: LIT Crawl
► 11:00PM — 11:30PM: Church Booty
► 12:00PM — 12:30AM: Dalipop
► 1:00AM — 2:00AM: Bones Jugs N Harmony
EXILE ON MAIN ST.
► 12:30PM — 1:00PM: Wolves to Whales
► 1:30PM — 2:00PM: Not For The Faint At Heart
► 2:30PM — 3:00PM: Boycut
► 3:30PM — 4:00PM: Jessica Hopper
► 4:00PM — 5:00PM: LIT Crawl
HIGHDIVE PARKING LOT
► 12:00PM — 6:00PM — MADE FEST
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27th
HIGHDIVE OUTDOOR ANNEX STAGE 1
► 3:10PM — 3:50PM: Aero Flynn
► 4:50PM — 5:40PM: The Besnard Lakes
► 6:50PM — 8:10PM: Sylvan Esso
► 9:15PM — 10:45PM: RIDE
HIGHDIVE OUTDOOR ANNEX STAGE 2
► 2:30PM — 3:00PM: Motes
► 4:00PM — 4:40PM: Diane Coffee
► 5:50PM — 6:40PM: Cathedrals
► 8:15PM — 9:00PM: Caspian
HIGHDIVE INDOOR
► 10:30PM — 11:00PM: Grandkids
► 11:30PM — 12:00AM: Elsinore
► 12:30AM — 1:45AM: Strand of Oaks
MIKE N MOLLY’S
► 6:00PM — 7:00PM: C.L.A.W.
► 10:30PM — 11:00PM: Bookmobile!
► 11:15PM — 12:00AM: Pujol
MEMPHIS ON MAIN
► 10:45PM — 11:15PM: Trevor Sensor
► 11:30PM — 12:15AM: Rebecca Rego & The Trainmen
► 12:45AM — 1:45AM: Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires
COWBOY MONKEY
► 10:30PM — 11:15PM: Wicked Walls
► 11:45PM — 12:45PM: Truly
► 1:15AM — 2:00AM: Terminus Victor
EXILE ON MAIN ST.
► 12:30PM — 1:00PM: Northern Border
► 1:30PM — 2:00PM: Concerned Fathers
► 2:30PM — 3:30PM: Hot Hand Luke and The Sound
► 4:00PM — 5:00PM: TBD
HIGHDIVE PARKING LOT
► 12:00PM – 6:00PM — MADE FEST
