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The Pygmalion Festival announces 2015 schedule

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

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