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Salon Series offers education and conversation

If you’re a WILL Vision Circle member, join us at upcoming Salon Series events, each planned with your interests in mind.

Salon Series offers education and conversation

Our Salon Series is offered especially for Friends of WILL at various levels of the Vision Circle. Each event brings together fascinating speakers, WILL staff and personalities, and people like you, who share a love for public media and a passion for discovering more about our community and our world. Together, we’ll enjoy conversations on subjects that will enlighten, entertain, educate and inspire. Contact Danda Beard for more information.

2012 events

WILL Managers Lunch or After Hours - March 28, 2012

Hosted by WILL General Manager Mark Leonard. Choose the luncheon or after hours event, whichever suits your schedule. This is your chance to talk with station managers, plus hear our annual “state of the stations” report about the critical issues for WILL and the public media community. Held at Campbell Hall. Building tours are available after each event.

Maximum number of guests at each event: 45. Available to all members of the Vision Circle, and Patron level members ($500+) of the Leadership Circle.

Nature Photography Workshop with Jason Lindsey, Urbana - Date TBA

Friends of WILL Fred and Nancy Delcomyn have built a thriving mini prairie at their Urbana home. They invite you to wander its paths and learn a thing or two about photographing nature with former WILL staffer and professional photographer Jason Lindsey. See Jason’s beautiful work at www.jasonlindsey.com.

Past events

Abraham Lincoln Museum & Library, Springfield - January 2012

Join former TV station manager (and Civil War history enthusiast) Carl Caldwell to see Lincoln’s Cabinet at the Crossroads of War - A Civil War Sesquicentennial Exhibition, inspired by Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book, A Team of Rivals.

Maximum number of guests: 12.

NPR Planet Money Road Trip - November 4, 2011, 6:45 p.m.

We’re partnering with Bloomington-Normal’s WGLT to provide you with an opportunity to hear NPR’s Planet Money team. Dinner with wine is included.

Maximum number of guests: 8. Available to members of the Vision Circle Silver Sponsors level and above. Dress is semi-formal.

Apple Tasting & Tour of University of Illinois Apple Orchards - October 17, 2011, 2:30 pm, College of ACES Library

Hosted by Mid-American Gardener regular (and longtime Friend of WILL) Professor Bob Skirvin. Many apple varieties to be tasted, plus a tour of the UI’s newly re-planted apple orchards.

An Opera Tailgate - October 29, 2011, 10:30 a.m.

We’ll have finger foods and nonalcoholic drinks in the parking lot of the local movie theater (known to football fans as “pre-gaming”). Then we’ll see a live Met Opera HD production of Don Giovanni. Mariusz Kwiecien brings his youthful and sensual interpretation of Mozart’s timeless anti-hero to the Met for the first time with James Levine conducting. Also starring Marina Rebeka, Barbara Frittoli, Ramón Vargas and Luca Pisaroni.

Maximum number of guests: 15. The first 6 guests to RSVP will receive free passes to the Met Live in HD performance. Available to all members of the VisionCircle.

Richmond Clock Tower Tour - August 27, 2011, 1 p.m.

Hosted by UI Professor and clock expert Bruce Hannon. The newly-built Richmond

Tower at the Champaign County Courthouse will be featured, along with other interesting clocks on the campus of the University of Illinois. Provide your own transportation for getting from clock to clock. Some walking (at least two flights of stairs) is required.

Maximum number of guests: 12. Available to all members of the Vision Circle.

Illinois Shakespeare Festival - July 31, 2011. Performance at 7:30 p.m.

A Winter’s Tale. A jealous rivalry between old friends brings unfounded accusations

of infidelity against a wife. Only fate and a bit of magic can reverse a tragic ending. Arrive early (6:30) to enjoy dessert on the grounds of Ewing Manor and an exclusive welcome talk from Festival Artistic Director Deb Alley.

Maximum number of guests: 18. Available to all members of the Vision Circle.