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Orpheum LEGO® Contest, Award Ceremony October 1st, 6-8 p.m.
Generously sponsored by The Robeson Family Benefit Fund
Do you enjoy creating and imagining with LEGOS? We will be hosting a competition that highlights the skills of our local junior engineers! Participants are welcome to build an entry on their own or grab a friend and create an entry as a team. Prizes will be awarded for each age group. Winners will be announced at the opening event.
There are no building categories, so use your imagination to impress the judges! Entries will be judged on originality of the idea and creativity of the build. Judges will look also look at the amount of detail in the projects as criteria for distinction. Due to space restrictions, please keep your entries smaller than 32x32 inches.
LEGO Contest Event Opening: October 1st, from 6-8 p.m. Award ceremony begins at 6:30 p.m. This event is free with admission and free for Museum and Orpheum Lego Club members. During the event, enjoy building activities including advanced LEGO tips.
Categories: Entries will be divided by 4 age groups, according to the participant’s current grade: Kindergarten and younger; 1st grade; 2nd-4th grade; and 5th grade+ (includes adult/child collaborations).
Drop-Off: Potential winners should drop off their masterpieces on September 29th, from10 a.m. to 6 p.m. or September 30th, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. There is a $5 entry fee, and registration will take place at the Museum during drop-off. Enter as many creations as you want!
Entry Pick-Up: Entries should be taken home at the end of the event on October 1st, or picked up on October 2nd or 3rd from 1-5 p.m.
Mystery at the Museum, October 29-31, 4 to10 p.m.
The Prompting Theatre will transform the Orpheum Theatre into a family friendly haunted house.
Admission $10 adults, $5 children & family specials
Proceeds benefit the Orpheum & DSC
This year's event will be an iconoclastic event serving up and then busting the myths surrounding monsters, mad men, and scary Halloween lore. “When people think Halloween, they think Haunted House. But we want to re-think what could be scary,” says Brian Hagey of the Developmental Services Center. Hagey is also very involved with the Prompting Theatre, a theater company composed of adults with various mental challenges.
Brian and his friends at The Prompting Theatre were in charge of designing and building the Orpheum’s Haunted House last October. This year, Brian is back with a few tricks up his sleeve. The Orpheum Theatre will be split up into numerous rooms, each with a different theme, focusing on different fears and phobias. In the interactive promenade, visitors can move easily through the rooms. Brian is enthusiastic about the many possibilities for this year’s Mystery at the Museum as he feels it is both an important network within the community and an opportunity to show people that “people with disabilities have really strong ideas.”
Calling all Holiday Elves
Wishing to create gifts for loved ones without their adult elves present
Santa's Workshop will be open for business on Friday, November 26, the busiest shopping day of the year. What fun your children will have being Santa's elves, busy making hand-made gifts for the season. With more than a dozen stations, staffed by some of Champaign-Urbana's premier artisans, children will have the opportunity to complete hand-made gifts guaranteed to charm and delight those friends and relatives who have been especially good all through the year. Gifts include: hand painted BBQ aprons, jewelry, a CD of Holiday songs by your favorite little performer, letter openers, tile and grout artwork, and much more.
Doors are open from 9 to 4 p.m., and their are 3 available packages to choose from:
2 gifts for $20 (2 hour stay) | 4 gifts for $40 (3 hour stay) | 6 gifts for $60 (4 hour stay)
Museum members receive a 25% discount. For ages 4-12. Reservations required.
