Help keep the music playing!

Encore!  Encore!  Our Lotus artists heard this refrain over and over from 12,000 Festival patrons who didn’t want the music to

2016 Dates Announced!

2016 Dates Announced for Lotus World Music and Arts Festival September 15-18, 2016 | Bloomington, Indiana **For Immediate Release 10/29/15**

FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions When was the first Festival, and who started it? The first Festival was in 1994 (three small

Thank you for a great Edible Lotus!

Thank you to everyone for a great 2015 Edible Lotus: Local Tastes for Global Arts!  Our sold-out annual benefit event last Thursday

Kinobe & the Wamu Spirit performing at Unionville Elementary during the 2015 Lotus Blossoms. (Photo by Andrew Collins)

2015 Lotus Blossoms by the numbers

Artists from 5 countries/cultures 5,500 participants of all ages 2 months of programming 31 different events at 20 unique venues 23

Introducing Lotus Blossoms 2015

What better way to welcome spring than with Blossoms! This February and March, the 2015 Lotus Blossoms line-up takes center

Edible Lotus dining hall

Looking Back at Edible Lotus

Thanks to all who came together to raise $14,000 for the Lotus World Music and Arts Festival and for Lotus

Genticorum at Bloomington Montessori

Postcards from Lotus Blossoms

This year’s Lotus Blossoms has come and gone, leaving indelible images of Indiana kids at moments of marvelous discovery: drumming

Nomadic Massive

Twenty Years of Lotus and IU

Indiana University’s Mathers Museum of World Cultures was the very first Lotus venue: On a cool October afternoon in 1994,

Volunteer Voices: Nick Clark

Nick Clark’s six-year stint as a Lotus volunteer began with our Lotus Blossoms Bazaar and ended with the Festival’s Venues