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Festival Tickets On Sale Now!

Festival Tickets On Sale Now!

Tickets are on sale now for the 23rd annual Lotus World Music & Arts Festival, September 15-18!  Save with advance purchase and weekend-pass options.  Click here for full ticketing details, or to make a purchase now. Don't miss our newest offering - a Lotus...

Featured 2016 Lotus BCT Backdrop

Featured 2016 Lotus BCT Backdrop

Featured Lotus Backdrop: "Piece/Full Impression" By Gail Hale, Susan Sammis, and Alec Slinde (2001) With updates from "One Million Stars" (2016) September 15-18 Buskirk-Chumley Theater   |  114 E. Kirkwood Ave. Backdrop can be viewed during all ticketed performances...

Featured 2018 Lotus BCT Backdrop

Featured 2018 Lotus BCT Backdrop

2018 Featured Lotus Backdrop “Convocation” By Indiana University Textiles Department / School of Art, Architecture + Design Makers include students, faculty, and community members from fall 2017, spring/fall 2018 textiles classes, and summer community workshops....

2016 Festival Artist Line-up

2016 Festival Artist Line-up

It's here!  We're excited to reveal the 30+ different artists who will take the stage throughout the 23rd annual Lotus World Music & Arts Festival.  The majority of our 2016 artists are making their Lotus debut this year, so there will be loads of new...

2016 Festival Artwork Revealed

2016 Festival Artwork Revealed

Every year, Lotus selects two local artists to bring their creative visions to the Festival experience and create the artwork that will grace t-shirts, posters, and more.  Watch for these 2016 designs to make their way into the Lotus landscape over the coming months!...

Women Writing for (a) Change bring Lotus Stars to Incarcerated Women

Women Writing for (a) Change bring Lotus Stars to Incarcerated Women

Written by Lauren Bryant On Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2016, Amy Cornell was learning to weave stars with her 6-year-old daughter at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures. The star-folding scene was the official launch of the year-long One Million Stars to End...

Edible Lotus Benefit

Edible Lotus Benefit

SOLD OUT Thursday, June 20th Deer Park Manor, 6 pm - 9 pm Guests will enjoy wine and locally-crafted beer and cocktails during a social hour featuring a silent auction and appetizers from Board + Blade.  A full plated dinner from Chef Katarina Koch, live music, live...

Volunteer Profile: Crystal Ritter

Volunteer Profile: Crystal Ritter

How did you first hear about the Lotus organization? I first heard about Lotus through an Ethnomusicology Class that I was taking at Indiana University. If you signed up to volunteer at this music festival, Lotus, you would get extra credit. I looked into it and...

Volunteer Profile: Kevin Atkins

Volunteer Profile: Kevin Atkins

How did you first hear about the Lotus organization? I think the first hint of Lotus I got was hearing Gabriel Yacoub on WFHB back in, maybe 1996...   such haunting modal harmony. (Hear what Kevin is talking about here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6EF3mPuCZU)...

Lotus Blossoms 2016 Report

Lotus Blossoms 2016 Report

Over the past 22 years, Lotus Blossoms Educational Outreach has provided more than 126,000 Indiana school children with the opportunity to explore the music and art of global cultures, stoking their curiosity about the larger world.  Lotus Blossoms’ 2016 slate of...