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Lotus Opening Concert
Doors Open at 6:30 pm Location: Buskirk Chumley Theater Lotus is excited to start the festival out with a bang! Our opener, CoolMule, is the latest and greatest Midwest old-time band to emerge, like Brood X cicada - inevitable, unstoppable, often buzzing in the key...
2024 Lotus World Music & Arts Festival
Visit the Lotus Festival page for details. Four-day-long musical extravaganza from October 3 – 6, 2024, in downtown Bloomington.
Bread and Puppet Presented by Lotus
Free Event Doors open at 4:30 pm 2687 N Loesch Rd., Bloomington, IN Bread and Puppet Theater is a politically radical puppet theater company founded in 1963 by Peter Schumann on New York City’s Lower East Side. In 1974 Bread and Puppet moved to a farm in Glover in the...
Lotus at the Cinema
Tickets Required Location: IU Cinema 1213 E 7th St, Bloomington, IN Doors open at 6:30 pm "Around the World in 4 Days" (Merrill Hatlen) is a portrait of the Lotus World Music & Arts Festival in Bloomington, Indiana, produced for the 25th Anniversary of the...
Summer Night of Lotus
Doors open at 5:30 pmWhere: Deer Park Manor, 1501 E Hillside Dr #300, Bloomington, IN 4740 Join us for an evening of fun and fundraising at our annual Summer Night of Lotus event. Expect to dance to live music, laugh, hear stories from the thirty-year Lotus legacy,...
Share Memories for Lotus@30 Project
One of the aims of Lotus@30 is to prompt memories and thoughts about the long arc of Lotus’ 30 years – whether about Lotus the organization or Lotus the festival. We’d love for you to answer the following questions. Questions:1. How did you first hear about Lotus? If...
Lotus Welcomes New Staff
We are happy to welcome one new member to the Lotus team and to welcome back a returning member to the Lotus team!
New Lotus Board Members
Sheridan Arnold:I firmly believe in the mission that the LOTUS foundation is working towards promoting diversity and expanding everyone’s global outlook by giving them opportunities to experience different cultures. I have served as an executive board member for my...
2024 Lotus Blossoms Impact Report
Check out the amazing impact Lotus had through our 2024 Lotus Blossoms program.