Crochet Club is open to all skill levels. Beginners will be able to choose a yarn to work with and will learn how to start with one of our instructors. Advanced students will learn something new from one of our expert teachers. This is a great time to learn something new and relax with friends!

Artrageous Experience Art is held the first and third Saturday of every month and is a dedicated time for free creation with a variety of building materials and art mediums. Students of all ages can explore creating with different prompts and inspiration from our resident artists. Children under 6 must be accompanied by a parent. Artrageous is set up with stations to inspire each kind of artist from painter to fiber arts to sculpture. 

Cost: $5 donation per family

Register in person or at: https://secure.rec1.com/IL/kankakee-valley-park-district-il/catalog

Artists of all skill levels are welcome to join us to paint or sketch outside on our patio. There will be several art teachers on hand to give pointers. Bring your own supplies or try ours out!

Free to Public

Ages 10+

Join President of Kankakee Arts CoLAB, Brian Prairie, for an informal artists gathering with dinner! Enjoy hearing from other artists and what they are working on and hear about how you can get involved with Kankakee Arts CoLAB!

This month at Fiber Arts Club we will be focusing on embroidery, spinning, and weaving!

$5/participant

Register online at: kvpd.com

Help tend the garden, learn about plants and their care, and make some for or from the garden.

All Ages, Children under 6 with Parent, Free

Register kvpd.com

Coffee House Open Mic Night: Dress your best in your best 90’s look and join our coffee house style open mic. Bring your instrument and sign up at the door to share a song, poem, or talent or two. 

$5 per person

Join Adele Mau-Bridges to discuss advocating for a environmental, human, or animal rights issue through art!

All Ages, Free to Public

Join Kankakee Arts CoLAB board member and resident artist Lori Blair in making mixed media bookmarks and papers. Bring your scraps, stickers, pressed flowers and other goodies to layer or use what we have! This is a creative event for all levels of experience. Come out and play with art!

Register at kvpd.com or show up!

5$- free for members

Come and help garden in our new raised beds. You will get to garden and make garden art in this class.

All Ages, Children under 6 with parent

Register at kvpd.com un Kankakee Arts CoLab

Come and explore your creativity with artist and teacher Chelsea Heikes. Chelsea will help you plan a project tailored to your interests.

$5 for supplies

7th-10th Grade in 2025/26

For all ages and levels of play - novice to

professional. Come and experience the voice of various world percussion instruments and feel free to bring your own and share its sound. We will learn the history of some of the instruments and everyone will have a chance to play.

Bird Park Quarry House

801 W. Station St.

Register at Kvpd.com or show up!

Glue Man vintage Location

626 S. Main St. Bourbonnais

Doors Open 6:30, Music 7

$10

Do you think you can’t draw anything but a stick figure? Everyone can draw! Join us for some instruction and fun.

Wednesday, July 2, 6-7:30 PM

All Ages, Materials provided

Register at kvpd.com or show up!

Come and help garden in our new raised beds. You will get to garden and make garden art in this class.

All Ages, Children under 6 with parent

Register at kvpd.com un Kankakee Arts CoLab

Come and explore your creativity with artist and teacher Chelsea Heikes. Chelsea will help you plan a project tailored to your interests.

$5 for supplies

7th-10th Grade in 2025/26

Join musical artist Stacy Barwegan for a class that focuses on free movement and rhythm. THis class is good for all ages together: families, friends and everything in between!

Free to the Public

Come and learn the basics of soapmaking. You will make your own bar and pick it up when it cures. $5

Ages 8+

A meaningful and joyous day in which all forms of artistic expression are welcomed for the purpose of celebrating race amity (friendship and collaboration between people who look different from each other).  We will endeavor to recognize that race is a social construct and that we are all One Humanity in one world, our Mother Earth.  We will celebrate the beauty of diversity, as we are like different colored flowers in one garden.  

There is a small interfaith local team of friends planning this event for the benefit of our community.  

We are planning an open mic for poetry, music, storytelling, and discussion.  We also want visual arts supplies to be provided on the tables including colored pencils, crayons, magazines to cut up, glue sticks, paper, poster boards, stickers, etc.  The arts are a great way to explore this topic and come together in unity.  

We also want to have some snacks and drinks.  We want to ideally put a couple of tables outside as well as a bunch inside.  

Pastor Christopher Clark of the Free Christian Center (of Kankakee) has volunteered to be a special guest speaker at the event.  He will discuss race amity and use some humor to help foster connection and discussion.   We also plan to provide some printed quotes about the topic.  At around 3:30pm we will have our open discussion inside using the microphone so that everyone can be heard.  

Drillbit Wisconsin

Curbstomp

Nullify

Doors open at 6:30, Music at 7

$10-Proceeds to Bands

Crochet Club is open to all skill levels. Beginners will be able to choose a yarn to work with and will learn how to start with one of our instructors. Advanced students will learn something new from one of our expert teachers. This is a great time to learn something new and relax with friends!

$5 for Beginners & Yarn Thrift Shop Available!

Unleash your creativity and enjoy drawing without expectations or judgement. THis is a relaxing environment filled with drawing supplies, paper, and endless possibilities. Whether you’re sketching landscapes, abstract patterns, or playful cartoons, Doodle Day is your opportunity to disconnect from daily pressures and reconnect with your innate artistic spirit. 

Free to the Public!

Register in person or at: https://secure.rec1.com/IL/kankakee-valley-park-district-il/catalog

Cueball

Crunch

Situational Hazard

Doors open at 6:30, Music at 7-10$

$10

801 W. Station St.

Slap Bunt

Junebug

Polly Rockets

Doors open 6:30pm, Music at 7

Bird Park Field House

801 W. Station St.

Unleash your creativity and enjoy drawing without expectations or judgement. THis is a relaxing environment filled with drawing supplies, paper, and endless possibilities. Whether you’re sketching landscapes, abstract patterns, or playful cartoons, Doodle Day is your opportunity to disconnect from daily pressures and reconnect with your innate artistic spirit. 

Free to the Public!

Register in person or at: https://secure.rec1.com/IL/kankakee-valley-park-district-il/catalog

Still Burning

Reject Modernity

Premeditated

Loot

Doors at 6:30, Music at 7

$10

Artrageous Experience Art is a dedicated time for free creation with a variety of building materials and art mediums. Students of all ages can explore creating with different prompts and inspiration from our resident artists. Children under 6 must be accompanied by a parent. Artrageous is set up with stations to inspire each kind of artist from painter to fiber arts to sculpture.

$5/participant, $10 family cap

Register in person of at KVPD.org

Polly Rockets

Squiggle

Katzpa Jammas

Doors open at 6:00, music at 6:30

$10, Bird Park Field House

Winter Clothing Exchange!

Majestic Location Upstairs in Room 203

$5.00 Participation Fee ($1.00 for Students)

Bring up to 10 items of clothing, shoes, and accessories and receive one trade ticket for each item. Adult Sizes Only.

Kirtan is a form of meditative devotional singing that comes to us from India. You don’t have to be Hindu or hold any religious convictions at all to sing Kirtan. It’s just a simple way to honor the life and light within each of us and to draw our lives closer to that light. It’s also fine if you aren’t very musical. Come and join us and raise the vibe in Downtown Kankakee!

www.keycitykirtan.com/what-is-bhakti-yoga/