Evansville Focus Festival This Week

Looking for something to do after work this week besides just going home and watching season finales on TV? The Evansville Focus Festival is going on all this week. The Evansville Focus Festival is a week-long event held at The Art Colony Gallery celebrating and introducing a broad spectrum of art, music and film. There will be a week-long display of various forms of art and will culminate on Friday and Saturday with live music, films and other entertainment at Haney’s Corner right by The Art Colony Gallery (56 Adams Ave).

Tonight (Monday) there will be a showing of Invisible Children. Tuesday will feature Wal-Mart: The High Cost Of Low Prices. Wednesday’s movie is Before Stonewall. Thursday is a showing of everyone’s favorite, An Inconvenient Truth. All movies will start at 7:45PM.

The main event of the festival will begin Friday and Saturday. Friday’s festivities will be located at 4th and Main downtown and feature live entertainment starting at noon and running until 8:25 when there will be a screening of The US vs. John Lennon.

Saturday, the Focus Festival will take over the Victory Theatre starting at noon. There will be more live music from both local and independent national acts as well as the Movieside Film Festival, which features several short films. For a full listing of acts, head to the Focus Festival’s MySpace page.

Most events are free, but donations are accepted. The Saturday events are $10. All proceeds go to Evansville’s Patchwork Central and to Project Focus, a group devoted to raising awareness of war-torn Uganda.

If you do go to the Focus Festival, upload your photos to Flickr and we’ll highlight some of them on the site.