Events

DeKALB – Local performance group Wooden Box Theater will present an event of live theater, poetry, fashion, photography and live music at 5 p.m. Sunday, May 19, at The House Cafe, 263 E. Lincoln Highway in DeKalb.

SHABBONA – Shabbona Lake will hold its Crappie Contest Weekend from 6 a.m. Saturday, May 18 until 7 p.m. Sunday, May 19.

DeKALB – DeKalb women and the men who love them will join the fight against heart disease in women at the American Heart Association’s annual Go Red for Women luncheon on Friday, May 17 at Barsema Alumni and Visitors Center. The Go Red for Women Luncheon, chaired this year by Tami Armstrong of NB&T, is the signature fundraising event of the campaign, which raises awareness of women’s No. 1 killer, heart disease.

DeKALB – Bill Rodriguez of the A1C Champions Program will deliver a free, Spanish-only presentation on diabetes management and lifestyle changes based on his extensive training and personal experience in living with diabetes.

SYCAMORE – The Sycamore High School Band spring concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 16, in the Sycamore High School auditorium. Both the Concert Band and Symphonic Band will perform pieces with water-based themes, including Handel’s “Water Music,” the spiritual “Deep River” and Gliere’s “Russian Sailors’ Dance.” The Symphonic Band will also perform the new composition “Deep, Like the Rivers,” composed by Robert Bradshaw.

SYCAMORE – The sun is shining, the trees are budding and the birds are singing, but do you know which bird is singing? Why does that one keep flying into your window? And will that one who nested in your tree come back this year? And why can some birds walk right up the side of a tree while others have to nest on the ground? Discover all this and more at Bird Brains at the Midwest Museum of Natural History from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, May 18.

DeKALB – “Made in Brazil”, an exhibition of prints by international artists from the collection of Robert Bornhuetter, professor emeritus in printmaking from Northern Illinois University School of Art, will be on display at The Art Box, 308 E. Lincoln Highway, DeKalb, through May 30.

DeKALB – The Kishwaukee Concert Band will present “An American Collection” at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 19, at Boutell Memorial Concert Hall, inside the Northern Illinois University Music Building.

SYCAMORE – The spring series of the Four Seasons Gardening program from University of Illinois Extension concludes with a session titled “Don’t Doubt the Drought.” The program is offered at 1 p.m. May 21 via teleconference at the DeKalb County Center for Agriculture, 1350 W. Prairie Drive in Sycamore.

GENOA – DeKalb County Community Gardens, the Genoa Township Park District and the city of Genoa are partnering to turn a vacant lot a block from downtown Genoa into a community vegetable garden.

DeKALB – From noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, May 19, the Joseph F. Glidden Homestead and Historical Center’s Spring Open House-Open Barn will give visitors their one chance all year to see the inside of the historic barn where “The Winner” barbed wire was invented and first manufactured.

ou can check an app on your phone to see what the weather is going to be like tomorrow, but what about 10 or even 100 years from now? To predict climate changes, geologists are drilling into the heart of Antarctic ice and studying the effects of millions of years of weather.

Kishwaukee Untied Way and the DeKalb County Ca$h Coalition will host a series of financial literacy events in DeKalb and Sycamore in the first $mart with Money Week, scheduled from Saturday, May 18 through Saturday, May 23.

DeKALB – DeKalb County Youth Service Bureau is preparing for its 12th annual bike auction on Saturday, May 18.

DeKALB – John Waite doesn’t believe in theatrics – at least not on a musical stage.