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Date/Time
Date(s) - 02/24/2024
5:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Location
Foellinger Auditorium
Categories
The Entomology Graduate Students Association at the U of I is putting on their annual Insect Fear Film Festival on Saturday, February 24, staring at 5:30pm at Foellinger Auditorium, located on the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. This fun, family-focused event, includes an insect petting zoo, insect arts and crafts, and insect-themed artwork by local K-12 students. This year’s theme is Ant-Men — movies featuring people who shrink down to the size of ants and participate in ant societies.
This event is FREE and open to the public. Activities will begin at 5:30 pm CST, and film introductions will start at 7:30 pm, on Saturday, February 24, 2024. For more information, please visit the IFFF website (https://publish.illinois.edu/uiuc-egsa/ifff/), or Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/IFFFatUofI/).
This year’s festival will feature:
• A living ant display
• An insect petting zoo
• Bugscope (scanning electron microscope) to get up-close
and personal with ants and other insects
• Insect arts and crafts for the whole family
• A gallery of the annual IFFF art contest featuring insect-
themed artwork by local K-12 students
• …and more!!!
