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Exciting news! 2023 BSFF Best of Show winner, “Friday Night Blind” directed by Scott Krahn has been featured by The New Yorker!

Streaming now on The New Yorker website and on YouTube!

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/bowling-without-sight-in-friday-night-blind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r8mo1yUXNc

Exciting news! 2023 BSFF Best of Show winner, “Friday Night Blind” directed by Scott Krahn has been featured by The New Yorker!

We loved this beautify captured short documentary about friends who take part in the Milwaukee Beer Barrels Blind Bowling League.

Streaming now on The New Yorker website and on YouTube!

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/bowling-without-sight-in-friday-night-blind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r8mo1yUXNc

Stop inside the Bensenville Community Public Library and see the 2024 Student Art Show! Artworks from Bensenville students will be on display through April 19! 🎨

Young artists in Bensenville, enter for a chance to have your art featured in the Capitol! Apply today for the Congressional Art Challenge! 🎨🖌️
For more info: https://ramirez.house.gov/services/art-competition

Young artists in , want to have your art featured in the Capitol? Apply today for the Congressional Art Challenge! 🎨🖌️

Check out the link for more info: ramirez.house.gov/services/art-competition

This week! 📆 See you at Bensenville Center Theatre and Sundae's Too Ice Cream Shop on March 7, 2024! 🎥

https://www.bensenvillearts.com/2024-bsff-schedule.html

Got your ticket? 📆 See you at Bensenville's Center Theatre on March 7, 2024! 🎥 Take a look at this year's short film entries:
https://www.bensenvillearts.com/2024-bsff-schedule.html

Just a little over 2 weeks until the film submission deadline for the Bensenville Short Film Festival 2024! 🎥
Learn more about the festival and submit your film⬇️

Bensenville Short Film Festival The Bensenville Arts Council is proud to present the third year of the Bensenville Short Film Festival! The BSFF aims to showcase short films of all genres, ...

Mark your calendars! 📆 See you March 7, 2024!
🎥 Submission deadline for short films is February 1, 2024.
https://filmfreeway.com/BensenvilleShortFilmFestival

Have you noticed the sculptures downtown? The Bensenville Arts Council has organized the installation of a few new artworks around Village Hall, along Dierking Way and Railroad Ave. Our Public Art Initiative aims to expand the scope of public arts & experiences for our community though events such as the Bensenville Short Film Festival and works of art such as these. We hope you find them a welcome addition to the village!

Thanks to the Bensenville Community Foundation for donating to our Public Art Initiative, and for sharing!

Enjoy the talented middle school artists of Bensenville in this Virtual Student Art Show!

Sponsored by the Bensenville Arts Council

Celebrate the talented local middle school artists of Bensenville, from the comfort of your own home! 🎨👏 ⁠ Middle School
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Link to the virtual art show: bit.ly/BMSArtShow2023

Mark your calendars 📆 See you on March 2!
🎥 Submission deadline for films is February 2.
https://filmfreeway.com/BensenvilleShortFilmFestival

Only 2 weeks until the film submission deadline for the Bensenville Short Film Festival!
Learn more about the festival and submit your film ⬇️

Bensenville Short Film Festival The Bensenville Arts Council is proud to present the second year of the Bensenville Short Film Festival! The BSFF aims to showcase short films of all genres,...

Bensenville Short Film Festival The Bensenville Arts Council is proud to present the second year of the Bensenville Short Film Festival! The BSFF aims to showcase short films of all genres,...

⭐ Now presenting... The 2022 Bensenville Virtual Art Showcase!

Thank you to all of the artists who submitted and created artwork for this show and for our community.

We hope you enjoy the show!

2022 Bensenville Virtual Art Showcase Check out this presentation designed by BCPL.

Last call to submit your art! 🎨 The deadline is Friday, April 15!

The Bensenville Arts Council presents... the 2022 Bensenville Virtual Art Showcase! We want to exhibit the talent, creativity, and artistry within our community, and we need your art!

🎨 Bensenville residents are invited to email photos of their art to [email protected] — Please be sure to include your first and last name, art medium, and title (if applicable). Students, please include school and grade.

Submit your photos by Friday, April 15!

Submitted photos will be showcased virtually online on Wednesday, April 27 via the Bensenville Arts Council social media channels and website.

The Bensenville Arts Council presents... the 2022 Bensenville Virtual Art Showcase! We want to exhibit the talent, creativity, and artistry within our community, and we need your art!

🎨 Bensenville residents are invited to email photos of their art to [email protected] — Please be sure to include your first and last name, art medium, and title (if applicable). Students, please include school and grade.

Submit your photos by Friday, April 15!

Submitted photos will be showcased virtually online on Wednesday, April 27 via the Bensenville Arts Council social media channels and website.

⭐ Now presenting... The 2021 Bensenville Virtual Art Showcase!

Thank you to all of the artists who submitted and created artwork for this show and for our community.

We hope you enjoy the show!

2021 Bensenville Virtual Art Showcase An awesome presentation designed in Canva by Bensenville Arts Council.

Send us your art! We want to exhibit the talent, creativity, & artistry within our community. 🎨

Bensenville residents are invited to email photos of their art to [email protected] by Friday, April 16!

The Bensenville Arts Council presents... the Bensenville Virtual Art Showcase! We want to exhibit the talent, creativity, and artistry within our community, and we need your art!

🎨 Bensenville residents are invited to email photos of their art to [email protected] — Please be sure to include your first and last name, art medium, and title (if applicable). Students, please include school and grade. Submit your photos by Friday, April 16!

Submitted photos will be showcased virtually online on Wednesday, April 28 via the Bensenville Arts Council social media channels and website.

On December 14, 2020, Holocaust survivor Marion Blumenthal Lazan joined over 200 Blackhawk Middle School students and staff virtually on Zoom for an important discussion about her story and the devastating years that shaped her childhood. This event was co-sponsored by the Bensenville Arts Council and Bensenville School District 2.

Following Hitler’s rise to power, the Blumenthal family—father, mother, Marion, and her brother, Albert—were trapped in N**i Germany. They managed eventually to get to Holland, but soon thereafter it was occupied by the N**is. For the next six and a half years the Blumenthals were forced to live in refugee, transit, and prison camps, including Westerbork in Holland and Bergen-Belsen in Germany, before finally making it to the United States. Their story is one of horror and hardship, but it is also a story of courage, hope, and the will to survive.

▶️ Watch her presentation below:

Virtual Guest Speaker: Marion Blumenthal Lazan Please enjoy this virtual presentation by Marion Blumenthal Lazan, presented to over 200 Blackhawk Middle School students and staff - co-sponsored by the Bensenville…

📣 ONE WEEK LEFT until award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi joins us via Zoom to discuss her powerful YA novel "Punching the Air" — co-authored by prison reform activist Dr. Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five.

Free copies of the book are still available at the Bensenville Community Public Library! Want to join us for the discussion with Ibi? Register here: https://benlib.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=1949

Fiber artist, Natasha Lehrer Lewis, has been working alongside student volunteers in creating a permanent art installation for Fenton High School's Academic Resource Center! Sponsored by Bison Cultural Connections & the Bensenville Arts Council.

If you attended our film festival last week, let us know what you thought and take our short survey!

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That's a wrap on the first ever BSFF!

Thank you to all of the talented filmmakers, festival organizers, our sponsors, and our wonderful audience for making our inaugural film festival a tremendous success!

A huge thank you to our co-sponsor of the Bensenville Short Film Festival, the Bensenville Community Foundation!

The Bensenville Short Film Festival and the Bensenville Arts Council would like to thank our co-sponsor, the Bensenville Community Foundation, for their support in achieving our vision of a film festival for our community.

The BCF supports positive initiatives and innovative approaches to addressing the changing needs of Bensenville with a purpose to strengthen our community through engaged grant making and strategic partnerships.

For more information, visit the BCF online at: https://www.bensenvillefoundation.org/

Don't forget to purchase tickets while you can!

Buy now @ filmfreeway.com/bensenvilleshortfilmfestival

The BSFF schedule of films is here!

This year's fest features some of the best short films from throughout the world. Comedy, action, drama, suspense, documentary, and more! 🎥

Check out the lineup at: bensenvillearts.com/2019-bsff-schedule

Tickets to our inaugural film festival are on sale now!

Have you purchased your tickets yet? 🎟️

See you on Wednesday, November 13 at 7:00 p.m. at the Bensenville Theatre and Sundae's Too Ice Cream Shop!

More information at: bensenvillearts.com/filmfestival

Bensenville students met and asked questions of artist Hector Duarte earlier today at the Bensenville Community Public Library.

Duarte is creating a unique mural to be permanently displayed at the Library.

Come meet the artist at the Library this Wednesday, October 2 at 7:00 pm, and get a first look at the completed artwork!

Get a first look at the finished mural and hear Hector discuss his process and the meaning behind the Library’s newest work of art this Wednesday, October 2 at 7:00 p.m.

Come watch internationally-known artist/muralist Hector Duarte complete a mural painting here at the Library!

As part of Hispanic Heritage Month, Hector Duarte Studio will be creating a unique work of art that will be permanently displayed in our front meeting room that honors our multicultural community and highlights the importance of literacy.

Join us for an Artist Open House Monday 9/30 through Wednesday 10/2 from 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m., culminating in an unveiling ceremony on Wednesday night at 7:00 p.m.

This presentation and artwork is funded in part thanks to a grant from the Bensenville Arts Council.

More information: https://benlib.org/hector-duarte/

Bensenville Short Film Festival The Bensenville Arts Council is proud to present the inaugural year of the Bensenville Short Film Festival! The BSFF aims to showcase short films of all genr...